4x4's with Bad Drivers

[spoonoff]

Sorry if this is a repost but need to get this off my chest after being tailgated by a Discovery over 10 miles of snow and ice this morning.

4 WHEEL DRIVE DOES NOT HELP YOU BRAKE! STOP PUTTING ME, YOU, MY PASSENGERS, YOUR PASSENGERS, AND EVERY OTHER ROAD USER AT RISK!!!

<deep breath>

Feel much better now.

And before the pedants chip in, I mean braking with the clutch depressed, and I'm not referring to all of you with 4x4s, just the minority who think they are GI Joe once the weather gets bad.

Others must have had similar experiences over the last few days?

[HellDiver]

4x4's what?

3/10, not enough swearing, topic covered already.

[spoonoff]

HellDiver said:

4x4's what?

3/10, not enough swearing, topic covered already.

Please direct me- it would be catharsis today...

[CraigVmax]

yup, I've seen some mums on the school run who have special "anti laws of physics" mode fitted to their Volve XC90's.

Too many tales to tell ref the above, i've got bored of it.

My wife particularly liked the range rover driver who passed her on a snow covered A3 yesterday at 6am, she was doing about 40 in our cayenne when it came thundering past and completely covered ours in snow. nice work fella.

[300bhp/ton]

spoonoff said:

Sorry if this is a repost but need to get this off my chest after being tailgated by a Discovery over 10 miles of snow and ice this morning.

So why not pull over and let them past? Too stubborn, too much pride, big ego?

Edited by 300bhp/ton on Friday 3rd December 13:18

[Efbe]

300bhp/ton said:

spoonoff said:

Sorry if this is a repost but need to get this off my chest after being tailgated by a Discovery over 10 miles of snow and ice this morning.

So why not pull over and let them past? Too stubborn, too much pride, big ego?

Edited by 300bhp/ton on Friday 3rd December 13:18

pulling over on roads as they are now would be pretty tough.

for most of the coutry, people are on 1 track roads lined with slushy slidy snow on each side

[300bhp/ton]

doogz said:

300bhp/ton said:

spoonoff said:

Sorry if this is a repost but need to get this off my chest after being tailgated by a Discovery over 10 miles of snow and ice this morning.

So why not pull over and let them past? Too stubborn, too much pride, big ego?

Edited by 300bhp/ton on Friday 3rd December 13:18

Possibly nowhere to pull over, single track cut in the snow?

for 10 miles?? Surely there must have been somewhere.

Edited by 300bhp/ton on Friday 3rd December 13:33

OP - If I'm wrong and there really was nowhere to pull over, then I apologise for my initial response

Edited by 300bhp/ton on Friday 3rd December 13:50

[Pork]

Another day, another thread, same annoyances, same counter arguments.

[Pork]

spoonoff said:

HellDiver said:

4x4's what?

3/10, not enough swearing, topic covered already.

Please direct me- it would be catharsis today...

I think this is the one I was reading yesterday...

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0... tail-gating 4x4 drivers

Enjoy!

[andy43]

Love tailgating, me.
I won't back off until I can see the whites of their eyes.
About 18" off the back bumper is just right in this weather.
HTH



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[spoonoff]

300bhp/ton said:

doogz said:

300bhp/ton said:

spoonoff said:

Sorry if this is a repost but need to get this off my chest after being tailgated by a Discovery over 10 miles of snow and ice this morning.

So why not pull over and let them past? Too stubborn, too much pride, big ego?

Edited by 300bhp/ton on Friday 3rd December 13:18

Possibly nowhere to pull over, single track cut in the snow?

for 10 miles?? Surely there must have been somewhere.

Edited by 300bhp/ton on Friday 3rd December 13:33

OP - If I'm wrong and there really was nowhere to pull over, then I apologise for my initial response

Edited by 300bhp/ton on Friday 3rd December 13:50

Not too many places to pull over on the North York Moors when they have been ploughed and there's piles of snow either side of the road. If it had been very bad I'd have stopped and waved him past on a long, well sighted section where he could have overtaken safely. Done that before a few times.

[J4CKO]

I agree, the only qualification to drive a three tonne 500 bhp leviathan is being able to pay the finance, or to get someone else to, witness the clueless mummies at the kids school driving whilst on the phone, all big shades, orange skin and Ugg boots piloting something with that much kinetic energy, only kept from crashign by the electronics and the only skill required is that which you use to drive a go-kart, i.e. right for go, left for stop and use the big hoopy thing to aim it sat there in near silence whilst outside its a maelstrom of displaced air, exhaust noise and the sound of massive tyres on tarmac.

[Jem0911]

I was tailed by a tool in Saxo but I didn't post it up.

Where's my thread?
'Saxo tails a 3tonne 4x4!'

TBH tailgating happens all the time what ever the time of year or road conditions?

[puntograle]

Jem0911 said:

I was tailed by a tool in Saxo but I didn't post it up.

Where's my thread?
'Saxo tails a 3tonne 4x4!'

TBH tailgating happens all the time what ever the time of year or road conditions?

I can agree with that...my biggest worry in the Disco is not keeping it on the road, but keeping away from a minority of other drivers who cannot account for road conditions! Last night I had a idiot in a VW Passat trying to drive 5 feet from my rear bumper on a slushy A road from where he would have zero forward visibility (apart from my tail lights)...of course, I let him past when safe - no need to take on pratts in these conditions, they can ram into something else if they want to

Funnily enought, I also kept coming across grown up pedestrians who thought it ok to suddenly step infront of a 2.5 tonne vehicle at the last minute as surely I should be able to brake as well in the snow as in the dry (not!)