The problems that drivers of Modern Cars face

[purplebargeken]

The problem that modern car drivers face is............................................. other modern car drivers (no-one on here mind). 

[cros]

Tell me about it, I had to fuck about with this this morning

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I've got me one of those shitty gas heaters that run on an aresole can - I wonder if that would work better than pissing about with a fan heater.

[mercrocker]

Bit worried about the naked flame thing, myself. I don't actually use a fan heater either - its a small oil filled radiator. Takes a bit of planning and sodding about with a timer but the thing stays warm when unplugged for a vital few minutes or so until the dog's breath of heat comes forth from the Smiths. Fan heater might be good for drying out a damp car, though.

[capsuleboy]

All this would be funny if our Nissan Cube had not just died of the well known "electric steering lock failure". Well Known by everybody except me that is, estimates vary between £600 and £1500 to fix. Its 4 years old. Bollocks.

[cros]

The worst that can happen is that the car will catch fire, but at least there will be no one in it, and I won't be carrying out the proceedure on a garage forecourt. Nearest neighbour is a mile away too. The instructions say these things are for outdoor use only- the makers obviously have every confidence in it.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Will it be so sudden that you go through the windscreen and is that only on the driver's belt? Sounds fun.

Not sure, a bloke in a pub told me so must be true

[jonathan_dyane]

Good to see this is the quality of the argument presented by the average eurosceptic.

 

I've put it in the recycling now but as a result of this 'madness' The Economist reported last week that Britain has the safest roads in the world. Am I trolling?

 

Problem #94 of modern cars - can't go up snowy hills:

 

Modern drivers are shit etc.

[forddeliveryboy]

I've put it in the recycling now but as a result of this 'madness' The Economist reported last week that Britain has the safest roads in the world. Am I trolling?

 

The Economist would no doubt hail us all a more advanced and prosperous land if cars and drivers were so safe nobody ever got squished by/in one, even if they struggled to do 20mpg. They forget to mention that many times more are killed by air pollution - around 9000/yr in London alone. Not all caused by motor vehicles, it's around or above half in cities, so many more deaths than by crash.

 

So a car which has fewer airbags and no £8000-to-repair bonnet but which is far less polluting would result in fewer deaths. That's the sort of car I want. Lightweight and technically advanced rather than all this lardy gimmick-strewn modern lump of ugly steel we call the 'modern car'.

 

In the Economist article, they managed to re-spout the old "slow=safe" quote, yet alongside their text a graph shows Germany's roads are around twice as safe as the USA's. In Sweden, rather than trying to fine drivers into driving better they're engineering safety into road design. (“We're going much more for engineering than enforcement,†Matts-Åke Belin, a Swedish govt traffic safety strategist, told CityLab). Result? The lowest deaths over many years running. The UK has gone for the 'record everything and fine indiscriminately' approach to beat drivers into submission.

[fred]

Well on a lighter note at least The Vauxhall Meriva has found a way to self implode if finding a overly slack fecker with bulldog Tattoo's and a bint called Kylie (other bint names are welcome)

plonk them selves in it  sans sprogs and many a fast food carton in the foot wells - Good on ya box shaped thing

[steve_earwig]

All this would be funny if our Nissan Cube had not just died of the well known "electric steering lock failure". Well Known by everybody except me that is, estimates vary between £600 and £1500 to fix. Its 4 years old. Bollocks.

What's that about then? Oh http://www.nissancubelife.com/forum/20-cube-yourself/6097-nissan-cube-steering-lock-diy-repair-step-step.html

 

If all else fails