Trumpet
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Me too but the coupe version. Cost me £30 kept it about 18 months and the scrappy gave me £35. Happy days.
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Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!
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Gramaisc
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A friend of mine had a blue one like that. He had dark hair and black-framed glasses. After mistakenly thinking I had seen him driving past a few times, I started keeping a record and, right up to the final sightings, all drivers of blue ones were dark haired males with black-framed glasses.
Gramaisc
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What's the V for?
Odd to have LHD wipers when they appeared to have the fittings for RHD ones.
Stone_Bloke
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This thread is for poor driving you have seen, not for poor excuses of cars.
Thehooperman
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Glam
Mad Cat Woman
What planet are you on? Don't you know every single post goes off course at some point or other?
Unless you're a shit driver, driving a shit car.
Gramaisc
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Glam
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I feel quite inferior now, I drive a Focus Estate, I admit I'm not always courteous if a wanker/knobhead in a BMW, or any other sort of car cuts me up.
I was taught my hand signals by a bloke who examines the blokes who examine the blokes who take their ADI thingymajig. (That is not a typo, I meant to repeat that bit).
And....
Perhaps some people drive smart cars for the ease of parking? Maybe the size is all they need, not everyone wants a big gas guzzling monster parked in their driveway.
And some of us only buy what we can afford, not to show off to all and sundry.
I was taught my hand signals by a bloke who examines the blokes who examine the blokes who take their ADI thingymajig. (That is not a typo, I meant to repeat that bit).
And....
Perhaps some people drive smart cars for the ease of parking? Maybe the size is all they need, not everyone wants a big gas guzzling monster parked in their driveway.
And some of us only buy what we can afford, not to show off to all and sundry.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
It's National Indicate The Wrong Way Day today, apparently.
On my dash to and from Knaresborough this morning, I lost count of the number of cars indicating left and turning right and vice versa.
What is wrong with some people? Left and right really isn't a difficult concept to grasp. And if it is a) how did you pass your test in the first place and b) how do you manage to dress yourselves or cope with the concept of walking each day?
World's gone mad, I tell ya...
On my dash to and from Knaresborough this morning, I lost count of the number of cars indicating left and turning right and vice versa.
What is wrong with some people? Left and right really isn't a difficult concept to grasp. And if it is a) how did you pass your test in the first place and b) how do you manage to dress yourselves or cope with the concept of walking each day?
World's gone mad, I tell ya...
Thehooperman
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It's all to do with car manufacturers moving the indicator switch from the right of the steering wheel to the left.
Or was it the other way round?
I've lost count of the number of times I've flashed my screen washers at dickheads that have turned using the wrong indicators.
Gramaisc
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Indicators/lights should be on the window side of the column, where the driver's signalling arm is - and so they can can dip when caught out changing gear.
In the old days, the wiper controls would often be in the middle of the car, so that a passenger could be an 'intermittent wipe system'.
I'm not sure if anybody still makes one the right way round for RHD cars now.
In the old days, the wiper controls would often be in the middle of the car, so that a passenger could be an 'intermittent wipe system'.
I'm not sure if anybody still makes one the right way round for RHD cars now.
Laurie61
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I had a run out in a friends rally car several years ago and a lot of the controls were placed in front of the passenger. I remember the wipers were activated by a button switch in the front foot well along with the headlights flash control. On a high speed run, and fully strapped in, the G force was enough that it was virtual impossible to move a leg to press the desired switch. Fun when it was raining.
Northend Boy
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Cue
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Hmm. My 2011 has the indicator on the left side of the wheel. How recent is this?
Gramaisc
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Older British cars all had indicators on the right, and a lot of foreign manufacturers fell in line for a while, for the British market, but there are few if any, making RHD-specific column switch assemblies now. My 2007 Getz has them 'the old way', but an i20 will be the 'modern way'. Columns with left-hand indicators are correct in an LHD car, as they always have been. I'm not really sure when the change started, but it's a good while ago and virtually complete now. I not sure what Japanese manufacturers do, as their home-market cars are RHD.
There are other things which derive from an LHD world - it's why the on/off/volume knob is on the far side of the radio, etc..
staffordjas
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I've had a few cars with the indicators on the right in the past.
Got me remembering back to my dad's old black car when we were kids. Can't remember ever going out on the road in it .But the vision of the orange indicator arm , that flicked out of the side of the car as we sat in my parents garage in it, has stuck in my head. Don't even know if it was operated by anything on the steering wheel ....
Kickstart
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Hi
As I understand it, in the 1980s there was an international standard for the layout of the stalks. Personally I prefer the indicators on the left, and think every car we have owned has had indicators on the left (including an early Metro).
Some do, but possibly don't import them. For example, UK spec Mazda MX5 (NC model, so ~2007 onwards) have indicators on the left. Japanese / Australian spec ones (also RHD) have indicators on the right.
All the best
Katy
As I understand it, in the 1980s there was an international standard for the layout of the stalks. Personally I prefer the indicators on the left, and think every car we have owned has had indicators on the left (including an early Metro).
Some do, but possibly don't import them. For example, UK spec Mazda MX5 (NC model, so ~2007 onwards) have indicators on the left. Japanese / Australian spec ones (also RHD) have indicators on the right.
All the best
Katy