I've noticed quite a sharp upturn in the last 2 weeks since purchase, of other drivers wanting to tailgate me, insist on trying to overtake and generally behave like halfwits as soon as they see the tailgate badge.

Mainly yoofs in white or red Corsa Ltd Editions, 12-14 reg.,, and battered slammed Civics with tiny front number plates set to the n/s of the bumper granted, but last night a middle aged Avensis driver came leathering up after me after presumably seeing the badge as he pulled out of a junction behind me, seemingly just to enable him to draw alongside me at the traffic lights for GP start?

I never take the bait, and usually saunter up alongside them at the next set of lights.

What is this strange behaviour actually all about I wonder?

Just 'cus it's a vRS doesn't mean I feel the need to hoon about everywhere.

I reserve the fun of the power when out in the wilds on proper driving roads or for swift overtaking maneuvers, or am I missing a trick here?.

 

Is this perhaps the time to think about removing said badge I wonder?

Most irritating behaviour, and makes me sad to even consider debadging this lovely car, as it is actually a quite colorful badge and easy on the eye.

 

Puzzled.

Edited 22 May, 201610 yr by Adenuf

30/70 Mixture of people who think I am un-marked car and drive like grannies or people up my backside.

 

TBH both irritate me 

I guess this is the price you have to pay?

Glad it's not just me being a bit paranoid

Hampshire police have a couple of Octys remaining and as a result I get the unmarked car thing. I had one the other day literally stand on the brakes when I pulled out behind him in lane three....

 

Actually I have had a couple go at the lights recently too - A Polo GTi and Daddy cool in a Honda accord ha 

30/70 Mixture of people who think I am un-marked car and drive like grannies or people up my backside.

TBH both irritate me

Same here, also had this in the mk2FL

I think I shall place a couple of bottle bottoms behind the grille.

Yeah had this in my MK2 FL TSI - was quite amusing though as it was Shark stage 1'd, so used to upset some little chavs in their Clio sports!

SWMBO says the same thing when she's driving around in her vRS. As it's a Mk3 it's almost impossible to tell if it's a Derv or petrol. They usually find out it's petrol when it's tool late. 

 

Joking aside, she's having a Yeti Monte Carlo next time round as she's sick of the boy racers trying it on all too often. 

30/70 Mixture of people who think I am un-marked car and drive like grannies or people up my backside.

 

TBH both irritate me 

 

+1  problem I have is my reg. no. starts 'EU' and most police vehicles in Essex start with.................you guessed it 'EU' 

And I thought it was me being paranoid too. Exactly the same over here, although I bought the car in Birmingham and drove it home and took quite some time wondering why everyone was clearing the outside lane for me to pass then it clicked plod use them a lot your side of the water. Over here its just about every pleb wants a piece, normally I just outbrake them into roundabouts and fly out and thats it done to me then eventually they catch up and fly past, I find them quite handy for clearing speed traps for me.

The Transcend camera in my rear window seems to scare some off. Seen cars drop back suddenly without me having to either dab the brakes or wash their windscreen.

30/70 Mixture of people who think I am un-marked car and drive like grannies or people up my backside.

 

TBH both irritate me 

 

Yep it does me too. Followed one the other day 20-25 mph in a 40 zone and everytime something came the other way the brakes went on, a bend the brakes went on at one point we went around a shallow bend at 10 mph and as soon as I got the chance, I dropped a gear and gunned it. I got tooted and flashed and gesticulated at by a woman in her 30's, I just disappeared ASAP.

 

I'm sorry but if they're that bad they should be sent for retraining or banned from the roads, because they're an inherent danger to others as their slow speed causes nothing but frustration to those of us who have work & appointments to get to.

 

Mind you I was wearing a yellow HVV at the time, it makes me wonder if she thought I was PC Plod, but I'm sorry those low speeds are not acceptable in my book, especially on a fairly straight road.

Edited 22 May, 201610 yr by TheWanderer

I also get the mix of both it is either driving so close to me that I can see the color of their eyes on the rearview mirror or then...

...slamming the brakes and not overtaking thinking my car is an unmarked cop car - they use plenty of Octavias around here and mine is a white one

I think I shall place a couple of bottle bottoms behind the grille.

 

Hi vis coats hanging up in the back as well!

 

Some cars are a magnet for it. When I had my Felicia Pickup, if anyone saw it, they had to overtake it because they couldn't stand to be behind it.

 

The annoying bit was, I was normally going faster than they wanted to go, so having overtaken me, they'd normally slow down.

Hi vis coats hanging up in the back as well!

 

Nooo, please don't encourage this.

 

For every one person that is fooled into thinking you are the Police there are another 10 that drive past thinking 'plonker'! 

I find this to be a regular occurrence on my daily commute, I can be minding my own business with cruise set at 70, and it seems that 8 out of 10 times if I should pass any mid level variant of 1/3/5 series bmw, a class merc or a3/a4 audi plus the odd vw golf or passat, ranging from 10+ year old models to new reg, this produces a response from them where they need to come roaring past me at 80+, it baffles me why drive at 60-65 and then because I've had the tenacity to pass you suddenly go into warp drive.

I'm sorry but if they're that bad they should be sent for retraining or banned from the roads, because they're an inherent danger to others as their slow speed causes nothing but frustration to those of us who have work & appointments to get to.

Almost as irritating as the driver who drives at 40mph in a national and continues to drive at 40mph in a 30 (or 20) limit! [emoji36][emoji35]

I get exactly the same thing, people nailed to your back bumper because you have the audacity to do 40 in a 40 and 30 in a 30.  Funny how they disappear when you get to a corner.

 

That and they whole "can't be overtaken by a skoda" thing.... 

 

 

Almost as irritating as the driver who drives at 40mph in a national and continues to drive at 40mph in a 30 (or 20) limit! [emoji36][emoji35]

 

 

That happens round here all the time.  Very annoying.

Almost as irritating as the driver who drives at 40mph in a national and continues to drive at 40mph in a 30 (or 20) limit! [emoji36][emoji35]

 

Don't have any 20 limits around here, most 30's are ignored too, but they're pretty much obeyed outside schools.

 

Most 30's around here are a complete waste of time and done to pacify the snobby clarts around here, the roads in most of the locations are perfectly good for at least 40, an example of SCC paying lip service to them is the reduction of the speed limit from 60 to 50 on the A24 at Dorking, because 2 people got killed on it.

 

Now you may say that's a good thing, however it was the two individuals fault they got killed. 

 

One went walking along it at night in dark clothing at got wiped out.

 

The other went and drove at 70 mph in torrential rain in a Mini, hit standing water, flipped the car and got killed for her troubles.

 

So now everyone gets treated like a naughty child and punished for those two. Make sense? No, most people continue to ignore it, because the road is a dual carriageway and it's straight apart from the Mickleham/Givons Grove area which is a little twisty.

 

What causes most accidents around here is the clarts who use mobile phones and the appalling state of the road surface, with many dips, potholes, loose covers and broken surface, plus the dawdlers.

Don't have any 20 limits around here, most 30's are ignored too, but they're pretty much obeyed outside schools.

Most 30's around here are a complete waste of time and done to pacify the snobby clarts around here, the roads in most of the locations are perfectly good for at least 40, an example of SCC paying lip service to them is the reduction of the speed limit from 60 to 50 on the A24 at Dorking, because 2 people got killed on it.

What causes most accidents around here is the clarts who use mobile phones and the appalling state of the road surface, with many dips, potholes, loose covers and broken surface, plus the dawdlers.

Agree with your last paragraph wholeheartedly with regards to phones and paying attention when driving. But, as no doubt you'll be aware, kids don't only run out in roads by schools - built up areas are something I'd hope many people take into consideration when driving.

One of our local 30mph roads has lots of kids, dog walkers etc, yet is treated like the Mulsanne straight at Le Mans by, putting it mildly, complete bellends.

Mines a Rallye Green estate so don't get the police thing. But do get the them overtaking, slowing, me overtaking, them overtaking, slowing thing. even though my cruise is on at a fixed speed of GPS 70 ish on motorway type roads.

The other week I passed a go faster striped transit on a county road. Came behind a car that wanted to turn right. As it turned the van was still motoring up and attempted to overtake as the road cleared. Mines the Vrs petrol, but he wouldn't give in so I had to boot it just to get it out of view.

Agree with your last paragraph wholeheartedly with regards to phones and paying attention when driving. But, as no doubt you'll be aware, kids don't only run out in roads by schools - built up areas are something I'd hope many people take into consideration when driving.

One of our local 30mph roads has lots of kids, dog walkers etc, yet is treated like the Mulsanne straight at Le Mans by, putting it mildly, complete bellends.

 

I'll admit that currently due to my family situation, I'm on late shifts and I tend to drive when the kids are either in school or gone home and I return when 99% of folk are in bed and asleep, so that can be anywhere between 2200 & 0230, which is absolute bliss, because the only things I have to look out for is foxes, deer and brocks.

 

I can just trundle along at 40 all the way home, because there's absolutely no one around. Ahhh, bliss the road all to myself.

I have removed my vrs badges from mine

Still happened tho :-/

+1  problem I have is my reg. no. starts 'EU' and most police vehicles in Essex start with.................you guessed it 'EU' 

I used to have the same problem with mk mk2 FL VRS which was white and started with a CX.  All the cop cars in North Wales are CX and of course they had to buy a local unmarked in white so i regularly got waved at cheerily by the local plod and scowled at by the chavs :(  Was a real PITA.