matchmaker

They mess about - overtaking each other and general being ********* at 50mph. Comes a nice straight - I drop into 3rd and welly it. My Octy will do 20 -110 in 3rd. **** em

JJstiuk

Yea what goes through peoples minds sometimes... overtake them and they start flashing... really dont understand this... never in a million years would i think of flashing my light at someone for overtaking me... not that that happens often these days

Big_Dan531

last sumer i was in my m8s scooby gooing down some country lanes on a straight bit of road pefect fro overtaking so my m8 dropped it down a gear and whipped around the car in front and was back in front in now time a car on the opposite side of the road was flasshing even though he was about half a mile down the road

then the guy we over took starts making jestures in the wondow of his car and when we stopped at the roundabout he decides he is giong to get out of his car and have a word with my m8. so my m8 stweps out and the guy grabs him and try's to hit him. this guy must have been about 50 odd so he was no spring chicken so i jumped out the car me and my m8 are 19 (and no he wasnt driving like a boy racer) and i just happend to be 6ft 1 inhces 21st power lifter so im not the smallest guy this guy just looks out the corner of his eye and starts walking back in his car saying sorry for that i dont know what came over me.

what i wanna now why didnt he think of that when he was driving for he knew we could of bee absolute nutters who didnt have a care in the world and he cuold of got really hurt or killed what goes thorugh these peoples minds are they thick or something

makes me mad but we have a laugh about it now as the blokes face was a picture when i got out the car

danny

Rioja

I am very sad to report that I let this type of thing wind me up every single time If I know the road, i'll hang back accelerate through the corner and past the car in front onto the straight: cue fla****y, flash, flash WTF!! Then the mad-eyed monster reers his head, and I just have to brake down to about 20 and make the c follow me for a mile.

Why do I do it, makes me as much of a tw@t as them

PS, no answers on a postcard thx.

PeteBrant

Presumably you were using the car as some form of powered roller skate?

Big_Dan531

hahahaha i was struggling a big in the buckets seats but nothing a bottle jack wont sort out

Jap Import

Alan.

I get it all the time, never really had it in my old escort cab.

It's definately the scoob these people dislike.

I hate the boys who push me through the towns.
I lose em in the 60's then next minute in a town they're right up my **** again.
Definately breaking the speed limit in the towns to catch me.
Totall tossers my friend

simo

Yes but it's the pipe ash coming out of your window that pi55es them off Andy

stilover

I've had all the above happen to me. I've had cars speed-up when I overtake. Flash their lights at me, both car overtaken and oncoming car from 1 mile away.

The other thing I've experienced, is the car in front, more so on a country road is driving with one wheel slightly over the white lines meaning there isn't enough room to overtake, and doing 40mph at the time. Any one else had this?
The only way to overtake them is wait for an oncoming car to pass, then quickly overtake before they've had time to reposition their car to the other side of the white line. Then you get the lights flashing like you somehow just about killed them.

I have to say though, I do think it's a Subaru thing more than anything. When I had my Focus RS, I hardly ever got flashed by the overtaken driver. As soon as I got my scoob, all the negative flashing, speeding up started.

Went for a long run in my old man's new RS4 a few weeks ago on some very quick `B` roads. Never got flashed once, car in front never tried to speed up, nothing. I commented to my Dad, that had we been in my Scoob, I'd have been flashed several times. Go figure !!

scoobynutta555

You're not that English bloke pretending to be a French policeman on 'allo 'allo are you?

PeteBrant

Before my Scoob I had a '96 Jag XJR. Although it was 350BHP and would comfortably hit 60 in around 5.5seconds i barely had to use it, because kids never saw me as a "threat". I could just cruise around and no one would bother me - and when I did overtake, it was almost as if it was "expected.".

However, the very day I got the scoob, it was a completely different experience, *everyone* wanted to race, and kids were all over my back end all the time - It's almost as if they are desperate to say "I took on a scoob and won". Course there are times when I put the hammer down to put them in thier place, but when you get to your 30's you don't want to drive around like a maniac all the time. I drive down streets now at 30-35mph, where when I was 18 I would do 70.

More often than not I just let them go after having given them a quick roasting at a roundabout, or lights or whatever, safe in the knowledge that they are thinking "he could take me anytime he felt like it"

Alas

You've had too may growing spurts m8. At 61ft you should weigh a lot more than 21 stone

sjl75

I agree completely, even driving my ancient toyota land cruiser (yes its diesel) i get people flashing their lights and making silly gestures...
Its normally at this point I stop and get out to explain the error of their ways!!

abc

I get flashed more in the Scooby than in other cars. I agree with the reasons others have given for this, but something that hasn't been mentioned is that sometimes people flash you because they don't realize how quick the car is and think you've driven dangerously overtaking in what would be for them too small a space.

On the positive side, don't you just love it when people slow and pull to the left for you to overtake when they see you coming behind them. Now that's good road manners! (But WHY don't more people do it?!)

MadMark

My 2p

1. Spatial awareness - Some people just can't judge distances, acceleration or closing speeds - so they assume you can't make the overtake and flash you!

2. Revenge - I had a girl in a Corsa overtake me in a 30 zone at 60 plus after I had nailed her on a de-restricted road several miles earlier.

3. Lack of concentration - I find that some people are woken up by the sound of my full boost howl and then realise they've been tootling!

4. Distractions - Once people have finished telling off the kids or drivelling into their mobiles - they suddenly up their pace!

MM

onslow

i swear some people think they are making the world a safer place by driving along an A road at 35mph
all they are doing is winding up the people behind and making them try wot could be a more dangerous overtaking manouvre especially when the other driver speeds up
and if this caused an accident who do you think would look at fault?
the cloth cap wearing blue rinser or the evil performace car driver?

shustir

I think it must be some sort of inferiority complex.

Driving along a dual carraigeway one morning at 05.30 so very few cars on the road. Just one car in front of me and a HGV in front of that. So little car in front of me overtakes HGV and I do the same, Pug 106 then pulls into inside lane as you do therefore providing me with a clear outside lane. Instead of pulling behind the Pug I make progress and carry on going in the outside lane. Approcx 1/2 mile further down there are some traffic lights so I stop. Next thing I know Mr Pug is side of my car giving it his all . I gave him a few kind words back.

WTF what a knuckle shuffler. He then cuts me up at last minute deciding to follow my lane turning left. Pulls over on side of road obviously wanting to make something of it. I carry on going. Stops again at next set of lights and gives it more of the verbal at which point I turned off. WTF is that all about, I think he didn't like being overtaken by a scooby , and my skin colour obviously bothered him as he did mention it.

I really wish next time he does it some nutter gets out and gives him what he deserves.

nickejmartin

its peoples mentality - they hate been made to look slower.

i get it every night. You pass someone on the road and they flash. I then dive into our local swimming pool for an hour training, and people do the same in the lanes there. If you overtake, they swim on your ankles, or worse, push out in front of you!!

Alan MaC

Thanks everyone for your points.

It's nice to know that it's not just me.

But seriously though, I do think it's a Scoob thing, trying to say to their pals, I took a Scoob today etc, etc.

We have nothing to prove but again, I just don't get it, if we were impolite when we overtake I could understand it, someone made the point, they can't beleive how quick we can move into a space without too much effort.

Finally, this evening I'm on my way home from work driving through a village I'm doing about 25mph, (limit 30mph) windows down, nice weather and, Mr Exhaut is burbling away.

Lady from the kerb shouts "slow down!" I look at all the cars up my behind who are miffed I'm taking it steady and wonder, what's it all about??

Alan Mac......

RJMS

iTrader: (2)

Noisy car = car going too fast, my arguement is noisy car = you are aware of it's presence and therefore it is in fact safer.

When I had my open carbed Alfa it did cause near panic with some mums near me as they rushed to grab their kids as far away from the curb as possible as I went past at about 20.

There's one guy who always gives me dirty looks even in my scoob (STi backbox so not particularly loud) as though I'm the devil incarnate, the amusing thing is on a couple of occasions he's been merrily doing 40-45 or so in the same residential area and had to pull up sharpish when he realises that I might actually be travelling at (or more likely slightly below) the speed limit, quite significantly slower then he is.

lightwave693

i get flashed now and again for overtaking in what i see as a safe and simple, i flash my hazzards in return

mgcvk

Definitely true that because you can hear the car coming people assume you are a vandal and therefore speeding. I constantly get filthy looks when doing well under 30mph.

fl6

funny that i had a 4x4 before my scooby never got flashed !! get it all the time naw.

pimmo2000

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I do that for every bike that comes near me.. it really pisses me off when they dont thank me though...

I see it, yes my Scooby is fast, but your on a bike which is a totally different league.. and I dont wanna kill you

cw42

iTrader: (1)

One thing to say: WALES

Go drive there, the nicest, most courteous drivers you can ever want to meet, in general. Never before have people gotten out of our way before like they do in WALES. Convoy of 10 scoobys blasting along, mr welsh indicates left and pulls over to let you all pass
mrs wales coming the other way will give you the thumbs up and slow down to ensure your overtake is safe and secure

Brilliant place, can't wait to go back

nickejmartin

of course the other trick is when they don't overtake and its clear, until you decide to.

Last night half mile totally clear straight - one slow moving lorry, 60mph limit. Does the car in front go - no way. Hang back no signals from infront, so i decide to go. Just about to go pass, and out he comes almost forcing me onto the verge. As it happens the road is wide enough for three and away I go along with the flashing headlights from the guy behind. All good fun, but sixth sense tells you they are just about to do soumething daft and you prepare for it.

2 miles up the road, another lorry, this time a smart car who did everything right. Road clear, she looked in her mirror, signalled clearly, everyone knew what she was doing, and finally overtook - everyone happy. Not being ageist, but a little old lady who even pulled over afterwards to let me pass. So easy, yet so difficult for some people.Even got a wave from her as I went pass and it wasn't one or two fingers.

cw42

iTrader: (1)

^^^bet she was welsh

shooter007

i usually flash people in when they overtake just a polite gesture to mean they are past my car and can pull in now

C2forWRX

i got flashed whilst passing someone on an a road. dangrous flashing overtakers if you ask me. i saw loads of flashing in my rear view mirror and that made me take my eyes off the road and think wtf are they doing that for. lost concentration for a few seconds which at 60 is quite a distance

Alan MaC

good point.