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Post by johnc on Jul 25, 2017 7:43:49 GMT
On my early morning start yesterday I passed a Q7 towing a largish 2 wheel caravan just as I passed Hamilton on the M74 - for anyone who knows this bit of road, the next 4 or 5 miles are uphill and it usually slows some lorries and most caravans down considerably. I reckon that the Q7 must have been doing an indicated 70mph when I passed him and I was doing an "actual 70" on cruise. About 7 or 8 miles later and on a downhill section, I looked in my mirror and storming up the middle lane is the same Q7 doing, I would estimate, an indicated 85mpg. He went sailing past me but then slowed a bit, meaning I was catching him up again. Unfortunately he had decided that the middle lane belonged to him (and the outside lane on more than a few occasions) so I had the long detour around him. He then proceeded to keep up the same game for the next 50 miles or so, sticking to the middle lane but with his speed varying from just south of 70 to north of 80.
I tried to keep my distance just in case his caravan shed a wheel but his slowing down meant I would catch him up and have to move out 2 lanes each time, only to be passed again a mile or so down the road. Cruise control doesn't half show up the variations in other driver's speeds. Thankfully he didn't follow me on to the A69.
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Post by Boxer6 on Jul 25, 2017 7:53:51 GMT
Wanky car driven by a devoted follower of Onan, by the sound of it.
I know that stretch of road all too well, and it can be a nightmare when the HGV's decide to play "chase me, pass me if you can"!
It's a real shame there aren't more police traffic cars around for cockstains like this; he obviously doesn't know, or care, he's limited to 60mph when towing a van anyway. Cunt!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 10:25:30 GMT
More roundabout idiocy. The roundabout between the M5 and main road into Cheltenham. A golf of some description going from the middle lane onto the exit for Asda etc, right across the nose of two cars. A miss distance in inches rather than feet. Nobody batted an eye, is this sort of conduct supposed to be reasonable?
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Post by Roadrunner on Jul 28, 2017 7:20:45 GMT
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Post by LandieMark on Jul 28, 2017 11:55:21 GMT
He must have been driving like a complete twat in race mode to lose it like that. The F430 I drove in the damp at Knockhill seemed very surefooted and communicative.
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Post by Martin on Jul 28, 2017 12:00:40 GMT
Maybe it had Cup (or similar) tyres which wouldn't have helped if there was a lot of standing water, but clearly not driving to the conditions whatever the tyres.
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Post by ChrisM on Jul 28, 2017 12:18:24 GMT
^ Especially when you have only owned the car for an hour
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Post by Tim on Jul 28, 2017 12:22:30 GMT
Maybe it had Cup (or similar) tyres which wouldn't have helped if there was a lot of standing water, but clearly not driving to the conditions whatever the tyres.
This happened to Mark Walton of CAR mag with a 911 GT3. He reckoned he was doing 70 up the motorway and hit a patch of standing water or a small stream running across the road surface. Either way it had the same result (minus the fire).
It should be a lesson for those who buy a car like that but want to use it on the road - fit appropriate tyres.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jul 28, 2017 15:27:51 GMT
Maybe it had Cup (or similar) tyres which wouldn't have helped if there was a lot of standing water, but clearly not driving to the conditions whatever the tyres.
This happened to Mark Walton of CAR mag with a 911 GT3. He reckoned he was doing 70 up the motorway and hit a patch of standing water or a small stream running across the road surface. Either way it had the same result (minus the fire).
It should be a lesson for those who buy a car like that but want to use it on the road - fit appropriate tyres.
Right, yeah, 70? Really? I smell cow poo.
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Post by Tim on Jul 28, 2017 15:30:48 GMT
I'm sure he said he had his daughter in the car and that it was a dark, rainy night so still possible.
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Post by johnc on Jul 31, 2017 13:23:54 GMT
Idiot in an Audi A1 who was busy talking on his hands free as he occupied the outside lane of a NSL dual carriageway. There were plenty of cars in the inside lane so his being in the outside lane wasn't a problem in itself, it was his variable 60 to 70 mph with the occasional touch of brakes for no reason which was more difficult to deal with. We passed all the traffic in the inside lane but he didn't pull over, so I moved to the left lane and gained on him a bit but had no intention of undertaking. However I saw him suddenly see me in his mirror which was almost immediately followed by a sharp move into the left lane right in front of me and then he hit the brakes. I am glad I was ready for him and was already in Sport mode and going to the outside lane. He disappeared backwards at high speed, no doubt helped by his braking and all I could see in my rear view mirror was a flurry of hand gestures. If he had been paying attention, none of that would have happened.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Aug 2, 2017 7:56:59 GMT
Idiot woman in the "Diddy Rugby" liveried Kuga, yakking on her mobile. In "hands free", held in her hand.
Had a few muppets last week, down in Cornwall, where two lane stretches of A road merged back to single lane. There was a lot of traffic and, naturally, those who chose to queue in the left lane, leaving over half a mile of clear right lane started getting all pissy at those that sailed up the right lane. There were several examples of drivers sitting in the right lane and stationary to stop people coming past. Merge in turn you idiots. What is so difficult about the concept?
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Post by Boxer6 on Aug 5, 2017 19:36:41 GMT
A local road has been closed for a few days, leading inevitably to diversions. Not a problem you'd think, however the diversions routes are all relatively narrow country roads meaning all the folk with bigger Q-Audis, M- and ML-klaasses, etc etc simply cannot fit their barge-like monstrosities through the lanes if ANYthing is coming the other way.
Now, this is not because two (e.g.) Q7's can't pass each other due to width issues; it's because the retarded fuckwits driving them have NO FUCKING CLUE how wide their cars actually are!
It's not just bigger cars either! I had the misfortune to come up behind a 53-plate Fabia, whose driver slowed to almost a complete halt (s/he did actually stop a couple of times!!!) whenever anything was coming the other way! Un-fucking-believable! I wonder more and more often how some people managed to pass their tests, AND how they manage to keep it!
* And .. .. .. breeeeaaaatthe!!
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Post by PG on Aug 7, 2017 15:20:48 GMT
Two near misses in the space of 2 minutes this morning - neither my fault. First one was a concrete mixer wagon bowling a long a narrow single carriageway road, but way over his white lines. I had to swerve into the verge. Second was a silver BMW 3'er that suddenly veered across the white line on the same road later on and then veered back. Almost a change of trousers moment for me, there. Had he not veered back there would have been almost nothing for it but to adopt the brace position.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Aug 8, 2017 8:26:46 GMT
Twat in a Transit, right hand holding his phone up to his left ear, barrelling up to the roundabout whilst not looking for traffic already on it (me). At the last minute he looked and did a full on emergency stop.
Another twat, this time in a VW van did pretty much the same thing at a T junction later on.
People are not learning, are they? I'm seeing more and more of this.
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Post by michael on Aug 14, 2017 9:35:49 GMT
Google have mapped quite a few walking routes on streetview, some poor sole had to walk miles of trails with a backpack mounted 360 camera strapped to their backs. Likely hard work but rewards us with tools that allow you to view where I was walking my dogs in the rain on Saturday, just here: goo.gl/maps/AeSnFyH46rR2Imagine my surprise when a Renault Twingo approached from behind being driven by a young woman who stopped and asked me where the road came out. I suggested she turned back as the track deteriorated quite significantly a few hundred meters further on. What because remarkable was that she'd got onto the lane by driving up a drovers road that I have done in the XC70 but honestly wouldn't countenance doing in anything with less ride height. I can't begin to imagine why some part of her brain didn't suggest quite early on that she'd take a wrong turn.
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Post by Roadrunner on Aug 14, 2017 9:44:55 GMT
Google have mapped quite a few walking routes on streetview, some poor sole had to walk miles of trails with a backpack mounted 360 camera strapped to their backs. Likely hard work but rewards us with tools that allow you to view where I was walking my dogs in the rain on Saturday, just here: goo.gl/maps/AeSnFyH46rR2Imagine my surprise when a Renault Twingo approached from behind being driven by a young woman who stopped and asked me where the road came out. I suggested she turned back as the track deteriorated quite significantly a few hundred meters further on. What because remarkable was that she'd got onto the lane by driving up a drovers road that I have done in the XC70 but honestly wouldn't countenance doing in anything with less ride height. I can't begin to imagine why some part of her brain didn't suggest quite early on that she'd take a wrong turn. I assume she had a sat nav stuck on the windscreen?
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Post by michael on Aug 14, 2017 10:04:16 GMT
First thing I asked! But no, just an idiot I think.
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Post by LandieMark on Aug 14, 2017 11:41:02 GMT
Three today in the space of 40 minutes. The first was a blind old cow in an XC70 who wanted the whole road to herself in Toft Hill. Despite flashing of lights she refused to pull back onto her side of the road and forced me to stop to avoid wiping her out.
The second was a fat cunt in a Mercedes Sprinter who pulled out in front of me at Summerhouse crossroads. That was a full on ABS stop. The third was mild in comparison. Silly cow in a Peugeot 208 pulled out of a layby but failed to get up to speed so I had to slow down.
I was in the Daf as it is going for test next week and I was dropping it off at the fitter. The last time I had to take the lorry for pre test checks it ended rather badly. It appears I am cursed.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Aug 20, 2017 18:29:19 GMT
Following a Ford Ranger pick up this evening when a plastic drinks bottle is launched from the window, before bouncing off my front bumper. I flashed my lights at the driver who spent the whole time at the next 2 sets of lights glaring in his mirror. After that came a ceremoniously lobbed tab end. It finally signalled right and came to a stop at the very left of the road preventing anything passing to its nearside before turning into a traveller site. What a surprise that wasn't.
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Post by Tim on Aug 21, 2017 13:30:54 GMT
A special Donut yesterday on the A9. We were just north of Dunkeld and caught up with a queue of traffic just in time to see some plonker in a brand new small Kia SUV do a pisspoor overtake. He almost caught the back of the VW Transporter he was passing, braked halfway past and squeezed into a tiny gap in the face of oncoming traffic. A mile later, just after Dunkeld, he went for an overtake on some chevrons, completely failing to spot the car 3 ahead was out there and indicating to turn right. I dropped back significantly at this point. Shortly after that there's a stretch of dual carriageway and he drifted across to overtake while, again, nearly hitting the back of the car in front - which was indicating to encourage him to go. Despite the 'enthusiasm' he then failed to accelerate and the car he'd been passing took off and passed the car in front. Kia guy took the whole of the DC to pass this one car despite my brother in law (who had been in convoy with us) encouraging him to get on with it in his X5. We lost sight of the tool after that but b-I-l reported he was all over the road, looking for an overtake and generally driving very badly. We did see him again 10 minutes later in Perth. He drove up to some lights in the right lane, when they went green he turned left across the front of the car to his left! All this with 2 kids in the car
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Post by Alex on Aug 21, 2017 13:36:26 GMT
Presumably you were driving a bit less like a buffoon. In which case his idiocy didn't make his journey that much quicker did it?
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Post by Tim on Aug 21, 2017 13:40:56 GMT
I was adhering rigidly to the average speed camera policed limit on the A9 and dawdling through town.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Aug 21, 2017 13:52:50 GMT
I swear some people do it on purpose and get some kind of perverse enjoyment from it.
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Post by Boxer6 on Aug 21, 2017 20:40:45 GMT
A special Donut yesterday on the A9. We were just north of Dunkeld and caught up with a queue of traffic just in time to see some plonker in a brand new small Kia SUV do a pisspoor overtake. He almost caught the back of the VW Transporter he was passing, braked halfway past and squeezed into a tiny gap in the face of oncoming traffic. A mile later, just after Dunkeld, he went for an overtake on some chevrons, completely failing to spot the car 3 ahead was out there and indicating to turn right. I dropped back significantly at this point. Shortly after that there's a stretch of dual carriageway and he drifted across to overtake while, again, nearly hitting the back of the car in front - which was indicating to encourage him to go. Despite the 'enthusiasm' he then failed to accelerate and the car he'd been passing took off and passed the car in front. Kia guy took the whole of the DC to pass this one car despite my brother in law (who had been in convoy with us) encouraging him to get on with it in his X5. We lost sight of the tool after that but b-I-l reported he was all over the road, looking for an overtake and generally driving very badly. We did see him again 10 minutes later in Perth. He drove up to some lights in the right lane, when they went green he turned left across the front of the car to his left! All this with 2 kids in the car Kids aside, it's a shame he didn't try it on the M80 last week! Bish bash bosh!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Aug 28, 2017 22:40:12 GMT
Walking back from the pub last night, with Evan on his bike and the dog on his lead beside me. On the footpath is a large SUV. Fully blocking the path. It was also at a bus stop, on the raised bit of kerb that the bus floor lowers to. And right up to the bus stop and street lamp post so that we had to wait for traffic to clear and walk in the road.
Have a guess what make and model of large SUV it was. Go on. It's not difficult.
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Post by ChrisM on Aug 29, 2017 7:06:29 GMT
^ Couldn't you have photographed it and reported it to the Police ??
We came across similar in Camberley town centre on Monday lunchtime, just outside the main shopping area. No dropped kerb one side of the SUV so anyone in a wheelchair would have been stuffed. There really ought to be a way of vapourising cars parked in this way
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Post by Roadsterstu on Aug 29, 2017 11:26:52 GMT
^ Couldn't you have photographed it and reported it to the Police ?? We came across similar in Camberley town centre on Monday lunchtime, just outside the main shopping area. No dropped kerb one side of the SUV so anyone in a wheelchair would have been stuffed. There really ought to be a way of vapourising cars parked in this way By the time it was moved there was no obstruction and therefore there was no longer an offence. It's a "there and then" offence, really. I've not seen it before and I pass there most days.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 11:37:16 GMT
Walking back from the pub last night, with Evan on his bike and the dog on his lead beside me. On the footpath is a large SUV. Fully blocking the path. It was also at a bus stop, on the raised bit of kerb that the bus floor lowers to. And right up to the bus stop and street lamp post so that we had to wait for traffic to clear and walk in the road. Have a guess what make and model of large SUV it was. Go on. It's not difficult. X5/6 or RR Spurt?
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Post by Tim on Aug 29, 2017 12:41:27 GMT
So many at the weekend that I've forgotten most. However the Focus C-Max driver I was following who chose a blind corner in the dark to overtake was a special one as was the old hag in a Fiat 500 who unexpectedly overtook a cyclist as I was approaching, I had to brake and swerve for her.
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