Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

bugslet

Actually I like it:o, it toddles along at erm, quite fast, dogs are cosy in it and when it dies it's so cheap that I can just get it squashed.

But I understand being 'outdone' by the Multipla:p

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

I've adopted a couple of the practices since. The two I find most helpful are "tyres and tarmac": ensuring that you can see both the tyres of the car in front and some tarmac. This means if the car in front breaks down, stops or gets stuck, there's always room to move around without manouvering.

Downside is that some idiot decides to pull in between you and the car in front.


I sometimes ignore a queue of traffic at turn offs, if I know that the turn off opens into 2 lanes immediately before the exit and I'm taking the right fork of the exit. M25 anti-clockwise junction onto the M4 westbound does this. Particularly good example as most of the M4 exit traffic is taking the left fork to heathrow/ central London. I don't do it in the reverse direction because I want the left fork on the M25 exit off the eastbound M4.

michaels

Don't forget our multipla (where it is not too dented to tell) is beige...good thing is on the inside it doesn't matter what the outside looks like

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

Downside is that some idiot decides to pull in between you and the car in front.


I sometimes ignore a queue of traffic at turn offs, if I know that the turn off opens into 2 lanes immediately before the exit and I'm taking the right fork of the exit. M25 anti-clockwise junction onto the M4 westbound does this. Particularly good example as most of the M4 exit traffic is taking the left fork to heathrow/ central London. I don't do it in the reverse direction because I want the left fork on the M25 exit off the eastbound M4.

Not sure I'm with you on this one - the M25 exit slip doesn't really become 2 lanes until after it detaches form the M25 proper so it is quite hard to get in even before you are unlucky and everyone is heading west...but that lane does tend to bunch so there is always plenty of room to pull in nearer the exit than the queue stars forming....

Whereas off the M4 I think most people are heading N so it is pretty easy to get into the second turn off lane and then into the N bound one....

bugslet

silvercar wrote: »

Downside is that some idiot decides to pull in between you and the car in front.
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Aha, you know what it is like to drive a truck now. Apart from the whole 44 tonne business.

Wheezy_2

michaels wrote: »

Don't forget our multipla (where it is not too dented to tell) is beige...good thing is on the inside it doesn't matter what the outside looks like

True, true....

fc123

lemonjelly wrote: »

Lydia gets it!:D:D:D:D:D
(I think we have discussed it before?)

I know now too

Spirit_2

I do not join the end of the queue to come off the slip road on my way to work but nip in so that I can take the RH lane. Most of the queue wants to turn left and I am not sitting in a 1/4 mile of traffic waiting for multiple changes of traffic lights.

'anti social mode off'

silvercar

Do people buy extended car warranties?

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

Do people buy extended car warranties?

Is that a new car thing? I've never been offered one for a second hand car.

Do any of the NP know how funding works when kids who live in one county go to school in a neighbouring county? I don't need to know for myself, but it's come up in conversations in the playground at my kids' school.