The grumpy thread

[richardmorris]

PIN?

The thing you enter into the keypad when you've stuck your card into the reader.

[Craig the Princess]

Mrs the Princess had an off in the brown Metro earlier. She, the little one and the dog are all OK but the car has some tree inflicted damaged and has been recovered by the police contractor.

 

Insurance fun and games to start tomorrow but thankfully they are OK.

[captain_70s]

I have found with tailgaters that violent left-right swerving freaks them without threatening them like a brake test.

Only when safe to do so of course!

I found driving a Dolomite with a partially collapsed subframe being supported by the steering column with a few snapped bolts twixt the column and rack had a similar effect...

[chaseracer]

^^ Glad they're all right.  Not met the young'un but Mrs TP and the crazy hound are lovely 

[dollywobbler]

Dealing with tailgaters in the 2CV is fun. I either don't bother slowing down for speed humps, which tailgating twats often don't spot, or just chuck it into a bend for comedy LOL lean angles. Amazing how many people back off after seeing a 2CV on its door handles. To be honest, I'm not doing it for their advantage anyway. It's just how I drive the things.

[omegod]

Some arsehole has either borrowed or stolen an Aston DB9 and is tearing the arse out of it round my estate all night, you actually can get bored a hearing a V8 at full pelt !

[chaseracer]

DB9's got a V12...

 

 

[Rocket88]

Probably a V9 fairly shortly after bits start melting...................

[omegod]

DB9's got a V12...

 

</annoying_pedant>

 

Then I am 33.33333333333333333333333333% more pissed off 

[Sheefag]

Dealing with tailgaters in the 2CV is fun. I either don't bother slowing down for speed humps, which tailgating twats often don't spot, or just chuck it into a bend for comedy LOL lean angles. Amazing how many people back off after seeing a 2CV on its door handles. To be honest, I'm not doing it for their advantage anyway. It's just how I drive the things.

 

M3 slip onto the anti-clockwise M25 is one of my favourites. It starts off relatively benign and quickly turns into quite a tight, right hand spiral.

 

The fastest I ever managed it in the V70T5 was just over 60 before understeer took over - I've never found the limit in the Legacy.

 

The trick is to stay in the right lane, hit it at 70, don't brake and keep the power on.

Without exception, tailgaters are so obsessed with trying to push you out of the way, they get themselves into serious bother without realising and end up in terminal understeer.

[jonathan_dyane]

I remember a tailgater in a Ford Escort nearly running off the road following me in my Dyane as I belted round the first tight left hander down past the brickworks into Crook in approx 2006...

[vulgalour]

French cars are utterly ace for dealing with tailgaters.  The Xantia was particularly adept at increasing the gap betwixt rear bumper and following taxi whenever you found a corner.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Dealing with tailgaters in the 2CV is fun. I either don't bother slowing down for speed humps, which tailgating twats often don't spot, or just chuck it into a bend for comedy LOL lean angles. Amazing how many people back off after seeing a 2CV on its door handles. To be honest, I'm not doing it for their advantage anyway. It's just how I drive.

 

EFA

[gordonbennet]

Another ruse for shifting tailgaters, pass by bollards and kerbs at normal distances for a while, this establishes a confidence pattern for our tailgater, then when a bollard or other object is surrounded by a particularly nasty kerb if you only just miss that one there's every chance of hearing a satisfying crunch of tyre/wheel from behind, if he does miss it they often drop back so win win.

[Richard]

Then I am 33.33333333333333333333333333% more pissed off

50%

[beko1987]

French cars are utterly ace for dealing with tailgaters. The Xantia was particularly adept at increasing the gap betwixt rear bumper and following taxi whenever you found a corner.

It still is! I can hold 70 on all but 1 corner between thame and the m40. Without doubt anyone up my arse isn't when we reach the end, where I then do 30 after getting flashed there the other day... If their still up my arse as we hit the 50 after that they get covered in clag

[3VOM]

I shouldn't read here before asking questions on Ebay. If I was on here and said "What colour is the car?" The reply would be like "Metallic meridian blue, MY36A"  Asked on Ebay and got a reply: "It's blue".

[Tamworthbay]

I appreciate I may get some tutting and that's beyond funny and could have caused serious injury to an innocent party etc but, who gives a shit, here goes, I was tailgated down the M42 a few years ago by this guy who was so close I could barely see his lights. I tried pulling out a gap, gently slowing to let him past, dragging the brake a bit to get the lights on. Nothing worked. We stayed like this for about ten miles until we came to J10 of the M42. As quite often happens the exit is clear but the m42 was solid going under the roundabout. I pulled off the exit lwhich left what I thought was the stopping distance plus about 50yds to give the idiot a 'bit of a scare' but nothing serious. I hadn't figured on just how asleep the idiot was and he carried straight on until he was so close the only option was to go straight up the banking, catching the drivers wing on the edge of the crash barrier and spinning round. It was a low enough speed impact not to injure him but it shook me up to watch so must have scared the shit out him.

 

Should I have tried to slow down to ensure he was safe as well? I can't be expected to make up for other idiots but had he killed someone by piling into the back of them I would have felt guilty, but then what can you do?

 

The moral being, never ever underestimate just how stupid some drivers are.

[Sheefag]

Should I have tried to slow down to ensure he was safe as well?

 

 

No.

Fuck 'em, they're in charge of their own safety, it's called personal responsibility.

[dave21478]

Unladen twincab wanker wagon + knobbly tyres + wet leaves + surprisingly low corner speed = almost binned it.

 

 

Its a nasty wee drop off thed edge there, too.

[DodgeRover]

Howdens flat pack techniks kitchen, like Ikea without the good bits, pah

[Supernaut]

My neighbours are officially utter cunts.

They can't seem to park their Fiesta in front of their terraced house properly, whereas I can comfortably park my Xantia in front of my (identical-sized) house. Hell, I could even get the LS400 in there easily.

They park their Fiesta so far back up the hill that it actually blocks their gate and encroaches on the frontage of my house, while they then leave enough room for the fucking Exxon Valdez in front of it (for no good reason, as the garden gate is where they parked the Fiesta). I have deliberately parked the Xantia with its front bumper just within my garden wall recently, to see if they would get the hint and maybe try parking more sensibly.

Their reaction, instead of just rolling their Fiesta down the hill a foot, is to have a go at me for 'making it difficult to get their child's buggy in the gate'

Seriously? I'm nowhere near your gate, that's the least of your fucking worries. You're blocking your garden gate with your own rubbish parking. The Xantia is going nowhere.

 

 

This is a neighbour who, in the past when an old flatmate innocently parked in front of their house not knowing any better, stood on my doorstep silently pointing at the offending car until my flatmate moved it. PRIIIIIICK. It's a public street, and the spaces aren't designated. If somebody takes 'my' space, I shrug and find somewhere else.

[Tamworthbay]

My neighbours are officially utter cunts.

They can't seem to park their Fiesta in front of their terraced house properly, whereas I can comfortably park my Xantia in front of my (identical-sized) house. Hell, I could even get the LS400 in there easily.

They park their Fiesta so far back up the hill that it actually blocks their gate and encroaches on the frontage of my house, while they then leave enough room for the fucking Exxon Valdez in front of it (for no good reason, as the garden gate is where they parked the Fiesta). I have deliberately parked the Xantia with its front bumper just within my garden wall recently, to see if they would get the hint and maybe try parking more sensibly.

Their reaction, instead of just rolling their Fiesta down the hill a foot, is to have a go at me for 'making it difficult to get their child's buggy in the gate'

Seriously? I'm nowhere near your gate, that's the least of your fucking worries. You're blocking your garden gate with your own rubbish parking. The Xantia is going nowhere.

 

 

This is a neighbour who, in the past when an old flatmate innocently parked in front of their house not knowing any better, stood on my doorstep silently pointing at the offending car until my flatmate moved it. PRIIIIIICK. It's a public street, and the spaces aren't designated. If somebody takes 'my' space, I shrug and find somewhere else.

Having had years of this shit as a student, parking was top of my list when we were looking for a house. We can fit four on the front, five at a push, one big or two small in the garage and two across the front. There is also a parking bay opposite and it's the end of a cul de sac so can get another end on if needed. We have four cars (for two drivers ) and could not go back to street parking.

 

I feel your pain. Purchase a £20 car and leave it outside their house at night? It will get moved in a few days (longer if it's not blocking their drive) but will be fun until it does.

[DodgeRover]

Even better buy a tax and mot exempt pre'60 rot box prior to being raced just insure it and leave it there. The banger lads can have it back once you've proved your point..

Council won't get involved unless it's dangerous.

[Craig the Princess]

Just about thawed out now after a freezing drive back in the new 940. I'm not sure if the grump is me not checking under the bonnet before setting off or with the seller (who seemed really nice, refitted the boot mounted seats this morning) not at best not mentioning the heater didn't work or at worst by-passing the heater matrix and hiding this under a polishing cloth (which can't have been in the engine bay long as it looked brand new).

[DVee8]

Do you not have a friend with a Ford cargo horse box? or similar.We had to once.

[DVee8]

Well it appears that i need a new turbo,a pair of rear brake backing plates,a pair hand brake cables and a ball joint. oh fuckety fuck.

[Tamworthbay]

Well it appears that i need a new turbo,a pair of rear brake backing plates,a pair hand brake cables and a ball joint. oh fuckety fuck.

or a new car.......

[DVee8]

or a new car.......

Yeah around 2k of repairs for a 7k car.

[Tamworthbay]

Yeah around 2k of repairs for a 7k car.

Not good, my mate had similar a couple of years back. I mentioned about it on the PCP thread, he was stuck and ended up shelling a fortune out. What car is it?