Your motoring irritations

Noxia said:
Nurburgring stickers.
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A big fat +1!

Congrats, you may have been, you may not have been. I don't have a sticker of my holioday destinations or places I've been on road trips. Why? Because it doesn't mean jack ****, isn't cool and makes you look like a tardburger!

Clarkey said:
Last week I saw someone driving along an unlit country A road with only side lights on. WTF??

Can't say I've ever seen the point in side lights, why do they exist?
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I did that last night :(

Pulled out of my road turning left, 20m away an A5 gives me some flashes....

Stupid Audi pr..........ohhhh only sidelights on :rolleyes: My bad!
 
People who park their car around the corner of a busy T junction (left side), this blocks the view of drivers looking to safely turn right! (Especially so on a Saturday/Sunday Church goers, walk to your blooming Church!)

People who can't park, with their car sticking out almost a foot further than all the other parallel parked cars.

New Land Rovers; YES I KNOW YOU'RE A HIGH SUV, you don't have to drive so close to me that your blooming headlights light up cabin up like I have 1000 bulbs!

People who haven't got a clue what to do at a round about.

If you're turning right at a roundabout, don't use the inner lane at a round about, if you've got a sat nav, either get one that annouces clearly early or get on the right hand lane and keep going right until you see the right exit - don't attempt to go right and cut me off when I am going straight on!

Big car napoleon syndrome drivers. Yes, I know I drive a Toyota iQ, but I drive at steady speeds to yield MPG, when I pass you, it's because you fell asleep and slowed down, you don't have to rev up pass me and slot back in ahead of me, then proceed to doing the same stunt again.
 
~Dockie said:
Its not something i don't like, more something i don't understand, but its people that absolutely must be past you only to get ~5 seconds in front before having to stop for traffic lights, or turn off some other way.
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Blue160 said:
People who trundle down country roads at 40mph then speed up if you try to overtake.
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Encountered both of these in a fashion this morning.

NSL country road that leads to a T-junction that, every morning, is queueing so you need to sit and wait to join.

Make it onto the road, and some eejit in a Toyota is doddling along at ~40. I'm stuck behind them. So, first opportunity I start speeding up for the overtake... and they boot it to 55.

"Fair enough" I think, and settle back down... except we go over a hill and they brake on the way down, settling back to ~45. At this point it's too dangerous to attempt another overtake on this road due to blind hills and bends, so I just chill out, whack the radio up a bit and trundle along behind them.

Except another guy comes flying up behind us, slows to match and then, just after the final blind hill, which leads to a blind bend, immediately after which is the approach to the junction starts flashing ME in some retarded indication that I should be overtaking. Erm, no mate. Not gonna happen.
 
Blackhawk47 said:
Sorry lol, this is my car tonight, no pressure on brake pedal/handbrake on. :o

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My car is the same, the brake lights only go off if the car is in park or neutral when the handbrake is applied .


MagicBoy said:
That's something the manufacturers need to fix then. I don't really appreciate being dazzled because someone else has a flappy paddle gearbox.
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This is object fixation and nothing to do with the design of the car. If you do not look directly at the lights they do not dazzle. The same principal is for headlights, look to the side of them and they will not dazzle.


Back on topic, seen two pensioners do it this morning and a few earlier in the week. They are sitting at a junction with the left indicator on and then they turn right.:confused:
 
People walking onto busy main roads as they are too lazy to use the pedestrian crossing just a few meters from them. Even worse when they have babies or young kids with them. :mad:
 
Kaka said:
People walking onto busy main roads as they are too lazy to use the pedestrian crossing just a few meters from them. Even worse when they have babies or young kids with them. :mad:
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Or worst, Twits who walks across it like they own it and thinks I will slow for them. I need a passenger with a wet fish, slap them across the face when I drive pass them.
 
People who don't know how to merge lanes and queue at traffic lights/junctions with multiple lanes are my big annoyances - I encounter both on the way to work when the traffic's heavy :(
 
Finglonga said:
My car is the same, the brake lights only go off if the car is in park or neutral when the handbrake is applied .
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That is isn't the brake light though (which is even more brighter but I've only seen it from inside the car...). That was just normal dipped headlights and rear lights. :o :eek:

Luckily though if I ease off the brake pedal at lights etc it will turn the brake lights off and just keep them illuminated like in the pic. Yet the car will stay perfectly still because the brakes are still applied. :)
 
Indecision and a lack of forward thought are what annoys me most. People who seem to get behind the wheel and then prioritise the actual driving as the 3rd or 4th most important thing they are doing. That is the route of most bad driving.
 
When people do 100mph on public roads (non motorway) to stick it on youtube and show off their car.



Yeah i went there.
 
Westyfield2 said:
+1.

Roads are for driving on. We all pay our road tax to drive on the roads. Your driveway is for parking on. Parking on the road is selfish as only your car can use that bit of tarmac, instead of the usual xCars per hour that can drive on it! Maybe they should raise the road tax for people who want to park on the road or something!?
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One even bigger thing that annoys me:
People who park on the road outside their house and get possessive over that space, thinking they have a right to it and it belongs to them.
 
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People who don't use indicators.
Idiots using the nearside lane to go right on roundabouts (this is getting increasingly common)
Drivers sticking to the third lane of four, when there's nothing in the inside two lanes.
 
OpenToSuggestions said:
One even bigger thing than annoys me:
People who park on the road outside their house and get possessive over that space, thinking they have a right to it and it belongs to them.
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It's like this on my dads road, everyone parks on the street, leaves their drives clear, and refuses to budge so when I pop round I have to then park on the next street, pain in the arse when i have a boot load of stuff to take in.
 
People who don't indicate
HIDS in reflectors
Any form of blue headlight or sidelight
Fog lights when not even remotely foggy
People who can't give way at roundabouts
Improper use of lanes on motorways

That's all I have right now.
 
People who tap their brakes to often or activate the lights without actually applying pressure. Then you have to be extra careful in case they slam on their brakes for whatever reason.

Oh and getting my retinas burned like others. Too many automatics is the cause.
 
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People who park on the kerb with like 1" of their wheels balanced right on the edge of the kerb. Hard to know whether they were attempting to park on the kerb or next to it, and just couldn't be bothered to correct it either way.
 
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