Dash cam thread (car videos only)

Falcon L · 20-08-2017 04:51PM

Deleted User wrote: »

What would you do if the brakes fail on your car.
A: get it towed to a garage.
B: carry on regardless.

This driver chose the second option. :eek
https://www.facebook.com/dashcamnetwork/videos/1894793224100799/

Many, many years ago I chose the second option when the brake pipe broke on my Morris 1100. No fancy schmancy dual braking systems back then. I drove from near Limerick to Clontarf in Dublin without a hint of a brake... not even a handbrake, that never worked anyway.

I got home without a bother using the gearbox and the ignition switch. Different times back then.

neris · 20-08-2017 04:54PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFwnmh0GpBo

20-08-2017 05:04PM

Falcon L wrote: »

Many, many years ago I chose the second option when the brake pipe broke on my Morris 1100. No fancy schmancy dual braking systems back then. I drove from near Limerick to Clontarf in Dublin without a hint of a brake... not even a handbrake, that never worked anyway.

I got home without a bother using the gearbox and the ignition switch. Different times back then.

I had the opposite problem once, a blocked vent on the master cylinder meant that brakes stayed on if pressed. I had a long journey to get back to the garage so drove gently to avoid braking as it would take several minutes to free up. By the time I reached the garage, the wheels were smoking!

Mr Snow · 20-08-2017 05:40PM

20-08-2017 06:02PM

Probably still uploading.

georgefalls · 21-08-2017 09:37AM

neris wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFwnmh0GpBo

Anyone else notice the blonde with the pushchair at 01:49

AndyBoBandy · 21-08-2017 10:35AM

2 odd captures from the last few weeks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wEPteR7FkA

inforfun · 21-08-2017 10:52AM

You went all the way to Lithuania?

AndyBoBandy · 21-08-2017 11:07AM

inforfun wrote: »

You went all the way to Lithuania?

I did indeed.

neris · 21-08-2017 11:20AM

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

I did indeed.

car park in Ozas, Vilnius in 1st clip?

AndyBoBandy · 21-08-2017 11:23AM

neris wrote: »

car park in Ozas, Vilnius in 1st clip?

Saules miestas in Siauliai

neris · 21-08-2017 11:25AM

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Saules miestas in Siauliai

surprised you didnt come home with a load more videos of dodgy driving from over there

AndyBoBandy · 21-08-2017 11:40AM

neris wrote: »

surprised you didnt come home with a load more videos of dodgy driving from over there

I actually had 2 good ones, but the camera was acting up a few times!!

1 was while driving out to Palanga, a car in front went for the classic overtake into oncoming traffic, forcing a car coming the opposite way into the shoulder/dirt!

Mr Snow · 21-08-2017 05:22PM

Mr Snow · 21-08-2017 05:58PM

Isambard · 21-08-2017 06:05PM

Mr Snow wrote: »

that's a pedestrian crossing as evidenced by the flashing light, it's ok to turn right I assume as they haven't passed the red light

Mr Snow · 21-08-2017 06:07PM

Isambard wrote: »

that's a pedestrian crossing as evidenced by the flashing light, it's ok to turn right I assume as they haven't passed the red light

what about the second one pass me out

khamilto · 21-08-2017 06:17PM

Mr Snow wrote: »

what about the second one pass me out

They didn't proceed past the red light. They turned right before red.

Isambard · 21-08-2017 06:39PM

looks like you stopped before the box when you there was room for you to pass through it and then stop at the crossing. I can see where confusion would come from though.

Riva10 · 21-08-2017 07:23PM

khamilto wrote: »

They didn't proceed past the red light. They turned right before red.

Last time I read the rules of the road, it said that it was illegal to overtake on a continuous white line. Must have read it wrong.

Isambard · 21-08-2017 08:01PM

we mostly all do illegal things every time we drive, this guy went around a stationery vehicle that maybe shouldn't have stopped there.

andy69 · 21-08-2017 08:15PM

Watch for the guy in the white i40 stopped at the lights - must have zoned out and then suddenly caught sight of OUR green light and thought it was for him!

Ye can't hear the horn really, but he was blasting it at the Focus and pointing up to the traffic light as if it was his green! :eek:

Had to drop the clip's volume to zero for the last few seconds....I used a few naughty words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H1W4jkFv9w

argolis · 22-08-2017 07:58AM

First dashcam video :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8xzwh25W7E

OldMrBrennan83 · 22-08-2017 08:28AM

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Carpentry · 22-08-2017 09:51AM

andy69 wrote: »

Watch for the guy in the white i40 stopped at the lights - must have zoned out and then suddenly caught sight of OUR green light and thought it was for him!

Ye can't hear the horn really, but he was blasting it at the Focus and pointing up to the traffic light as if it was his green! :eek:

Had to drop the clip's volume to zero for the last few seconds....I used a few naughty words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H1W4jkFv9w

People always complain about audi and bmw drivers, where I see more dikcs in hyundais these days

punisher5112 · 22-08-2017 09:55AM

Carpentry wrote: »

People always complain about audi and bmw drivers, where I see more dikcs in hyundais these days

That's because they believe they look like unmarked garda vehicle's.

Carpentry · 22-08-2017 10:08AM

punisher5112 wrote: »

That's because they believe they look like unmarked garda vehicle's.

Its not that, or maybe it is, but my observations are that they will never let you merge into the traffic in front of them, they will break the lights, drive dangerously, every morning on m50 I can count 20 hyundais driving recklessly. Maybe they are more visible, because they are mostly white ? But as I said, my observations only.

Isambard · 22-08-2017 10:33AM

OSI wrote: »

The line the OP stopped at is the junction entry point and the lights are for the junction. The jeep ran a red light.

you're wrong, it's clearly a pedestrian crossing because the amber light flashes.

fancy pigeon · 22-08-2017 10:39AM

argolis wrote: »

First dashcam video :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8xzwh25W7E

Is your second clip here?

Where there seems to be an accident every other day...

khamilto · 22-08-2017 10:57AM

OSI wrote: »

The line the OP stopped at is the junction entry point and the lights are for the junction. The jeep ran a red light.

It isn't a junction. There are no signs for it to be a junction from the direction OP drove from. There is a stop line but not a stop sign, the traffic lights are past the yellow box and thus can only apply to going straight on.

If there was a stop line and stop sign, the car would have broken the law by not stopping before proceeding.

If there were traffic lights on the OP's side of the junction, the car would have run a red light.

As is, they overtook a stationary car and turned right - all legally (at least as far as I'm aware it's ok to overtake on a single white line to pass a stationary vehicle).

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