Indicators
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I hear your ones and the lady sat nav telling you to TURN Around at the next possible junction all the time lo
long_range_rob
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Pricey on Mercs too it seems. Maybe your charged for the amount of time they’re lit? Been proper silly season today with the combination of continental lorries, coffin dodgers in their Honda Jazz and 18 year olds who think motorways are real life Grand Theft Auto. 
If ever you're feeling down and think your existence might be pointless, cheer yourself up with the thought that somewhere in Germany there are people who's sole job in life is to fit indicators to Beemers and Audis.
Indicators on cars only have two functions, if ever used
1. to indicate a manoeuvre already completed
2. to exempt the driver from some aspect of motoring legislation, especially when all four used at the same time.
While I’m at it, are the aforementioned brands of car fitted with some miraculous braking device that enables the driver to drive up your exhaust pipe?
1. to indicate a manoeuvre already completed
2. to exempt the driver from some aspect of motoring legislation, especially when all four used at the same time.
While I’m at it, are the aforementioned brands of car fitted with some miraculous braking device that enables the driver to drive up your exhaust pipe?
Pricey on Mercs too it seems. Maybe your charged for the amount of time they’re lit? Been proper silly season today with the combination of continental lorries, coffin dodgers in their Honda Jazz and 18 year olds who think motorways are real life Grand Theft Auto.
That brings me onto the slightly different question , are Mercs' a car only purchased by those with narcissism ? Their elevated sense of self importance seems to exclude them from ever making eye contact , saying thankyou or even acknowledging your presence , when they've been shown kindness on the road .
You showed kindness to a Merc driver?, It'll be Blaser wavers next.
Bavarianbrit
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They fit them in UK to Jags, Toyotas, Nissans, AMs too but with the proviso that they are only to be used with the hazard switch when double parking on main roads.
If you are overtaken on bends or in hidden dips on our local lanes by something doing 30mph above a safe speed (approx 40 is pushing it a bit), it's a BMW . This is 9 times out of 10, the 10th time it's an Audi. Weird isn't it, I await one meeting a nice big buck at crossing places on bends. One or two of them in the winter, on a lovely slow bend that frosts well have tried a bit of hedge hopping, there must be 10 areas of hedge replanted now. I laugh at them standing on the roadside waiting for help. One day there will be one on a fore end loader spike methinks, a little messy that one will be.
Len the dog
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Only in the UK are Mercs seen as a premium brand, in every other country in the world they are a taxi.
Woodsmoke
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Same around here in Angus. What really makes me draw sharp breath are the number of idiots who see it as perfectly acceptable to cut corners. The number of these idiots I see doing so, generally on a blind bend, absolutely beggars belief. I had one absolute mouth-breather appear in front of me the other morning as he cut the corner on a blind T-junction. On a bloody motorbike
I had one absolute mouth-breather appear in front of me the other morning as he cut the corner on a blind T-junction. On a bloody motorbike
There's no excuse for that sort of stupidity!! But we DO need organ donors, and I speak as an aged biker who also drives an Audi (fitted with fully functioning indicators)
Not all bikers are suicide jockeys, some just get the rest of us a bad name!
Woodsmoke
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Just a young lad. And judging from the way his eyes went like saucers I think he got a real scare. I bloody hope so, that kind of idiotic driving will end up killing him.
I loved my bikes when I had them, and I rode faster than I should on many, many occasions. Never once did I even consider doing anything as mind-numbingly stupid as that though
My pass time at the moment , is to dare to drive in the outside "FAST" lane of the motorway in my dirty disco2 at less than 90mph. That really winds up Audi drivers, as they can't bully it . It really amazes me how much of their car they can get on the centre reservation !!
You showed kindness to a Merc driver?, It'll be Blaser wavers next.
To be fare to Blaser owners , I feel they've suffered enough persecution .......
Guess there's always room for a little more .
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I had the worst case of this (for me) not long ago whilst pickling along in my Freelander 2. Little Audi hatchback thing so ruddy close to me for about 4 miles that all I could see in my rear-view mirror was his roof.
I pulled up to stop at the entrance to a deserted roundabout where he had no route around me (much to his ire), stepped out, walked around, opened the tailgate and explained to him that he was welcome to get in the boot if he was so desperate to get up close for a cuddle. Having declined my kind offer he then tore off down a turning I know to run about 500yds before becoming a dead-end
Very similar to my approach…I usually stop, walk up to the window, tell them the current time (to which they look confused) and when they say “what?” I say - sorry, I thought you were trusting to read the time from the clock on my dash…I had the worst case of this (for me) not long ago whilst pickling along in my Freelander 2. Little Audi hatchback thing so ruddy close to me for about 4 miles that all I could see in my rear-view mirror was his roof.
I pulled up to stop at the entrance to a deserted roundabout where he had no route around me (much to his ire), stepped out, walked around, opened the tailgate and explained to him that he was welcome to get in the boot if he was so desperate to get up close for a cuddle. Having declined my kind offer he then tore off down a turning I know to run about 500yds before becoming a dead-end
As I sit waiting to join a stream of traffic at a roundabout, cursing, "Give us a F*****'n clue"! While the pin heads go about their airhead ways, Mrs remonstrates "They don't teach it anymore" (Ex CCC driver assessor). WTF?
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