Auto Related Pet Pieves

friedgreencorrado wrote: People too lazy to turn the steering wheel enough when making a turn. You pull forward, crank it over, and proceed. Everyone around here doesn't turn, they curve. I understand that it's necessary at tight intersections with left turn "leading green". After all, if everyone did 90s without enough space, they'd collide. But when someone's on my right at a 4-way stop and damn near hits me when making their left turn, they're just berkeleying lazy.

I call these people "early apexers"... Just waiting to have my front bumper shaved off one of these days.

friedgreencorrado wrote: Oh, and people who can't be bothered to keep right on any unmarked slab (parking lot, etc.). In the US, we drive on the right..and most civilized nations choose one side or the other. If it ain't marked "one-way", you shouldn't be in the middle.

I park in a 6-story parking ramp for work... Every day, without fail, someone will be bombing through the ramp on the WRONG SIDE! After I come to a screeching halt to avoid being smashed into (hoping they also stop in time), they usually give a sheepish look. On really good days, they'll just glare at me.

Oh, that reminds me - full size pickups, SUVs and vans should not park in the end spots of a parking ramp... you've now made the lane half the size (which wasn't exactly wide to begin with) and a completely blind corner - great job people!

Living in snow country, I hate 2WD cars/trucks/whatever going up or down a mountain in chain up conditions, and they don't chain up or even have snow tires. I'm in my Subaru, doing 5 mph behind a 2WD car/truck/whatever that's fish tailing all over and I can't get by until I do an unauthorized pit manuver!

Knurled wrote: How about stall converters?

It's been a while, but I used to see Stahl converters all the time.

Biggest ones for me

Diesel pickups imitating naval vessel smoke screens.

Other lesser peeves would be, subaru owners, left lane bandits, Asian drivers(more terrifying than a person texting, getting a handy, eating, and driving drunk all at the same time), and then finally, those riding Harleys at 3am......they evidentally run like E36 M3 considering they have to be revved to hell when stopped.

yamaha wrote: ...Other lesser peeves would be, subaru owners...

?

There's a pretty broad spectrum of Subaru owners... is it just the flat-brimmed brotatoes that annoy you, or are you including the sweet old lady in her Forrester, the nice middle-aged professional gentleman in his Legacy Spec B, and the lovely young couple that autocrosses their Impreza?

Otherwise, I agree with all the other automotive pet peeves you listed - especially the Harleys

Political bumper stickers and straight pipes on Harleys

barrowcadbury wrote: Spec B

Let me add to that any manufacturer that thinks it's acceptable to put "spec" in the name of a car.

93EXCivic wrote: straight pipes on Harleys

Amen Brother!! They ought to be shot.

Why don't they ever get a ticket for loud pipes? Cars that are quieter than Harleys do.

In reply to barrowcadbury:

Around me, the only people with subarus think it is acceptable to put annoyingly loud mufflers on n/a imprezas.....old people don't own them around here(old people here drive cadillacs, buicks, and corvettes) I am to the point I would rather hear an n/a rotary with header only than another brotato's Scoobyroo.

93EXCivic wrote: Political bumper stickers and straight pipes on Harleys

but... but .... but .... loud pipes save lives ?????/

People referring to any import car as a 'tuner' car.

People that like 'raw' horsepower.

And for anyone who hasn't seen it, please Netflix the Harley episode of southpark. They hit the nail on the head.

Traction control and antilock brakes, or at least the timid berkeleys who program said items.

Sky_Render wrote: Lifted trucks and Jeeps that have clearly never been off-roaded in their lives.

The trend in the past, oh, fifteen years or so (is that too long to be a trend?) is body trimming to clear big tires instead of lifting, since you still get the grip and axle clearance benefits of large tires but without the high center of gravity. If there's any lift at all, it's a moderate lift for articulation reasons, not tire clearance.

Doesn't really apply to rock crawlers, but then that's a different world altogether

Streetwiseguy wrote: Traction control and antilock brakes, or at least the timid berkeleys who program said items.

Add this to mine.......also add BMW's idrive system

Kenny_McCormic wrote: People who fail to understand flash to pass and slower traffic keep right.

D-bags who think the freeway is the autobahn. I understand you want to go faster, but your flashy lights aren't the equivalent of Moses's staff.
Not you personally of course.

Let's see...

-"Your speedometer goes to 160mph in your Yaris? Wow, it must be fast!"

-Stupid truck stacks hacked into the bed of pickup trucks, and the term "Rolling Coal" just makes me angry for some reason

-Stretched tires, slammed cars on cut coils, stupid camber to fit wheels that have no business on their cars, and the whole "stance lifestyle": since when did being stupid become a lifestyle choice?

-People who go out and drop $30k+ on a car/truck and slap every adhesive chrome vent and scoop in the Pepboys aisle to "improve" the appearance

-I also don't get why putting Monster Energy stickers or Fox stickers all over your busted S10 makes it better.

That's just the tip of the iceberg.

1) Honda + fart can doesn't = race car

2) Harleys.

3) southern rice (diesels blowing smoke) all you're doing is wasting fuel.

4) having to stop 6 feet shy of the actual white line so I don't lose the front bumper or get scowled at for making you actually turn.

5) your civic isn't a mack truck, you don't need to swing wide almost into the left lane to make a right turn.

6) you were here first its your turn, waving me to go only pisses me off.

7) You're going to have to wait until I pass to go, so quit slowing moving forward as I get closer

8) Doing burnouts, bass, and loud air horns in a parking lot adjacent to a residential area at 11PM-2AM, then getting pissed when the cops run you off for waking people up

9) the local news for showing a single blue civic driving past the lot, and saying it was "street racing caught on tape"

poopshovel wrote: People in the fast lane who shouldn't be. Texting and driving. I hardly ever see it up here. Went to Atlanta last weekend and was SHOCKED at how many cars I passed where the driver was staring at his/her lap or driving with their forearms holding the phone with their hands. E36 M3 is terrifying!

I once saw someone doing that but with a laptop computer.

"one-uppers"

I hate those bastards any day of the week. But it's tenfold when they come up to my car at the grocery store parking lot and start talking about how they have the "exact same car at home" except theirs is an "SS" and still sports the original "four-oh-nine" and has "never seen the rain".

Pfffffft! 50 years on the road and it's never rained? Where the heck do you live? How pathetic is your life that your ego makes you lie about a car? Why can't you just say "nice car" and let me go about getting my damned groceries?

sorry... we just hired one of these jack-hats at work and he wont shut up (about any subject: guns, cars, aircraft experience...). I didn't mean to go off on a rant...

Prius owners. You'd have to be stupid to buy one of them; they make no sense economically or environmentally. They are just a guilt remover for Greenpeace and PETA members. Can't hate on the car because Toyota obviously found a niche of idiots who needed ugly cars and exploited it.

Loud pipes on Harleys. That's a good one.

The remake of Gone In 60 Seconds and the riced up Mustang abomination that's in it.

People who feel the need to tell you their small block Chevy has "four bolt mains".

Why, just why??

Travis_K wrote:

poopshovel wrote: People in the fast lane who shouldn't be. Texting and driving. I hardly ever see it up here. Went to Atlanta last weekend and was SHOCKED at how many cars I passed where the driver was staring at his/her lap or driving with their forearms holding the phone with their hands. E36 M3 is terrifying!

I once saw someone doing that but with a laptop computer.

me old school.... I've seen folk driving down the interstate reading the newspaper

Joe Gearin wrote: As amazing as it sounds I've run across two motorcyclists texting while riding!

I've seen a number of people riding bicycles in city traffic while texting.

gassers with stacks.