Several hundred yards sometimes. Oh and according to the insurance industry head-on collisions are no more common hereabouts than anywhere else.

Head-ons, maybe - how about leaving the road? :P

Head-ons, maybe - how about leaving the road? :P

A) I moved here and my insurance premium went down by rather more than the theft risk.

It is possible to leave the road without doing significant damage to a car.

Not on some of the singletrack I regularly use, e.g:

(Ignore the cyclists!)

( That passing place isn't big enough to drive in any out of at 60 anyway, even if you had the sightline to do 60 on that stretch. I'm talking about passing places big enough to accomodate an STGO Class 3 Artic plus a couple of cars, and sightlines that let you see an oncoming car from a mile or more away.

Guys can anyone help,

I love left footed braking, just a couple of taps on the pedal when the throttle is down is enough to just get a little more pivot around the corner.

Annoyingly, in VAG cars they have the fuel saving device that completely kills fuel to the engine as soon as the brake pedal is depressed so if the throttle is down it gives you a non-gratifying lunge towards the windscreen.

Has anyone managed to disable this feature? I can't find a thread for it!

I was driving with someone in their Mk2 Octy last week (hi Ross ) and got chatting about this. He tells me that it depends on the order you press the pedals in as to whether it cuts the power to the engine. If you press throttle and then introduce brake, it assumes you want to brake and so kills power to the engine. If you press brake and then introduce throttle (as in heel 'n' toe) then it allows power to the engine.

So, I'm guessing that the way to left foot brake is to come off the throttle, introduce the brake with the left foot and then get back on the throttle with the right foot. Sadly I don't have a VAG car to go and try in but hopefully you can feedback whether it works or not

Chris

ive found when ive used the brake and kept the brake on and tried to accelerate (to warm up the brakes) that the power is still cut and doesnt come back for a second once you let off the footbrake. maybe its the esp thing?

I think you're right about that Chris, when I come to think of it, I can still bring the revs up for the gears while slowing down (heel & toe) without a clunk from the seatbelt pretentioners. So it must be an order thing. But I'd like to get rid of the blasted fuel saving function anyway. It'd be hard to keep the car balanced if I had to introduce the brake first every time before the accelerator.

Unplug the brakelight switch lol...

You wont have any brakelights then either though..