Cars that drive up your jacksie

[henrycrun]

No but there's always a moton on their way to an accident

[Regiment]

Is this the thread where we bad mouth VAG drivers, if anyone is driving up my arse, it tends to be an Audi.

[Mandat]

All that jazz said:

benjijames28 said:

It really can vary, I try to ignore it, but most often the best technique is to slowly reduce your speed, it actually happened last night

50mph straight road, doing bang on 50, had this stty ford fiesta right on my back bumper, literally kissing it. So I slow down to 45mph and stick at that the whole length of the road (about 2 miles), even when he eventually got out of my boot.

We then got to a roundabout and if your going straight on it opens into two lanes, I knew what he was gonna do, straight into second lane and fly past me. So I stick in lane one but soon as exit roundabout I put foot down, leaving about a 200m gap between us, he then pulls back behind me know lane 1, I stuck to speed limit and a minute later he flew past at about 80.

Childish of me, but point proven. Very satisfying.

What a fking grade A nob and I'm not talking about the fezza. He clearly wanted to go past and go at a faster speed than you so why act like a nob? Rather than "teach him a lesson" by playing games and provoking a reaction which causes people to do stupid things and end up crashing, why not just let him past and have him out of your hair? I really don't understand this mentality of acting as self-appointed road police; it rarely ends well and you will seriously seriously regret playing games if you do it that st to someone that's got a severe case of The Mental.

+1.

I very rarely get tailgated, and I would suggest that if the OP is getting tailgated as often as he is, it might be indicative of the OP's own bad driving, rather than others.

It is quite telling that the OP is happy for the fiesta to continue tailgating after the roundabout, rather than using it as an opportunity to let the fiesta overtake.

[NickCQ]

I see it more as standing up to 'bullying' behaviour on the road rather than actively trying to piss someone off. People only tailgate because it works, i.e. people move over to allow an overtake where it wouldn't otherwise be possible. If it stopped working, they'd stop tailgating and we'd all be safer.

[johnwilliams77]

benjijames28 said:

It really can vary, I try to ignore it, but most often the best technique is to slowly reduce your speed, it actually happened last night

50mph straight road, doing bang on 50, had this stty ford fiesta right on my back bumper, literally kissing it. So I slow down to 45mph and stick at that the whole length of the road (about 2 miles), even when he eventually got out of my boot.

We then got to a roundabout and if your going straight on it opens into two lanes, I knew what he was gonna do, straight into second lane and fly past me. So I stick in lane one but soon as exit roundabout I put foot down, leaving about a 200m gap between us, he then pulls back behind me know lane 1, I stuck to speed limit and a minute later he flew past at about 80.

Childish of me, but point proven. Very satisfying.

What point did you prove hero?

[IanCormac]

I often just stick it on cruise control at the speed limit in my van on all kinds of roads. If people tailgate me I pay them no heed. I certainly don't act like one of those tits that slow down when someone is behind them. I just carry on driving as normal whether there's someone behind me or not.

[Riley Blue]

From what I've seen, around town it seems to be young ladies driving fairly new 'pretty' sub-compacts - Fiat 500, DS3 and so on. I think their attention wanders between the road ahead, their phone and the 'make up' mirror so you've a one in three chance of survival.

[George111]

NickCQ said:

George111 said:

The person behind might have been rushing to the hospital to see their child in intensive care

Come off it. You know that's not the case in the vast majority of situations.

How do you know ?

In any case, what's it got to do with you or me ? I don't expect to interfere with anybody else's life and I expect them to show me the same respect. None of my business so I'll let anybody past if they want to go faster, I'm not plod, their business what they do, not mine.

[George111]

Mandat said:

All that jazz said:

benjijames28 said:

It really can vary, I try to ignore it, but most often the best technique is to slowly reduce your speed, it actually happened last night

50mph straight road, doing bang on 50, had this stty ford fiesta right on my back bumper, literally kissing it. So I slow down to 45mph and stick at that the whole length of the road (about 2 miles), even when he eventually got out of my boot.

We then got to a roundabout and if your going straight on it opens into two lanes, I knew what he was gonna do, straight into second lane and fly past me. So I stick in lane one but soon as exit roundabout I put foot down, leaving about a 200m gap between us, he then pulls back behind me know lane 1, I stuck to speed limit and a minute later he flew past at about 80.

Childish of me, but point proven. Very satisfying.

What a fking grade A nob and I'm not talking about the fezza. He clearly wanted to go past and go at a faster speed than you so why act like a nob? Rather than "teach him a lesson" by playing games and provoking a reaction which causes people to do stupid things and end up crashing, why not just let him past and have him out of your hair? I really don't understand this mentality of acting as self-appointed road police; it rarely ends well and you will seriously seriously regret playing games if you do it that st to someone that's got a severe case of The Mental.

+1.

I very rarely get tailgated, and I would suggest that if the OP is getting tailgated as often as he is, it might be indicative of the OP's own bad driving, rather than others.

It is quite telling that the OP is happy for the fiesta to continue tailgating after the roundabout, rather than using it as an opportunity to let the fiesta overtake.

Exactly. He won't do it again once he gets followed to the office/shop/home and smacked in the face by one of his less well disposed victims.

[benjijames28]

Mandat said:

+1.

I very rarely get tailgated, and I would suggest that if the OP is getting tailgated as often as he is, it might be indicative of the OP's own bad driving, rather than others.

It is quite telling that the OP is happy for the fiesta to continue tailgating after the roundabout, rather than using it as an opportunity to let the fiesta overtake.

Firstly I'm not the one who started this thread, and two I never said I get tailgated often. I just said it happened last night.

As for what point I proved by slowing down, I proved that I'm not going to be bullied into breaking the speed limit on a road I know is frequented by speed camera vans, just cause some idiot wants to double the speed limit.

It was childish of me to accelerate harder than usual to get ahead of him after roundabout, but I still let him pass, I had no objection to him passing me where he is allowed to do so safely.

As for all this... Someone will follow u and hit you bullst.... Let them, confrontation is not something that bothers me.

Normally if someone wants to get past I let them, if he wanted to get past he would have crossed the solid white lines and done it, but he didn't want to, he just wanted to try forcing me to speed. It had opposite effect.

[rxe]

Any marque of car can be driven badly. There are two categories of tailgater though....

Firstly there is the deliberately aggressive - tailgating to intimidate. At least they are probably paying attention.

Then there are the people who just drive 3 feet from the car in front because that's how they drive. Not aggressive, just not thinking. They're the really dangerous ones.

My response to both is simply slow down so that the gap they leave is appropriate to the speed we are doing. Sometimes, that is very slow indeed. No problem letting them overtake when they can, I'm a hell of a lot safer with them in front of me than behind.

[stevemiller]

IanCormac said:

I often just stick it on cruise control at the speed limit in my van on all kinds of roads. If people tailgate me I pay them no heed. I certainly don't act like one of those tits that slow down when someone is behind them. I just carry on driving as normal whether there's someone behind me or not.

This and given the unknown locations of camera it is now the only way to drive and maintain a clean licence. Just be curtious, acknowledge good driving and say thanks when thanks are due. This approach means I get where I want less stressed and normally only a few moments later.

[benjijames28]

rxe said:

Any marque of car can be driven badly. There are two categories of tailgater though....

Firstly there is the deliberately aggressive - tailgating to intimidate. At least they are probably paying attention.

Then there are the people who just drive 3 feet from the car in front because that's how they drive. Not aggressive, just not thinking. They're the really dangerous ones.

My response to both is simply slow down so that the gap they leave is appropriate to the speed we are doing. Sometimes, that is very slow indeed. No problem letting them overtake when they can, I'm a hell of a lot safer with them in front of me than behind.

Be careful what you say, forcing dangerous drivers to slow down on roads where they should not overtake you is deemed a horrendous act by many people in here. You should pull in the nextside road and let them carry on their journey, after all they might be rushing to their child in intensive care, or delivering food parcels to the needy who's sky bill came out earlier than expected.

[T1547]

Do about 25k a year, mostly motorway driving and live in the SE. Can honestly say there is a wide range of car types that tailgate dangerously. If I had to stereotype I would put them into 3 main groups:

Van/Transit Tipper - probably the worst offender imo. Particularly stupid as 1. they carry a lot of weight and will find it harder to stop. 2. they're slow.

Young person in hatchback - Often girls actually. With the girls it doesn't always seem to be in aggression as just wrongly thinking this is how they should be driving.

Mr Audi/BMW/Mercedes - Surprisingly don't find these so much as the other two 'types' in the last year or two. Completely anecdotally, I find mercs (the modern DRL type) seem to be the worst of the 3.


Something else I've noticed a lot recently, particularly with the drawing in of daylight hours is newer cars driving at night without lights on. Presumably as the dashboard is illuminated but don't have auto headlights.

Edited by T1547 on Saturday 22 October 12:08

[Alias218]

Range Rovers mostly. At least I think they're Range Rovers - it's hard to tel when your retinas have been incinerated by their obnoxiously bright headlights.

[johnwilliams77]

benjijames28 said:

Firstly I'm not the one who started this thread, and two I never said I get tailgated often. I just said it happened last night.

As for what point I proved by slowing down, I proved that I'm not going to be bullied into breaking the speed limit on a road I know is frequented by speed camera vans, just cause some idiot wants to double the speed limit.

It was childish of me to accelerate harder than usual to get ahead of him after roundabout, but I still let him pass, I had no objection to him passing me where he is allowed to do so safely.

As for all this... Someone will follow u and hit you bullst.... Let them, confrontation is not something that bothers me.

Normally if someone wants to get past I let them, if he wanted to get past he would have crossed the solid white lines and done it, but he didn't want to, he just wanted to try forcing me to speed. It had opposite effect.

Wow. What a great achievement. Well done!

[Johnnytheboy]

Riley Blue said:

From what I've seen, around town it seems to be young ladies driving fairly new 'pretty' sub-compacts - Fiat 500, DS3 and so on. I think their attention wanders between the road ahead, their phone and the 'make up' mirror so you've a one in three chance of survival.

I was going to post this - young women in small cars, usually trying their best to look fierce.

However, they never actually overtake.

[Lgfst]

rxe said:

There are two categories of tailgater though....

Firstly there is the deliberately aggressive - tailgating to intimidate.

Then there are the people who just drive 3 feet from the car in front because that's how they drive.

This is exactly what I was going to say.

I hardly ever get tailgated, mostly because I just let them pass. Can't think of the last time I was properly tailgated on a road around town or country driving. I'm sure it depends on what car you're in too. I tend to get positive responses from the majority when in the ST (people letting me out etc). There's always the few that don't but I think it goes back to them being poor drivers/angry for whatever reason/looking for an argument etc.

The worst I ever had was a Renault captur. Obvious attempt at bullying on a DC but I was within traffic so couldn't move over. When I did I happily let him sail off into the sun.

[OddCat]

Reminds me of the old rule "Never have anyone behind you unless I've you've got someone in front of you" (otherwise, you are the one holding people up !)

Also, from Cannonball Run (or something like that) where the Italian guy in the Ferrari yanks off the rear view mirror and chucks it saying something like "What's a behind a me is not important"........

[fatboy b]

DoubleD said:

simonr100 said:

It always seems to be Audis these days, 15 years ago it was always BMW's.

You can't beat a good old fashioned stereo type.

Yep.


But true though.