People driving up your ar$e grrrr!
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It's not just London, in Cambridge i seem to get a lot of tailgaiters who don't seem to realise that, even if i get out of the way they'll still be in traffic, and every bike and pedestrian will get there faster.
So i let everyone out of every side street just to annoy them.
Curiously, i get a lot more aggressive tailgaiters when I'm in my Clio 172, than in my passat.
So i let everyone out of every side street just to annoy them.
Curiously, i get a lot more aggressive tailgaiters when I'm in my Clio 172, than in my passat.
I never get tailgated, but then I drive to the limit and conditions and dont needlessly drive under the limit, and use the correct lane i.e. move back left after overtaking.
I find people that moan about being tailgated are usually guilty of the above. Same as peopel that gripe about 'being cut up all the time'.
I find people that moan about being tailgated are usually guilty of the above. Same as peopel that gripe about 'being cut up all the time'.
I particularly enjoy this behaviour when performed by HGV drivers in 50-limit average speed zones in the M4 Smart Motorway upgrade area at the moment (i.e. Reading to London). I cruise at an indicated 53, yet there they are, inches from the bumper, lights blazing. 40 tonnes of death a few feet from the back of my head.
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s.MC Bodge said:
chan61922 said:
I’m over cautious with this car as I mentioned it’s tuned and it’s a turbo. The car doesn’t want to change gear freely when it’s stone cold so I hang on to gears so I don’t stress it, You get a feel for your car, you can certainly tell when it’s cold so just for the sake of the road being a 40mph zone doesn’t mean I have to race to 40 just for the sake of some idiot behind me. I have no issue with beinh overtaken, please do so. It’s zero degrees outside my cars frosted up, windows are foggy, you can clearly see that, just go past me already.
Clear your windows and remove the Frost. As an aside I hate being tailgated and it happens every day I venture on the Suffolk/Cambs stretches of the A14 in rush-hour - just what is the point when I'm going the same speed as the car in front and that's the same as the other 1000 we can all see stretching ahead over the horizon?
chan61922 said:
In all honestly everyone’s windows are frosted up first thing in the morning, eveyone has to go through it, does it mean we all come out our drives racing like Nigel Mansel- no we don’t. So have some consideration. Don’t where mansel came from by the way lol
Everyone's jumping off a cliff tomorrow. See you at the bottom.Tonyvid you been stalking me mate lol I’m stage 2 on a stock turbo if you know anything about the stock turbos you’d know there about as useful as chocolate teapot. Problem is this an occurring theme my previous M car got the same treatment, and when I drive my runaround and Mrs car I get no grief whatsoever. Never in the slightest. Soon as someone sees something abit tarted up there instantly on to you
chan61922 said:
Tonyvid you been stalking me mate lol I’m stage 2 on a stock turbo if you know anything about the stock turbos you’d know there about as useful as chocolate teapot. Problem is this an occurring theme my previous M car got the same treatment, and when I drive my runaround and Mrs car I get no grief whatsoever. Never in the slightest. Soon as someone sees something abit tarted up there instantly on to you
All your cars get treated the same? Wonder what the common denominator could be? Maybe they all have similar shaped headlights?KAgantua said:
I never get tailgated, but then I drive to the limit and conditions and dont needlessly drive under the limit, and use the correct lane i.e. move back left after overtaking.
I find people that moan about being tailgated are usually guilty of the above. Same as peopel that gripe about 'being cut up all the time'.
Wow. You win the thread. I find people that moan about being tailgated are usually guilty of the above. Same as peopel that gripe about 'being cut up all the time'.
chan61922 said:
them. I really don’t think I am being an annoyance driving 5mph less then the roads speed limit.
Oh, I see.So you're doing 25 when 30 is clearly possible. Why can't your car do 30? Do you only have two gears or something? I drive at the speed limit when the engine is cold, and won't do over 3000rpm until the engine is at 90C.
I get the feeling you're doing it to annoy others because you have a highly tuned turbo and want to make a point.
chan61922 said:
In all honestly everyone’s windows are frosted up first thing in the morning, eveyone has to go through it, does it mean we all come out our drives racing like Nigel Mansel- no we don’t. So have some consideration. Don’t where mansel came from by the way lol
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