One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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BigLion said:
Either that or more likely the switch behind the brake pedal has stopped working meaning that no warning on the dash comes up and the brake lights won't come on - but probably best to think the worse of people...
You could think that but in that case, the warning indicator won't extinguish on the dash. All the more modern cars I've driven have a brake light check illuminated after start and it won't go away until you press the brake pedal and all your lights are OK.Big Rod said:
You could think that but in that case, the warning indicator won't extinguish on the dash. All the more modern cars I've driven have a brake light check illuminated after start and it won't go away until you press the brake pedal and all your lights are OK.
I had that sort of warning on a 1988 Granada Scorpio!!Jim AK said:
Big Rod said:
You could think that but in that case, the warning indicator won't extinguish on the dash. All the more modern cars I've driven have a brake light check illuminated after start and it won't go away until you press the brake pedal and all your lights are OK.
I had that sort of warning on a 1988 Granada Scorpio!!Edited: Brake Pad
Edited by Hol on Tuesday 20th September 14:06
Jim AK said:
Big Rod said:
You could think that but in that case, the warning indicator won't extinguish on the dash. All the more modern cars I've driven have a brake light check illuminated after start and it won't go away until you press the brake pedal and all your lights are OK.
I had that sort of warning on a 1988 Granada Scorpio!!You Knob was exactly what I, and probably may others thought when a great clattering buttock gave his 6 series a bootfull, showering all the motorcycles in Matlock Bath with gravel.
He then ran a red light and scuttled off up the A6 pretty sharpish. Just as well as had he stopped, he would have been on the pointy end of a great hoard of angry bikers!
He then ran a red light and scuttled off up the A6 pretty sharpish. Just as well as had he stopped, he would have been on the pointy end of a great hoard of angry bikers!
Hol said:
On the old Granada, I think it was just a joint fluid level/brake pad wear/handbrake on light (all three driven by a 'earthed' contact to light the bulb).
Edited: Brake Pad
Scorpio had a picture of the car iirc & showed doors open, headlights, rear sidelights & brake lights. I do remember you had to dab the brake pedal for it to go out. Failed bulb & it stayed on.Edited: Brake Pad
Edited by Hol on Tuesday 20th September 14:06
Liquid Knight said:
06:14 A17 between King's Lynn and Sutton Bridge (half an hour before sunrise)...
...SIDE LIGHTS!!!
06:16 A17 between King's Lynn and Sutton Bridge (twenty eight minutes before sunrise)...
..."Duuuuuuuuurrrrrrlllllll"
For people so thick they don't know how light switches work.
...SIDE LIGHTS!!!
06:16 A17 between King's Lynn and Sutton Bridge (twenty eight minutes before sunrise)...
..."Duuuuuuuuurrrrrrlllllll"
For people so thick they don't know how light switches work.
Are we looking at the perfectly visible van and the perfectly visibly car, that are both perfectly visible?
Jim AK said:
Hol said:
On the old Granada, I think it was just a joint fluid level/brake pad wear/handbrake on light (all three driven by a 'earthed' contact to light the bulb).
Edited: Brake Pad
Scorpio had a picture of the car iirc & showed doors open, headlights, rear sidelights & brake lights. I do remember you had to dab the brake pedal for it to go out. Failed bulb & it stayed on.Edited: Brake Pad
Edited by Hol on Tuesday 20th September 14:06
Shiv_P said:
Timbergiant said:
The driver of X22 HAD, a white Audi A7 with black wheels that accelerates like its a grand prix start whenever he drives around the corner where my BMW M4 is parked, seems to be a big bore corsa/saxo thing but he does it in his big boring diesel, doesn't do it when my other cars are parked there though, the street is only about 20 meters long.
although, I do tend to think "bell end" rather than knob
To be fair it is a 3.0 BiTDI so it will be quite quickalthough, I do tend to think "bell end" rather than knob
Timbergiant said:
Shiv_P said:
Timbergiant said:
The driver of X22 HAD, a white Audi A7 with black wheels that accelerates like its a grand prix start whenever he drives around the corner where my BMW M4 is parked, seems to be a big bore corsa/saxo thing but he does it in his big boring diesel, doesn't do it when my other cars are parked there though, the street is only about 20 meters long.
although, I do tend to think "bell end" rather than knob
To be fair it is a 3.0 BiTDI so it will be quite quickalthough, I do tend to think "bell end" rather than knob
I just wanted a change from Silver.
Disco 2 3 metres behind me massively tailgating me in lane 4 about 65mph, doesn't like the fact i have a 2 second gap.
Goes to undertake me, a car and caravan pull from 2 to 3 at same time and nearly crashes into it. Pulls back into l4 flashes me and then back to tailgating.
luckily l4 opened up and accelerated off but could have turned nasty all thru not succeeding to bullying.
Goes to undertake me, a car and caravan pull from 2 to 3 at same time and nearly crashes into it. Pulls back into l4 flashes me and then back to tailgating.
luckily l4 opened up and accelerated off but could have turned nasty all thru not succeeding to bullying.
I'm stuck somewhere between the elderly lady who last weekend scraped down the side of my car in a supermarket car park while it "rocked backwards and forwards she hit it that hard" (according to a nice chap who saw it happen and waited for me to come back because she just drove off - shame he didn't note the reg and there was no cctv...), or the highly evolved white van driver who ten minutes ago came round the corner of a country lane in the middle of the road on his phone, forcing me straight into the hedge to avoid hitting hitting him, scaring the crap out of my kids and gouging two of my wheels, which had just been refurbed on Monday. Tough decision.
I'm really growing to despise the great British public. Going out now really runs the gauntlet of some sort of altercation with an utter moron.
Edited to add - forgot about my BMW main dealer service experience yesterday. Car booked in for regular service. Arrived as arranged at 8am - two service receptionists chatting, ignoring me. Five minutes later and after we'd had the gossip one of them called me over. After literally fifteen minutes of clicking on his screen and form filling, I get to leave - eta for collection is 5.30pm. At 5.50pm I get a call saying the car is ready but that I'll need to book it in again as they...drumroll...didn't have enough oil. It's OK though, they can do that one as a waiting appointment and it will only take about two hours. Picked the car up and a large piece of trim is ratting around the boot, with the fuse box exposed and the air-con now doesn't blow cold despite being perfect when it went in. Oh, and the service indicator now says it will need another one in 4500 miles. Fabulous. Still, they did offer me a coffee and an insulting PX value so the day wasn't a total waste.
I'm really growing to despise the great British public. Going out now really runs the gauntlet of some sort of altercation with an utter moron.
Edited to add - forgot about my BMW main dealer service experience yesterday. Car booked in for regular service. Arrived as arranged at 8am - two service receptionists chatting, ignoring me. Five minutes later and after we'd had the gossip one of them called me over. After literally fifteen minutes of clicking on his screen and form filling, I get to leave - eta for collection is 5.30pm. At 5.50pm I get a call saying the car is ready but that I'll need to book it in again as they...drumroll...didn't have enough oil. It's OK though, they can do that one as a waiting appointment and it will only take about two hours. Picked the car up and a large piece of trim is ratting around the boot, with the fuse box exposed and the air-con now doesn't blow cold despite being perfect when it went in. Oh, and the service indicator now says it will need another one in 4500 miles. Fabulous. Still, they did offer me a coffee and an insulting PX value so the day wasn't a total waste.
Edited by Tidybeard on Friday 23 September 16:20
Blown2CV said:
bmw535i said:
WD39 said:
This was in all the papers this week, so it must be true.
Briefly: 'Older drivers are not a danger to other road users. They have years of experience to draw on so are, on the whole, safer drivers. It is the younger drivers who cause the problems'.
(Of course there will be some poor senior drivers.)
As we've already established.Briefly: 'Older drivers are not a danger to other road users. They have years of experience to draw on so are, on the whole, safer drivers. It is the younger drivers who cause the problems'.
(Of course there will be some poor senior drivers.)
Slow does not translate to safe
ks. Older people have a greater period of experience in many things than young people, but that isn't the point. Decline in senses and awareness, hand-eye-coordination, reaction times, dexterity and adeptness are the issues. These all trump "experience". As people age they get worse at many things. They also have a tendency to slow in their learning and adapting to changes going on around them i.e. they still drive like they did in 1962. Also many older drivers and driving slowly not because that's what they choose to do, but because they are panicking and stressed. Two yesterday.
Woman one in Enfield Wash, stopped dead in the middle of the road (well, lane) and put the hazards on. She was looking at a house or shop to the left as though it was an address she was looking for. I indicated and started to go around her so she set off, hazards still on. I pulled in behind her and did the universal "what the f**k" gesture. She did the same.
Woman two in a mini on the M25. I was in lane 4 and saw her swerve from lane 2 to 3 right in front of a car. "Phew, that was close" I thought. Not as close as when she continued into lane 4 right in front of me. I was therefore a very big presence in her mirror and so she brake tested me. Genius. Then set off to tailgate the next car up the road, I'd say about 1-2 metres from his bumper.
When I passed her further up the road she immediately pulled in behind me and tailgated me, thankfully this was close to my junction and I could get away from her.
Contemplated calling 101 but what's the use, her story was I'd be the threatening guy who tailgated the poor innocent woman driver on her own. Trouble is, she'll kill herself and unfortunately someone else at some point.
Oh, and the usual one as I leave the industrial estate I work on. Someone pulling from a side road without looking "in" to the estate, as they drive "out".
Two this week. A woman who, when I asked her to be careful said "you were driving too fast". Oh, the you were driving too fast so I thought I'd pull out in front of you anyway argument. That's special. I'll just hit you next time and the dashcam will show I was within the speed limit and you didn't look.
Second one a Highways Agency truck. Seriously guys, you'd think you'd need to know how highways work if you're going to work on them. You c***s.
Woman one in Enfield Wash, stopped dead in the middle of the road (well, lane) and put the hazards on. She was looking at a house or shop to the left as though it was an address she was looking for. I indicated and started to go around her so she set off, hazards still on. I pulled in behind her and did the universal "what the f**k" gesture. She did the same.
Woman two in a mini on the M25. I was in lane 4 and saw her swerve from lane 2 to 3 right in front of a car. "Phew, that was close" I thought. Not as close as when she continued into lane 4 right in front of me. I was therefore a very big presence in her mirror and so she brake tested me. Genius. Then set off to tailgate the next car up the road, I'd say about 1-2 metres from his bumper.
When I passed her further up the road she immediately pulled in behind me and tailgated me, thankfully this was close to my junction and I could get away from her.
Contemplated calling 101 but what's the use, her story was I'd be the threatening guy who tailgated the poor innocent woman driver on her own. Trouble is, she'll kill herself and unfortunately someone else at some point.
Oh, and the usual one as I leave the industrial estate I work on. Someone pulling from a side road without looking "in" to the estate, as they drive "out".
Two this week. A woman who, when I asked her to be careful said "you were driving too fast". Oh, the you were driving too fast so I thought I'd pull out in front of you anyway argument. That's special. I'll just hit you next time and the dashcam will show I was within the speed limit and you didn't look.
Second one a Highways Agency truck. Seriously guys, you'd think you'd need to know how highways work if you're going to work on them. You c***s.
Just today, I was waiting to turn right off a fairly main road into a side road.
My entrance into the side road was blocked by parked cars and cars coming out of the road, so obviously I was waiting, indicator on, for my entrance to clear.
Traffic was building up behind me with a mini bus and possibly a few other cars.
As the side road clears and I'm about to turn into it - I fortunately look over my shoulder and see an old grey haired biddy in a Fiat 500, hardly able to see over the steering wheel and with bottle-bottomed glasses on, come swanning past the queue behind me and aiming straight for my drivers door.
She stops, quickly, and then waves me on...
Guy in the mini bus behind starts blasting his horn at her but as I complete my manoeuvre she just carries on as if no ones there.
Old people - fking dangerous.
My entrance into the side road was blocked by parked cars and cars coming out of the road, so obviously I was waiting, indicator on, for my entrance to clear.
Traffic was building up behind me with a mini bus and possibly a few other cars.
As the side road clears and I'm about to turn into it - I fortunately look over my shoulder and see an old grey haired biddy in a Fiat 500, hardly able to see over the steering wheel and with bottle-bottomed glasses on, come swanning past the queue behind me and aiming straight for my drivers door.
She stops, quickly, and then waves me on...
Guy in the mini bus behind starts blasting his horn at her but as I complete my manoeuvre she just carries on as if no ones there.
Old people - f
king dangerous.Hackney said:
Blown2CV said:
bmw535i said:
WD39 said:
This was in all the papers this week, so it must be true.
Briefly: 'Older drivers are not a danger to other road users. They have years of experience to draw on so are, on the whole, safer drivers. It is the younger drivers who cause the problems'.
(Of course there will be some poor senior drivers.)
As we've already established.Briefly: 'Older drivers are not a danger to other road users. They have years of experience to draw on so are, on the whole, safer drivers. It is the younger drivers who cause the problems'.
(Of course there will be some poor senior drivers.)
Slow does not translate to safe
ks. Older people have a greater period of experience in many things than young people, but that isn't the point. Decline in senses and awareness, hand-eye-coordination, reaction times, dexterity and adeptness are the issues. These all trump "experience". As people age they get worse at many things. They also have a tendency to slow in their learning and adapting to changes going on around them i.e. they still drive like they did in 1962. Also many older drivers and driving slowly not because that's what they choose to do, but because they are panicking and stressed. tter drivers then you won't believe it? Blown2CV said:
Hackney said:
Blown2CV said:
bmw535i said:
WD39 said:
This was in all the papers this week, so it must be true.
Briefly: 'Older drivers are not a danger to other road users. They have years of experience to draw on so are, on the whole, safer drivers. It is the younger drivers who cause the problems'.
(Of course there will be some poor senior drivers.)
As we've already established.Briefly: 'Older drivers are not a danger to other road users. They have years of experience to draw on so are, on the whole, safer drivers. It is the younger drivers who cause the problems'.
(Of course there will be some poor senior drivers.)
Slow does not translate to safe
ks. Older people have a greater period of experience in many things than young people, but that isn't the point. Decline in senses and awareness, hand-eye-coordination, reaction times, dexterity and adeptness are the issues. These all trump "experience". As people age they get worse at many things. They also have a tendency to slow in their learning and adapting to changes going on around them i.e. they still drive like they did in 1962. Also many older drivers and driving slowly not because that's what they choose to do, but because they are panicking and stressed. tter drivers then you won't believe it? I had a similar experience the other day when pulling out of an Hotel car park, the car waiting to turn in that was indicating so to do waved me out, I looked left, only to see this daft old fossil in a Citroen of some sort start to overtake the car in the main road & turn into the car park entrance!!!
Absolutely no idea of what was occurring around him IMO.
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