What are your bad driving habits ?

Talk to my self while driving
Call the car names when it loses speed up hills
Swear to my self and grumble about other people that dip there lights to late or speed up when im over taking them
Im a very vocal driver:D

Start to play with the Air con or radio when the road gets repetitive.
Palm steer when reversing.
Indercating around a normal corner of the road :o ive lost count how many times ive done that.
Push the car harder then it should be pushed

Thats about it for now:)
 
whilst on a motorway...

if it's quiet, find a single car going quite slowly in the slow lane, over take it and sit infront of it. Then slow down enough for him to over take you, then repeat. hahaah it's really funny when they realise


i also palm round corners whilst stamped on the clutch. <-- not good

oh joy :P
 
Quantic said:
Riding the clutch round corners!
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Please don't ever get an MR2 or other mid engine'd, rwd type car then. As soon as you're round the corner and you lift back off the clutch you're gonna kick the back end out, probably into another car/tree/lamp post etc.
 
oh i've thought of annother one:

taking huge detors to drive more enjoyable roads :D seem to do it all the time these days if i think theres half a chance i'm not going to get stuck behind someone!
 
I engine brake all the time, in fact I always blip the throttle when downshifting. I don't see it as a bad habbit though.

I suppose flashing my main beams at people with their fogs on is a bad habbit but I think i'm over that now, there are far too many of them to flash :p
 
Enfield said:
I engine brake all the time, in fact I always blip the throttle when downshifting. I don't see it as a bad habbit though.
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I'll only bother with fancy heel & toe down changes if I can tell I'm not going to have to stop, say at a well sighted roundabout or a corner. Approaching red lights, traffic queues etc I just use the brake.

The only bad habit that springs to mind readily is blipping the throttle in tunnels :D
 
You think clutch in around corners is bad, until I gave her a talking to about it, my girlfriend would hit the clutch every time she hit the brake, no matter how little braking was required. Even on motorways :eek:
 
Nozzer said:
I'll only bother with fancy heel & toe down changes if I can tell I'm not going to have to stop, say at a well sighted roundabout or a corner. Approaching red lights, traffic queues etc I just use the brake.
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I'd love to be able to heel & toe properly - i've only ever tried it twice and got it right on the 2nd time but pressed the brakes a little too hard :p

The only bad habit that springs to mind readily is blipping the throttle in tunnels :D
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That's a good thing, definitely :D
 
Enfield said:
I'd love to be able to heel & toe properly - i've only ever tried it twice and got it right on the 2nd time but pressed the brakes a little too hard :p
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It really helps having a car that's been designed with h&t in mind.
 
"occasionally" undertake people who sit in the middle lane of the motorway and dont pull over even when the 1st lane is free :o
 
Well, for instance it's hard to get the angles right with the pedals in my A3, but the Elise is perfect.
 
Far too many to admit to. How I've managed to keep my licence is a mystery even PD James couldn't figure out. A few though:
  • Never let vans etc out of side roads
  • Deliberately stop in front of someone trying to join the road from a junction on the right and blocking their side of the road. There's a "give-way" sign there for a reason, Numpty!
  • Undertaking lane hoggers
  • Flashing fog-light users
  • Holding down the horn at mobile phone users whilst sitting alongside them
  • Driving too fast for the conditions
  • Driving too fast outside 30mph (usually 20mph+)
  • Almost totally reliant on satnav/B2/Mk1 eyeball for speed cameras (see item above)

I could include others mentioned by people above but you get the picture... :o

And no, I am not proud of myself
 
Chris1712 said:
I was taught to do this, your supposed to be ready to go again at like junctions/lights etc.
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It's bad for the clutch but, yes, I was taught to do it too. Doesn't mean I still do ;).

If you can't get it into 1st and bring the clutch up again in the time it takes for the light to go between red and green, something's wrong.
 
Chris1712 said:
I was taught to do this, your supposed to be ready to go again at like junctions/lights etc.
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I guess it depends on where/who you were taught. I was always told to take the car out of gear at junctions & lights, so that if anyone did run into the back of you then your foot isn't going to slip off the clutch and shoot you across the road.

I also leave it in gear, but always put on my handbrake. I don't want to dazzle the guy behind with my brake lights like the car in front of me does.
 
At traffic lights I'll sit with the handbrake on, clutch in, in first gear....probably not great for the clutch (I hear it knackers the clutch release bearing).

Big roundabouts I like to drive fast around, so generally I'll approach them going a bit too quickly and brake quite sharply at the last moment, occasionally overtaking on roundabouts (I don't cut people up by pulling back to the left hand lane though, just keep going!). I think I have startled a few people doing this but generally I try to be a bit calmer all round (after being pulled over last summer for speeding and told off for my 'spirited' driving :o).

Oh sometimes (when its really wet) and I want to pull away quickly or out of a junction, I'll slip the clutch big time to prevent wheelspin....
 
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