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Post by Boxer6 on Feb 24, 2020 21:15:15 GMT
I think high beam assist has a lot to answer for. I suspect that a few cases of failure to dip are because 'the car didn't do it'. My HBA is shite. It's activated by default so one flick forward on the stalk activates it. To deactivate you have to push the stalk forwards again to switch it to manual mode then pull the stalk back again to turn it off. So, when it fails to auto deactivate and is blinding the oncoming traffic it takes both time and concentration to turn it off and if it decides to work halfway through this procedure you're either pushing the stalk forward and turning high beams back on again or pulling it back to flash the driver already flashing you! Unsurprisingly perhaps, that's the same system as on mine. It's been caught out on very few occasions, but given it has candles for headlights I don't suppose it bother too many people!
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Post by Tim on Feb 25, 2020 13:11:59 GMT
I somehow managed to completely disable the high beam assist in the A6 I had. No idea how, perhaps it was just sensitive to me jabbing the stalk forward angrily one time and decided to switch itself off for the safety of the stalk!
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Post by Martin on Feb 25, 2020 13:38:24 GMT
My voodoo lights work as they should, but I’ve been flashed a couple of times and it took me a while to figure out that it was when the laserlight is activated. I think the issue is that the range is so long and it’s so bright that when someone isn’t visible because they’re around a corner, my light drown there’s our so it takes a fraction longer than normal for my car to see them. That’s the only thing I can think of. It never happens when it’s normal high beam.
Not too worried, just a couple of incidents in 2 years and I benefit from them a lot.
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Post by johnc on Feb 27, 2020 18:08:46 GMT
3 serious idiots this afternoon: outside the office is a 3 lane 30mph tripple carriageway. I got to the junction, checked right (there were cars coming but they were 400 + yds away). I pulled out and gently accelerated up to 30mph and checked in my mirror for the cars behind. There was a Black Golf and a white A Class followed by something else black (another Golf as it turned out), rapidly approaching me. They pulled to the outside and passed me at somewhere close to 70mph - they were going way more than twice the speed I was. They got stopped at the lights about half a mile up the road but before I could get there the lights changed and they were off again like a GP start.
Every time I go along that road at a seriously slow 30mph I seem to see a Police car but these idiots do mental speeds and there wasn't one in sight.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 21:16:42 GMT
Invisible Q3 at roundabout strikes again. I was behind a car and we were both indicating to turn right at a mini roundabout. Bint in Mondeo estate decides she has room to pull out in between us, despite there only being enough room for a Fiesta not a Mondeo, causing me to have to brake sharply. She then stays at the same 11" away from the rear bumper of the car that was previously in front of me, like the fucking annoying twat she obviously is.
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Post by johnc on Mar 6, 2020 9:57:04 GMT
Are cyclists supposed to be subject to the same 6 points and a fine for using a mobile phone whilst riding? A complete prat came straight out of a side road onto the main road that I was on, causing me to swerve to miss him whilst he carried on with his telephone conversation and rode with one hand: he gave me a finger when I blew the horn and he rode with no hands whilst kepping the phone to his other ear (as a former cyclist myself I know that riding with no hands is not really a problem but the fact that he thought I was somehow in the wrong is what troubles me more)
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Post by Alex on Mar 7, 2020 20:06:29 GMT
Had a dickhead in a Tourag come up behind me, tailgate me and then pull out and overtake whilst I was driving through a village at 30mph earlier and then, in the NSL section that followed proceed to drive at no more than 45mph. What an utter cock!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2020 15:42:51 GMT
Fuckin' nobber who accelerated and then braked again when I quite safely walked across the road in front of him, just so he could wind his window down to shout at me for doing so. I don't think he was expecting me to walk back towards his car streaming a torrent of swear words as fast as I could think of them and quickly drove on. Cunt.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Mar 10, 2020 17:55:14 GMT
My HBA is shite. It's activated by default so one flick forward on the stalk activates it. To deactivate you have to push the stalk forwards again to switch it to manual mode then pull the stalk back again to turn it off. So, when it fails to auto deactivate and is blinding the oncoming traffic it takes both time and concentration to turn it off and if it decides to work halfway through this procedure you're either pushing the stalk forward and turning high beams back on again or pulling it back to flash the driver already flashing you! Unsurprisingly perhaps, that's the same system as on mine. It's been caught out on very few occasions, but given it has candles for headlights I don't suppose it bother too many people! Yes, I have the same problem! I added HBA via OBDeleven but now I don't use it, for that reason. It can't anticipate a car coming and deactivate the high beam before actually seeing the lights, so it's a bit slow-witted.
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Post by scouse on Mar 10, 2020 22:12:52 GMT
Holy Shit!
Around 15-16 second mark...
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Post by Tim on Mar 11, 2020 10:14:05 GMT
Not really villainy, more a sort of 'why?'.
I was in the left lane of the Tay Bridge tghis morning, doing 35-40 behind a couple of cars, the one immediately ahead was a Pug 106. The right lane was moving faster. Unusually the queue at the end started about 400 yds before the end of the bridge. Once we'd come to a halt the Pug pulled out, drove down a bit and then forced their way back in. So, why? If they were in a hurry why weren't they bombing down the right lane to pass as many cars as possible, etc?
Dickhead.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 11, 2020 10:37:48 GMT
Unsurprisingly perhaps, that's the same system as on mine. It's been caught out on very few occasions, but given it has candles for headlights I don't suppose it bother too many people! Yes, I have the same problem! I added HBA via OBDeleven but now I don't use it, for that reason. It can't anticipate a car coming and deactivate the high beam before actually seeing the lights, so it's a bit slow-witted. If you want it to know there's a car out of sight, about to come round the corner,you have to enable the psychic HBA
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2020 14:57:25 GMT
A black 53 plate 3 series with overly tinted windows on the way back from Hasda, behind me at the first junction but went into the bus lane and then cut in front of me where there was no space so I had to brake hard to make one. Two junctions later and he is in the laft hand lane behind another car and see's me coming up into the right lane so he pulls out at the last second right in front again. As it happens at the last junction I saw him I was in the right lane and he was going straight on in the left lane so I laughed my arse off as I craweld past which got me a beep of annoyance. Probably for laughing at his masterful driving skill. Those windows are waaaaaay too tinted mr RA 53 LAH driver.
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Post by scouse on Mar 11, 2020 15:38:02 GMT
Yes, I have the same problem! I added HBA via OBDeleven but now I don't use it, for that reason. It can't anticipate a car coming and deactivate the high beam before actually seeing the lights, so it's a bit slow-witted. If you want it to know there's a car out of sight, about to come round the corner,you have to enable the psychic HBA This is my pet hate with the LED streetlamps having that bright, white light as opposed to the sodium yellow of the old ones. Around my neck of the woods there are several corners & junctions that you could tell a car was coming by the white glow of their headlamps. The council in it's infinite wisdom seems to have selected the streetlamps around these corners/junctions to be upgraded to the LED ones.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 11, 2020 16:30:23 GMT
If you want it to know there's a car out of sight, about to come round the corner,you have to enable the psychic HBA This is my pet hate with the LED streetlamps having that bright, white light as opposed to the sodium yellow of the old ones. Around my neck of the woods there are several corners & junctions that you could tell a car was coming by the white glow of their headlamps. The council in it's infinite wisdom seems to have selected the streetlamps around these corners/junctions to be upgraded to the LED ones. I would imagine it is near on impossible to source the old sodium bulbs, they're probably banned anyway, and the LED are a lot cheaper to run.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2020 16:50:41 GMT
Nothing stopping them making yellow ones, though.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 16:48:08 GMT
Irritating, tailgating spotty Herbert in a battered, soot-spewing A3.
Whenever the traffic cleared he got a plateful or carbons, but boy did he keep coming back for more. Earned him a jaunty wave as I took the slip road and left him behind again.
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Post by johnc on Mar 13, 2020 18:46:28 GMT
Irritating, tailgating spotty Herbert in a battered, soot-spewing A3. Whenever the traffic cleared he got a plateful or carbons, but boy did he keep coming back for more. Earned him a jaunty wave as I took the slip road and left him behind again. I had a totally oblivious young girl in a 10 plate Golf who followed me for about 4 miles on 30 mph town/urban roads and got so close she was a major concern everytime I had to slow down. She wasn't being aggressive but just had no idea that if I had braked even moderately hard she would have been in to the back of me. This is becoming a regular occurrence round my way with girls in particular.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 22:44:00 GMT
The number of motors with dented rear ends was sufficient for me to wonder if tail gating might just be another little epidemic.
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Post by Alex on Mar 13, 2020 23:11:20 GMT
I've had a couple of instances today of cars stopping in traffic to let cars put from the right even though they've no intention of turning into the road themselves. It's nice to see a bit of generosity but don't pull on the anchors in free flowing traffic on a nsl road! Heading to the office this afternoon this happened as we approached a crossroad and I was nearly rear ended by the Audi Q5 behind who was caught completely off guard.
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Post by johnc on Mar 16, 2020 10:35:37 GMT
I don't want to be overly critical of new drivers BUT I followed a Clio for what felt like an eternity but was perhaps 5 or 6 miles. There was a sticker on the back that asked others to be considerate because he/she had a black box monitoring their driving. Well, if Miss Daisy reviews the black box, this student will get full marks: that's full marks for doing an indicated 26/27mph in a 30 (so probably 25mph), stopping at every roundabout and waiting for every car to be out of sight before moving away at glacial acceleration levels and when the de-restricted signs appeared, more glacial acceleration up to perhaps 40mph indicated. I wonder if the black box picked up the screaming V8 as it redlined in 2nd gear when I went past. I was just glad that I was right behind him/her and not part of the half mile queue behind me!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2020 11:12:28 GMT
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 16, 2020 12:03:17 GMT
Saw a lad in a Mk2 Corsa sneeze without covering his mouth while stationary at traffic lights yesterday. Git.
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Post by Tim on Mar 17, 2020 9:43:50 GMT
The Insignia driver last night who went through a set of red lights a good 10 seconds after they'd gone red. I assume it wasn't deliberate, rather a mistake.
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Post by Roadrunner on Mar 19, 2020 16:28:44 GMT
Earlier today, on the roundabout underneath Junction 1 of the M69, near Hinkley. I was in a small queue, approaching the traffic lights which were on red, when I heard the screeching of tyres and then saw a blue Golf R-Line, in a four wheel drift, travelling at a ridiculous speed, as it narrowly missed me and went on through the red light onto the Wolvey road. This was closely followed by a police BMW in hot pursuit (including a clever move to weave between the roundabout traffic). Golf man clearly didn't want to be caught and couldn't give a flying feck about the safety of anyone else on the road.
A short while later, as I drove through Wolvey, another police BMW and a Focus hurtled past as well. I hope they got him.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2020 16:31:23 GMT
I hope they got him, pity they could not dispense some 'falling over' medicine.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2020 16:55:00 GMT
Earlier today, on the roundabout underneath Junction 1 of the M69, near Hinkley. I was in a small queue, approaching the traffic lights which were on red, when I heard the screeching of tyres and then saw a blue Golf R-Line, in a four wheel drift, travelling at a ridiculous speed, as it narrowly missed me and went on through the red light onto the Wolvey road. This was closely followed by a police BMW in hot pursuit (including a clever move to weave between the roundabout traffic). Golf man clearly didn't want to be caught and couldn't give a flying feck about the safety of anyone else on the road. A short while later, as I drove through Wolvey, another police BMW and a Focus hurtled past as well. I hope they got him. I know that junction!
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Post by Roadsterstu on Mar 23, 2020 10:03:03 GMT
Irritating, tailgating spotty Herbert in a battered, soot-spewing A3. Whenever the traffic cleared he got a plateful or carbons, but boy did he keep coming back for more. Earned him a jaunty wave as I took the slip road and left him behind again. I had a totally oblivious young girl in a 10 plate Golf who followed me for about 4 miles on 30 mph town/urban roads and got so close she was a major concern everytime I had to slow down. She wasn't being aggressive but just had no idea that if I had braked even moderately hard she would have been in to the back of me. This is becoming a regular occurrence round my way with girls in particular. Had a woman do this to me last week, whilst I was in a marked police car. Doing 30 in a 30, the Golf she was driving caught up with me at a noticable pace and then anchored itself to the back of the panda. I ended up stopping in the middle of the road, putting the blue lights on. She initially ducked left for a potential undertake but maybe being so close she was just caught off guard. Got a politely mild bollocking and she nearly burst into tears. Told her to concentrate for her safety and that of others. Silly mare.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Mar 23, 2020 10:05:16 GMT
Earlier today, on the roundabout underneath Junction 1 of the M69, near Hinkley. I was in a small queue, approaching the traffic lights which were on red, when I heard the screeching of tyres and then saw a blue Golf R-Line, in a four wheel drift, travelling at a ridiculous speed, as it narrowly missed me and went on through the red light onto the Wolvey road. This was closely followed by a police BMW in hot pursuit (including a clever move to weave between the roundabout traffic). Golf man clearly didn't want to be caught and couldn't give a flying feck about the safety of anyone else on the road. A short while later, as I drove through Wolvey, another police BMW and a Focus hurtled past as well. I hope they got him. I know that junction! I know that job! And yes, they got 4 of them I think. Yeehaa!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2020 14:13:35 GMT
Arsehead on a bike today, who wouldn't use the cycle lane up a hill in the village so a car had to follow him all the way. We saw him later on, having been overtaken by a Mini that he then swarmed all over as she went through some traffic calming.
I had someone do that to me a few days ago, gave him plenty of space after holding back for a while so overtaking was safe, and as if to prove some sort of point he straight-lined the mini-roundabout there and crowded sufficiently closely in a manner that seemed pointed. So hopefully the cabons dropped between speed bumps said 'fuck off' as eloquently as I'd hoped...
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