Chucky Egg

[Captain Furious]

I'd reverse though. Negotiating those tight turns could be tricky though. Attach a caravan for added comedy. Ideally get the fucker jacknifed where you have to pay. Get it impossibly stuck.

My brother-in-law has actually done this, do not ask me how or what he was thinking because I have no idea, but he ended up going into a drive thru with his caravan, couldn’t get it out so he had to unhook it, drive the car through, then go round and hand-ball the caravan out. I think I would have just abandoned it!

 

As for LHD, for a daily driver definitely not, it would be too much hassle with the car park barriers at work and KFC drive thru windows. However as an occasional use classic weekend poser wagon it could work, but it would never feel as good as owning a bonafide UK RHD example. (Where such a model exists, obviously not applicable with things like yank tanks that were never available in RHD)

[steveo3002]

yer yer mate id have that big block vette if it was rhd 

 

had my lhd sinse 1999 and never once had any bollox in a car park 

[lanciamatt]

It's never bothered me, but I've sort of been brought up with them. When I was a lad we had a merc 240D (w115) that was lhd that mi dad fetched over from holland. So got used to been sat on wrong side from a young age. Wonder what happened to it. I know it was knackered when he sold it, we were supposed to be going on holiday to Cornwall in it and a few days before he was reversing off drive in it and some of the front suspension sheared off due to rust so we had to hire a car C reg maestro brand new in light metallic green. Must have been a bad omen it got struck with lightening while we were down there lol.sold merc shortly after to a guy from Huddersfield, supposedly going to put engine in a volvo 240

[25v6turbo]

My Triumph 2000 MK1 is LHD,its great,i get lots of comments about it and have to have a very reliable passenger for overtaking....

[Clanger]

All my cars are LHD.  I don't find any problems with it at all

[barrett]

I think,like only having an automatic license for non-medical reasons, if you find any aspect of driving an lhd car 'tricky' you probably shouldn't be on the roads to begin with.

 

Also, am I the only person in the country who has never been through a fuggin' drive-through??? I can't even fathom what insane set of circumstances would force me to order my dinner through an intercom whilst sat in my car.

[Guest Hooli]

I think,like only having an automatic license for non-medical reasons, if you find any aspect of driving an lhd car 'tricky' you probably shouldn't be on the roads to begin with.

 

Also, am I the only person in the country who has never been through a fuggin' drive-through??? I can't even fathom what insane set of circumstances would force me to order my dinner through an intercom whilst sat in my car.

 

Agreed with both, the only auto only drivers I know (non-medical) are an utter liability, it seems if something as simple as a gearbox is too hard for then so is the rest of driving.

 

I've not been through a drive-through either. But then I don't even go to the places that have these things as I prefer to eat food not poorly processed plastic waste.

[OwdChina]

Don't mind left or right hand to be honest, only problem I have is opening the passenger door to discover there's no steering wheel when I'm back in England and then having a brief moment about which side to drive on.

[dollywobbler]

How do you do a maccy-D drive through in a LHD? Reach over, or reverse through?

 

Have better taste.

[danthecapriman]

I think,like only having an automatic license for non-medical reasons, if you find any aspect of driving an lhd car 'tricky' you probably shouldn't be on the roads to begin with.

Also, am I the only person in the country who has never been through a fuggin' drive-through??? I can't even fathom what insane set of circumstances would force me to order my dinner through an intercom whilst sat in my car.

Same. I love driving an auto but it’s by choice and my license lets me drive either anyway.

I’ve never been through a drive through either. Not my kind of food really but I don’t allow food or drink to be consumed in my cars! That’s how mess happens!

[Talbot]

Have better taste.

Ordinarily I would completely agree with you, but working away from home on some of the sites I work on and the unsociable hours they operate, sometimes it's the only thing open for miles around.

 

Makes you appreciate good food even more though.

[dollywobbler]

Ordinarily I would completely agree with you, but working away from home on some of the sites I work on and the unsociable hours they operate, sometimes it's the only thing open for miles around.

 

Makes you appreciate good food even more though.

 

On the very rare occasions I'm forced to go to a fast food eatery, I still queue. Because I'm a miserable twat, I'm not interested in ordering my food on a giant iPad either.

[Uncle Jimmy]

I'm becoming more open to the possibility of a LHD car, that in itself is a danger as I shall soon be one car down...

[SierraMikeHotel]

I've never run an LHD car here, but I have run RHD cars on the mainland. I coped fine, but I wouldn't choose to do it - why make your life more difficult than it needs to be?

 

I did have an issue switching back and forth between the two - changing gear with the window winder and so on.

 

It confuses mechanics too - one got into my CX and drove it straight into the post of the lift.

[carlo]

LHD makes sense I suppose for the stuff which is classic UK fare, and silly prices over here.  But for more modern tat it seems to be a lot dearer, presumably because our used car market is so cheap they're bought here and exported to Europe.

[3VOM]

Unfortunately my girlfriend at the time couldn't and crashed it three times.  Twice on the same day too, through the same width restriction...

 

Still married her though.

Does she wear glasses these days?

 

Also, drive-throughs have their uses.......

[jonny69]

For something eye-wateringly expensive like a Mk1 Escort, how hard could it be to fit a RHD pedalbox and rack and just have the steering column poking through the glove box?

[HMC]

I think it's one of those things that once you've experienced it, it becomes clear it's not the big thing it's made out to be from a driving point of view, any more knowledgable folk than me care to elaborate on any effect on insurance etc?

[HMC]

Also combine LHD with a front bench seat and ticket vending barriers etc become ( in the words of native LHD bench seat motorists) a cinch. #did a drive thru in my Lincoln town car

[fordperv]

Why has no one pointed out the obvious answer to barriers and drive throughs in a lhd car, just reverse through them

[lanciamatt]

I've got 2, both lancia themas. The V6 was a doddle to insure no probs at all. The turbo ds LE I've got was a complete t##t to insure. It look about a week and about 30 phone calls, but eventually after sending copies of log book etc in to them they agreed to insure it. One is on normal insurance and other a classic policy. Same benefits and no limits.

[gtd2000]

I have to say that despite driving LHD cars for the majority of my life, I actually prefer RHD. I’m ambidextrous as far as driving LHD/RHD is concerned and it doesn’t bother me which side of the car the wheel is on. I’ve also driven LHD in the UK and RHD in the EU.

 

Overtaking trucks is probably the biggest ball-ache but you soon adapt to the required technique for safe over-taking.

When I was working Holland, 10 years ago and rolling in my Proton Persona 1.3 Si, I used a fly swatter to attach my security pass to, which was used for entry and exit to the place that I lived.

 

Had a funny experience one night when we’d been for a night out in Middelburg. In the wee small hours, on the way home,  got stopped by the police who were looking for drunk drivers. We pulled up and my mate Gary was pissed as a fart in the passenger seat…. They asked if he’d been drinking and he replied that he was absolutely bladdered! They looked horrified as he was absolutely shit-faced.

 

We tried our best to look serious and eventually put on the interior light, so they could see it was a RHD car. They took it very well and we all had a good laugh about it. 

[gtd2000]

I also got stopped with a multitude of other cars one day on route to work and by default, they came to the wrong side of the car. 

 

They were giving tickets out to all and sundry but when they asked for my details, I presented my US driver’s license.

 

This confused them somewhat. I explained I was on route to the airport (despite going down a dead end road). Smiles all round and I drove off. Roughly 30 people from the office were given tickets that morning….

[New POD]

How do you do a maccy-D drive through in a LHD? Reach over, or reverse through?

park. get out. walk through entrance door. go to counter. eat food at table.

 

no risk of spilling sugar loaded coffee over the expensive dash board and having electrical switch issues ever since.

[New POD]

Does she wear glasses these days?

 

Also, drive-throughs have their uses.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27NX_MMIkLY

Technically it's not theft. probably

[dave21478]

I reversed a wrong hand drive car through a Macdonalds drive through and got banned for my trouble. Being disruptive, apparently.

 

 

I've never run an LHD car here, but I have run RHD cars on the mainland. I coped fine, but I wouldn't choose to do it - why make your life more difficult than it needs to be?

 

 

Cost. My uk Ranger cost 1.5k. Buying an equivalent Ranger, L200 etc here in usable condition would cost me at least 5 or 6 grand.

[andy18s]

 

 Cost. My uk Ranger cost 1.5k. Buying an equivalent Ranger, L200 etc here in usable condition would cost me at least 5 or 6 grand.

Really? Hmmmm......

[SierraMikeHotel]

 

 

Cost. My uk Ranger cost 1.5k. Buying an equivalent Ranger, L200 etc here in usable condition would cost me at least 5 or 6 grand.

Fair enough, I hadn't taken that into account!

[sierraman]

I know in Spain cars are pretty expensive in comparison, something like a clapped out 406 would be at least a grand.

[castros_bro]

There no great problem using either RHD or LHD either here or Eurolands or Elswheres, if you want to make it an isssue - ie pick a situation where you have not thought before sticking your car there- that is up to you but as and adult and a driver you are responsible for your actions so if you want to be a twat the be a twat.   Millions of people drive millions of 1.6 x Km "on the wrong side" and it doesn't seem to be a problem, here is a LHD Spanish cars of French origin which you could buy and register and drive to the Land of Hope and Glory or Morocco probably for less the 500 Euro-groats but if you start listing reasons why you couldn't do this then you are obviously not going to do it.

 

http://www.ooyyo.com/spain/c=CDA31D7114D2854F111BE56FB6B83053CCA20A770ED3A760/-6604080215512472808.html/

 

http://www.ooyyo.com/spain/c=CDA31D7114D2854F111BE56FB6B83053CCA20A770ED3A760/-6401910603889968909.html/#_

 

There's loads - though obviously Spain is big and foreign.

 

http://www.ooyyo.com/spain/used-cars-for-sale/c=CDA31D7114D3854F111BE56FB6B83053CCA20A770ED3A760/

 

Some cars are expensive and some are not.

 

It is quite possible to drive Portugal-Spain-France-UK in a RHD Citroen ZX 1.9D but with a broken clutch cable - obviously stopping at motorway tolls, turning engine off, opening door, getting out and walking round to the kiosk to pay, putting car in first then starting engine for some people would involve the impossible (ie thinking for yourself)  and a bit of thinking ahead trying to miss rush hour traffic jams helps but none of this is magic.