Buy some high performance tyres in the Pug size and sacrifice them to the Gods. Burning rubber is bad so you’ll have to do this in an environmentally friendly way. Repent, repent!
Buy some high performance tyres in the Pug size and sacrifice them to the Gods. Burning rubber is bad so you’ll have to do this in an environmentally friendly way. Repent, repent!
Are people around here suicidal or am I overly cautious? looks completely unhinged to me to be on the inside of that bend on foot...
(This is not a quiet road and despite a 40 limit many many people go through there at 50, 60 or even faster).
EDIT: Also I normally try and avoid the drain on the left but with them there I wanted to be as far over as I could be :s
(This is not a quiet road and despite a 40 limit many many people go through there at 50, 60 or even faster).
EDIT: Also I normally try and avoid the drain on the left but with them there I wanted to be as far over as I could be :s
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Pedestrians are walking single file and against the traffic which is what they should be doing. There’s usually a ‘pedestrians in road’ warning sign on roads like that, which hopefully the drivers are noticing.
Still dangerous though, I agree.
Advice is to cross and walk on the open side of a right hand bend especially in cases like that where there is nowhere for them to go and barely any visibility before a driver is on them (obviously a little impractical in some cases but preferable to the risk - just after the video ends there was a large goods vehicle heading that way).
Off the top of my head the nearest sign of pedestrians in road is about a mile away (EDIT: Just checked on Google maps - 1.46km so pretty close and that is specific to an earlier section really).
Been a bit bizarre as I've seen 4 instances of it in the last 4 days or so - 2 of them on my side. I don't think I've seen it 4 times in total over the last 2-3 years on these roads.
Ah yes, good point!
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My friend at school got clattered by a wing mirror on an Escort Van walking a similar road. Not the news you want to deliver to his Mum!
That is one aspect of driving a pickup that scares me a bit - while the vehicle itself isn't overly wide - in fact slightly narrower than some SUVs - big mirrors sticking further out than normal and at just the right height to give someone serious injury. (Not as bad as driving a coach or large goods vehicle though).
Who?
The trader for selling the car on with the tyres?
Me for for trading a car in with the tyres?
The garage for putting the tyres on?
The wholesaler who sold the tyres to the garage?
The manufacture of the tyres?
List goes on.
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The tree that made the rubber.
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Maybe the traction control is poor, it can't be too much power
. Wonder if its the overly narrow tyres.Deleted User 298457
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My Fiesta MK6 on reasonable tyres used to be very tail happy. I think it is a symptom of tiny FWD cars with no weight over the rear wheels.
Once you knew their limit you should have set fire to them, not driven to another country and back on them.
I bought a car with brand new ditchfinders on it once, I almost understeered onto the other side of the road on a damp corner at moderate speed. I ordered new tyres as soon as I got home and the old ones went in the bin with 8mm of tread on them.
I find it slightly bizarre that such awful tyres are legal. Look up reviews for the Autogrip F107 for instance. They should be banned in this country. There needs to be a minimum standard.
https://www.tyrereviews.com/Tyre/Autogrip/F107.htm
You should never buy anything below a mid range tyre like a Kumho, Falken, Nexen, Uniroyal, etc.
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I wouldn’t lose sleep over it, I recommend you do as I have done and put him on ignore.
He drives like a clown because he drives a clown car. (BMW i3)
Once you knew their limit you should have set fire to them, not driven to another country and back on them.
I bought a car with brand new ditchfinders on it once, I almost understeered onto the other side of the road on a damp corner at moderate speed. I ordered new tyres as soon as I got home and the old ones went in the bin with 8mm of tread on them.
I find it slightly bizarre that such awful tyres are legal. Look up reviews for the Autogrip F107 for instance. They should be banned in this country. There needs to be a minimum standard.
https://www.tyrereviews.com/Tyre/Autogrip/F107.htm
You should never buy anything below a mid range tyre like a Kumho, Falken, Nexen, Uniroyal, etc.
Those F107 are awful but a quick view of the reviews also paints a picture of crap car owners, such as the person that posted this review:
Expecting SUMMER tyres to perform well in icy conditions.
Currently on my car I have Avon ZV7 all round. They're a decent mid-range tyre that has massively better wet grip than the price-point would suggest (£77/corner fitted).