Tailgaiting on the Motorway

[Potatoes]

swerni said:

mybrainhurts said:

Orchardab said:

If you slam your brakes on, they usually get the message and stop tailgating!

Chuck it in reverse...

That really pisses them up.

And throw large objects out the sunroof, always a winner.

And post on PistonHeads about it, including grammatical errors ,raNdom capitIlisati0n and spellig mISTAKES. Then, stop posting when PHers start posting troll pictures and gifs.

And another PistonHeads thread about motorway lane etiquette is complete

[mybrainhurts]

Potatoes said:

swerni said:

mybrainhurts said:

Orchardab said:

If you slam your brakes on, they usually get the message and stop tailgating!

Chuck it in reverse...

That really pisses them up.

And throw large objects out the sunroof, always a winner.

And post on PistonHeads about it, including grammatical errors ,raNdom capitIlisati0n and spellig mISTAKES. Then, stop posting when PHers start posting troll pictures and gifs.

And another PistonHeads thread about motorway lane etiquette is complete

Sack of potatoes is the clincher...

[RobbyJ]

Seventy said:

Have a think about what you have said. What gives you the right to get angry with someone who is overtaking a slower car (just as you are doing). They will hold you up for maybe 10 seconds. In fact they won't hold you up at all, you will no doubt see they overtaking and increase your speed to tailgate them (I'll teach them a lesson!) and then once they have returned to their original lane you will give it a bit of beans as a sort of 'parting gift'. I see it all the time on the M4 heading east. Usually by the time I get to the M25 - guess what? There they are in front of you. I meanwhile have had a nice relaxing drive listening to whatever I want to listen to and they have ruined their day with stress.
Always makes me laugh when I see the L3 convoy - it seems like a white knuckle eyes ahead until I reach my destination thing.

No you have me all wrong. What riles me other than poor lane discipline is when you are over taking in lane 3 and a car from lane two just feels they have the right to pull out and overtake in front of you with you having to slam on the brakes. Wait for them to overtake and then you carry on your way. Usually though once these morons have moved into lane 3 they seem to plod on there for the next 50 miles no matter how many opportunities they have to pull back in. I sat behind 3 Mercs on the M5 and M4 a few weeks ago for what must have been 30-50 miles each and they had countless opportunities to pull back in so I could overtake but they didn't. I won't undertake so I just have to wait. Can't say long term it really makes me feel stressed though despite you feeling so smug that you poor driving is winding everyone around you up.

I have 725bhp at my disposal in my daily driver so I really don't feel the need to give morons like you the satisfaction of giving it the beans. I'm quite relaxed on my commute usually thanks as it's a nice drive, train ride and then cycle through central London.

Wasn't this a forum for petrol heads not hypermilers?

[DoubleD]

It's very reassuring to know that you have 725bhp, thanks for reminding us.

[mybrainhurts]

I thought he meant the train...

[RobbyJ]

DoubleD said:

It's very reassuring to know that you have 725bhp, thanks for reminding us.

Thanks Dan, don't recall ever bringing it up before but it does generally make the type that pull into the middle lane and then floor it to try to stop you getting past look a bit pointless.

[mybrainhurts]

RobbyJ said:

DoubleD said:

It's very reassuring to know that you have 725bhp, thanks for reminding us.

Thanks Dan, don't recall ever bringing it up before but it does generally make the type that pull into the middle lane and then floor it to try to stop you getting past look a bit pointless.

Do people really do that? Can't say I've ever witnessed it.

[RobbyJ]

Really, it happens all the time, I really don't understand why, I'm not looking for a race, I just want to get from A to B.

[xRIEx]

mybrainhurts said:

RobbyJ said:

DoubleD said:

It's very reassuring to know that you have 725bhp, thanks for reminding us.

Thanks Dan, don't recall ever bringing it up before but it does generally make the type that pull into the middle lane and then floor it to try to stop you getting past look a bit pointless.

Do people really do that? Can't say I've ever witnessed it.

Yeah, I've seen it loads. Had it just the other day on a dual carriageway, moved to overtake and the guy tried to speed up to block me changing back. See it loads on motorways, someone's creeping past at under 70 on the clock for ages, they eventually move back in and I accelerate to e.g. 80 and find I'm still barely making any headway on them. Not only do they try to hold up people while they overtake, they want to make me look like a preventing the people behind me from overtaking me. I don't know whether it's malicious or they have no driving self-awareness, probably a fair mix of both.

[Seventy]

RobbyJ said:

No you have me all wrong. What riles me other than poor lane discipline is when you are over taking in lane 3 and a car from lane two just feels they have the right to pull out and overtake in front of you with you having to slam on the brakes. Wait for them to overtake and then you carry on your way. Usually though once these morons have moved into lane 3 they seem to plod on there for the next 50 miles no matter how many opportunities they have to pull back in. I sat behind 3 Mercs on the M5 and M4 a few weeks ago for what must have been 30-50 miles each and they had countless opportunities to pull back in so I could overtake but they didn't. I won't undertake so I just have to wait. Can't say long term it really makes me feel stressed though despite you feeling so smug that you poor driving is winding everyone around you up.

I have 725bhp at my disposal in my daily driver so I really don't feel the need to give morons like you the satisfaction of giving it the beans. I'm quite relaxed on my commute usually thanks as it's a nice drive, train ride and then cycle through central London.

Wasn't this a forum for petrol heads not hypermilers?

Wow. I thought I'd seen a lot on here but you've shown me something new.
You forgot to mention your 'ceramics' on your oh so fast car. Must make you be able brake like an F1 driver, surely?
I don't believe a word of your statement of 30-50 miles each - plain lying.
725 bhp is something else - surely you must have the fastest bestest car on here?
You are a tt of the highest order - I've seen your type time and time again - ooh, RRS, ooh Disco, ooh, look at my garage on PH, get over yourself man.
I am a petrolhead, by the way, I wouldn't be on here otherwise.
I bet you run red lights on your bike as well - couldn't have you waiting a moment longer than is necessary, could we?

[mybrainhurts]

xRIEx said:

mybrainhurts said:

RobbyJ said:

DoubleD said:

It's very reassuring to know that you have 725bhp, thanks for reminding us.

Thanks Dan, don't recall ever bringing it up before but it does generally make the type that pull into the middle lane and then floor it to try to stop you getting past look a bit pointless.

Do people really do that? Can't say I've ever witnessed it.

Yeah, I've seen it loads. Had it just the other day on a dual carriageway, moved to overtake and the guy tried to speed up to block me changing back. See it loads on motorways, someone's creeping past at under 70 on the clock for ages, they eventually move back in and I accelerate to e.g. 80 and find I'm still barely making any headway on them. Not only do they try to hold up people while they overtake, they want to make me look like a preventing the people behind me from overtaking me. I don't know whether it's malicious or they have no driving self-awareness, probably a fair mix of both.

That's not quite what he was talking about.

[mybrainhurts]

Seventy said:

Wow. I thought I'd seen a lot on here but you've shown me something new.
You forgot to mention your 'ceramics' on your oh so fast car. Must make you be able brake like an F1 driver, surely?
I don't believe a word of your statement of 30-50 miles each - plain lying.
725 bhp is something else - surely you must have the fastest bestest car on here?
You are a tt of the highest order - I've seen your type time and time again - ooh, RRS, ooh Disco, ooh, look at my garage on PH, get over yourself man.
I am a petrolhead, by the way, I wouldn't be on here otherwise.
I bet you run red lights on your bike as well - couldn't have you waiting a moment longer than is necessary, could we?

PH used to be so civilised.

[Seventy]

mybrainhurts said:

PH used to be so civilised.

I apologise for my rant if that is directed at me. I've been on here a lot longer than I've been registered and sometimes I can't help myself. People!

[RobbyJ]

Seventy said:

Wow. I thought I'd seen a lot on here but you've shown me something new.
You forgot to mention your 'ceramics' on your oh so fast car. Must make you be able brake like an F1 driver, surely?
I don't believe a word of your statement of 30-50 miles each - plain lying.
725 bhp is something else - surely you must have the fastest bestest car on here?
You are a tt of the highest order - I've seen your type time and time again - ooh, RRS, ooh Disco, ooh, look at my garage on PH, get over yourself man.
I am a petrolhead, by the way, I wouldn't be on here otherwise.
I bet you run red lights on your bike as well - couldn't have you waiting a moment longer than is necessary, could we?

[andy-xr]

Its piss funny how aggrieved inconvenienced people are shouting out at others on how to drive

Good news - for each car on the motorway there's usually one set of controls. If you're using the ones in your car, you don't need to try and use the ones in someone elses

Those saying 'can't you speed up a bit' are comedy gold. Yeah I guess I could but it's me that set my driving speed not you. fk off and wait

[mybrainhurts]

andy-xr said:

Its piss funny how aggrieved inconvenienced people are shouting out at others on how to drive

Good news - for each car on the motorway there's usually one set of controls. If you're using the ones in your car, you don't need to try and use the ones in someone elses

Those saying 'can't you speed up a bit' are comedy gold. Yeah I guess I could but it's me that set my driving speed not you. fk off and wait

Or, alternatively, you could stop balking progress and get out of the bloody way...

[drivin_me_nuts]

swerni said:

mybrainhurts said:

Seventy said:

Wow. I thought I'd seen a lot on here but you've shown me something new.
You forgot to mention your 'ceramics' on your oh so fast car. Must make you be able brake like an F1 driver, surely?
I don't believe a word of your statement of 30-50 miles each - plain lying.
725 bhp is something else - surely you must have the fastest bestest car on here?
You are a tt of the highest order - I've seen your type time and time again - ooh, RRS, ooh Disco, ooh, look at my garage on PH, get over yourself man.
I am a petrolhead, by the way, I wouldn't be on here otherwise.
I bet you run red lights on your bike as well - couldn't have you waiting a moment longer than is necessary, could we?

PH used to be so civilised.

With fields as far as they eye could see

Maybe not fields of green, but certainly less purile than that posted above as a response to something equally as vapid and tiresome to read.

(Now it's just grumpy old men on fixies.)

[Evolved]

This thread highlights the variety of people on the roads today so multiply this by the number of people actually on the road amd you see the issue!

Edited by Evolved on Wednesday 2nd March 08:21

[vanordinaire]

Evolved said:

This thread highlights the variety of people on the roads today so multiply this by the number of people actually on the road amd you see the issue!

Edited by Evolved on Wednesday 2nd March 08:21

Exactly this.
I'm lucky enough to live in rural Scotland where the roads are quiet and we can (most days)overtake slower cars as soon as we catch them up. I don't want to sound patronising or state the obvious to people who live with heavy traffic every day, but I would to make the following observations as an outsider looking in.
As soon as I head down South or towards a city, I find that the 'normal' rules of the road are no longer applicable. On a three lane motorway, lane 1 is usually packed full with 56mph commercial traffic, lane 2 is full of 65mph commuters who (in spite of what has been said on here numerous times) are not hogging the middle lane, they are genuinely using that lane to pass the slower inside lane traffic , the problem is that as the inner lane is no longer a series of single vehicles which you can pass then return to that lane, it's a constant line. Lane 3, on busy (most) days ,is exactly the same.
Most very busy motorways settle down to a pattern of three solid lines of traffic flowing at a steady pace, each lane slightly faster than the one to it's left. Much as we 'enthusiasts' would like not to be a part of this, and use our awesome driving skills and supercars to fly past the hoi polloi, some days it just isn't possible.
While I can accept the frustration of people who want to travel past the 'average' traffic, they really need to accept it's not going to happen on some routes at certain times of the day. They need to accept that sometimes you just have to go with the flow. Getting wound up and trying to beat the system by tailgating, undertaking, flashing etc is not going to do you a lot of good and might do substantial harm.

[DavidJG]

mybrainhurts said:

PH used to be so civilised.

Take a trip into 'News, Politics & Economics' if you want to see how 'civilised' some parts of PH are. There are lots of folks in there who you really, really wouldn't want to ever meet.