Motorway at 2am
Discussion
TripleS said:
4 cars in the early hours of this morning, found themselves travelling along an unlit section of motorway that had the remains of a HGV tyre and wheel protector in two lanes...
Result: 4 x damaged cars..(radiotors, sumps, bumpers etc etc)
Clear motorways....Oh yeah! Get your foot down guys...it'll be ok...
Street
Fair enough Gary, but Trafpol car in lane 2 of an otherwise deserted unlit motorway, very high speed RH curve, 114 mph, in the dark?
Best wishes all,
Dave.
Oh no Dave, they go much, much faster on this road in Trafpol T5.
Actually I pull their leg about this, coz I think some of their cars are chipped, not to enhance the power output but simply to remove the speed limiter.
They always deny it, but Christ knows what a T5 would do with the limiter off.
Streetcop said:Thats as maybe, but there is simply nothing like a deserted motorway at some ungodly hour and an itching right foot.
4 cars in the early hours of this morning, found themselves travelling along an unlit section of motorway that had the remains of a HGV tyre and wheel protector in two lanes...
Result: 4 x damaged cars..(radiotors, sumps, bumpers etc etc)
Clear motorways....Oh yeah! Get your foot down guys...it'll be ok...
Street
Two weeks ago I left a friends wedding at 11pm. I'm not prepared to say where. I spent about ten minutes driving very fast.
If I had damaged my car due to hitting debris in the road, then its my problem. Heck, I'd even phone the police and tell them where it is.
Given the motorway was deserted and i was stone cold sober, I loved every bloody minute of it.
Greg
IOLAIRE said:
Oh no Dave, they go much, much faster on this road in Trafpol T5.
Actually I pull their leg about this, coz I think some of their cars are chipped, not to enhance the power output but simply to remove the speed limiter.
They always deny it, but Christ knows what a T5 would do with the limiter off.
The S60 is awesome!..
Streetcop said:
Streetcop said:
4 cars in the early hours of this morning, found themselves travelling along an unlit section of motorway that had the remains of a HGV tyre and wheel protector in two lanes...
Result: 4 x damaged cars..(radiotors, sumps, bumpers etc etc)
Clear motorways....Oh yeah! Get your foot down guys...it'll be ok...
Street
Fair enough Gary, but Trafpol car in lane 2 of an otherwise deserted unlit motorway, very high speed RH curve, 114 mph, in the dark?
Best wishes all,
Dave.
Yep..sounds good to me..
Ah right. This now looks like humour, rather than a consistently held viewpoint. If so that's OK, as long as we know.
Best wishes all,
Dave - still suspicious of wind-up merchants.
Streetcop said:
Oh no Dave, they go much, much faster on this road in Trafpol T5.
Actually I pull their leg about this, coz I think some of their cars are chipped, not to enhance the power output but simply to remove the speed limiter.
They always deny it, but Christ knows what a T5 would do with the limiter off.
The S60 is awesome!..
Ah ha!! An admission at last!! What will it do Street.
GregE240 said:
Thats as maybe, but there is simply nothing like a deserted motorway at some ungodly hour and an itching right foot.
If I had damaged my car due to hitting debris in the road, then its my problem. Heck, I'd even phone the police and tell them where it is.
Given the motorway was deserted and i was stone cold sober, I loved every bloody minute of it.
Greg
So did these guys....until the debrit wrecked their cars...
No HGV to get details from = Claim on your own insurance...
Street
Streetcop said:Of course, hitting that debris at the speed limit or even at 55mph would have left their cars undamaged, wouldn't it.
4 cars in the early hours of this morning, found themselves travelling along an unlit section of motorway that had the remains of a HGV tyre and wheel protector in two lanes...
Result: 4 x damaged cars..(radiotors, sumps, bumpers etc etc)
Clear motorways....Oh yeah! Get your foot down guys...it'll be ok...
Street
Zod said:
4 cars in the early hours of this morning, found themselves travelling along an unlit section of motorway that had the remains of a HGV tyre and wheel protector in two lanes...
Result: 4 x damaged cars..(radiotors, sumps, bumpers etc etc)
Clear motorways....Oh yeah! Get your foot down guys...it'll be ok...
Street
Of course, hitting that debris at the speed limit or even at 55mph would have left their cars undamaged, wouldn't it.
Yep...but you might have had a chance of avoiding it...
medicineman said:
Cue another good idea by the Europeans, plastic batons on top of the barriers so you can use full beams without blinding anyone else. No idea how much these cost a mile and I have seen them on some UK M ways. Cost? Cheaper to put up a speed camera?
Principal - Yes. Pratice - No! They forgot about the trucks and the damn things are not tall enough! This is why a high % of european trucks have roof mounted spots. Oncoming cars cannot see a trucks lights if he "flashes" to advise of presence.
Best bet is a full height fence. Would also stop rubbernecking.
Steve
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