The 100 Greatest Annoyances in Motoring

Jimmy Bottles

Let me kick off the list. Shouldn't be long reaching 100.

1. Prepay fuel pumps. Some of us like to top it up to the brim so that we can workout miles per gallon quite easily. More than that, if you pay for more than can fit in your tank, you lose the extra you've paid for. I see more and more stations doing this because of drive offs.

2. People who enter car parks and try to park in the very first spot they see, even though half the car park is virtually empty. Holds up everyone trying to enter the car park and cause huge tailbacks trying to get in. At busy times, you'll often see attendants stopping people from doing this so that tailbacks don't form.

Jonty

3. non use of indicators
4. lack of knowledge on how to drive on roundabouts

Karl Stein

5. Tailgating morons.

mags1962

6. not overtaking in the over taking lanes

6 Hogging overtaking lane on Motorways.

toastedpickles

7 Self entitlement and people driving in my lane :pac:

Owryan

8. So what if its a 100kmph road, i ll drive at 50 and hog the white line if i want to.

BMJD

35. everyone else

wandatowell

9. People stopped in those yellow box junctions. Holding up traffic trying to cross it.

10. People who decide to park right next to me in a car park when there are dozens upon dozens of empty spaces available elsewhere.

11. People who speed down the overtaking lane then suddenly barge into the left hand side lane to reach exit.

12. People who are timid drivers who lack the assertiveness required when driving.

13. Pig parkers.

(11/12 may contradict eachother) :P

Rabbo

14. Parents pushing their children in buggies out onto the road first as a buffer between them and the traffic

joujoujou

15. No lights while poor visibility.

btkm8unsl0w5r4

16: Cost of Motor Tax in Ireland

naughtysmurf

Bad parking for me, those that can't seem to park within an ass's roar of the center of the two fecking white lines in a carpark, it's pure ignorant too imo

Daaryl

People swinging doors open in car parks and hitting the car next to them!

bazz26

Fog lights on when there is no fog, no lights at all, blinding blue or pure white lights.

JMSE

Parents reversing their children in buggies out onto the road

Comhrá

People failing to notice the lights have gone green because they're looking down at their mobile phones :mad::mad::mad:

jprboy

Let's reboot the numbering system :P

22. You are at or even above the speed limit, someone comes racing up behind you, roars past and then turns off 100 metres later

First Up

Cars with broken lights.

jprboy

24. The Detailing Forum for making me feel so inadequate

Noccy_Mondy

25. People thinking drl's are acceptable lighting in the night time, eh clue is in the title.

26. People who take forever to dim their lights or just don't dim them until you do something about it.

27. People on back roads who blatently refuse to reverse to a place to pull in, they just stick to the road!

messy tessy

tippman1 wrote: »

People failing to notice the lights have gone green because they're looking down at their mobile phones :mad::mad::mad:

28. People who beep at you because you haven't managed to take off like Jenson Button the split second the light turns green :mad::mad::mad::mad:

messy tessy

messy tessy wrote: »

28. People who beep at you because you haven't managed to take off like Jenson Button the split second the light turns green :mad::mad::mad::mad:

29 People putting the foot down on an Orange light.

Comhrá

Drivers who wait till they're half-way through a turn maneuver before thinking to putting on an indicator. Grrr....

Hal1

30 Lack of enforced driver education.

Roanmore

31 Queue of traffic, some guy decides to do a u turn, starts his 3 point turn but the guy behind fills up the space preventing them from doing it.

unkel

32. DMF, DPF and other failed new technologies that cost a fortune to fix every few years when they break down again

@messy tessy - wake TF up

bd2012

33- Brake first, indicate later.

messy tessy

hey unkel

Calm TF down!

Littlehorny

No. 34 People who can clearly see you coming on a straight bit of road, wait a couple of seconds then pull out in front of you when you are about 20 to 30 yards away forcing you to brake hard enough then proceed to drive at about 14 mph.

Del2005

People turning right in a car either swinging left first or not hugging the middle of the road to allow others proceed when the road is wide enough

Jimmy Bottles

36. When pedestrians push the button at pedestrian crossings. They then cross the road while still on red. The crossing then turns green and all the traffic is held up when there are no pedestrians in sights.

Worse than this of course is when certain types press pedestrian crossing buttons for no reason but to hold up traffic. (Seen it numerous times).

messy tessy

Jimmy Bottles wrote: »

Worse than this of course is when certain types press pedestrian crossing buttons for no reason but to hold up traffic. (Seen it numerous times).

The motoring version of knock-a-dolly?! :P

Fandango

37. People who think going over a speed bump any faster 0.05mph will cause their car to explode.

Shimmy Jimmy CocoPop

38. When your head gasket goes kaput

Roanmore

Fandango wrote: »

37. People who think going over a speed bump any faster 0.05mph will cause their car to explode.

And then accelerate hard to the next one before slamming on the brakes.

The Royal Scam

People who drive at 70kmh on the N road with a tailback behind them, then get to a 50kmh speed limit in a village but continue at 70....

Bruthal

Drivers doing a maximum 80kph down ramps onto motorways.

Drivers putting full beams back on just before they pass you.

The Royal Scam

The Royal Scam wrote: »

People who drive at 70kmh on the N road with a tailback behind them, then get to a 50kmh speed limit in a village but continue at 70....

my number 1 hate..

43. People with no patience

Tea drinker

Littlehorny wrote: »

No. 34 People who can clearly see you coming on a straight bit of road, wait a couple of seconds then pull out in front of you when you are about 20 to 30 yards away forcing you to brake hard enough then proceed to drive at about 14 mph.

I call this manoever the "Pull out 'N Park" Seriously what are they thinking... pull out then run out of ideas or the will to live?

TheQuietFella

People who put their children into child car seats whilst standing 'in' the road, door wide open & not on the footpath!

downonthefarm

50. Bloody women using their phones driving.
I see men at it too.but by far women are the worst offenders imo.

Alanvtec

44. People who pull up to a busy petrol station pump and don't get fuel but do a whole weeks worth of shopping!!

messy tessy

downonthefarm wrote: »

50. Bloody women using their phones driving.
I see men at it too.but by far women are the worst offenders imo.

Hey hey! Let's keep it gender neutral please!

50. Drivers using their phones

hoodie6029

47. People being asses to L drivers and L Drivers when they are clearly on a lesson.

48. Not merging like a zip. 'I think I'll try to merge here, 300 metres before my lane ends'

49. People who let lane jumpers in. Drive on and leave the b*****ds where they are.

Rob Thomas

51. Drivers who stop in the middle of the street/road to let you out of a side road and don't check their mirrors and as a result don't realise there is bloody no one behind them and they could have just kept going! Usually they make an impatient gesture indicating to you to pull out quickly, as if you are holding them up!

Shimmy Jimmy CocoPop

People who think the width of their cars/jeeps are that of a Hummer and cant drive through a perfectly simple and wide gap.

hoodie6029

The next one should be no. 52 people!

Odyssey 2005

Del2005 wrote: »

People turning right in a car either swinging left first or not hugging the middle of the road to allow others proceed when the road is wide enough

These fookers have an imaginary trailer. Didn't you know that.

ProudDUB

52. Drivers who don't seem to know or care that one of their front lights is not working properly, or at all. You only realize how many of the muppets are out there, when the hour goes back and its dark at rush hour now. I mean....when these idiots are driving on dark roads, with little or no street lights, how can they not be aware that only one side of their car is illuminating the road?

Fandango

53. Cyclists who use the road instead of the cycle lane...which, when it was built, made the road more narrow to begin with! Does my nut in!