Your motoring irritations
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There's not really anything more annoying than this on the roads IMO.
Couldn't all of this be summed up just by saying other drivers? lol
No indicators
testing each lane before a junction
swapping lanes (without indication) half way around a round about
high beams when not needed
half a cars length hanging out of a junction just so they can force there fat asses out
the list is endless really...
No indicators
testing each lane before a junction
swapping lanes (without indication) half way around a round about
high beams when not needed
half a cars length hanging out of a junction just so they can force there fat asses out
the list is endless really...
Soldato
Yeah that's soo annoying burning out my retinas! Though I admit I do it when driving an auto :/
People sitting in long queues with their indicator on
*rage face*
I already know you are turning right, the entire queue is turning right, if you were going left you would have taken the other road, the only people who need to know your obvious choice of direction are the people already on the main road and they are still 50 yards away.
Kindly die at your earliest convenience.
*rage face*
I already know you are turning right, the entire queue is turning right, if you were going left you would have taken the other road, the only people who need to know your obvious choice of direction are the people already on the main road and they are still 50 yards away.
Kindly die at your earliest convenience.
Soldato
Irritations:
People who drive without a full license and/or insurance etc.
People who hesitite at junctions etc. without good reason.
People who park **** heaps next to mine and open their car doors onto it, after I made an effort to park at the other end of the carpark so people with **** heaps would not park next to me.
People who do not respect my car.
People who tailgate - Although my mapped Focus has no DPF and chucks it's guts up all over the road when it comes on boost, filling the tailgater's cabin with smoke.
People who do not indicate.
People who gain a bruise and expect 'compo' - Thanks for making me smack my head on the A Pillar on Sunday Mud
People who say 'but it is only a car' when they scratch mine. It is not just a car, it is just MY car that I worked hard for.
Cyclists not keeping into the kerb - Can of worms open!!!!!
Chavs.
My biggest hates:
People parking on the road on main roads. It is like nagivating a maze to get down some roads sometimes. In Uttoxeter there is one busy road with a spanking brand new Golf parked on it, directly opposite the cross hatch for the firestation 10 metres away. It is bound to get battered and wingmirrors will be lost!
Eating in my car or getting it with oily/muddy boots.
I could go on all day but I won't as I have added enough already.
People who drive without a full license and/or insurance etc.
People who hesitite at junctions etc. without good reason.
People who park **** heaps next to mine and open their car doors onto it, after I made an effort to park at the other end of the carpark so people with **** heaps would not park next to me.
People who do not respect my car.
People who tailgate - Although my mapped Focus has no DPF and chucks it's guts up all over the road when it comes on boost, filling the tailgater's cabin with smoke.
People who do not indicate.
People who gain a bruise and expect 'compo' - Thanks for making me smack my head on the A Pillar on Sunday Mud
People who say 'but it is only a car' when they scratch mine. It is not just a car, it is just MY car that I worked hard for.
Cyclists not keeping into the kerb - Can of worms open!!!!!
Chavs.
My biggest hates:
People parking on the road on main roads. It is like nagivating a maze to get down some roads sometimes. In Uttoxeter there is one busy road with a spanking brand new Golf parked on it, directly opposite the cross hatch for the firestation 10 metres away. It is bound to get battered and wingmirrors will be lost!
Eating in my car or getting it with oily/muddy boots.
I could go on all day but I won't as I have added enough already
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Soldato
+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!?
You mean the wrong type of HIDs in reflector lenses. Look up D2R bulbs.
There is nothing wrong with the Severn Bridge GP. It's best when there has been a lock down and all the booths open simultaneously. It helps if you have a quick car though.
The stop-start systems on many automatics only work when using the brake pedal. If the handbrake is used the engine restarts.
Some of the dual clutch systems (early DSG) will only select neutral when held on the brake pedal as well, so this avoids riding the clutch in first.
Soldato
That's something the manufacturers need to fix then. I don't really appreciate being dazzled because someone else has a flappy paddle gearbox.
Soldato
Sorry lol, this is my car tonight, no pressure on brake pedal/handbrake on.
Soldato
Where's my hammer? 
People who can't figure out where the indicator stalk is.
People who drive away & then try to put their seatbelt on when driving whilst weaving allover the road.
When i'm a passenger in a car and the driver can't be arsed to change gear, my GF does this a lot, she will be too busy yakking and be sat there doing 40 in 3rd with the engine screaming away.
People tailgating me.
People who are too lazy to park their car properly, wether this means using disabled spaces they aren't entitled to or are too lazy to park their car where it's supposed to be so stick it right outside the shops on double yellows blocking half the road in rush hour.
People who make their own speed limits up and just drive everywhere at 40.
People who brake at random for every slight kink in the road.
And for some reason people who are driving around with their wipers on when it's bone dry (usually the rear one), i always have to wonder how much attention they are paying if they haven't noticed it's not been wet since the day before.
People who drive away & then try to put their seatbelt on when driving whilst weaving allover the road.
When i'm a passenger in a car and the driver can't be arsed to change gear, my GF does this a lot, she will be too busy yakking and be sat there doing 40 in 3rd with the engine screaming away.
People tailgating me.
People who are too lazy to park their car properly, wether this means using disabled spaces they aren't entitled to or are too lazy to park their car where it's supposed to be so stick it right outside the shops on double yellows blocking half the road in rush hour.
People who make their own speed limits up and just drive everywhere at 40.
People who brake at random for every slight kink in the road.
And for some reason people who are driving around with their wipers on when it's bone dry (usually the rear one), i always have to wonder how much attention they are paying if they haven't noticed it's not been wet since the day before.
Caporegime
I've never found brake lights dazzling, just hang back a bit, I can understand being annoyed at dangerous driving or being dazzled whilst driving, but brake lights is too whiney even for me!
Soldato
This is what gets me! All they have to do to make themselves 100x more visible is click the light switch one more notch. But they don't! I just don't understand why someone wouldn't just do this?! What do people possibly have to gain from using sidelights over dipped beams?! Argh!
Caporegime
The amount of people that drive around with just one working dipped light suggest a good chunk of the sidelight brigade have probably but got two dead dipped beam bulbs.
Being a year-round biker, i dislike a lot of whats already been posted, too much to quote. it seems a good 50% of car drivers don't give a please fully star swearing! about people on bikes.
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.
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.
Soldato
Most of the stuff I can take but my top 3 are:
1. People not thanking you for letting them out/in.
2. People (read: OAPs) who take great offence at being overtaken and flash you.
3. People that do not know the width of their car, so sit blocking the road for 5minutes because they couldn't possibly squeeze their fiesta through a 10ft wide gap.
1. People not thanking you for letting them out/in.
2. People (read: OAPs) who take great offence at being overtaken and flash you.
3. People that do not know the width of their car, so sit blocking the road for 5minutes because they couldn't possibly squeeze their fiesta through a 10ft wide gap.
Soldato
People not indicating or indicating wrongly on roundabouts 
People who trundle down country roads at 40mph then speed up if you try to overtake.
People who turn into morons when a fire engine/ambulance/police car is trying to get through.
School run 4x4's blocking the whole road while they drop their kids off.
People who try to merge onto the motorway at 30mph.
People who tailgate on the motorway in heavy traffic.
Chavs with phat exhausts on their corsas driving an inch from your bumper on B roads to prove how fast their car is.
That'll do for now
it's quite therapeutic doing a list like that.
People who trundle down country roads at 40mph then speed up if you try to overtake.
People who turn into morons when a fire engine/ambulance/police car is trying to get through.
School run 4x4's blocking the whole road while they drop their kids off.
People who try to merge onto the motorway at 30mph.
People who tailgate on the motorway in heavy traffic.
Chavs with phat exhausts on their corsas driving an inch from your bumper on B roads to prove how fast their car is.
That'll do for now
it's quite therapeutic doing a list like that.