******* Motors Chat Thread *******

What do you guys make of this era Volvo V40?

Has been up with a while but I notice this with lots of cars.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/volvo-v40-d2-se-ed-5dr/36470002?campaign=6&modal=gallery

Was today National Dipshit Day or something?

It wasn't enough that on the way to work I had to….

• deal with a lad in a 08 5 series weaving in and out out of lanes to get ahead (side note: the unmarked 242 Octavia I encountered had no interest it seemed)
• then in the City centre (Dublin) I had a taxi driver cut me off from a left turn only lane across a junction, and then try it again a few hundred metres later when a bus was blocking him
• just after that was the Guiness truck that decided to block both lanes to let his mate out of the cab, only to then start reversing to get around another bus and nearly on top of an old man who decided to jay-walk (yes I know it's not an offence here) behind him

By the time I got into the office I was seething - not least because the trip is largely pointless anyway as I can fully WFH and am only there because they like people to be seen

Then on the way home tonight was the twat in a Golf who decided he didn't want to be overtaken and kept speeding up on the motorway every time I went to get past him.

Thank Christ I am WFH tomorrow. I was honestly ready to just quit today. I can't be dealing with this shyte several times a week, especially for no valid reason!

Yea, I've noticed that myself. Absolute insanity given the amount of kids that are also in shopping centre car parks and can just emerge without warning from behind some oversized SUV.

Unfortunately the attitude of drivers seems be ‘Personal responsibility? Whose gonna make me?’

With politicians like MHR decrying road safety initiatives, people aren’t licking it off stones and are emboldened in their poor driving.
A man of no class or shame. Shouted down and voted against the amendment to allow the seizure of cars from unaccompanied learners. This law brought in as a result (and in memory of) a mother and daughter who drowned, trapped in their car a few hundred metres from their front door after being hit by an unaccompanied learner who failed to stop at a junction. Christmas Eve too IIRC.
The very day it passed, he was shouted about how ‘unjust’ it was. A law maker who doesn’t know what justice is.

He speaks perfect sense.

Fines should be graduated depending on the excess speed.

More funding should go towards road maintenance to give better sight lines at junctions by cutting back hedges.

Which part of these opinions of his do you not agree with?

So you can't find any arguments against these points he repeatedly makes? OK then.

You must be thicker than Healy-Rae yourself when you can't refute any his opinions yourself. How embarrassing for you.

I don't disagree with that law specifically, but I do disagree with the reactionary nature of road safety strategy in Ireland.

There will always be people who flout any and all laws, which can turn into situations like above but driving unaccompanied was totally socially acceptable for a number of reasons.

1. Planners allowing one off housing which means public transport will never be economically viable
2. No public transport
3. Ridiculous test waiting times. Still 4-5 months today in some centres I looked up. No excurse for that.
4. No education as to why an qualified driver is a good idea
5. No enforcement

It might have be illegal to drive unaccompanied, but given the above, it wasn't a totally unreasonable decision for someone to make if they needed to go to work, and the general public give them a pass, because of the RSA's well known failings.

Michael Healy-Rae isn't totally wrong. Parking a speed van right after a limit change, or on a motorway at night to catch people doing 130km/h has absolutely no bearing on road safety.

As it stands, the RSA cannot even state that drivers who were killed due to "speeding" were even driving over the limit. They may have just been driving too fast for the conditions, which is (conveniently) categorised as speeding too.

I sent an FOI request to the RSA to specifically ask them that, and they said they had no data. If an organisation with a €100M annual budget, who champion spending €400M on private speed cameras can't tell me information as utterly basic as that, I really don't think I'm going out on a limb to say that they're hiding something, and Healy-Rae has some valid points.

I don't disagree with any of that, it is exactly how he gets votes.

But you can't blame Michael Healy-Rae for chasing votes. All he is doing exploiting people's totally reasonable frustration toward the RSA's amateur, reactionary approach to road safety. I agree it's disingenuous, but the RSA have handed it to him on a plate.

They're the ones who should be able to pull the data to dismiss him, but their totally basic failings mean that they can't, and that's on them.

Those videos were suggested to me on YouTube a while ago. Scary driving. I managed a few seconds before I turned it off.

Jesus this place has changed!

There isn't a hope in hell it's worth 80k. If he was asking 50k it's still too much but if anything, believable.

Welcome back. The sub forums were merged with the main about 18 months ago. Improved things a bit.

Only one mod left now. Seems to be the story of every forum on the site now.
Buying advice and ‘Will this pass the NCT?’ Make up the bulk of the threads now.

Cool story bro

Perhaps, but it would want to be very ice over to actually block them. I wouldn't be too worried though, the motors will slip on a clutch, or go over a current (amp) limit before they cause any damage to themselves.