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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:00 PM
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seriously now every single morning on my way to work no matter what route i take i get cars right up my arse i feel gay!

i do the speed limit, sometimes creep over but they still do it, grown men, women, boys, girls everyone does it and its starting to get on my nerves a lil more than usual. I seriously feel to stop the car and go have a word with them!

how do you lot deal with it? i cant pull over coz i'd never get to work but carying on im shitting myself that if i have to suddenly slow they're gonna rear end me
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:02 PM
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fuck em, i have properly dropped anchor once or twice when i have been pushed past a reasonable limit.


that usually makes them back off
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:02 PM
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get the biggest towbar you can find and hit the anchors
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:03 PM
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just give the brakes a quick jab as a warning, or drive along with ur foot rested on the brakes so the brake lights are on, they will soon get the message

that, and possibly flip them the bird

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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:03 PM
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Windscreen washers - works every time!
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:03 PM
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Brake test.
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:05 PM
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just keep it nice and slow
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:07 PM
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i either dropped the anchor in the ax or xr2i for a bit or tapped the brakes, if they kept it up id drop right down to 50 if the road was quiet or on a back road 30....

last person who did it got a severe warning and followed me home to my house where they were told sharply that next time the brakes wouldnt be "tapped on" in the wee ax and they would be the one picking up the bill on their 3series company car.
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:07 PM
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Fit a flamer kit ! that used to work for me
I ignore it now
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:08 PM
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drop the anchors and pick up a whippy claim 4 months down the line.....fuckem!!!
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:09 PM
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i've tried the brake thing but this woman got so mad she got closer.... if she hit me after acting like an idiot i probably wouldn't have been able to controll my violence.

i would have thought when they see a young lad driving they would get mature about it and back off!
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:09 PM
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anti lag works a treat
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:10 PM
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brake check and laugh at their panic expression in your rear view mirror. they hit you and theyre paying as you braked to avoid a dog that had ran out.
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr Brannen
drop the anchors and pick up a whippy claim 4 months down the line.....fuckem!!!
I like!
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by cheeky dog
i've tried the brake thing but this woman got so mad she got closer.... if she hit me after acting like an idiot i probably wouldn't have been able to controll my violence.

i would have thought when they see a young lad driving they would get mature about it and back off!
you should have slowed right down and got slower and slower whilst laughing.
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by DanW@FastFord
Windscreen washers - works every time!
Just what I was going to say!

Also slowing down without using the brakes, then speeding back up to make a decent gap can work nicely and doesn't rile folk as much as slamming the anchors on.....
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:12 PM
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get a flamer kit on your car,

i just brake test them until the back the fuck away.
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:13 PM
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i just cover my brakes, that fucks them off!

i remember a few years ago i was with a mate on the motorway and someone was getting right up his arse in the middle lane then the fast lane, think they wanted a race! he gave the brakes a jab and the car behind locked up and spun the car off the road and into a verge next to the hard shoulder. dont know what happened to them but they certainly learnt their lesson.
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aim your rear washer jet straight out, so it squirts onto their bonnet

fill the rear washer bottle with petrol,

deploy washer when you get tailgated...then fire up the als, and watch them burn
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:15 PM
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Yep plant the foot on the brake pedal hard and show them a fist thats what i do..........continue to be on my bumper and you will be introduced to the fist
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by fuzzy
brake check and laugh at their panic expression in your rear view mirror. they hit you and theyre paying as you braked to avoid a dog that had ran out.
i dont trust ins companies.... if someone rear ends you do you normally get paid out?
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by cheeky dog
i dont trust ins companies.... if someone rear ends you do you normally get paid out?
yes you do mate
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by JTECHSAFF
aim your rear washer jet straight out, so it squirts onto their bonnet

fill the rear washer bottle with petrol,

deploy washer when you get tailgated...then fire up the als, and watch them burn
lol.....

CSM my friend has a bumper sticker saying "do not ride or attemped to ride on the bumper of this car" and then goes on to say it will result in injury lol but i think that would just get more people on your arse.

its mostly middle aged suit wearing men that love to sit on me arse with their saabs and i know if i get out they wont,
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:21 PM
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give them "the look" in the mirror LOL.

I generally just slow right down!
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:22 PM
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Bit of squirty on your windscreen.. keep an eye on them in the rear view mirror and wait until the fluid hits their windscreen. Just as they start their windscreen wipers (they won't be able to not look at them starting to move - natural reaction) dab your brake so the red light isn't what they're looking at directly and scares them shitless.

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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:22 PM
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about the flammer kits... my ex pipe likes to pop and bang low end revs travelling slowly which does and has helped but it doesn't wanna pop when i got the tailgaters.

Elvis
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:22 PM
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just dont check your rear view mirror, if someone goes into the back of you its their fault so theres nothing to worry about. once theyve hit you just think of all the things to spend the money on, while acting as though your in agony whith whiplash, unless you really are of course.
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:23 PM
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Its easy MOVE OVER




Or speed up
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by jemis
get the biggest towbar you can find and hit the anchors
now this sounds like a good idea, where can i get one to fit the 200sx?
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Luca
Its easy MOVE OVER




Or speed up
at night i do pull over but in the mornings (ruch hour) everyones sitting on my arse even tho theres a car infront of me doing the same speed! i'll be pulling over all morning i wont get to work.
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:28 PM
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swivel your rear washer jet so its directed straight at there front end and fill it with brake fluid
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I got out the car the other day as some women just couldn't take a hint to back off my arse. Once we got to the traffic lights i got out and yelled at her. A Indian bird that could hardly see over the steering wheel of her BMW
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by cheeky dog
at night i do pull over but in the mornings (ruch hour) everyones sitting on my arse even tho theres a car infront of me doing the same speed! i'll be pulling over all morning i wont get to work.

Agree with you there mate, I was only joking.

The washer jet one is a great idea though angle one slightly higher
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Luca
Agree with you there mate, I was only joking.

The washer jet one is a great idea though angle one slightly higher
deffo seems the best thing to do, not sure about filling with brake fluid or other damaging chemicals....
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Originally Posted by Luca
Its easy MOVE OVER




Or speed up
I've never been tailgated when either of those are possible!
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Originally Posted by Luca
Its easy MOVE OVER




Or speed up
i agree, tailgating is someone telling you that your going too fucking slow..alos move over to the fucking left on the motorway as its the same drivers who complain about tailgaters that drive in the middle lane

MOVE THE FUCK OVER OR SPEED THE FUCK UP,,,, if you wanna drive at the speed limit please do so BEHIND ME !!!
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:39 PM
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i was in my nans 1.3 auto micra 5 door with 3 missing wheel trims tootling along on a country road and some chavvy little corsa shot right up behind me, he was there for a while untill i got sick of him and floored it, he couldnt keep up round the corners because he was shit(the micra was only on 165's, he had alloys on) he ended up spinning his car round on a corner, bell end haha
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Ginge !
i agree, tailgating is someone telling you that your going too fucking slow..alos move over to the fucking left on the motorway as its the same drivers who complain about tailgaters that drive in the middle lane

MOVE THE FUCK OVER OR SPEED THE FUCK UP,,,, if you wanna drive at the speed limit please do so BEHIND ME !!!

Stupid cunt


if you tailgated me when there was no room to move because you wanted to go faster you get a smack of the puss with my jack handle
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ps. Can you tell I dont like tailgaters.......
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Old Mar 18, 2009 | 10:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Ginge !
i agree, tailgating is someone telling you that your going too fucking slow..alos move over to the fucking left on the motorway as its the same drivers who complain about tailgaters that drive in the middle lane

MOVE THE FUCK OVER OR SPEED THE FUCK UP,,,, if you wanna drive at the speed limit please do so BEHIND ME !!!
how long till someone said that?

dude i dont use the motorway on my way to work, just normall roads full of cars, pavements full of kids going to school, who the fook is the prick behind me to tell me im going to slow when the fucking traffic is moving at the same speed as me, you get past me you'll be doing the same speed just one car length ahead! makes no sense

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