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ryan
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Nob in a Golf

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A cold dreary afternoon, as I head for London, driving from Hull, along the A62 where it becomes the M62, and the road goes from two lanes to three lanes. There I was sitting at about 75/80mph as i approach Mr Golf TDi who is doing about 65mph, overtkaing two cars who are doing about 64mph!
So after taking a mile to pass these two cars due to his lack of knowledge on how to use the accelerator pedal, the road co incidentaly becomes 3 lanes (motorway).
But Golfman sticks to the outside lane, so I give him time to realise i'm there, and would like to pass, but hes already looked behind and seen me in the mirror, so hes just thinking 'hell, lets just hold him up some more'. At this point i'll make it clear i wasn't 'tailgating' .
So, I eventually give him a brief flash of the lights, but, oh no mr Golfman isn't having any of it.
So another flash, and I edge closer, and finally I get movement into the middle lane.
But oh no thats not good enough! Mr Golfman decides to 'give it some' and by the amount of soot that came out of the exhaust pipe, I realised he was not wanting me to pass :x
So I pull in behind him, not really wanting to race his torquey tool, but then he slows down, so I indicate and pass, or well I try to, but I think Golfman had dropped it down a cog, attempting to stop me passing him again.
So i've had it by now, and decide to unleash my mighty 242lb/ft , as I cruise past his heavy oil machinery, blackened by the dust of his german tank. He flashed me angrily for my legitimate overtaking manuvere, and I wave back thanking him for his manners....

I realise that he may have the same plush torque figure, but he only has 5k redline, and a lard ar$e car thats as unaerodynamic as the London Eye.

So there you are, its a mini-MR2 adventure. Full Stop. \:D/
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:lol:
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Ryan, were you the guy who popped in to see me at Stafford?
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robbie_742003 wrote:Ryan, were you the guy who popped in to see me at Stafford?


Wasn't me mate, I moved from Stafford xmas time, and only people i know in the area were Luize, and Andrew, who have MR2's :-k
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Nice story..... I enjoyed that =D>
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That made me smile to.. I love people in TDI's thinking they are driving real turbos. i know there are some serious TDIs around but most are laggey and are only turbos to make up for the fact that diesel is a crappy fuel for a decent perfomance car. Hence you don't see many super cars that are diesel. :shock:

:)

Sorry i get over excited..
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Some twonk in a Golf did that to my mate the other day, going up the M1. Sat there, barely crawling past the middle lane traffic, so my mate being a sensible (ish) drive leaves him plenty of space. Then the traffic in lanes 1&2 die away, and this plonker sits there. Looks in his mirror a few times, and stays there. We wait a minute. We flash, just quickly. He looks in mirror. He stays there. So my mate decides to use his new RX8 to leave the guy behind, indicates left to undertake, slides into the middle lane, and this idiot belts in front of us without indicating nearly causing us all to crash. THEN when we overtake, he gives US abuse.....

I don't recall if it was a TDi but Golf drivers seem to be a bit...brain-dead.
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So my mate decides to use his new RX8 to leave the guy behind, indicates left to undertake, slides into the middle lane, and this idiot belts in front of us without indicating nearly causing us all to crash. THEN when we overtake, he gives US abuse.....


shouldnt undertake, 2 wrongs dont make a right IMO.
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Yep these TDi VW/Audi drivers love trying to show us their brut torque.... and their clouds of black smoke.... [-X

Regarding undertaking, yes it is wrong, but so is sitting in the fast lane, blatently not letting faster moving traffic past. Wonder which is the most illegal? As you say two wrongs....

I confess, when i'm driving at night, mainly in the slow lane, unless I have to pass slower moving traffic, I don't bother swapping 2 lanes to pass middle lane hoggers, I just stay where I am in the slow lane. When the roads are busy, I just stay in the fast and middle lane, though I always move into the middle lane if theres room, and i'm not overtaking anyone :whistle:
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Re: Nob in a Golf

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No doubt that slower drivers not moving over is a real PITA. ](*,)

Trouble is that by undertaking you run the risk of someone getting pi$$ed off by you doing so and they then swerve across in front of you "to show their point". Similare logic to "i'll show them they should move over by undertaking" When this happens it is ALOT more irritating and dangerous than them not moving over at all.

so for me, by not undertaking im keeping my irritation at the lowest possible level :)

Not to say i dont occasionally undertake of course. :whistle:
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Yep sounds like a familiar story happens to me all the time especially in Doncaster for some unknown reason :-k

I don't even give em time to get hacked off i undertake em straight away as i know they get some sort of sadistic pleasure from holding people up and then trying to race petrol cars in their turbo'd tanks. Makes me laugh tho when i blow em in my Ford transit !
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passat tdi drivers are the scurge of the motorways.. vermin...
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Classic story Ryan ROFL =D> :lol:
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Post by dawolf »

Interesting debate. In theory no, you shouldn't undertake but there are inevitably occasions like this when you would be sat behind slow drivers forever and a day if you didn't.

One thing that also irritates me are the drivers who show disregard to traffic further ahead and undertake people only to hit traffic in that lane and then move out again and cut up the car in the outside lane. I see this all too often!
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And here's what our good old friend the Highway Code has to say:

'Lane Discipline...
... Return to the left-hand lane once you have overtaken all the vehicles or you are delaying traffic behind you.'

Surely this can't be too complex for the average VW driver? :wink:

Perhaps someone could start a pressure group to have this printed on the centre of the steering wheel of all new VWs?

:twisted:
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I confess, when i'm driving at night, mainly in the slow lane, unless I have to pass slower moving traffic, I don't bother swapping 2 lanes to pass middle lane hoggers, I just stay where I am in the slow lane.


Legally if you are in the left hand lane and are within the speed limit and overtake someone, that is not undertaking. Undertaking only occurs when there is a deliberate manouver to circumvent the vehicle in front by using a left hand lane. If you are in the left hand lane and it just happens to be faster then go for it.

Of cours eit all depends on whether you are doing the speed limit or not....
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jmachling wrote:And here's what our good old friend the Highway Code has to say:

'Lane Discipline...
... Return to the left-hand lane once you have overtaken all the vehicles or you are delaying traffic behind you.'

Surely this can't be too complex for the average VW driver? :wink:

Perhaps someone could start a pressure group to have this printed on the centre of the steering wheel of all new VWs?

:twisted:


What a great idea, maybe pass it on to BMW while they're at it :lol:
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Re: Nob in a Golf

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I LOVE it when I meet people like this in the 2...oh the joy.

I sit there behind them..sensible distance...waiting for them to pull in, they never do..so I pull out slowly to overtake, making it look like the car is show and no go...they put their foot down...so do I...a little...let them think they're getting somewhere...then I floor it and wave with my index finger through the rear window.

Even better is when someone tailgates you when you're in the outside lane...held up by traffic infront...they flash you (like you can go anywhere?) the traffic ahead clears in both lanes...you pull in...they go for the 'I'm driving here, you were in my way' I leave them for dead..they pull in and limp along feeling thoroughly defeated.

I need help I know.
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Post by Leon. »

What really p1sses me off on the motorway is when you're happily cruising along at 80mph overtaking in the middle or outside lane, and because you have a sports car, the ar$ehole you're overtaking decides to speed up by maybe only 5mph. But this is enough to be a real PITA because you pull in after 30 secs of realising they aren't gona slow down, and you can't be ar$ed to match their stupidity, and then you catch them up 2 mins later because they've returned to their orignal speed. At that point I floor it to avoid it happening again.

WTF? What's the point?

](*,)

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