What car/driving related urban myths have you heard of?
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Ten from Jalopnik (including the Roller one)
http://jalopnik.com/5855586/the-ten-greatest-autom...
My favourite one is the alleged faux pas with the Nova name in Spanish countries and the great point they make that it's like people not buying a notable kitchen implement because it could also be read "no table".
http://jalopnik.com/5855586/the-ten-greatest-autom...
My favourite one is the alleged faux pas with the Nova name in Spanish countries and the great point they make that it's like people not buying a notable kitchen implement because it could also be read "no table".
JonnyFive said:
Yeah, it's legal to drive around in street lamp lit areas at 30mph limit IIRC.
Yep, a quick google search threw this up:http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Hig...
Now that I know, the next time I'm driving in such an area at night, I'm not going to use the
headlights (unless conditions dictate otherwise) just to see how others react.
No doubt I'll get shouts from pedestrians, and other drivers will flash their lights at me - unless they think I'm
a gangster looking for my next victim!
LuS1fer said:
Ten from Jalopnik (including the Roller one)
http://jalopnik.com/5855586/the-ten-greatest-autom...
My favourite one is the alleged faux pas with the Nova name in Spanish countries and the great point they make that it's like people not buying a notable kitchen implement because it could also be read "no table".
That one about the $50 Porsche sold by the jilted wife... correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't exactly that happen to a radio DJ who was flirting with some celeb on the air?http://jalopnik.com/5855586/the-ten-greatest-autom...
My favourite one is the alleged faux pas with the Nova name in Spanish countries and the great point they make that it's like people not buying a notable kitchen implement because it could also be read "no table".
The Wookie said:
That one about the $50 Porsche sold by the jilted wife... correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't exactly that happen to a radio DJ who was flirting with some celeb on the air?
Tim Shaw's wife sold his lotus for a pound after he told jodie marsh (I think could have been another similar type) he'd leave his wife for her. He did work on 5th gear for a bit (ginger bloke) but doesn't seem to anymoreloafer123 said:
AndyBrew said:
I've seen taxi drivers flash their lights at night when approaching traffic lights with the belief that this act turns them to green?
It does, if the set of lights have the sensor on the top.Never worked so far
JonnyFive said:
loafer123 said:
AndyBrew said:
I've seen taxi drivers flash their lights at night when approaching traffic lights with the belief that this act turns them to green?
It does, if the set of lights have the sensor on the top.Never worked so far
loafer123 said:
It does, if the set of lights have the sensor on the top.
I've seen it work several times on traffic lights set up for roadworks but never on permanent ones.http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/s...
loafer123 said:
To be fair, it isn't going to be instant, or someone coming the other way would end up sliding through a sudden red on their brakes, but it does work on some lights, especially temporary ones.
No it doesn't. There is no such thing as a headlamp sensor in traffic lights, temporary ot otherwise.Here's a good myth you always hear
'no point getting an LPG car - the government will make take away the LPG tax break any week now...'
been hearing that for years and years - but lpg always remains around half the price of petrol.
there are many other reasons I wouldnt lpg a car myself, but the sinister governement waiting to up the price of LPG the moment i buy one, isn't one of them
martin84 said:
The fact theres only one garage within 15 miles of my house which sells LPG would be the main thing to put me off it, its in a pig of a place too, right off a dual carraigeway with a 7-yard slip road to rejoin after refuelling.
Yeah but if it runs on lpg you can run a fast as fook car for the same as a cinquecento so short slip roads shouldn't be a problemworth noting I haven't yet checked your garage incase you already have such a car
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