Holden ute drivers, are they mad.?

[falconhell74]

Don't get mad get even! Back off 5 -10 km which really annoys them off & when they finally go around you just smile & wave which just annoys them off more & you end up keeping the smile on your face ! Job well done.

[FGX-351]

Originally Posted by strik9

act i have to be honest seems i hardly see any floggers these days wanting to drag, plenty of floggers though.

Especially in Ohio!

[cheap]

Maybe use the service roads and avoid the "maniacs", I'd guess there's several hundred thousand people using the M1 every day who seem to be able to cope...

[mr smith]

No1 clowns around my way = V8 Landcruiser drivers

[Ben73]

Originally Posted by FlivverFord

I drive my AU2 everywhere but if I want to get passed & tailgated all I have to do is hook up a trailer! Trailer connected=slow therefore I MUST overtake you!!! GET OUTA' MY WAY, YOU'RE SLOWER THAN ME, I'M FASTER THAN YOU, YOU'RE HOLDING ME UP, I HAVE TO GET TO THE SHOP FOR MILK, HURRY UP GODDAMNIT!!!

So true, 95% of the time I tow my box trailer there is less then 100kgs in it.
Everyone goes in the other lane at traffic lights then gets a shock when I take off at my regular rate of speed, usually faster than them.

[GCRXR6]

I thought the title of the thread answers it's own question ... "Hell yeah" I mean if you want a ute, why buy a toy.

[1TUFFUTE]

Originally Posted by Ben73

So true, 95% of the time I tow my box trailer there is less then 100kgs in it.
Everyone goes in the other lane at traffic lights then gets a shock when I take off at my regular rate of speed, usually faster than them.

Towing a chippy trailer no matter how fast your going is a big flashing sign saying pass me.....then realize they're goin too fast and slow down.....only for me to repass them and on and on.

I remember these idiots in a vn ss years ago when I had the xr6 ute in my sig pic......kept on tail gating and when they finally got bored and pulled over to pass at the next lights.....I took off and beat him with my trailer on.

I'm sure it's just a case of a cheap commadore flooded market making them accessible to not so bright and mature people!

[hawkgirl]

well, the original question was
Holden ute drivers, are they mad.?

the answer is Yes.
I know this as fact, as i live with one.

[Stefan]

Originally Posted by Focusfan

Hey all, in regards for the replies about moving over to let them pass I
was in the left lane of a 4 lane highway, to move further over I would be
off the road, they had 3 other lanes to choose from if they wanted to
do over the 110 kph speed limit, which I was doing in regards to that
reply, and as the news had already stated police were out in force for
the Christmas holidays these brain dead dipsticks apparently had no idea
as to how to keep it safe with a lot of traffic around. Maybe they don't
have any regard to other people or families. Wonder how they would
feel if a tailgater caused an accident on the highway killing their sister
or brother. Bet they would feel different then. Then maybe not.?

Seriously I'm astounded you are able to do 110 for any extended time in the far left lane of the GC highway with 5 people on a Focus....I have my doubts.

[duaned]

Around here in Newy I find it's tools in Hilux's, BT50's etc. that join your typical VY/VZ owners that are the biggest tailgaters. I just slow down and crank up the tunes to avoid playing games.

[archy]

Must be from the same breed that drive Hyundai and the like with 6 inch exhaust pipe ends,that try to pass my f100,( tricked up 351),from the slip lane

[LTDmonger]

Originally Posted by Ben73

So true, 95% of the time I tow my box trailer there is less then 100kgs in it.
Everyone goes in the other lane at traffic lights then gets a shock when I take off at my regular rate of speed, usually faster than them.

I do that when I'm pulling a light load (empty container) in the semi.
The same scenario happens when running bobtail (primemover) at the lights.
So funny to see princess updating facebook being blasted off at the lights with irate motorists behind!

[_Ben]

As a P plater in a BA I don't really get tailgated on the M1, and if someone *does* want to pass me, I move over, and the world is a happier place.

[JG34JA]

Driving a bit of 90's 'muscle' as a 2nd car, it is the middle aged drivers of SUVs that, once they see and hear the car, transform into tailgating maniacs. It's very strange - maybe they remember the car from the Wheels/Motor reviews back then and must 'slay' it today?

[CyberWasp]

Speaking of Mad Holden ute drivers, can someone please please please explain to me the idiots who make their ute to look like a truck with the side lights, mudflaps, bars and aerials.
I can not get my head around the logic there. If you want a truck then get a truck. You look like an idiot driving a car that looks like that.

[Dauphin]

I think it's just a bit of fun to dress up their ute like that. I showed an American those kinds of utes once and they couldn't stop telling me how funny they were.

[DoreSlamR]

Or those lowluxes, where they've cut out parts of the tray to get it as low as possible, rendering the tray useless. I used to give them a wave whilst passing them in my V8 falcon ute that was lower than them but still had a useable tray....

What is the appeal of a dumped 90's 4 cylinder hilux?

I don't get it.

Oh and so as not to digress too much from the topic, yes, it would seem holden ute drivers are mad, especially when you get a bit of rain on the road, they become "drift masters".

[Mr G8]

When you buy a Holden, you must have to sign a waver that upon purchase of the vehicle you must at all times drive like a douchbag, tailgate every car at every chance you have, ignore speed limits and always race your engine.... Oh and have the rear slammed with a big unit sticker across the back window..

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[jpblue1000]

Originally Posted by GasOLane

He looks in the rear view mirror and The Kids still back at the corner
He never races anybody
He just sits there and scares the hell out of them

I’ve had this happen. 5 up in my 1976 golf sludgebucket with 4 inch wide wheels, at a set of red lights, and a similar aged P plater pulls along side in his 'fully sick' torana. I’m guessing he was trying to impress my sisters and her friends as he dropped an almighty singe spinner across the empty intersection against the red light while Mr plod behind slowly followed the smoking torrie and pulled him over a couple of hundred up the road once the smoke cleared and the kid could see who was following! certainly not the yellow golf still sitting at the red light...but not scaring anyone!

Same Golf different day a group of again same aged guys in dads supra, playing 'circle the uncool car' along the three lanes of Burwood highway. speed up and pass pull in front and across then slow down along the other side and pull across behind to start again while yelling abuse. Whatevs...until the driver miscalculated and pulled across behind me, right into the back of a parked car, the same car I was avoiding by being in the middle lane. I could have moved over and let them slide by but their earlier behaviour left me less inclined to be helpful.
Tossers in all makes and models.
JP

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by CyberWasp

Speaking of Mad Holden ute drivers, can someone please please please explain to me the idiots who make their ute to look like a truck with the side lights, mudflaps, bars and aerials.
I can not get my head around the logic there. If you want a truck then get a truck. You look like an idiot driving a car that looks like that.

You must be a city boy

[Focusfan]

Hey Stefan, How's the hair business. Seriously most of the drivers on the
day were doing the 110 limit or just below. But as usual a number of
clowns wanted to do 120 or more causing the chances of causing a major
accident to become a possibility. If you are a regular on the M1 you
would know most drivers hang out in the 2 right hand lanes. The second
from left is generally the 105-110 drivers and the left lane has the least
number of cars in it. Considering the 4th rh lane is supposed to be kept
clear for over taking it shows how thick a lot of drivers are. And yes I was
doing 110 in the left lane with more cars ahead of me. 3 adults and 2 kids.
And the Focus was handling it very well. My old EF GLI struggled more
with a full load than the Focus. Also just to make it clear there was not
any speed cameras or patrol cars sighted going south to the Gold coast
and on the return run a couple of hours later. So much for their statement
that they would be out in force. Haha. Fixed speed cameras are also a
waste of money as every hoon knows where they are, they slow down
to go past them then up it to 140k again. See it all the time.

[Focusfan]

A note for Cheap. Can cope, problem is simple I love my family and friends
and hate people who threaten their safety. Maybe you don't have same
feelings toward yours.

[XR6T0Y]

Funny, up until Monday this week, I took my car to work (BA XR6), and always have Commodes and whatnot right up behind me or trying to have a "fulleh hektic race bro". I have since started taking my misses Laser to work, and have not had ONE moment......

[UberKnee]

Originally Posted by DoreSlamR

Or those lowluxes, where they've cut out parts of the tray to get it as low as possible, rendering the tray useless. I used to give them a wave whilst passing them in my V8 falcon ute that was lower than them but still had a useable tray....

What is the appeal of a dumped 90's 4 cylinder hilux?

I don't get it.

Oh and so as not to digress too much from the topic, yes, it would seem holden ute drivers are mad, especially when you get a bit of rain on the road, they become "drift masters".

The minitruck scene as in one of the biggest car scenes globally...

Plenty of people probably wonder why people waste so much money of family taxi's like Falcadores as well. The appeal is getting them as low as possible, 90% via bags and the chop the chassis so the frame can touch the ground, getting much lower than your Falcon ute. Most sport ute trays never get used anyway, and if you dont think a bagged and chopped Dually pick up looks badass then you're crazy.

Originally Posted by CyberWasp

Speaking of Mad Holden ute drivers, can someone please please please explain to me the idiots who make their ute to look like a truck with the side lights, mudflaps, bars and aerials.
I can not get my head around the logic there. If you want a truck then get a truck. You look like an idiot driving a car that looks like that.

Its all about fun and BnS balls.

[BPXR6T]

I'm about to buy a VE SS ute. Will report back in a couple of months RE: my psychological state...

[2011G6E]

Tailgating you say...happens all the time on the Capricorn Highway our here, especially on a friday afternoon (heading towards Rocky) or a Sunday afternoon (heading out westwards).
Roadworks are fun...plenty of signs warning it's ahead, signs dropping down in speed with plenty of visibility...and then something like this happens...


There was no traffic behind me...apart from a Lindsay Brothers semi a fair way back that I'd overtaken a while before...and I came upon some roadworks. I'd slowed to 80, then to 60, then to 40 where the highway was closed to a single lane. Then a had a glance in my rear view mirror...this guy flew up behind me and I honestly thought I was going to get a close look at his undercarriage as he crunched over my Celica. Loud noise of him on the exhaust brakes as he shuddered down to 40 to sit close up behind me. Literally the moment the "end of roadworks" sign came into view in the distance, he was on the air horns and trying to overtake, while roadworkers were waving at him to slow down.
I held my phone up to my left shoulder and vaguely snapped a couple of photos towards the rear as I drove in the 40 zone. This is the only one that turned out OK. He was a lot closer than he looks.

Yes, rang Crimestoppers (couldn't think of another number, not worth a 000 call), and they sighed and took the details, but said "Yep, happens all the time, but it's his word against yours, sorry".

Believe me...I'd have welcomed some nut in a Holden ute at that stage...


Do old Holden utes count? I mean, I've had the WB for quite a while now, but haven't noticed any drop in my mental faculties...certainly not more than usual anyway...but I do find myself not actually doing the little bit of work needed to get it ready to rego, but instead going out and just sitting in it listening to the lopey idle of the worked V8. Is that normal...?

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

Tailgating you say...happens all the time on the Capricorn Highway our here, especially on a friday afternoon (heading towards Rocky) or a Sunday afternoon (heading out westwards).
Roadworks are fun...plenty of signs warning it's ahead, signs dropping down in speed with plenty of visibility...and then something like this happens...

image
There was no traffic behind me...apart from a Lindsay Brothers semi a fair way back that I'd overtaken a while before...and I came upon some roadworks. I'd slowed to 80, then to 60, then to 40 where the highway was closed to a single lane. Then a had a glance in my rear view mirror...this guy flew up behind me and I honestly thought I was going to get a close look at his undercarriage as he crunched over my Celica. Loud noise of him on the exhaust brakes as he shuddered down to 40 to sit close up behind me. Literally the moment the "end of roadworks" sign came into view in the distance, he was on the air horns and trying to overtake, while roadworkers were waving at him to slow down.
I held my phone up to my left shoulder and vaguely snapped a couple of photos towards the rear as I drove in the 40 zone. This is the only one that turned out OK. He was a lot closer than he looks.

Yes, rang Crimestoppers (couldn't think of another number, not worth a 000 call), and they sighed and took the details, but said "Yep, happens all the time, but it's his word against yours, sorry".

Believe me...I'd have welcomed some nut in a Holden ute at that stage...


Do old Holden utes count? I mean, I've had the WB for quite a while now, but haven't noticed any drop in my mental faculties...certainly not more than usual anyway...but I do find myself not actually doing the little bit of work needed to get it ready to rego, but instead going out and just sitting in it listening to the lopey idle of the worked V8. Is that normal...?

At least you managed to get one paragraph on topic!

[stevefreestyle]

Originally Posted by _Ben

.....and if someone *does* want to pass me, I move over, and the world is a happier place.

Just let them past......(and get out of the right lane)

There's the simple answer right there !!!!!!

[2011G6E]

Originally Posted by stevefreestyle

Just let them past......(and get out of the right lane)

There's the simple answer right there !!!!!!

Multi lane highways? Yep.

Everywhere else in the real world of two lane highways? Not as easy as the "just let them pass" mob would have people believe. Much of the time there's simple no safe way to "move over" beyond the white line at the road edge, and it is very likely more dangerous to try and slow down to encourage them to overtake, as the sort of person who will happily sit a meter off your bumper is hardly the sort of person to take care with overtaking either, and this can create more danger.

Bugger making a rule of "letting them pass"...they can wait for an overtaking lane or a clear stretch of road like normal human beings.

[Mr G8]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

Multi lane highways? Yep.

Everywhere else in the real world of two lane highways? Not as easy as the "just let them pass" mob would have people believe. Much of the time there's simple no safe way to "move over" beyond the white line at the road edge, and it is very likely more dangerous to try and slow down to encourage them to overtake, as the sort of person who will happily sit a meter off your bumper is hardly the sort of person to take care with overtaking either, and this can create more danger.

Bugger making a rule of "letting them pass"...they can wait for an overtaking lane or a clear stretch of road like normal human beings.

And also, isn't the rule that you can only over take at the speed limit? So if a car in front is doing 90 you can only do the speed limit of say 100 to pass? Because regardless of what speed your doing on a freeware, they (mostly Holden drivers) will always be right up your trumpet

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