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Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« on: June 19, 2015, 03:03:43 pm »
So as the titles says, i keep seeing cars that shouldn't be on the road.
All brake lights out or broken shocks, so u can see the wheel bouncing like a jelly... loads of things that make the car unsafe on the road.

What is the best course of action? If i contact the police or traffic police? would they really do any thing ?

It really annoys me when i spend time and money keeping my car nice and more than safe and these people are driving around in cars that shouldn't be on the road !

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Re: Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2015, 03:15:45 pm »
Anything with a griffin on the front :signLOL:

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Re: Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2015, 07:35:27 pm »
See a lot of them at work

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Re: Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2015, 08:07:13 pm »
I know exactly what you mean, I take the time and expense to maintain my car as well as I can and then you see these sh*t buckets driving around with apparently no consequence, I've seen police cars in perfect view of them and do nothing. Yet if you speed slightly in a perfectly maintained car they penalise you because its 'dangerous'.

I bet my car is safer in every single way at 100mph that a similarly aged poorly maintained rover/ Nissan/ ford/ vaxhaull or anything French. I know I've used your rant to segway into my own speeding related one but I fancy writing down some of my qaurells with the way 'road safety' is enforced.

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Re: Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2015, 08:27:47 pm »
See a lot of them at work

Was it you posted the photo of a propa bald tyre and the lad asked for a repair?

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Re: Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2015, 09:16:15 pm »
Postman had bald front tyres I noticed the other day!

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Re: Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2015, 10:53:16 pm »
I see a lot of bald tyres. Typically women drivers as the vast majority just get in the car and drive it until it breaks or an MOT man tells them it's a death trap  :stupid:
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Re: Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2015, 10:56:29 pm »
Dont even get me started on dodgy tyres
Fooking pet hate of mine that worn tyres or indeed Sh1T chinese budget tyres
Personally would love to see the law enforced on this
6 points and £200 fine for every dangerous tyre on vehicle fooking pi$$es me right off
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Re: Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2015, 07:08:19 am »
I see a lot of balled tyres.

What's one of them then?

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Re: Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2015, 11:02:24 am »
Think I might have to get a car cam and report them.
It really annoys me, and yes I agree that if u do a little over the limit they come down on you like a tonne of bricks.

It only takes a minute to check lights and tyres every month. Use the reflection from the car behind to check lights from in side the car.
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Re: Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2015, 04:07:20 pm »
Quite often see Fords with no brake lights or only one of three working. I was also once behind a Rover 25 that only had a single functioning bulb in the centre brake cluster as its brake light!

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Re: Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2015, 04:51:26 pm »
See a lot of them at work

Was it you posted the photo of a propa bald tyre and the lad asked for a repair?

It sure was

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Re: Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2015, 04:58:49 pm »
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Re: Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2015, 08:20:47 am »
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WTF!

thats insane, surely the guy must have noticed how his car was handling long before they ended up looking like that?

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Re: Cars that are on the road that shouldn't be....
« Reply #14 on: June 22, 2015, 09:54:23 am »
Ive seen a few Peugeot 206's where the brake light is constantly on and when they brake it goes off!  Really dangerous.