MX-5 OC Forum

 I'll start, for me its people carrying 3 or 4 bikes on a cycle carrier but not bothering to use a light board to replace the lights that they have totally obscured, then wondering why when they pull out your still there like the 4up alfa on the M25 j8 to 7 earlier

or people who dont check that the trailer they are towing has working light, i think that we should mave a trailer MOT every year like the warrant of fitness they have in  AUS / NZ   

 'L' plate moped riders who sit on your back wheel..............to close to stop suddenly...........one headlight not working, the other on full beam "so he can be seen"........ dazzling me everytime I check my rearview before signaling & move............

You guessed it, I had one t... this morning

The worst thing as far as I am concerned has to be tailgating. When I am in a queue of traffic why do other motorists have to try and get in the boot. It is not as though I can go any faster with a car in front of me.

Almost never happens when the road in front of me is clear though.

most motorway drivers and any motorway journey annoy me, always people that dont know lane discipline, or realise they only lose 3 minutes to there journey by pushing others out the way and being generally dangerous...caravans its all there. Mean while I can have the roof off drive carefully in the correct lane and save fuel. Lets be honest an mx5 is for a nice winding road anyway.....

what irritates me most is that there are "other road users"   Why don't you all stay at home and keep off my roads.....!

Mark:

 

The worst thing as far as I am concerned has to be tailgating. When I am in a queue of traffic why do other motorists have to try and get in the boot. It is not as though I can go any faster with a car in front of me.

Almost never happens when the road in front of me is clear though.

 

Mark did you get and fit the flashing boot brake light, I have had no tailgaters since I fitted mine...good times

I hate tailgaters also especially on the motorways when there is no where to go at speed, I also hate the... I'm going to try and undertake and try to push my way into a gap that's just not there crew with a major testosterone moment going on...bad times

Superior glances from some Mk3 owners while in the NA in particular.

If only they knew

Scottishfiver:

Superior glances from some Mk3 owners while in the NA in particular.

If only they knew

Some do.

Take Care

Dave

Mark:

 

The worst thing as far as I am concerned has to be tailgating. When I am in a queue of traffic why do other motorists have to try and get in the boot. It is not as though I can go any faster with a car in front of me.

Almost never happens when the road in front of me is clear though.

 

Plus one (and a thousand others).

2nd. would have to be the 40 mph dawdlers (in the 60 zones) that do 40 mph in the town (30 zones) & can be found (obviously out of their depth) driving up my bumper on the motorways!!!!!!

3rd. Stuffing up the carparks because they will "only be a minute" so that entitles them to park any bl**dy where!

Mazda-mender:

Mark did you get and fit the flashing boot brake light

I have got it, just not got around to fitting it yet. 

Mazda-mender:

I also hate the... I'm going to try and undertake and try to push my way into a gap that's just not there crew

I don't do the push my way back in, but am quite happy to treat MLMs like they are not there and go by on the left.

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boris:

2nd. would have to be the 40 mph dawdlers (in the 60 zones) that do 40 mph in the town (30 zones) & can be found (obviously out of their depth) driving up my bumper on the motorways!!!!!!

Yes agree with that one as well. 

What about when you park at the far end of a car park to keep away from the riff-raff, only on return to find cars parked on either sided of you with plenty of free spaces near by. 

martin:

what irritates me most is that there are "other road users"   Why don't you all stay at home and keep off my roads.....!

This. It happens all the time too.

I was in a borrowed "something fast" this weekend, and the only other driver that didn't need to be murdered to death was a chap in a mk1 MX5 giving it death up a B-road.

If anyone on here has a red mk1 with a cage, the number plate surround painted black and was driving through Wymondham on Saturday - come the revolution you will be saved. Unlike the hateful gits who stop on roundabouts when it's clear, yet don't stop at give-way marking when it isn't clear.

Where to begin!

Van drivers or any drivers who forget/don't know that the speed limit for a van on standard A roads is 50mph. To that degree when i am driving at around the 50 please do not try to push me on.
Likewise, just cos it's got go-faster decals and exta lighting decor does not mean that more than 40 is appropriate for the occupants.
Neither is it appropriate to expect said vehicle to pull over when it is trying to make comfortable progress to it's destination!
So, tailgaters... if you really do want a ride in my or similar vehicle(s) then you are going the right way about it.

Use of foglights (yes an oldie but goodie) inapprorpiately. Never mind the illegalities of using them in clear conditions.

People who are lost. Ok, it's not the lost bit but it's the creeping along or slamming on your brakes so you don't miss your turn.
PULLOVER. Take stock of your situation and don't do a Moses wandering the streets of the UK for 40 bleedin' years.

Audi drivers. Nice car shame about the owners. Not all but a large percentage.
There are two types.
1) up your chuff regardless of speed and situation
2) pootling along without a care in the world in perfect driving conditions with a line of eager MX5s BEHIND YOU. Check the Highway Code, mate!
We are not suggesting you travel at our pace so please do not enforce upon us 43mph on glorious roads whereby it would safe for a Reliant Robin to travel at 50!
... can they do 50 btw?...

Last (for now) - it says 30 so i must do 30. Never mind the snow and ice and distinct lack of traction. All the 'safety' measures being implemented across the land are due to your ineptitude in "driving to conditions". Think For Yourself.

Oh dear! I should've just stuck with agreeing with Martin's comment

TRACTORS  -  shouldn't they be spreading manure (daren't use the other word) on the fields rather than the roads.

 Nissan Micras - yes I am generalising however to date I am yet to have seen one driven properly and I always seem to get stuck behind one doing 22mph on a 40mph when i'm late! 

Old people who dawdle, dont indicate, cut you up etc - I really think at 60 you should have to retake your test!

Boy racers with stereos worth more than their cars who insisit on having it on so loud I can hear it in my office when theyre in the traffic outside or when they are behind you in traffic and I have my roof down and my music is drowned out by their bad excuse for music usually some black guy rapping about shooting em up or banging some bad biatch!!  argh turn it down!!!

People at petrol stations who pull in the wrong way when your queuing the other side and jump in at the pump you have been patiently waiting for

Men in trucks who look down at me in my little maggie and wink suggestively - urgh your fat and old it aint gonna happen mate!!

My other half driving his Honda Civic like a prat - yes Chris I know its fast but it doesnt mean you need to floor it between every island, turn and traffic jam as it makes me car sick!!

I could go on. . . .

Tallulah Pickle:

My other half driving his Honda Civic like a prat - yes Chris I know its fast but it doesnt mean you need to floor it between every island, turn and traffic jam as it makes me car sick!!

I could go on. . . .

 

 

Poor Chris AND he has to drive a Honda!