Jay84

This was Jake (front) and Max (back), Max isn't with us anymore after a hit and run. Jake is a spanner at the best of times.

Not sure whether or not it's FB propaganda but since the fines for mobiles has gone up the police in derby have been out in force. Like I say relying on Facebook for news is like relying on the Sun.

'if you can read this i've stopped' although that's more letters than strudul

My Mum told me treat every other driver like a fool who could do anything at any point and you might just survive. She also there is a time and place to boot it. So far no accidents, no points but still have fast fun.

I like people not knowing...until they say it looks a bit like a TT...i dont like that bit as much.

Every time you speed and get caught, you're an idiot. You're screwing over every other sensible driver.

 

Cams and cops tend to sit either in 30/40 zones, or on boring motorways. These are either dull places to speed, or boring places to speed. Every time you get done you reinforce the fact that it's an easy money earner for The Man: If we all stopped getting caught, they wouldn't be able to afford to run the bloody things!

 

Stop driving like knobs and getting caught, and be a considerate driver to the rest of us.

Most of the time these are 30/40 roads for a reason ie schools houses industrial areas with lots of junctions, so I agree you should be sensible in these. But I do prefer to sit at 80 on motorways when I don't have cruise control, don't know why. With CC I can sit at 70 all the live long day quite happily

Active Cruise Control for the win lol

In fairness coldel I agree that 1mph over is extreme, you'd be watching your speedo more than the road.

GPS based speed is more accurate (i believe), the cameras allow for 10% over the predetermined limit to account for those discrepancies. Which means if you're caught doing 31 and have a dashcam with GPS and speed awareness you should be able to over turn it. Also worth noting that when my speedo says 30, the other usually says around 27-8.

 

 

Oh I and Im not trying to flog dashcams

I believe there is more that can be done to make to roads safer than just penalising speeders. Im not justifying speeding, I work on a busy stretch with a primary school and get p***ed off idiots speeding past. Traffic calming measures cause people to swerve and focus more on hitting it the right way rather than whats happening on the road, people getting too close to the car in front on motorways, lorrys with more light in the cab than blackpool pleasure beach, pretty girls in fiats, all cause distractions. Since fitting my dashcam I'm more aware of what Im doing, I think they should be compulsory.

Out of interest, what are you putting on them? What writing I mean

Nice post, didnt realise that at all. I have zero points and long may that continue, but well worth knowing

Strudul loves his plastidip, he'll definitely do that one

Been there done that.

 

Mine was over the peak district (Ashbourne to Buxton stretch), its all windy former NSL (now 50mph) roads that i travel fairly often and know well but during the summer gets snarled up with tourists, trucks etc you know the type. I get to a well sighted stretch with an opportunity to get past a row of about 4 others who either don't know the roads well enough or don't have the balls to get past the slow one at the front,so I indicate, move out and get about 3 cars along when a car appears at one of the single track side roads.... balls.

Sods law, they only check their right for oncoming traffic and don't clock me on their side of the road to their left the wrong way so of course start to pull out and I have to slam on and tuck back into the queue of slow traffic feeling about 2" tall and proceed to sit in the same spot for the rest of that stretch of the journey

I love that stretch of road. Its the feeling small that is the worse bit, forget nearly crashing and dying lol

Until the tree incident, I used to get frustrated driving the Zafira, people see a people carrier and just pull out on you. That's the only road rage I get, and I think thats because momentum was hard to get in it. The rest of the time, i figure no collision no drama. And even when contact has been made Im pretty calm.

Did he acknowledge you and thank you for slowing? In younger days I've made lots of silly attempted overtake manoeuvres in my underpowered mk1 golf 1.3 non gti. Had to slam my brakes on and took back behind the car i was passing one or two times. Obvs I'm older and wiser now.

Dunno, I cant see them going much lower, its one of the reasons I chose one over many other cars similar price. I paid 6.2 for a 06 rev up in good (not perfect) condition, but aside for a radar jammer was completely standard.

Linking your 2 threads Dan, maybe they should do an exchange programme with Honda's designers.

I think its the height of the tail gate and overly shallow sloping rear window. I'm sure it's aerodynamically efficient, but I personally never think of it as pretty. There are uglier cars though lol

The beauty of the early Type R's was that looked fairly standard to the unknowing. Not a pretty car, but quick. Compared with some of the rivals they always looked bland to some people (I personally liked them). The base car this time though I think has started out ugly, with the back end of a Prius.

All been busy with the new NSX, which I quite like. They'e now on holiday and getting the apprentices to design cars for them.

How did it compare with the other similar hot-hatches?

My teenage stepson will love it, but he loves anything with protrusions at the front, esp if it stops him revising for his GCSEs.

Any luck with the facelift reflectors yet mate?

Its a teenage boys dream though lol. I agree on all points, but mostly about the exhaust