what is it with...

goldspanners

all learners should take the lessons in a car with the rear windows covered so they can not be used. to make them get used to using the wing mirrors.
i drive a van and have no rear windows,i rely upon my wing mirrors,they must be adjusted correctly so i can be 100% sure of whats going on around me.

rev_henry

I was always taught inside mirror, wing mirror, signal/manoevre/whatever, and that's what I usually do. Can't imagine not having wing mirrors. Although my mother said she only 'discovered' her wing mirrors after driving a while, and someone showed her how to adjust them properly. :eek:

forgotmyname

Wonder if the young lad who had an accident on the A38 last week has read this post. Came off the M6 in front of me
Up the A38 towards Gravelly Hill this joins the A38 where the Aston Expressway also exits onto the same road, The lad
in a peugeot 106 was on the left hand land i was about 3 car lengths behind in the right hand lane when he brakes briefly
then continues onto the Gravelly Hill Just as a white transit was passing.

Stop & exchange details van driver was not overly bothered it was a bit of a shed, As the lad picked bits of his mirror up
the van driver spotted how small the mirror appeared, Checked the nearside one and it was not the standard type.
Tiny little aerodynamic ones had been fitted, The van driver took photo's of the car and pointed them out to me
as proof they were not standard and severely restricted vision.

I do hope he declared them otherwise he may not be fully covered.

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rev_henry wrote: »

I was always taught inside mirror, wing mirror, signal/manoevre/whatever, and that's what I usually do. Can't imagine not having wing mirrors. Although my mother said she only 'discovered' her wing mirrors after driving a while, and someone showed her how to adjust them properly. :eek:

My car has door mirrors.:D:)

Lum

Possible explanation for this.

If a car is not fitted with electric folding mirrors, and then whilst parked some joker decides to fold them in, or a passing car gives them a whack causing them to fold in, it's possible that the driver may not notice until they actually do a mirror check. With some drivers this could be several hours after starting their journey and by then they're on the motorway and it's difficult to fold out the drivers side one and impossible to fold out the passenger side one.

Bonus points if when you do fold the mirror out, the glass is smashed. That happened to my old Volvo once, fortunately I checked before even moving the car, and immediately got to be smug that I had just lost a £5 piece of glass but the black Mazda that hit me had their entire mirror unit shatter into pieces. I only knew it was a black Mazda after I found a few pieces that when put together had Mazda written on them.

I later noticed that a fire hydrant had been knocked over and had black paint scuff marks on it. I suspect the driver was drunk.

Strider590

I think Rossy has been driving around Birmingham :rotfl:

The only city where every other sentence from my mouth becomes...

F*CKING Taxi driver's!!! :mad:
F*CKING <ethnic minority>s!!! :mad:
F*CKING WRONG LANE!!! :mad:
TURN YOUR F*CKING LIGHTS ON!!! :mad:

Lum

Strider590 wrote: »

I think Rossy has been driving around Birmingham :rotfl:
The only city where every other sentence from my mouth becomes...
F*CKING Taxi driver's!!! :mad:
F*CKING WRONG LANE!!! :mad:
TURN YOUR F*CKING LIGHTS ON!!! :mad:

Have you not driven in London then?

Or Coventry for that matter, but I guess you can count that as simply a scaled-down mini-Birmingham with all the redeeming features removed to save space.

Kilty_2

anotherbaldrick wrote: »

That's why they send out the buses from the depot with the right turn indicator fixed permanently on.

Most I come across aren't actually that bad - but this post reminded me of one I encountered that put his right indicator on as soon as he stopped - even if there were 20 people waiting to get on the bus :mad:

Gene_Hunt_2

Strider590 wrote: »

I think Rossy has been driving around Birmingham :rotfl:

The only city where every other sentence from my mouth becomes...

F*CKING Taxi driver's!!! :mad:
F*CKING <ethnic minority>s!!! :mad:
F*CKING WRONG LANE!!! :mad:
TURN YOUR F*CKING LIGHTS ON!!! :mad:

You missed F*cking Villa.;)

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Strider590 wrote: »

I think Rossy has been driving around Birmingham :rotfl:

The only city where every other sentence from my mouth becomes...

F*CKING Taxi driver's!!! :mad:
F*CKING <ethnic minority>s!!! :mad:
F*CKING WRONG LANE!!! :mad:
TURN YOUR F*CKING LIGHTS ON!!! :mad:

I wonder how many of those that you target are muttering;

F*CKING STRIDER!!!.:mad: