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by Jonquirk
Sat May 13, 2017 5:23 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: chloejr31's survey.
Replies: 33
Views: 31186

Re: chloejr31's survey.

My colleague has fitted one of these to his Audi S3:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/150DB-Super-Single-Trumpet-Compressor/dp/B00UHB7LG8

He reports that it is very effective at waking up dozy drivers!
by Jonquirk
Mon May 01, 2017 9:51 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Driving Day - South Downs / Meon Valley - Saturday 8th July
Replies: 0
Views: 28610

Driving Day - South Downs / Meon Valley - Saturday 8th July

Announcing a driving day in the South Downs & Meon Valley area on Saturday 8th July 2017. Each person drives their own car around one of the provided routes, (36-53 miles), with one or two others sitting in to navigate and discuss aspects of the driving as they come up. The hope is that this tak...
by Jonquirk
Fri Feb 03, 2017 9:52 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: 4x4, winter tyres, ESC . . . who needs it? - video
Replies: 5
Views: 6931

Re: 4x4, winter tyres, ESC . . . who needs it? - video

I find that having skinny 155/80-13 winter tyres on my Yaris does an excellent job of keeping snow away.
by Jonquirk
Mon Jan 30, 2017 10:51 am
Forum: In The News
Topic: National Roads Policing - Using a Mobile Phone Whilst Driving - Awareness Survey
Replies: 8
Views: 9205

Re: National Roads Policing - Using a Mobile Phone Whilst Driving - Awareness Survey

Clicked on the link: goes to a page that says the survey is now closed.
by Jonquirk
Fri Dec 23, 2016 2:27 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Mobile phones
Replies: 508
Views: 358192

Re: Mobile phones

by Jonquirk
Wed Dec 21, 2016 12:19 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Lane Discipline
Replies: 29
Views: 25546

Re: Lane Discipline

At a recent local IAM group meeting our guest speaker, a former police officer, brought this up. According to him it hasn't been illegal to pass on the left since the Road Traffic Act was revised in 1972. Those hogging the outside lanes instead of moving back to lane one when possible leave themselv...
by Jonquirk
Sun Dec 04, 2016 9:31 pm
Forum: Learner Driving
Topic: Theory test Q
Replies: 19
Views: 32254

Re: Theory test Q

If you are really interested in getting local radio station traffic reports on your car radio then you should have turned on traffic announcements before setting off. You can then be driven mad as every local station within reception range queues up to give you their bulletin interrupting whatever i...
by Jonquirk
Thu Oct 27, 2016 11:59 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What was your first car?
Replies: 55
Views: 50841

Re: What was your first car?

Triumph Herald 13/60 convertible, which turned out to have no reverse gear as we didn't check on the test drive, and didn't realise till I'd driven it 30 miles home and needed to reverse onto the drive. So gearbox out first job. Always wanted a Vitesse. A relatively easy job as you can take the gea...
by Jonquirk
Thu Oct 20, 2016 4:33 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Fixed Grip Steering
Replies: 14
Views: 15927

Re: Fixed Grip Steering

I noticed that at one point he had both hands on the same side of the wheel similar to the technique in daily use that I call "pawing the wheel".

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