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General Discussion Area / Re: For safety how do you get a car in front to stop ?
« on: 12 October 2010, 18:37:39 »
..Gordon Bennett...same thing happened again today - this time on the M40 and A404 past Maidenhead...
This time a bloke in a Golf - o/s rear tyre nearly on the rim. Couldn't even get close - and the really annoying thing today was that every day last week and yesterday I've spent hours queuing in bloomin traffic on both these roads. Even the sodd**g traffic lights at High Wycombe were green all the way round for a change and no hold ups all the way to the M4 J8/9 - typical.
AND I was in the bl**dy Omega... ahhhh.
Is it me ??
By the way - have you ever tried the Golf Brake light game ?
If you're ever behind a Golf for any reason - assuming it's moving and you haven't been following it for long - try and guess if it will only have 1 brake light working when the driver next applies the brakes - I reckon the odds are better than 50/50 that it will have one gone (anything older than an 06 plate anyway). I think the bulbs take it in turns to blow - friend of mine is always chasing them on theirs...
Cheers
Ian.
This time a bloke in a Golf - o/s rear tyre nearly on the rim. Couldn't even get close - and the really annoying thing today was that every day last week and yesterday I've spent hours queuing in bloomin traffic on both these roads. Even the sodd**g traffic lights at High Wycombe were green all the way round for a change and no hold ups all the way to the M4 J8/9 - typical.
AND I was in the bl**dy Omega... ahhhh.
Is it me ??
By the way - have you ever tried the Golf Brake light game ?
If you're ever behind a Golf for any reason - assuming it's moving and you haven't been following it for long - try and guess if it will only have 1 brake light working when the driver next applies the brakes - I reckon the odds are better than 50/50 that it will have one gone (anything older than an 06 plate anyway). I think the bulbs take it in turns to blow - friend of mine is always chasing them on theirs...
Cheers
Ian.
and recovers back onto the right side of the road. I imediatley drop back a few more yards thinking 'oh oh' either asleep or on the phone.. but then notice the o/s rear tyre is almost flat.
). So I try flashing my lights politely to attract their attention - no acknowledgement. I wait a few miles for the next layby approaching and try again this time including a left indicator - nothing. Ok I know coming up is a village where it drops to 30mph - great - chance to get close enough and also gesture through the windscreen to pull over - nothing. OK up the ante a bit before we lose the 30 limit back to 60mph. Flashing lights and toot the horn & gesture - nope :-/. The tyre on this car is not flat on the rim - but you can see it's not handling corners very well.. too late and we're back on the 60 limit stretch.
. Lane 1 ( I know this might be unchartered territory for some 
