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| Car cloning | 22 Nov 2006 09:24 GMT | 28 |
Read about this in our local paper someone "cloned" a car and used it to go past speed cameras fast, in and out of the congestion charge zone and various other traffic offences. It didn't give much info on how they do it and what you can do to protect
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| Blind Spot Mirrors | 21 Nov 2006 20:20 GMT | 247 |
Taking of blind... I've been meaning to start a thread about blind spot mirrors for a while. I never hear much talk about them, but on my car (Sierra) it has a terrible blind spot where a car overtaking me on motorway totally disappears for a few moments. This happens from the point ...
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| Inappropriate URL | 21 Nov 2006 15:21 GMT | 1 |
Got my first parking ticket today in the ol' West End. Looking for a contact number to see if I can wiggle my way out of it. http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/GettingAround/Parking/Fines/ "getting around parking fines"....may prove useful...
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| Accident at junc 13 of M1, yesterday | 21 Nov 2006 13:32 GMT | 3 |
Anyone see it? Got stuck in the traffic jam behind the incident. Several fire engines, ambulances, police vehicles flying down the hard shoulder to get to the scene. I was only about half a mile from the incident but the motorway was
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| Possible replacement for speed cameras | 21 Nov 2006 09:08 GMT | 14 |
Would *you* slow down for this? http://www.speedbandits.dk/ (shamelessly lifted from nl.auto) --
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| Driving down no entry | 20 Nov 2006 21:53 GMT | 11 |
Feel a bit of a tit for even asking. I went to see a mate yesterday with my cousin just to pick up some torx screwdribver bits. Where he lives though is a controlled parking area heavily wardened. I think £1.20 for 40 mins. I was only going to be 2/3
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| Engine failure | 19 Nov 2006 22:33 GMT | 20 |
Twas driving to Stratford Saturday morning when on the A46 at Coventry this people carrier (didn't notice the make) joined the road ahead of me at a roand-a-bout. He seemed to be travelling at a fair old pace and had rather a lot of engine smoke. I explained to the gf that it is
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| speed limit exiting motorway services | 19 Nov 2006 15:41 GMT | 5 |
Had a bit of a debate with a work pal today apub lunch depends on this :) Ok when entering a service stop whatever one theres usually a sign advising of speed say 10mph and then on exiting there is none saying end of resriction or back to motorway etc if you see what I mean, he ...
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| "1/3 of young drivers have raced on roads" BRAKE | 18 Nov 2006 22:35 GMT | 88 |
but when quizzed racing includes being a passenger in a car where the driver attempted to be quicker away from the lights than the car alongside, total bollocks then.
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| tolls and parking charges | 18 Nov 2006 20:01 GMT | 70 |
I am starting to get alarmed at the costs of getting to the countryside by car. There is this feeling that I have that as a motorist I am fair game for any organization that wants to extract money for me under some guise or other. Is there a website somewhere that provides ...
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| Ill timed survey | 17 Nov 2006 23:54 GMT | 6 |
The Highways Agency are going to carry out a 3 month survey into what drivers think of motorway services, lay-bys and picnic areas according to this report http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6154352.stm . Why didn't they do this in the Summer when more people might use the ...
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| 190kph instead of 65kph | 17 Nov 2006 18:22 GMT | 20 |
Hi Friends; Yesterday i was driving in my car where the speed limit is 65kph where there was a speed camera(Gatso) i passed from in front of it at 190kph..
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| Do BMWs destroy brain cells.... | 17 Nov 2006 15:19 GMT | 32 |
..you have to wonder. It seems that when someone gets behind the wheel of one of these soul-less Teutonic engineering 'wonders', their brains seem to atrophy and their vision goes into a sort of "looking into the binoculars from
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| FWD and RWD | 17 Nov 2006 08:30 GMT | 34 |
Evening my fellow motorist :) I know next to nothing about cars as you probably guessed. What I was pondering today whilst viewing the car mag section of magazines saw on saying which is best RWD and FWD but that was written on the outter
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| Big round yellow lights at FRB tollbooths | 17 Nov 2006 02:36 GMT | 16 |
There are big round yellow lights at the entrance to the Forth Road Bridge tollbooths. Pretty distracting at night. Anyone know what they are for?
 Signature Tunku
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