Advanced Driving Hub

I walk as I drive. Looking ahead, planning my lines and overtaking dawdlers. Works in the supermarket too. Half the fun will be maintaining momentum and thus, making progress. For a while I used a J4 with a 1500cc Diesel making 40bhp as a daily driver. The above applied to driving that and keeping ...

That looks like the ideal place to see what your pupils are made of?

I used to drive a V4 Transit which had the tendency for the distributor to rotate slightly out of position. IIRC this advanced the ignition. Performance would drop noticeably but as a bonus start up could be achieved without choke, idle was much smoother than usual ( the V4 was famously lumpy and co...

I thought farmers switched to Daihatsu Fourtraks years ago. I don't know what they have been buying since those went out of production.

Flat last.

As I understand it three phases of braking are the initial ramping up of pressure on the pedal followed by sustained pressure to achieve the desired retardation leading to feathering off the pedal pressure as the car reaches the desired speed so that there is no jerk as the pedal is released.

Well done for the drive. Nice piece. Looking forward to reading more.

My usual method is to either pull over or gently encourage the following vehicle to overtake. Or perhaps the roundabout trick which has already been mentioned. What the following driver may not realise is that I have taken control of their driving; in effect it is me and not them that is controllin...

It needs Vanman behind the wheel to get the best out of it.

We were watching SPOTY on Sunday evening. My daughters were somewhat taken aback at the sight of Eddie Izzard. I explained that he was a comedian who also cross-dressed then told them to search YouTube for Deathstar Canteen.