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kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.

Drunken Lullabies posted:

Also road rage is a big issue. I've been driving for 6 years and I've had two people follow me to my house, 1 person force his way into my house, 2 people pull guns on me at red lights, and one guy throw an ice scraper thing and some cans at my car on the freeway. Oh and it's always rich white dudes with beards who make over $100k a year go figure. I feel safer driving a brand new car in Hilltop than I do driving in rush hour Seattle -> Eastside traffic. I also don't drive aggressively or slowly or really do anything that I would think would provoke such behavior.

holy loving poo poo :stare:

What did they claim you did to provoke this when the police arrived to lock their asses up? :wtf:

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General_Failure
Apr 17, 2005

kastein posted:

holy loving poo poo :stare:

What did they claim you did to provoke this when the police arrived to lock their asses up? :wtf:

I have a few tales of my own. But at least I rope myself back in unlike some people which I've encountered which are out for blood. In both cases I recall, they were the ones driving like a dick and something simple like a horn honk sets them off.

The most memorable was a car full of men of unspecified ethnicity hanging out the windows screaming in god knows what language trying to run the car off the road. That was after they didn't observe correct roundabout rules. Funnily enough the next intersection up on a completely different date I encountered a car going around a roundabout in the wrong direction. gently caress Melbourne sometimes. Great drivers compared to Shepparton. gently caress them unconditionally.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



My first week in the states and I went around 3 different roundabouts the wrong way. Luckily it was at night and nobody was there, which is also why I probably didn't think of it.

General_Failure
Apr 17, 2005

Tusen Takk posted:

My first week in the states and I went around 3 different roundabouts the wrong way. Luckily it was at night and nobody was there, which is also why I probably didn't think of it.

I didn't think they had roundabouts there because of freedom or communism or something.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



General_Failure posted:

I didn't think they had roundabouts there because of freedom or communism or something.

They like to not stop for red lights more than they care about the encroaching fascist regime apparently.

Dagen H
Mar 19, 2009

Hogertrafikomlaggningen
Nono, we* want the fascists, it's the socialists we don't like.


*we = the vocal minority

Queen_Combat
Jan 15, 2011
Nah, we just install roundabouts mostly as a way to break up long, straight roads in suburbs to slow the 17-year-old rich white kids with mommy's Civic from street racing. I've been driving around for about 3 weeks in Phoenix and I've encountered maybe two actual functional roundabouts. Quite a change from Idaho, though, where I encountered exactly zero roundabouts at all in 10 years/300,000 miles of driving.

exempt
Dec 10, 2006
Oddly enough I've come across more roundabouts in Indiana than anywhere else I've driven. Even then that's only been in two cities.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Geirskogul posted:

I've been driving around for about 3 weeks in Phoenix and I've encountered maybe two actual functional roundabouts.


Head up to Sedona -- the main drag up hwy 179 there has like ten of them in a row for no apparent reason (other than how people from Sedona have to be different and special).

(Also the road up 89A through Oak Creek cyn to Flagstaff is really gorgeous)

Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 09:23 on Jan 10, 2013

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

grover posted:

Only one of my cars is silver! The other is gray :( My headlights are on all the time

Not only do I always drive with my lights on (in my titanium gray Altima), I also robbed a junkyard Cadillac of its horns (the noisy kind, you jerks). The horns make it sound more like a train is about to run your rear end over, and... about 1/4 of the people actually respond by swerving their Suburban back into their lane, instead of 0/4.

In the past year: Sideswiped 3 times, all hit and run (once while parked). One had video evidence from a dashcam, cops still refused to even come out to take a report... :arghfist::suicide: We won't discuss the flat spots on my tires. I really should just stop nailing the brakes when people pull out in front of me/try to sideswipe me/whatever, I should just bump up their insurance rates; I've had whiplash before, it's not the end of the world.. :v:

In short, gently caress Texas, and gently caress the Texas SUV/pickup/kastein's 5 ton truck for personal transportation culture.

BlackMK4
Aug 23, 2006

wat.
Megamarm

Sagebrush posted:

Head up to Sedona -- the main drag up hwy 179 there has like ten of them in a row for no apparent reason (other than how people from Sedona have to be different and special).

(Also the road up 89A through Oak Creek cyn to Flagstaff is really gorgeous)

There are ones there, then into the city just north east of Jerome, and the west exit out of Wickenberg, Az. I love them... hey, let's touch knee at 50mph.

NoWake
Dec 28, 2008

College Slice

Sagebrush posted:

Head up to Sedona -- the main drag up hwy 179 there has like ten of them in a row for no apparent reason (other than how people from Sedona have to be different and special).

(Also the road up 89A through Oak Creek to Flagstaff is really gorgeous)

One of the jeep tour guides told me the traffic backups used to be horrendous before they were put in. None of the intersections had a dedicated left turn lane, so anybody turning left would back the traffic up behind waiting for a chance to go. I drive a tour bus out there every summer, and let me tell you, those roundabouts get old after the 5th one you go though.

Gorgeous drive indeed! The section north of Sedona is probably the crookedest road I've ever taken my bus on..

Das Volk
Nov 19, 2002

by Cyrano4747

Pretty much exactly like that, except going up a hill, in the dark, and a Mercedes GLK doing 4-wheel drifts around the obstacles, including some fat girl who decided to play in the snow on the freeway while cars were still going by :psyduck:

Sirveaux
Aug 26, 2004
<=>

Sagebrush posted:

Head up to Sedona -- the main drag up hwy 179 there has like ten of them in a row for no apparent reason



:sweden:

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
I'm curious how many people are going to specifically buy a non-silver car next time after reading this thread.

Brigdh
Nov 23, 2007

That's not an oil leak. That's the automatic oil change and chassis protection feature.

Godholio posted:

I'm curious how many people are going to specifically buy a non-silver car next time after reading this thread.

Me, although I never really liked silver in the first place so I'm not sure that counts...

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Terminus Est posted:

Where do you live?

Rural Cali-Nevada. It may be possible to meet up in Reno, but the bike itself has old rotting tires, and was rebuilt in 1992-1993, and hasn't been run since about 1997 (no gas in it, of course). Since I used it as a dirt bike, I never bothered registering it. It started fine with a kickstart, but the battery is long gone. You can email me saviggen @ the googmails, or send me a PM if you're actually interested. It's in pretty good physical condition, but it's not a 'drive off' unless you are completely insane.

E: Still don't get the silver hate. I like silver. :colbert:

Viggen fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Jan 10, 2013

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


Godholio posted:

I'm curious how many people are going to specifically buy a non-silver car next time after reading this thread.

I will always prefer a non-silver car, but I refuse to buy cars new and sometimes the color is literally the only weak point in a great deal.

tbb9
Sep 6, 2011
Color is the last thing I look at when buying a car, it makes for a great thread though

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


Have some terrible car stuff, then:





It can be yours for only £30,000.

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free

Oh I dunno I think it's kinda neat, the pink mirrors are kind of weird th

quote:



what

Terrible Robot
Jul 2, 2010

FRIED CHICKEN
Slippery Tilde
Ten front lights, so that every one can be just as aggravated as the person sitting inside it!

blk
Dec 19, 2009
.

Goons posted:

Silver cars/lights

I drive a silver car and am fine with the color, but I keep my lights on 100% of the time. Here in the PacNW it is very gray and people have a hard time remembering to turn their lights on at dusk, let alone during poor light conditions. I really think we should make it mandatory in any driving conditions other than direct sunlight, as well as at any speeds above 45 (eg on rural highways, etc).

Washingtonians posted:

Washington drivers

I'm in Seattle about once a month and the level of road-going obliviousness in Washington reminds me a lot of driving in Oregon, except the people up there are even worse about staying in the appropriate lane and not dragging their rear end on the far left. Do they just skip that part during license testing?

Also pls fix your freeway system, it is a cruel joke.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

KozmoNaut posted:

Have some terrible car stuff, then:





It can be yours for only £30,000.

As soon as I saw it, I thought "Is that The Pratmobile?"

Exit Strategy
Dec 10, 2010

by sebmojo

Terrible Robot posted:

Ten front lights, so that every one can be just as aggravated as the person sitting inside it!

You know, I also thought "Look. It's a car that makes everyone angry! It makes oncoming drivers angry, the people inside, and even me. I'm angry! And I haven't even been physically present!"

Kenshin
Jan 10, 2007

blk posted:

I drive a silver car and am fine with the color, but I keep my lights on 100% of the time. Here in the PacNW it is very gray and people have a hard time remembering to turn their lights on at dusk, let alone during poor light conditions. I really think we should make it mandatory in any driving conditions other than direct sunlight, as well as at any speeds above 45 (eg on rural highways, etc).


I'm in Seattle about once a month and the level of road-going obliviousness in Washington reminds me a lot of driving in Oregon, except the people up there are even worse about staying in the appropriate lane and not dragging their rear end on the far left. Do they just skip that part during license testing?

Also pls fix your freeway system, it is a cruel joke.
Seattle here as well, but a Black car. I always run with my headlights on. Even on sunny days. It's just habit for me to turn them on.

GutBomb
Jun 15, 2005

Dude?

KozmoNaut posted:

Have some terrible car stuff, then:





It can be yours for only £30,000.

I liked it until I saw the inside.

exempt
Dec 10, 2006

GutBomb posted:

I liked it until I saw the inside.

I liked it more when I saw the inside.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

GutBomb posted:

I liked it until I saw the inside.

That's like saying you'd buy the Blues Brother's Dodge if it had a working cigarette lighter. It's meant to be everything that's wrong about the term "modified Capri".

veedubfreak
Apr 2, 2005

by Smythe
I noticed last night that my dash is illuminated even when the lights are "off". My car has DRLs so technically I always have some form of light on, but my car is charcoal grey and invisible.

My cars in order that I have owned them.

Red 67 bug
White 68 bug
poo poo brown 85 Accord (it was also a piece of poo poo so this is fitting)
Red 95 Jetta
Titanium Grey 04.5 GLI
Charcoal Grey 11 Golf

The golf was the only car I ever bought new, and didn't really have a choice in it's color either due to it just being an awesome deal that I couldn't walk away from.

My next car will be red if I can swing it. There are a couple red A4 wagons near where I work, and my god, if they offered them with a 6 speed and the TDI I'd trade my golf in tomorrow.

Pine Cone Jones
Dec 6, 2009

You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!

"Stunting Real Tactics"

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



From the Cobalt community:


FAT32 SHAMER fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Jan 10, 2013

Devyl
Mar 27, 2005

It slices!

It dices!

It makes Julienne fries!
N/M, I'll play nice.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Devyl posted:

N/M, I'll play nice.

If you were going to comment on the stickers I had on my car, they were from the same company and they were the worst ones I could find. v :) v

Frozen Pizza Party
Dec 13, 2005

Tusen Takk posted:

If you were going to comment on the stickers I had on my car, they were from the same company and they were the worst ones I could find. v :) v

Definitely have a hellaslow sticker from 'that company' on my crz. It's fitting, because well, it's slow as poo poo.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



SaNChEzZ posted:

Definitely have a hellaslow sticker from 'that company' on my crz. It's fitting, because well, it's slow as poo poo.

ihatestickers? I admittedly liked a few of them, and I would ironically have an illest sticker on my car, but I peeled them all off a while ago. I got them for half off from a group buy and for whatever reason I thought it'd be hilarious to put terrible stickers on my Saturn and post it to the Cobalt community.

Going by the state of the thread now, there is no such thing as terrible anymore.

Super Aggro Crag
Apr 23, 2008




And, of course as always, kill Hitler.


Tusen Takk posted:

From the Cobalt community:




I find it ironic that you posted that here TimJim, when you're car is on the last page of the Sticker thread on CSS.

Moxie Omen
Mar 15, 2008

4 doors 4 more respectable young women being given rides to school in my car

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Super Aggro Crag posted:

I find it ironic that you posted that here TimJim, when you're car is on the last page of the Sticker thread on CSS.

There's a fine line that even I didn't cross :v:

I will say that the top picture, at least it's organised. I wonder how often he gets pulled over though.

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Frozen Pizza Party
Dec 13, 2005

Tusen Takk posted:

ihatestickers? I admittedly liked a few of them, and I would ironically have an illest sticker on my car, but I peeled them all off a while ago. I got them for half off from a group buy and for whatever reason I thought it'd be hilarious to put terrible stickers on my Saturn and post it to the Cobalt community.

Going by the state of the thread now, there is no such thing as terrible anymore.

Houseografix, same thing I assume. Was going to get the burberry patterned one, but that was a little much.

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