Do you ever "fook" up when driving the other car
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Do you ever "****" up when driving the other car
Was driving the scoob today after nearly a fortnight of driving the DIEsel laguna when i noticed i was being followed by a police car. after making 2 left turns and instead of indicating left stuck the wipers on turbo puled me over.Let me go after a good laugh, anyone else get this ?
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I normaly drive an Omega but so times I drive the other halfs cars (currently Impreza but used to be an MR2).. Every time I end up switching on the wipers to indicate!
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Hire cars abroad - always hitting the door panel when trying to change gear...
Driving an automatic, and pressing the brake pedal as if it were a clutch, i.e. all the way down sharply...
Driving an automatic, and pressing the brake pedal as if it were a clutch, i.e. all the way down sharply...
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I used to have 2 sierras one a 2.9 xr4x4 and the other a 2.8 xr4i. One day trying to get into a junction quickly in the xr4i I got crossed up and floored it expecting the front wheels to drag it back straight I ended up pointing in the direction I'd just come from parked across the junction
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Originally Posted by paulpalmer
I used to have 2 sierras one a 2.9 xr4x4 and the other a 2.8 xr4i. One day trying to get into a junction quickly in the xr4i I got crossed up and floored it expecting the front wheels to drag it back straight I ended up pointing in the direction I'd just come from parked across the junction
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got pulled doing similar. used to have a hyundai accent (thank god thats gone!!) and the indicator stork was such a bad design that you could easily turn off your head lights as you indicate!! how dangerous/crap is that?!! anyway was demonstrating this to a friend v early one morning in the half light and got pulled by a plain clothes because it 'looked like i wasnt in control of the car' apparently!!
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When not driving my scoob i drive a citroen c15 diesel van and many a time have slowed to flash someone out of a junction and have witnessed the puzzled look on their faces as i repeatedly squirt the wash wipe on my widscreen!!
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ive done the flashing thing when I first got my import, try to flash someone but use the wrong stalk so I get a windscreen full of washer and my wipers going.
Same when I drove my birds pug over christmas, everytime I indicated the wipers were going.
Same when I drove my birds pug over christmas, everytime I indicated the wipers were going.
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Waved at a another scoob as I went past. He tried to return the favour with a flash of the lights - he got there eventually - after turning the wipers OFF !
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lol at this thead, and i thought it was just me.
i also let people out out junctions with a squirt of the wipers!!!
oh and change lanes on the motorway with intermittent!!!
still, i've only had the scoob a week, so should get used to it.
bloody japs!!
dazza
edited to say, i also put my rear wiper on when it starts to get dark!!!
i also let people out out junctions with a squirt of the wipers!!!
oh and change lanes on the motorway with intermittent!!!
still, i've only had the scoob a week, so should get used to it.
bloody japs!!
dazza
edited to say, i also put my rear wiper on when it starts to get dark!!!
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Same here - All the time !!!!!
My other car is a Honda Accord (auto )
Indicators, lights, electric windows - catches me out everytime. Even filling up with petrol, I find myself being on the wrong side.
It does take some adjustment after a few days in the Scoob.
I too got flashed (wiper-waved) by a fellow Scooby owner - highly amusing!!
GBM.
My other car is a Honda Accord (auto )
Indicators, lights, electric windows - catches me out everytime. Even filling up with petrol, I find myself being on the wrong side.
It does take some adjustment after a few days in the Scoob.
I too got flashed (wiper-waved) by a fellow Scooby owner - highly amusing!!
GBM.
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I drive a Pug 406 and the rear elec window switch in the scoob are in the same position as the front window switch in the Pug. I always put the back window down in the scoob.
Luckily the scoob is UK so I dont get the indicators confused.
I do miss the rain sensing wipers from the pug and often drive the scoob expecting the wipers to come on automatically.
Also got a porsche 924 and the handbrake is by the drivers door, that really confuses me !
Luckily the scoob is UK so I dont get the indicators confused.
I do miss the rain sensing wipers from the pug and often drive the scoob expecting the wipers to come on automatically.
Also got a porsche 924 and the handbrake is by the drivers door, that really confuses me !
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I constantly open my rear window.......and I mean constantly.......
So much so that I pull up, lock the car and realise the window's open....
Always wondered where that draft came from
So much so that I pull up, lock the car and realise the window's open....
Always wondered where that draft came from
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i always get got by the wiper thing, when driving the missus's clio.
The other thing i always forget, is how much grip the scoob has when pulling off, compared to the FWD clio. Muchly amounts of wheelspin in the clio, followed by a glare!
Oh; and brakes too, the clio must have the most annoyingly sensitive brakes in the world...
The other thing i always forget, is how much grip the scoob has when pulling off, compared to the FWD clio. Muchly amounts of wheelspin in the clio, followed by a glare!
Oh; and brakes too, the clio must have the most annoyingly sensitive brakes in the world...
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A few years ago a changed from a 16v Jetta GTI to a Citroen BXTZD turbo-diesel. During my first suicidal overtaking manoeuvre I discovered that hitting the red line on a diesel means that the engine stops revving - totally
I made it past - just, but shortened my life by several years
I made it past - just, but shortened my life by several years
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Originally Posted by WRX_Dazza
lol at this thead, and i thought it was just me.
i also let people out out junctions with a squirt of the wipers!!!
oh and change lanes on the motorway with intermittent!!!
still, i've only had the scoob a week, so should get used to it.
bloody japs!!
dazza
edited to say, i also put my rear wiper on when it starts to get dark!!!
i also let people out out junctions with a squirt of the wipers!!!
oh and change lanes on the motorway with intermittent!!!
still, i've only had the scoob a week, so should get used to it.
bloody japs!!
dazza
edited to say, i also put my rear wiper on when it starts to get dark!!!
Indicators & headlight flash on the r/h stalk is more logical in a RHD with the gear lever on the left.
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had a realy bad journey on the M1, came off the M1 @J15, floored it at the round-about and the car went seriously sideways as the rev counter was singing 7500rpm which way to Northampton.
Ok it was wet and my temper got the better of me, there were no cars nearby (checked before the red mist decended).
LSD kicked in and the back end came back into line very quickly (with opp lock applied), great car on the limit.
It was a useful lesson as you tend to get complacent thinking a car is
un-crashable.
TBA - the ATR (athough FWD) is nearly uncrashable, driver feedback is ausome, the scobby can't match to Honda in that regard (though a scooby will out run it in a straight line and probably similar in cornering G).
I've had the scobby 7 months and learning the limits slowly without going mad, boy does it grip in the wet.
had a realy bad journey on the M1, came off the M1 @J15, floored it at the round-about and the car went seriously sideways as the rev counter was singing 7500rpm which way to Northampton.
Ok it was wet and my temper got the better of me, there were no cars nearby (checked before the red mist decended).
LSD kicked in and the back end came back into line very quickly (with opp lock applied), great car on the limit.
It was a useful lesson as you tend to get complacent thinking a car is
un-crashable.
TBA - the ATR (athough FWD) is nearly uncrashable, driver feedback is ausome, the scobby can't match to Honda in that regard (though a scooby will out run it in a straight line and probably similar in cornering G).
I've had the scobby 7 months and learning the limits slowly without going mad, boy does it grip in the wet.
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Originally Posted by Tripple'O G
I constantly open my rear window.......and I mean constantly.......
So much so that I pull up, lock the car and realise the window's open....
Always wondered where that draft came from
So much so that I pull up, lock the car and realise the window's open....
Always wondered where that draft came from
why oh why did they put those damn switches so far forward!!
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If you think that is bad, i`m just about to come off 4 1/2 months of driving landrovers. So i`ll be to high for the gearstick everytime I change gear for a week, and going for the imaginary handbrake by the front of the seat. Trying to put the ignition key in the wrong side of the steering column. Among the the hundred and one other things I have to get used to again, will most probably stall at least once in the first 2 days. Plus trying to get used to a proper seating position again epsecially as the missus will of been driving it .