The grumpy thread

32,087 · July 3, 2020

I'd best find a source, but that's really old thinking. Even as a cyclist I was told to avoid eye contact as the driver assumes authority and natural instinct is to pull out in front of you

6,539 · July 3, 2020

Tonight I was on the A446 heading north near Stonebridge island, there's a bit which drops to 50mph with average cameras on it through some roadworks. I slow to 50 to go through it, and a short while later a SEAT Leon bombs up behind me and starts flashing his lights like mad, before overtaking me (it's dual carriageway) and then pulling off at an exit a short distance ahead.

Was I in the wrong for following the speed limit? What the hell did I do?

25,832 · July 3, 2020

He has a tiny penis and this causes him unbearable existential angst.

28,522 · July 4, 2020

On 03/07/2020 at 21:57, Pieman said:

Tonight I was on the A446 heading north near Stonebridge island, there's a bit which drops to 50mph with average cameras on it through some roadworks. I slow to 50 to go through it, and a short while later a SEAT Leon bombs up behind me and starts flashing his lights like mad, before overtaking me (it's dual carriageway) and then pulling off at an exit a short distance ahead.

Was I in the wrong for following the speed limit? What the hell did I do?

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Sounds like the lorry driver who spent about five minutes leaning on the horn while tailgating so close I honestly thought he was going to start pushing, because I was doing 50 through the road works on the M1 a few days ago. Do they know something about average speed cameras we don't?

20,360 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 04:20, Zelandeth said:

Sounds like the lorry driver who spent about five minutes leaning on the horn while tailgating so close I honestly thought he was going to start pushing, because I was doing 50 through the road works on the M1 a few days ago. Do they know something about average speed cameras we don't?

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How do you know you were doing 50?

GPS or mk3 cavalier Speedo with the wrong wheels ?

What leeway for accuracy do you think the average allows ?

Let's assume the lorry driver knows that he can average 53 mph and not get a ticket, and your speedo over reads by the max allowed by law (10% over and 0 % under)

So you are really doing 45 mph.

Still a dick thing to drive too close in a lorry. It's not like they have braking like an Elise.

He should only be using his horn for a warning. So you should have assumed he had brake failure.

20,360 · July 4, 2020

On 03/07/2020 at 20:19, MikeR said:

Why bother .

Camp sites open in the morning ...

Camper vans on the Motorway tonight ! .

Some where near me is accepting early arrivals !!!

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Have you left yet. Looks like miles of tailbacks

Took me 2 hours the first time I went thanks to someone giving me an incorrect post code.

13,071 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 06:06, New POD said:

How do you know you were doing 50?

GPS or mk3 cavalier Speedo with the wrong wheels ?

What leeway for accuracy do you think the average allows ?

Let's assume the lorry driver knows that he can average 53 mph and not get a ticket, and your speedo over reads by the max allowed by law (10% over and 0 % under)

So you are really doing 45 mph.

Still a dick thing to drive too close in a lorry. It's not like they have braking like an Elise.

He should only be using his horn for a warning. So you should have assumed he had brake failure.

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It's a speed limit not a target.

20,360 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 06:18, paulplom said:

It's a speed limit not a target.

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No. I'm sure the average speed sections are a target. So many good roads spoilt.

11,887 · July 4, 2020

On 03/07/2020 at 17:53, Zelandeth said:

Seriously?!? Why bother coding in filters on your bloody website if the results displayed are going to utterly ignore them?

Trying to look up tyre options for the Jag and most of the results are swamped with van tyres, though you can sift a good chunk of those out usually by specifying the speed rating. ...If the websites in question actually bother looking at the option. I was a page and a half through the listings on Black Circles before I found a tyre which actually matched what I'd searched for.

It's not Google for crying out loud...the search and filter function only has one job to do...list relevant tyres... it's not hard.

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Have you tried Oponeo and Camskill?

16,454 · July 4, 2020

On 03/07/2020 at 21:41, loserone said:

I'd best find a source, but that's really old thinking. Even as a cyclist I was told to avoid eye contact as the driver assumes authority and natural instinct is to pull out in front of you

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I guess a pushbike is more exposed. On a motorbike you are taught to dominate your road position and ride defensively. On the advanced riders course I was taught to look straight at the driver, make sure they are looking your way then look at the wheels as it’s much easier to spot the beginnings of movement. With that stupid woman she was looking at me as I travelled about 20 yds, literally straight at me, then as I got to about 20yds from the junction she just pulled out. There was no space of the left and a nice high curb, so I tried to switch back to the right to go around but there wasn’t space and hit her about 3/4 across the back of her car with me doing about 30mph and her doing about mph if that. I can still get the sense of ‘oh shit’ when I think about it. The car behind phoned the police and ambulance, she just sat in her car talking to someone on the phone. All she got was 3 points and a crappy fine. I think she should have been banned personally but it wasn’t my decision. And despite admitting it to the Police, being prosecuted, there being two independent witnesses, her pulling from a side road onto a main road, she still tried to claim off my insurance! Strangely enough she didn’t Get far on that one. It took my three years to get a full payout on that.

28,522 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 06:06, New POD said:

How do you know you were doing 50?

He should only be using his horn for a warning. So you should have assumed he had brake failure.

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GPS. Dash showing 53. Cruise control set so my speed wasn't wandering all over the shop.

Given he had crept up behind me at about 0.2mph over the course of a couple of miles and we were heading uphill at the time, brake failure seems unlikely. The arm out the window flipping me off was also a clue.

I'd have moved over and just let the idiot undertake me if I hadn't been about to turn off the motorway and in full knowledge that given how busy it was (not as though the car in front of me, which I was slowly gaining on was going any faster) that getting both out of his way and back into the right lane would have been a pain.

27,443 · July 4, 2020

A very minor grump, in the grand scheme of things.

However, still no update on the Scaab. I visited the garage in person yesterday and they still haven't touched it.

They said last week they'd look at it on Tuesday. Then I phoned them on Thursday to be told they'd definitely look at it on Friday. Then when I asked yesterday they said they've had a couple of vans in that took up the ramps for days at a time.

I can't get annoyed at them as I'm massively taking the piss doing any of this at all right now, but still. It's a bit galling buying a car then immediately having it sit for a fortnight in a garage's yard. All it needs are discs and pads (which were delivered to the garage on Monday / Tuesday) and the fuel filter needs secured. The fuel filter is a dangerous fail (do not drive) on the DVLA site, so I thought I'd be best leaving it at the garage and not taking it somewhere to work on it due to the slight dodginess of the whole thing in general, even though it's all things I could do myself (and have done by now). Gaaaaaah.

As I said, though. Minor grump relative to everything else.

4,744 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 11:34, Supernaut said:

even though it's all things I could do myself

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.....

32,087 · July 4, 2020

Go and get it, take a zip tie to secure the filter.

27,443 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 11:48, mitsisigma01 said:

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Please enlighten me on your meaning.

I already explained that one of the failures, although it's easy to fix, was listed as DANGEROUS DO NOT DRIVE so I don't particularly want to take the piss with a car that's not had an MOT since 2017, even just to drive it somewhere to work on it.

32,087 · July 4, 2020

But you could fix that there, legitimately take it to a place of repair (which might be the street outside your house), fix the rest and then take it back for a retest.

I mean, I wouldn't, I'd just leave it there and grumble to myself.

27,443 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 11:58, loserone said:

I mean, I wouldn't, I'd just leave it there and grumble to myself.

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Surprisingly, I'm not in the mood for passive aggression.

32,087 · July 4, 2020

Sorry, not meaning to be a twat

24,078 · July 4, 2020

On 03/07/2020 at 11:25, Tadhg Tiogar said:

FIFTY fuppin' quid!!!

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Really? Didn’t @Six-cylinder have a spare from a visa? They’re the same header tank.

edit. I did carry a spare when I drove them, but it went with the last car when I sold it. Used to go for a couple of quid second hand!

24,078 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 04:20, Zelandeth said:

Sounds like the lorry driver who spent about five minutes leaning on the horn while tailgating so close I honestly thought he was going to start pushing, because I was doing 50 through the road works on the M1 a few days ago. Do they know something about average speed cameras we don't?

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I avoid the m1 if at all possible - when I did use it the driving standards were appalling. Nothing compared to my journey on the m4 last Sunday evening though which saw me ( in merc in lane one at 65mph) being passed by several Range Rover/ bmw/ Mercedes with chavvy numberpates at well into treble figures, coming up to the cars in front and swerving onto the hard shoulder to pass them. Followed a few minutes later by a 3series bmw again doing 100+. This was just before the 50mph average from theale. .

15,089 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 16:09, richardmorris said:

Really? Didn’t @Six-cylinder have a spare from a visa? They’re the same header tank.

edit. I did carry a spare when I drove them, but it went with the last car when I sold it. Used to go for a couple of quid second hand!

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Garage Dubois-Loizou insisted on the replacement being brand-new. Not even CX-Basis had a brand new one.

24,078 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 17:12, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Garage Dubois-Loizou insisted on the replacement being brand-new. Not even CX-Basis had a brand new one.

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Well they weren’t paying I suppose. Good luck- that car has had some huge amounts spent recently.

15,089 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 17:16, richardmorris said:

Well they weren’t paying I suppose. Good luck- that car has had some huge amounts spent recently.

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We are well into double what I paid originally and the voyage towards three times is well underway, so just sit back and enjoy the ride....

24,078 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 17:19, Tadhg Tiogar said:

We are well into double what I paid originally and the voyage towards three times is well underway, so just sit back and enjoy the ride....

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French mistresses were always a luxury!

9,787 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 17:27, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

Tyres at 4mm all round, time to start looking up replacements. Whats dirt cheap but half decent?

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At 4mm I'd be running them for another couple of thousand miles and buying something not dirt cheap, they are only 50% worn.

15,089 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 17:26, richardmorris said:

French mistresses were always a luxury!

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....and with a capricious filthy temper

13,308 · July 4, 2020

Must have been told by a slow thinker.

Or kwik fit worker.

24,078 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 18:00, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

Really? I got it drilled when doing my license once they go under 4mm to begin to think about replacing them. Cheers.

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Think and plan, but 4mm is double the minimum isn’t it? Probably not half worn the original tread. Anyway, I’ve found tyres on the drive ok for price recently, but best was my local mytyres.co.uk

4,744 · July 4, 2020

What size tyres are you looking for?

24,078 · July 4, 2020

On 04/07/2020 at 18:18, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

155/70 R13 T think I'll get prices sorted, but keep running these till they drop under 2mm.

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I meant merit tyres sorryl

https://www.merityre.co.uk/tyres/search-results

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