Right thought that title would get your attention. What I want to know is do those here still with Skodas (seems to be the minority these days) still get aggressive drivers swarming all over their rear bumpers? Normally I like to relax and just cruise along listening to the radio. I am seldom in a hurry. Today though some bloke in a new C 180 Merc was up my chuff and it irritated me so I dropped down to third, floored the car and left him for dust. At the next roundabout he came barrelling up the inside with the windows down all middle fingers and cursing in choice Chatham Chav Estuary (often struck at the number of planks driving expensive cars: wonder how they afford them)

 

I thought the days when people getting ****ed off at Skoda drivers were long gone but clearly I am wrong. Anyone got any similar experiences to share?

Edited 7 May, 201412 yr by Matt Bodycombe

It's not just Skoda drivers that get hassled.  I was tailgated by a Range Rover today.  He was so close all I could see was his grill in my mirror - I think he was trying to goad me into going a bit quicker.  It didn't work and this made him even madder for some reason.  Mind you, it happens to me in the Ignis too, so it's just a general car thing I reckon.

 

edit : It also happened from time to time when I had the vRS if that helps.

It's a general thing I think. Happens all the time irrespective of car make.

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there's a lot of drivers who could be described as morons (is that word banned by the Daily Fail yet?) who drive various marques, including Skodas. Twunts will be twunts I think, no matter what they drive.

It's pretty much all cars in my experience, unless you have something that's obviously quite quick.

Just lots of self important people around who absolutely must get to where they are going a minute or two early, even if that means taking daft risks.

I'd love to know what they do with that extra minute.

 

People do seem to get a bit annoyed if you leave them behind with a short burst of acceleration, just like you have insulted their manhood.

I'm guessing once they've committed to £300+ on a PCP for a (supposedly) decent car finding it's comparitively slow is a bit of a shock.

 

I had it this morning with a guy in a Mini JCW. (I found out when he overtook me about ten minutes later on the A12)

Right up my rear end in a 30 limit, come the 60 I was gone.

He had no chance against the Yeti VRS.

I get it all the time due to the miles I cover.

The again I must admit I do it muself sometimes.

I dont get too close but I do get annoyed when someone is sat in the outside lane at 65/70 when the other lanes are empty or.

Yep it's all cars ! , I was in my golf going down to Pwllheli and a great big **** in a range rover over finch was behind me just couldn't get passed , until he did a overtake on a bend on a set of double whites, oh its great to have a camera now sent it to the police

My new fiesta doesn't have anything visible to distinguish it from the 68bhp 1.25 l model, so have had some fun when in the mood and safe to do so. ST is expected to go fast and looks the part, mine is wolf in sheep's clothing and when the turbo kicks in is pretty quick

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It's not even restricted to cars! out on the bike yesterday, I enter a 30 zone through a village once out of the zone I accelerate slowly and the driver that was so close to my rear thought she would try to overtake (even in a high vis police style vest with cameras front and rear on the bike), never a good idea in a base model Corsa against a Triumph st, needless to say she was left for dead when I opened her up, never saw her again.

I don't condone tailgating, but I don't condone staying in the outside line and refusing to let somebody pass you who wants to go faster either.

It's no good moaning about aggressive tailgating if you're refusing to let somebody pass you. When you could easily pull in and let them go.

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I do enjoy a good NSL sign in these conditions. Especially after a 30.

Best I ever had was a merc with a big engine that was you can only see my grill close in the 30.

The octy was entirely standard apart from bigger brakes a few bushes and a b12 kit.

Every straight he would gain back up but never be close enough to pass and on every corner I'd stretch the gap a good distance again. Every speed limit I was down to it and at the NSL off like a shot.

Very very angry driver by the time we got to the roundabout with the m4.

It's silly really, because the driver didn't have a clue how to do anything but mash it on a straight. If he could drive properly I am sure he would have been well past. That plus if he had kept 10ft back he would have been let past on the first NSL straight.

As for the 2 minutes...

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Edited 8 May, 201412 yr by cheezemonkhai

Had a bloke right up my arse in some kind of old 4x4 in a 30 zone. I looked in the mirror and there's his little kid in the passenger seat with no seatbelt climbing all over the dash, while his dad sits 6" off my bumper. 

Idiots will be idiots. 

It's not just Skoda drivers that get hassled.  I was tailgated by a Range Rover today.  He was so close all I could see was his grill in my mirror - I think he was trying to goad me into going a bit quicker.  It didn't work and this made him even madder for some reason.  Mind you, it happens to me in the Ignis too, so it's just a general car thing I reckon.

 

Had something very similar the other day on the M1 just south of Leeds – but in the roadworks and a 50mph average speed check area – I’m doing 50 with traffic in all three lanes doing the same and three eeegits in big 4x4’s, one after the other, decide to try and push me along so all I can see if the grille in the back window - and, when I don’t give (its SPECS average speed camera’s remember and heavy traffic as it's peak hour), they decide to push through and undertake swerving between traffic.

 

What do these people not understand – its 50mph, it's roadworks with guys working a yard or so away (and believe me that can be daunting as I've done it), it’s an average speed check area, I’m doing 50, and so is the car a few yards down the road so how mu8ch further are they going to get???

 

Personally I think anyone who does things like that and speeds through roadworks should be made to stand two yards from a live traffic lane (effectively where the guys work) and have some t**t drive past them at 70mph - it might just scare them sh*tless and make them change thier attitude - it's risky enough working in those locations let alone having some idiot increasing the risks massively!

My wife has a 370Z and is constantly being hounded by all and sundry that just have to overtake her, normally in something with an engine that produces less power than her starter motor. Don't know if it's the car or the fact it is a woman driver.

 

She spent years saving up for a quick sports car and gets a lot of pleasure just cruising around - until the nutters appear. It's totally crazy as she could wipe the floor with most of them.

 

Why can't people just be contented with what they drive and leave others alone?

Shortly before selling my Fab vRS, I was coming down the M6 on cruise control.

Crept up behind a Z4 with the hood down and overtook them.

 

Looked like a pair of yuppies from the 80's tbh.

 

Obviously incensed, he came back behind me, nearly took the rear bumper off, overtook me and then pulled in front and slowed down again.

 

Not taking the bait, I slowly overtook him again...still on cruise and initially he dropped back.

 

After 2 or 3 minutes though, with hackles obviously rising, he came charging back, but then slowed down alongside me.

The pair of them turned towards me as they slowly passed, waving arms and fingers at me, chortling and guffawing at me out loud as they did so.

 

Didn't do anything to goad them, so all still a mystery to me tbh.

 

Just ignored them and they vanished, never to be seen again.

Had something very similar the other day on the M1 just south of Leeds – but in the roadworks and a 50mph average speed check area – I’m doing 50 with traffic in all three lanes doing the same and three eeegits in big 4x4’s, one after the other, decide to try and push me along so all I can see if the grille in the back window - and, when I don’t give (its SPECS average speed camera’s remember and heavy traffic as it's peak hour), they decide to push through and undertake swerving between traffic.

 

What do these people not understand – its 50mph, it's roadworks with guys working a yard or so away (and believe me that can be daunting as I've done it), it’s an average speed check area, I’m doing 50, and so is the car a few yards down the road so how mu8ch further are they going to get???

 

Personally I think anyone who does things like that and speeds through roadworks should be made to stand two yards from a live traffic lane (effectively where the guys work) and have some t**t drive past them at 70mph - it might just scare them sh*tless and make them change thier attitude - it's risky enough working in those locations let alone having some idiot increasing the risks massively!

 

 

Probably pikeys of no fixed abode, so why should they worry about the highly unlikely chance getting nicked? :think:

 

Either that, or they were nicked and on the way to Cyprus/Africa 

Edited 8 May, 201412 yr by Mr Ree

Had something very similar the other day on the M1 just south of Leeds – but in the roadworks and a 50mph average speed check area – I’m doing 50 with traffic in all three lanes doing the same and three eeegits in big 4x4’s, one after the other, decide to try and push me along so all I can see if the grille in the back window - and, when I don’t give (its SPECS average speed camera’s remember and heavy traffic as it's peak hour), they decide to push through and undertake swerving between traffic.

 

What do these people not understand – its 50mph, it's roadworks with guys working a yard or so away (and believe me that can be daunting as I've done it), it’s an average speed check area, I’m doing 50, and so is the car a few yards down the road so how mu8ch further are they going to get???

 

Personally I think anyone who does things like that and speeds through roadworks should be made to stand two yards from a live traffic lane (effectively where the guys work) and have some t**t drive past them at 70mph - it might just scare them sh*tless and make them change thier attitude - it's risky enough working in those locations let alone having some idiot increasing the risks massively!

I remember driving in Florida some years ago and they adopted a different approach in that there was no lower speed limit at road works but a sign saying that speeding fines were doubled if workers were working at the site. Seemed to make a bit more sense than over here, where the 50 limit applies irrespective of if anyone is working there, what time of day it is and what traffic volumes are.

 

As far as the RR's you encountered, as others said they may well have been stolen or may just have had stolen plates on.

 

It's also amazing how many people clearly don't understand the term "average speed" - there's a stretch of the M60 around Stockport that has a permanent 50mph limit and average speed cameras and the number of drivers who slow down to 50 at the first camera, then speed up and slow down again for the second (and final) camera is surprising!

I remember driving in Florida some years ago and they adopted a different approach in that there was no lower speed limit at road works but a sign saying that speeding fines were doubled if workers were working at the site. Seemed to make a bit more sense than over here, where the 50 limit applies irrespective of if anyone is working there, what time of day it is and what traffic volumes are.

 

As far as the RR's you encountered, as others said they may well have been stolen or may just have had stolen plates on.

 

It's also amazing how many people clearly don't understand the term "average speed" - there's a stretch of the M60 around Stockport that has a permanent 50mph limit and average speed cameras and the number of drivers who slow down to 50 at the first camera, then speed up and slow down again for the second (and final) camera is surprising!

 

 

Wonder if they'll actually have sufficient brain cells to 'google' the words/phrase  'average speed camara's' after they've received their notice of intended prosecution letter? 

Doesn't matter what car you're in. Doesn't matter what car they're in either really.

 

But.... inho I see the worst tailgating, most often, from drivers of large 4x4s.

Like others have said, it's not a Skoda thing. Actually Mrs H said she felt less bullied in the Octy than the Focus. Around us it does seem to be near retirement age men in Germany metal who get up whose ever backside they can.

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I must report that there is a new breed of this sort of uber important driver on the roads, it is not a Merc, 4x4 or pocket rocket car..... I give you the Dacia Sandero Stepway!

 

Probably pikeys of no fixed abode, so why should they worry about the highly unlikely chance getting nicked? :think:

 

In suits and ties???   Nah - quite obviously company cars IMHO and obviusly thought the road was thiers - big Nissan double cab (so lower company car tax), Audi Q5 and a Volvo XC90.  They weren't all travelling together just happened to end up behind me all in one go and all with the same attitude!

I remember driving in Florida some years ago and they adopted a different approach in that there was no lower speed limit at road works but a sign saying that speeding fines were doubled if workers were working at the site. Seemed to make a bit more sense than over here, where the 50 limit applies irrespective of if anyone is working there, what time of day it is and what traffic volumes are.

 

That kindof makes sense but then becomes an enforcement nightmare - due to the signing and volume monitoring requirements - so probably wouldn't work in practice.  Also, a lot of roadworks on main roads operate on a lane rental system so the guys are working at night, for example, or could be doing stuff not easily visible to passing traffic.  In which case the blanket restrictions we have make perfect sense.

This kind of thing drives me insane!

 

The worst are those who don't drive anywhere near the limit when it's safe to do so but then they come to a 30 or 40 and must carry on driving at 45mph that they've just been doing in the NSL. The you get to the NSL sign give it some right foot and they're nowhere to be seen until the next 30 zone!

 

The worst one I had recently was coming back up the M1 doing 70mph on cruise. I pulled out to overtake a car doing about 68mph with nothing behind me. A Jaguar X-type comes bombing up behind while I'm still passing and sits literally a metre of my back bumper flashing his lights, beeping his horn and swerving all over.

 

I carry on and pull in a safe distance in front of the car I was passing. He pulls up beside with his window down f-ing and waving his hands at me. He had children in the car and his teenage daughter in the front seat looked less than impressed with dad! What kind of an example is he setting to his children?!

 

I must report that there is a new breed of this sort of uber important driver on the roads, it is not a Merc, 4x4 or pocket rocket car..... I give you the Dacia Sandero Stepway!

 

 

What a tool!

 

Did the right thing there. I've done that before too... just let the idiot go...

 

Phil

Edited 8 May, 201412 yr by Phil-E

This kind of thing drives me insane!

 

The worst are those who don't drive anywhere near the limit when it's safe to do so but then they come to a 30 or 40 and must carry on driving at 45mph that they've just been doing in the NSL. The you get to the NSL sign give it some right foot and they're nowhere to be seen until the next 30 zone!

 

The worst one I had recently was coming back up the M1 doing 70mph on cruise. I pulled out to overtake a car doing about 68mph with nothing behind me. A Jaguar X-type comes bombing up behind while I'm still passing and sits literally a metre of my back bumper flashing his lights, beeping his horn and swerving all over.

 

I carry on and pull in a safe distance in front of the car I was passing. He pulls up beside with his window down f-ing and waving his hands at me. He had children in the car and his teenage daughter in the front seat looked less than impressed with dad! What kind of an example is he setting to his children?!

 

In a way, as long as his teenage daughter is sensible, he's actually setting a good example......of what NOT to do! My dad is exactly the same as this bloke, unnecessarily angry behind the wheel. I was a lot more chilled but have got a bit less relaxed after I got crashed into last year, and do get a lot more nervous when I get a tailgater. On a motorway I would have fun with them if I was in the second lane, would indicate left, then move over extremely slowly, don't do as much of that now, just drive normally and get out of their way. I had a tailgater on a country road at night last week, an Audi (a surprise in County Durham as you can get stuck behind Audi's up here!) so decided to stick my rear fog light on when he got too close (was slightly foggy at the time anyway). Had to do that three times before the Audi driver got the message.