You know you're an advanced driver when...

by **martine** » Fri May 29, 2009 4:32 pm

...you silently 'tut' when the driver next to you wraps their thumbs round the steering wheel...(shock, horror)...

Anyone got a better one?

by **MikeB** » Fri May 29, 2009 8:41 pm

.......When a passenger, who is also a driver, is shocked when you sound your horn before a tight blind narrow bend! Happened last Saturday night.

Mike Beavan.

by **TripleS** » Fri May 29, 2009 8:56 pm

Proving ourselves to be advanced drivers is easier than I thought.

Best wishes all,
Dave.

by **jont** » Fri May 29, 2009 9:14 pm

You try not to wince as a passenger when someone slows down for a roundabout taking every intermediate gear and yet fails to rev-match a single change? :lol:

by **martine** » Fri May 29, 2009 10:50 pm

jont wrote:You try not to wince as a passenger when someone slows down for a roundabout taking every intermediate gear and yet fails to rev-match a single change?

You been driving with my wife? :shock:

by **ROG** » Sat May 30, 2009 7:28 am

When you notice every little minor error that other do :wink:

by **Custom24** » Sun May 31, 2009 10:45 am

ROG wrote:When you notice every little minor error that other do

You notice every little minor error that you do.

by **Horse** » Sun May 31, 2009 1:22 pm

martine wrote:
jont wrote:You try not to wince as a passenger when someone slows down for a roundabout taking every intermediate gear and yet fails to rev-match a single change?

You been driving with my wife?

Mutter mutter . . . and slipping the clutch in second . . . and . . .

The Filly's hazard perception and awareness is great - just that she drives now how she was 'taught' to use intermediate gears to slow as her Polo (20 yrs ago) had carp brakes . ..

by **Gareth** » Sun May 31, 2009 2:52 pm

Horse wrote:she was 'taught' to use intermediate gears to slow

Perhaps you and she should come out to one of the Berkshire driving days - she'd see how drivers other than you do it ...

by **zadocbrown** » Sun May 31, 2009 7:24 pm

Horse wrote: she drives now how she was 'taught' to use intermediate gears to slow as her Polo (20 yrs ago) had carp brakes . ..

Something fishy there!

by **zadocbrown** » Sun May 31, 2009 7:25 pm

....you realise the term is no longer relevant to you.

by **Horse** » Sun May 31, 2009 8:36 pm

Gareth wrote:
Horse wrote:she was 'taught' to use intermediate gears to slow

Perhaps you and she should come out to one of the Berkshire driving days - she'd see how drivers other than you do it ...

Oh she *knows* it's not 'right' or necessary, but won't change.

And did I mention pressing in the button on the handbrake? No, neither does she . . .

Zadoc: apologies for the typo, s/b 'cr@p'

by **Mr Cholmondeley-Warner** » Sun May 31, 2009 10:19 pm

... you wince whenever your clutch engagement is more than 100 rpm out, although nobody else in the car notices ...

by **jbsportstech** » Sun May 31, 2009 11:48 pm

(1).......When you pick your grand parents up from the airport and they remark how smooth the drive was and seemless the gear box/clutch is on these new vw's :shock:

(2)Or as I had this weekend how a friend accelerates early and to firm causing his front wheel drive volvo to run wide exiting a left hander...... and you tell he to get back of the car in front and if he had earlier he wouldn't of needed firm braking when the said car turned into a nearside junction. :wink:

by **ROG** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 7:14 am

ROG wrote:When you notice every little minor error that other do

Custom24 wrote:You notice every little minor error that you do.

How true - more annoying than the one I mentioned :wink:

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