Confrontation with reckless driver

DUTR

darkmatter101 wrote: »

Also I meant to add that it was wrong for the van to try and overtake you. It is wrong for most cars on the road (moderately powered 2 liter diesels and petrol's and everything below) to try and overtake because they simply do not have the power to do so in a quick enough time.

If you do not have enough room to overtake, or even if you do...DO NOT.

It's not about power and engine size alone though, gearing comes into it too, my old Bedford CF unladen was as quick as many cars off the mark, and I know some vans will give a run for the money to many cars, especially parked or nearly parked ones.

darkmatter101

DUTR wrote: »

It's not about power and engine size alone though, gearing comes into it too, my old Bedford CF unladen was as quick as many cars off the mark, and I know some vans will give a run for the money to many cars, especially parked or nearly parked ones.

I'm sorry but if you think your Bedford CF is as quick as my M3 off the line let alone a typical Honda Civic then you are HIGHLY mistaken. LOL no van has any chance against my M3, that is an utter joke.

And yes, when overtaking it's all about power and engine size. Unless you have the 2 litre Honda S2000 or Type R or those turbo charged 2 litre Subaru/mitsubishi evo or the newer BMW F30 turbocharged 2 litre engines. Its all about the HP.

Car_54

darkmatter101 wrote: »

Its all about the HP.

No it isn't. It's about the power/weight ratio.

sunshine1980

I have just had an email from a friend who works in a law firm and she has spoken to a police station representative who says I have nothing to worry about as there was no damage or threats and the Police would only come out if it was very serious. I am hoping that will be the end of it now.

Thank you to everyone for replying and as I have said previously I will not ever do anything as stupid again. It is so not worth the hassle although I admit in doing what I did after the driver overtook me I am the author of my own misfortune. In future will just keep calm and carry on.

Idiophreak

Some people always think they know better.

On my way to work, there's a long row of parked cars, enough space for one car to pass...Then the road narrows again it's again single width. I could see that the cars in front of me were going to use up all the free space (between the parked cars and the road narrowing), so waited....pulled out from the kerb, lights on, clearly waiting to go etc...and that's when El Knobbo the van driver decide's I'm obviously just sat there for the hell of it.

So then I had to sit...and wait...while he drove all the way down the row of parked cars...then sit...and wait....as he realised there was nowhere for his van to evaporate to...and then sit...and wait...while he reversed half the way back (fortunately for him, a car had moved in the meantime...). Then wait for the huge queue of traffic he'd caused at the other end to come through...added a good 6 or 7 minutes to my journey in the end.

I'm not a violent person, but it's honestly the closest I've come to getting out and strangling the other person. Just *such* a bell end.

BeenThroughItAll

darkmatter101 wrote: »

Also I meant to add that it was wrong for the van to try and overtake you. It is wrong for most cars on the road (moderately powered 2 liter diesels and petrol's and everything below) to try and overtake because they simply do not have the power to do so in a quick enough time.

If you do not have enough room to overtake, or even if you do...DO NOT.

You don't half talk some tosh don't you.

I regularly safely overtake other vehicles in my DIESEL (yes, dirty, smelly diesel) Volvo ESTATE, perfectly safely and without incident.

I have overtaken many vehicles in the last 20 years in all of the cars, vans, motorhomes, and minibuses I've driven; again all without compromising safety and without incident.

Now, before you go on about power and your M3 again, alongside a number of 'moderately powered' petrol and diesel workhorses from manufacturers as diverse as Citroen, Kia, Volvo, Saab, Skoda, Ford, Rover, Toyota, Honda, and Fiat, I've been fortunate enough to have owned an E36 M3 Evolution, an E39 M5, an Audi S8, and various Jap Turbo Nutter !!!!!!!s, and whilst I concur that with greater power you can overtake more cars, more quickly, in smaller gaps, your assertion that overtaking should be something reserved for bell-ends in fast cars is simply ludicrous.

DUTR

darkmatter101 wrote: »

I'm sorry but if you think your Bedford CF is as quick as my M3 off the line let alone a typical Honda Civic then you are HIGHLY mistaken. LOL no van has any chance against my M3, that is an utter joke.

And yes, when overtaking it's all about power and engine size. Unless you have the 2 litre Honda S2000 or Type R or those turbo charged 2 litre Subaru/mitsubishi evo or the newer BMW F30 turbocharged 2 litre engines. Its all about the HP.

Do you even know what a Bedford CF is?
I don't think M3's were around then, in fact mine was only 3 forward gears.
And they done a 3 litre one too.
As for some of these japanese cars you mention, you already know you have to really wind them up to get them to go, there was an article on top gear about the scooby, until the turbo spooled up, it was tame and embarrasing. The civic's were not far behind either.

BeenThroughItAll

darkmatter101 wrote: »

LOL no van has any chance against my M3, that is an utter joke.

Oh yeah?


http://www.greatbritishsportscars.net/xj220-transit-van/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Supervan

Strider590

sunshine1980 wrote: »

Although I think the other driver would not tell the Police I was carrying an offensive weapon I do realise that he could really say anything to the Police, exaggerate it etc. Or could ask someone to say they were a witness. Also, and I am not saying everyone plays the race card, but he was asian so he could also say I made some racist mark which I know the Police would take very seriously. I did no such thing but he could exaggerate what was said/happened.

I hate to say it, but you've just answered a lot of questions with that one single word.

You see in many Asian cultures, they will smile if they've done something wrong. it's an embarrassed smile. Especially common in India..... A chap I used to work with explained this to me as something he had to "unlearn" when he came to the UK.

They're also bloody terrible drivers, but again this is cultural, driving standards over there are awful, then they come to this country, can't pass their UK driving test and so a friend/family takes it for them. They don't consider this to be "wrong" because to them it's not.

The powers that be love having them here for cheap labour, but they don't love helping them to integrate properly.

You want to try driving around Birmingham, combine a complex road system with people who can't read road signs/markings and it's complete mayhem.

Idiophreak

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Oh yeah?


http://www.greatbritishsportscars.net/xj220-transit-van/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Supervan

Great. Now can you post the link for when your daddy fought his daddy?