'Tailgating'

Integra

This is something that really annoys me! Why do ppl insist on coming up the a*se of my car???? Is it supposed to make me go quicker or what?? I end up just pulling over.... Do be nearly afraid to use the brakes incase they hit me! What idiots!

Does this happen to anyone else?

C_Breeze

they do it for you to either go quicker or move out of the way.
I never do it ,unless some twat/twatess is driving in the fast lane on motorway at 60 mph when other lane is free and is not overtaking.


edit: also juding by your name , if u actually do drive an integra , they're most probably asking for a race

Turner

Why is this in modified motors ?

C_Breeze

Chief--- wrote:

Why is this in modified motors ?

maybe some cap wearing guy in a civic did it to him ,lol

Integra

lol, it was a civic! Sorry, should really be in motors tho

I dont drive an Integra haha and I dont race

C_Breeze

Integra wrote:

lol, it was a civic! Sorry, should really be in motors tho

I dont drive an Integra haha and I dont race

yeah , he was most probably lookin for a race then.
always happens to me too.

edit: what colour was the civic and was it saloon or hatchback?

my friend has one , and is literally always doin that crap - i do warn him though.

Integra

It was a dark green hatchback.... Well he wont get a race then lol

C_Breeze

wasnt him so , but if a silver saloon 1.6Vti does that to ya , let me know ,lol

Integra

haha I will.... so many civics about tho!! Some are real nice I have to say!

Max_Damage

I hate tailgaters, I find though the main offenders of tailgating are vans and trucks. I encounter it alot on the roads conisdering I'm not a fast driver. Sometimes I give them the 'braking treatment', usually I pull in and let them pass.

AMurphy

Integra wrote:

This is something that really annoys me! Why do ppl insist on coming up the a*se of my car???? Is it supposed to make me go quicker or what?? I end up just pulling over.... Do be nearly afraid to use the brakes incase they hit me! What idiots!

Does this happen to anyone else?

Better to just let them go by and bother someone else.
if there is no way of letting them past, increase the distance between you and the car in front, caus if there is a reason to stop, your tailgator does not see it until later, by which time they are in your rear seat. So you need more distance for THEM to stop.

worst is where someone is sitting on your tail, you pull over to let them past and they refuse to go past.....

JohnCleary

Generally a light tip of the brake pedal will fix this*

* I do not condone asking-for-an-accident, but on my car, as soon as you touch the brake pedal the brake light comes on, without actually applying the braking system

peckerhead

You could also flick your fog lights on and off. For the first few minutes they'll think you're hitting the brakes....:D

Max_Damage

peckerhead wrote:

You could also flick your fog lights on and off. For the first few minutes they'll think you're hitting the brakes....:D

I LIKE IT!

hargo

whats the fast lane of the motorway?

Lump Basher

hargo wrote:

whats the fast lane of the motorway?

He means the overtaking lane, but he never read the 'Rules of the Road' book, so he calls is "the fast lane".

hargo

whats the fast lane of the motorway?

Lump Basher

hargo wrote:

whats the fast lane of the motorway?

I already answered you, so chill out with the double posts, yeah?

C_Breeze

its the overtaking lane ( i call it the fast lane) ..but anyway, you get my point.
as i said i dont condone this behaviour, but when you are travelling on the M50 at 2am and there's some tard driving in the overtaking lane at 60mph , i just can help my self.
the awareness of some drivers in this country is appauling.


when i was coming back from a nightclub with another freind one night it was 3am and nobody on the motorway and he was driving on the overtaking lane the whole way , i questioned him about it (even while drunk i noticed this)...to which he replied "who cares, theres no-one else on the road" typical mentality of most irish drivers .

-this gets worse though in the afternoon when on the M50 two cars are driving parallel to each other at exactly the same speed !! -now you have to admit this gets to you!!! ......outta me way ya bleedin Muppeh'! j/k

C_Breeze

Lump Basher wrote:

He means the overtaking lane, but he never read the 'Rules of the Road' book, so he calls is "the fast lane".

by the way, easy on the acusations there sunshine.

hargo

sorry about double post i didn't know it had gone

Our man in Havana

If some c*nt is tailgating me I just drive slower to p*ss them off. I wouldn't mind but I drive at a reasonable speed.

stratos

Tailgating is just stupid and shortens your view into the future.
I can really understand the above posts it's amazing the way people do it.
A guy pulled out in front of me the other day it was a close call, I gave him a gentle beep on the horn, and darned if he didn't brake test me, just slammed on for no reason.
Luckily i had stayed well back.

Another thing (i'm ranting) I see this all the time, someone wants to overtake the car in front of them so they tailgate then pull out.
This has 2 effects they can't really see ahead of them, and it forces the manouvre to start at the lead cars speed.
Instead of holding back where you can see the road and start to accelerate before overtaking, this puts you on the wrong side of the road for the shortest time.
sorry rant over

TempestSabre

A few years ago I had a taxi pull out in front of me from a side road causing me to emergency brake. Blew the horn, and he reversed at me, and got out challenging me! My passenger convinced me not to get out and wup the nut. Reported him to cops, and had the person behind as witness. The cops came and took a statement but that was last I heard of it.

Had another one tailgate me, pulled in let them buy and he pulled and started tailgating me again. I dunno what it is with those morons.

samo

I was tailgated yesterday driving through citywest by a lady in a red Mazda 323 who literally drove so close to me I thought I was towing her car. The really dodgy thing about it was that she had a child of about 5 perched in the middle of the driver/passenger seat on the armrest who I kept on seeing trying to reach for the steering wheel :eek:

She had no concept of a safe driving distance and when I ended up pulling in to let her past she proceeded to do the same to the next person in front and actually accelerated to catch up with them!

She was scarier than any boy racer ever tailgating me !!!

alias no.9

The best way to piss off a tailgator is to give a spray of the windscreen washer, the spray will fly back over your car onto their windscreen. It's good fun to look at their faces as they reach to put on their own wipers.

Our man in Havana

Your washer jets must be very badly adjusted?

PaulKK

What gets on my nerves is if your in a line of traffic, say on a road
with a limit of 80km/h, doing 80km/h, and some twat is tailgaiting you.

What i've also experianced in the same situation is such pricks overtaking
me into the gap I've left between myself and the next car. WTF!!??

I'd love to know what they think they're going to achieve??

Anybody else experiance this?

stovelid

Although its annoying, i always try and get and get out of their way ASAP. Its better to haver the muppets ahead of you than behind you and with any luck, they end up in a crash further ahead.

BrianD3

Many of these tailgaters are just braindead zombies driving along on autopilot. They are not thinking about the act of driving and are staring at the patch of road 2 feet in front of their car. They haven't a clue about what speed they're doing, speed limits, stopping distances etc. They just travel along at a "comfortable speed" or at whatever speed the car they're tailgating is going at. They don't overtake even when they have perfect opportunities. They are the sort of driver who will travel at 45 mph on a motorway and 45 mph through a 30 mph zone and the same speed in fog. They don't turn their lights on in fog either but if they do the rear fog light will still be on 6 months later

Kersh

Hmm, tailgating on windy single lane roads bugs me too. But on motorways, like the m50, tailgating is practically a neccessity. Since I saw this thread back on the 1st page I thought i'd take some mental notes on my way to work today. -
I got on m50 at 12pm, at Ballymun, I got off at Clondalkin. In this short space of road, I was about 4 car lengths behind a small van. He left a gap to the car in front of him, (8 to 10 car legth)- he had no less than 7 cars jumped into that space (4 bmws, 1 saab, a vito van, an A4). He kept having to drop back to maintain the gap, and then another would 'literally' dive into the gap again (as they themselves came up behind some idiot doing 45 in the left lane, but thats another story altogether). I find this 'diving' nearly as annoying as Gt turbos tacked to my rear bumper...But i do honestly think road manners in this contry are pure sh1te, so I stay 4 car lengths behind anyone on the m50, as its safer than some idiot diving into a small gap, making you brake, like the guy in the van today.

Lol, just read BrianD3 s post, so right.....

alias no.9

Bond-007 wrote:

Your washer jets must be very badly adjusted?

Not at all, the water has to go somewhere once the wipers have done their job and most of it goes over the roof of your car and falls to the ground normally but if you're being tailgated, its going to hit the tailgators windscreen before gravity can take it down.

alias no.9

@ Kersh, I think we've had this discussion before and I'm not going to debate it at length again but when a car moves left from in front of you, what do you do?

I'll hazard a guess that you'll close up on the next car but feel free to correct me.

So when a car wants to move into the overtaking lane to overtake slow moving traffic in the left lane and you're in a line of traffic in the overtaking lane, why is it such a chore to fall back a little and let them? Surely that's good road manners. The reality is that unless they're exiting from the exact same slip road and going the same direction at the junction at the top of the slip road, them being in front of you for a few miles makes no difference what so ever to your journey once they're keeping up with the traffic in front of them. Hell, they might even demonstrate the type of manners you declare them to be lacking and move straight back into the left hand lane once passed the slow moving traffic.

Kersh

I can tell the difference between a driver and a chancer. Of the 7 cars today, 4 pulled back into the slow lane, undertook, then moved back into the fast lane, this is weaving... and these are the ones who jump gaps. The normal driver who wants to get out will indicate.... then I drop back and let him in... cos he has manners. But until someone indicates I wont drop back. As for what i do when someone pulls left, it depends, sometimes ill pull in to left lane after him. Or else ill crawl up to the car in front and take my journey from there. I stay in left lane if the traffic is quick enough, but it rarely is on m50...in the left lane.

C_Breeze

funny story , i was coming home from college goin onto the M50 from ballymun southbound. I was doing reasonable speed down the slip road and some guy in a focus saloon was right up my ass down the slip rd! - i found this funny so i just floored it a bit and he tried too keep up , so then i just floored properly and left him behind(my cars wayy faster) , but 2 mins later i slowed down again and he tries to overtake me in the overtaking lane and gives me the finger, only to get stuck behind a car on the overtaking lane going slowly, then i pulled up right beside him and drove at exactly the same speed as him essentailly boxing him in!
I was laughing my face off at him and the anger in his face was hillarious!!!!:D

about a 1 min later i just gunned it again and left him for dust!! HAHA

now thats what i call enjoyable driving

morlan

Sounds like dangerous driving to me. I would have just let him pass to avoid the agro.

C_Breeze

morlan wrote:

Sounds like dangerous driving to me. I would have just let him pass to avoid the agro.

NEVER!! ...have you ever heard of 1up-manship?

alias no.9

Kersh wrote:

I can tell the difference between a driver and a chancer. Of the 7 cars today, 4 pulled back into the slow lane, undertook, then moved back into the fast lane, this is weaving... and these are the ones who jump gaps. The normal driver who wants to get out will indicate.... then I drop back and let him in... cos he has manners. But until someone indicates I wont drop back. As for what i do when someone pulls left, it depends, sometimes ill pull in to left lane after him. Or else ill crawl up to the car in front and take my journey from there. I stay in left lane if the traffic is quick enough, but it rarely is on m50...in the left lane.

Fair enough, weaving bugs me too, but I find it much less stressful to ignore it or at least not worry about it because there's nothing I can do to affect their behaviour without potentially risking my own and other peoples safety.

Kersh

defo agree there alias, i just humm on down the motorway, watching the brutal lane discipline and complete lack of awareness when merging.... or leaving the m50 :rolleyes:

Integra

I hate when trucks pull out into the overtaking lane and cant build up enough speed to actually overtake, so everyhting is just slowed down

Silvera

Tailgating is my (driving) pet hate !!

Last Sunday night I was heading down the country doing just below the speed limit all of the way. Anyway, I saw a jeep tailgating/intimidating the car behind me. He overtook the car behing me and sped up to within 2 feet of my bumper - I was so pi~~ed off I can tell you :mad:
Normally I would let it go, but this time I just tirned on my rear fogs to tell him to back off.

His response ? He turned on four front fog lights/driving lights to blind me ?!!
Now I was even more pissed off, and instead of leaving my fogs on for a few seconds, I left them on for many minutes. He continued to blind me (and oncoming cars!).

I switched my fogs off after c.2-3 mins and dropped my speed from 100k to about 60k (this was on a 100k road) to annoy him even more.

(After another few mins he had the chance to overtake me and did so).

I'm normally a placid driver but sometimes the idiots out there just get to you!!

toffeapple

Kersh wrote:

I can tell the difference between a driver and a chancer

hmmmmm.....so what are you then? if you think there is ever any justification for tailgating you just plain wrong...i agree with you about the manners...with progressive and curtieous driving a lot of congestion would be reduced..but tailgating is never good...you cant make the excuse that other people are bad drivers therefore i wont let them in front!!

Kersh

Watch me... Seriously though, I have tried the mannerly approach, but i end up getting annoyed. Its a fact of life today, people are way more ignorant, so i just return the compliment.
On back roads its a different story , standard safety applies then, but defo not on the m50.... ever.

Funxy

I find alot of the roads have plenty of space for the driver to stay to the left of the road to enable a safe overtaking move. I really wish more people would do this. Since the 80k on some roads came in i often find myself going along at 75km on roads with 100km speeds. As far as i see it whenever someone comes up behind me and if the road is a good one i will always pull to the side of the road and not stay on the white line as most cars do. If the person behind is going faster then me then excellent as he'll go by and ill have a clear road again behind and in front, i would greatly appriciate anyone who does this for me and the way i see it is we're all happy then

pontovic

I never tailgate, but one thing that gets me is people who drive at 80kmh in a 100kmh speed limit zone. They just dawdle along oblivious to the people they're holding up. I would overtake, but when you're driving a 10 year old vw polo, you need about a miles clearance to do a safe manouver. These cars simply aren't powerful enough

johnnyrotten

Silvera wrote:

He turned on four front fog lights/driving lights to blind me ?!!

What are Front Fog Lights/Driving Lights? Front Fog Lights are Just that "Front Fog Lights ie. for FOG!

Silvera wrote:

Now I was even more pissed off, and instead of leaving my fogs on for a few seconds, I left them on for many minutes. He continued to blind me (and oncoming cars!).

That makes you as bad as him. You were blinding other cars too. When are people going to learn that Fog lights are for FOG! Think yourself lucky the Gardai were'nt around. You could have found yourself in hot water too. Don't get me wrong the Guy tailgating you was totally wrong but as the saying goes " Two Wrongs don't make a Right!"

Mr E

Saw a typical tailgating incident this morning. Cars were pretty very close together, driving at 60kph. I got to a roundabout, started slowing down, and heard a crunch a couple of cars behind me. I saw the back bumper of the car 2 behind be disintegrate in my rear view mirror. I was lucky there wasn't a knock-on...

johnnyrotten

Only a fool breaks the 2 second rule!

http://www.getinlane.com/page92.php

smarty

pontovic wrote:

I never tailgate, but one thing that gets me is people who drive at 80kmh in a 100kmh speed limit zone. They just dawdle along oblivious to the people they're holding up. I would overtake, but when you're driving a 10 year old vw polo, you need about a miles clearance to do a safe manouver. These cars simply aren't powerful enough

100 km/h is the maximum speed limit. People don't have to drive at that speed. I personally don't always drive at the speed limit. I drive at a speed that I feel comfortable.

When I drive on the motorway I sometimes cruise at 90 - 100km/h even though there is a 120km/h speed limit. I just make sure that I drive in the left lane. If someone wants to overtake me then they can move into the overtaking lane and do so.

What does irritate me is when someone sits in the overtaking lane at about 100km/h and doesn't move out of the way when someone is behind them. Most drivers don't realise that the overtaking lane should only be used for overtaking.

Big Balls

PaulKK wrote:

What gets on my nerves is if your in a line of traffic, say on a road
with a limit of 80km/h, doing 80km/h, and some twat is tailgaiting you.

Such an ignorant attitude. Just because you are doing the speed limit does not give you the right of way to stay in the overtaking lane :rolleyes:

JohnCleary

Big Balls wrote:

Such an ignorant attitude. Just because you are doing the speed limit does not give you the right of way to stay in the overtaking lane :rolleyes:

He didnt mention anything about an over-taking lane. I presume he was talking about a 2 lane, two way road... I think you need to read the posts in a little more detail before calling people ignorant