MK5 Golf GTI
General => Random Chat => Topic started by: cooljimy84 on June 19, 2015, 03:03:43 pm
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So as the titles says, i keep seeing cars that shouldn't be on the road.
All brake lights out or broken shocks, so u can see the wheel bouncing like a jelly... loads of things that make the car unsafe on the road.
What is the best course of action? If i contact the police or traffic police? would they really do any thing ?
It really annoys me when i spend time and money keeping my car nice and more than safe and these people are driving around in cars that shouldn't be on the road !
Rant over.....
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Anything with a griffin on the front :signLOL:
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See a lot of them at work
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I know exactly what you mean, I take the time and expense to maintain my car as well as I can and then you see these sh*t buckets driving around with apparently no consequence, I've seen police cars in perfect view of them and do nothing. Yet if you speed slightly in a perfectly maintained car they penalise you because its 'dangerous'.
I bet my car is safer in every single way at 100mph that a similarly aged poorly maintained rover/ Nissan/ ford/ vaxhaull or anything French. I know I've used your rant to segway into my own speeding related one but I fancy writing down some of my qaurells with the way 'road safety' is enforced.
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See a lot of them at work
Was it you posted the photo of a propa bald tyre and the lad asked for a repair?
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Postman had bald front tyres I noticed the other day!
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I see a lot of bald tyres. Typically women drivers as the vast majority just get in the car and drive it until it breaks or an MOT man tells them it's a death trap :stupid:
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Dont even get me started on dodgy tyres
Fooking pet hate of mine that worn tyres or indeed Sh1T chinese budget tyres
Personally would love to see the law enforced on this
6 points and £200 fine for every dangerous tyre on vehicle fooking pi$$es me right off
Rant over :rolleye:
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I see a lot of balled tyres.
What's one of them then?
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Think I might have to get a car cam and report them.
It really annoys me, and yes I agree that if u do a little over the limit they come down on you like a tonne of bricks.
It only takes a minute to check lights and tyres every month. Use the reflection from the car behind to check lights from in side the car.
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Quite often see Fords with no brake lights or only one of three working. I was also once behind a Rover 25 that only had a single functioning bulb in the centre brake cluster as its brake light!
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See a lot of them at work
Was it you posted the photo of a propa bald tyre and the lad asked for a repair?
It sure was
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This one
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:surprised: :surprised: :surprised:
WTF!
thats insane, surely the guy must have noticed how his car was handling long before they ended up looking like that?
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Ive seen a few Peugeot 206's where the brake light is constantly on and when they brake it goes off! Really dangerous.
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I remember being on the motorway on a work trip. There was a guy in a transit van in front with no brake lights at all.
Dangerous!
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:surprised: :surprised: :surprised:
WTF!
thats insane, surely the guy must have noticed how his car was handling long before they ended up looking like that?
Not sure but he wanted me to repair it and was angry with me as i refused
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See alot of expensive new cars with bald tyres! Why buy an expensive car if you can't maintain it. Also people who forget to turn their lights on in the evening and carry on driving with their DRL's blinding everyone!!
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There's one woman in work with an old Honda accord that has 4 bald tyres, one of which has the steel now poking out. No tax the last 5 years and no nct. Now there's me paying €700 a year for tax and €150 a tyre. Sickens me!
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See alot of expensive new cars with bald tyres! Why buy an expensive car if you can't maintain it. Also people who forget to turn their lights on in the evening and carry on driving with their DRL's blinding everyone!!
Yes DRL are fecking annoying in the dusk point...
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It's cute when a y reg Nissan Primera with no brake bulbs decides to brake suddenly in front of you to make a sudden turn.. It's even cuter when they don't indicate while doing this and you're travelling behind them thinking they're A) not braking and B) definitely not turning that corner.. :scared:
Both car and driver should be crushed :fighting:
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There's one woman in work with an old Honda accord that has 4 bald tyres, one of which has the steel now poking out. No tax the last 5 years and no nct. Now there's me paying €700 a year for tax and €150 a tyre. Sickens me!
Sorry mate maybe it's a bit below the belt for me to say it but id have reported her for that im affraid
She's a danger to herself and other road users some of which are your friends and family driving on same roads etc
A had a row with guy in work myself a few years ago over similar issues on his motor and told him if it wasn't sorted that week a was reporting him!
Anyway long story short he did sort the tyres eventually but a few weeks later his car got seized outside work in front of management etc for no tax/insurance :laugh: :jumpmove:
True story :sick:
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Pretty sure my car shouldn't have been on the road for the last year. It was MOT'ed at Harold Wood Audi 12 months ago and they didn't seem to pick up on no less than 3 failure points which I have since learned about this year! :surprised: (All have been corrected now I am aware of them, and it has 12 months on its MOT again. :pomppomp:)
They also claim to have carried out a visual inspection of my car including the fluid levels. And of course about 100mi later my oil light came on. First and last time I leave a dealer to check my fluid levels :fighting:
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Saw a 206 yesterday where only 80% of the top brake light worked, and when they indicated the brake light just flashed very very dimly.
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I pulled a woman over last night in her polo mkiiif because none of her 3 brake lights were working and both right side tyres were punctured!
She hadn't a clue about any of them. People that aren't interested in cars don't even know when something is wrong.
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I pulled a woman over last night in her polo mkiiif because none of her 3 brake lights were working and both right side tyres were punctured!
She hadn't a clue about any of them. People that aren't interested in cars don't even know when something is wrong.
It seems cars are seen as an accessory now, I keep seeing the ads for Corsa and fiat 500, with "FUN roof" and new "colour collection"
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Another one..
Going along the A38, weather's good, sunroof open.
Hear a screeching, getting louder, thinking 'sh*t, what's that?!' Then realise it's the Renault in lane 1 making the noise, not my car. Panic over!