Your motoring irritations

Porceliamone said:
I feel obliged to 'thank you for thanking me' when neither of us had to do anything other than follow the rules in the first place. DO NOT scowl when I do not acknowledge you thanking me for doing what I am required to do at these obstacles!
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Thanks very much hun, thanks, thank you!!!! :p

Was sitting in clients reception the other week and some guy was leaving after a meeting AND WOULDN'T STOP SAYING THANKS!

Anyway, my pet hate atm is people racing you becaufor the sake of it. This is on a Dual Carriageaway through the centre of Aberdeen in a 30 limit. 2 weeks ago I took the right lane to go over the roundabout as there was no one in the lane, plus I was turning right 300m at the next little roudnabout. The Meriva next to me with Mr 50yr old balding male decides he doesn't like me getting away quicker onto and off the roundabout, so flys past me on the inside doing around 50 before slamming the anchors on for the next little roundabout (where I turned right). Tool 1

Also in the same week, going the oppositie way on the way home, Mrs Knobby in her Hyundai velocester (whatever the **** it's called) decides to race around me. FYI I was in the left lane, again made good progress around and off the roundabout up to the crazy speed of 30 leptons. She tried to catch me over the roundabout, understeered, then tried to zoom past me in the 2nd lane, but got stuck by 2 slow cars, that I cruised past at a sedate 30 whilst still in the inside lane....... before I indicated right and moved out infront of them for the next set of lights to get into the correct lane. Mrs Tool 2

Silly people, you will lose!
 
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Atari said:
A guy I know has an Audi A5 and literally drives everwhere with his LED sidelights on, along with his HID fogs. Even though he's got Xenon/Bi-Xenons fitted.
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Got nothing against led/normal daytime running lights personally. Doesn't bother me at all as both a driver or if another car has them. :)
 
People driving huge 4x4s that slow down to 8mph to go over medium sized speed bumps

My door doesn't shut properly in winter

People who don't understand roundabouts and decide to be 'nice' about it rather than just following the rules which OBVIOUSLY WORK

Tailgaters

Badly aligned headlights dazzling me from behind

That's most of it really.
 
As said above, the single-speed merchants (40 in a NSL, 40 in a 30) :rolleyes:

Taxi drivers who aren't owner-drivers and therefore don't give a **** about their car and will just bully their way through tight situations even when it's your right of way

One that is WORSE than the no indication brigade; those that indicate left to leave a roundabout BEFORE they've even passed the previous exit :mad:

People that refuse to let you out of a side turning and then dawdle along at 20mph in front of you.
 
Bloody websites that tell you the incorrect bulb types for your vehicle. Now I have to send them back, get them replaced, and get them fitted when the new ones arrive.

Meanwhile I'm driving home after work down country lanes fearing for my life, and literally terrified that I'm going to plough right into the black of some idiot cycling in the dark in black clothes.

Not that my headlights aren't working at all, the dipped beam is just next to useless at the moment, also causing me to be regularly semi-blinded by oncoming traffic as there's no collision between light beams.
 
From truck drivers point of view . ******s who have NO sense at all when it comes to roundabouts and trucks. They insist on trying to beat me on to the roundabout using the wrong lane only to find out that I either have to break suddenly Or I just make them go round and round the roundabout until I get tired and let them off.

Ones who don't know the meaning even though it says on the back of the trailer if you cant see my mirrors I cant see you, So If I do pull out perhaps it is because you are that close to the rear of me I haven't even seen you even after double checking my mirrors!!

Also when I turn right and indicate to turn right but am in the right hand lane leaving the left free, it for a REASON that being the **** road I am trying to get into is too narrow to get into by any other way. That DOESN'T mean you can just drive up the left side of the road with your head up your ****

And the perpetual idiots who just overtake me and then slow down and over take and slow down????

Many many more, but that will suffice for now
 
rossk26 said:
It's even worse when the weather is fine, road conditions are excellent. Yet they persist to drive at 30 on a 50 and 40 on a 60...

Then you overtake safely, and you get flashed?
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I know, wtf is that about?

I've overtaken several people driving along at 30 - 40, only for them to speed up once i'm past then follow me at 60mph, lol!
 
Drivers who don't follow the one by one rule when joining a queue of traffic.

Works boths ways, those who barge ahead, and those who won't let anyone enter the queue in front of them
 
New one from lunch time.

Scooter weaving in and out of traffic on a small road for all of say 200m only to then get to a 60mph road and cause a huge traffic jam doing 30.
 
Some of my neighbours. I live in a cul-de-sac and they treat this like a private road and forever driving the wrong way. :(
 
Comfort brakers, single speed morons and slow drivers. If it's safe to do 60 on a road, they should do 60, the road from a nearby town is usually littered with them, it's 15 miles and most people seem to do about 40-50 for most of it, it's absolutely not neccecary.
 
Kenai said:
Then they're still completely pointless due to how dim they are.

They're not bright enough to light the road in the dark.

They're barely bright enough to even be detectable in the daylight.

They're not bright enough to make you more visible in dim conditions.
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the number of idiots i have seen with just sidelights on during the last few days of fog and heavy heavy rain has been astounding

do they really think they can be seen ? surprised there hasnt been more accidents
 
Brookert said:
.......but what if it isn't actually 'dark'.

I say this because I like using them when it's a bit cloudy, as I have a dark car. Dont want to put dipped on as the HID's make you look like a tool.
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Hence why the UK came up with dim-dip in the 80s. Ran the dipped beam at reduced voltage to output about 20% of the normal light. EC went bananas about the UK implementing something outside their rules and went to court to ban it IIRC. All cars on sale here in the mid-late 80s ran it, then it gradually died out as they got facelifted or replaced.
 
rossk26 said:
Drivers who don't follow the one by one rule when joining a queue of traffic.

Works boths ways, those who barge ahead, and those who won't let anyone enter the queue in front of them
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Sorry to pick you up again, but 'barging ahead' when two lanes merge to one for example, is apparently preferable in terms of traffic flow to the white van man that pulls out and stops everyone getting past, effectively meaning that the lane merge happens hundreds of metres before it needs to.
 
Robbie G said:
Sorry to pick you up again, but 'barging ahead' when two lanes merge to one for example, is apparently preferable in terms of traffic flow to the white van man that pulls out and stops everyone getting past, effectively meaning that the lane merge happens hundreds of metres before it needs to.
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Merging in turn is preferable in terms of traffic flow, when done properly.

If there is already a single file queue of traffic for whatever reason, that is flowing slowly but surely, blasting all the way down the outside and cutting your way in at the end forcing others to stop to let you in (causing a ripple effect all the way back) isn't conducive to better traffic flow.
 
Robbie G said:
Sorry to pick you up again, but 'barging ahead' when two lanes merge to one for example, is apparently preferable in terms of traffic flow to the white van man that pulls out and stops everyone getting past, effectively meaning that the lane merge happens hundreds of metres before it needs to.
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I agree with that, it's not quite what I was implying however. That theory works on a slip road joining a motorway/dual carriageway. I hate people that will leave a full slip road empty rather than utilising the full length of it.

I was more making a point at junctions. If I were on the road that had the traffic and there was someone wishing to join from the left, then I would let one through, but then there are often the people who will attach themselves to the rear bumper of the one car I have just let in, and barge in front of me. If he/she would be polite enough to wait then the one-by-one rule would apply and he/she would slot in behind me.

Then there are the **** who will charge up to the traffic in front just so you can't pull out...
 
Those people that go 1000000mph everywhere in front of you as it's some kind of racer code to follow them at the same speed.

Those who do 1000000mph between speedbumps, only to slow down at the next speedbump.

People who cut in.

Tailgaters/flashing lighters.
 
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