Instant moron....Just add rain

[W84N01]

Well well well...........what can i say????

It's raining for the first time in absolute months down here is the gorgeous South West, and i can't believe the morons on the roads already!!!

I'm up at 0500 and at work by 0600 every morning, and this morning would have had to have been the most entertaining of the last few months.

The instant there is water on the roads, people think they are drifters or race car drivers, and it's the funniest thing to watch them think they know what they are doing and they think they are really "cool", when they go around the round a bout and end up facing on coming traffic coz they can't control their cars, or they drift onto the other side of the road (only funny coz there is no one coming in the other direction), or they completley lose it and en up on the side of the road about to hit a tree or go into the ditch............sigh....

And we are supposed to be teaching our kids to drive in these times? I hope by the time my daughter is old enough to learn how to drive, (she is only 12), this generation has racked off and the ones with more brains are on the roads then.......

It's just incredible, as soon as there is water on the roads my first thought is always "here come the wannabes"...............if you think you're that good, do it in the dry at the Plex ffs.........you're NOT cool in the wet on the roads putting everyone elses lives in danger!!!!

*end rant : )*

[50LTRv8]

The amount of road signs you see knocked over in the ACT after a bit of rain is staggering, just morons.

[VXdarkmagic]

I hope by the time my daughter is old enough to learn how to drive, (she is only 12), this generation has racked off and the ones with more brains are on the roads then.......

There are always going to be idiots on the road, It would seem they only get worse as time goes on lol

[GLITRES]

There are always going to be idiots on the road, It would seem they only get worse as time goes on lol

Totally agree, but we (i'm not yet) as parents need to educate our kids.
My brother is 15 and gets his L's this year. I'll be teaching him (i'm 24) and after I'm done, If I ever see, or hear of him doing stupid stuff like that, after everything I've showed him and told him.....I'll kich him in the teeth!!!

[W84N01]

lol, i told my daughter the same thing, after i have taught her how to drive, if i ever see her doing ANYTHING on the roads that she shouldn't be doing......she'd better start running and not look back........AND she won't be getting her car back either. She can learn how to use those 2 things God gave us called legs................sigh.....

Hopefully i have taught her enough already to know to go to the Plex for anything....

[sleepa]

It seems like as soon as it starts raining the majority of the population drive worse. Not just people thinking they are fully sick drifters, but the general population as well. I slow down a bit coz of a high powered car, yet I see middle aged men and women in camrys and hyundais driving harder and spinning wheels. What's going on here?

[SV6SidiUTE]

what i do find annoying though is when people go a bit overboard with slowing down... going 20-30 KMH bellow the limit in mild rain.... on straight road.... as for "just-add-water-morons" yeah...fun and games until they end up in someones house.

[Skidney]

this is sooo true. like a month ago or less when we had our first hard downpour this year. pretty much every ute i seen turning a corner was getting sideways, i think a fair amount of them were by accident though. so easy to break traction by accident, in a ute atleast.

[Tim Smtih]

I know what you mean. But i'll add that the people that are impatient with me for taking off from a set of lights slowly to round the corner are fools. Anyone that has driven a VN in the wet will know what i mean, one tap of the accelerator and away the wheels will spin. You definately learn to respect the various driving conditions thrown at you driving a twenty year old family sedan.

[W84N01]

totally agree about the tyres spinning. When i first got my Vn, even in the dry the tyres would spin, even when i dropped it right down to first gear......now i ride on Sumitomas and i don't have that problem anymore......even in the wet they grip pretty bloody tightly...i really gotta rev it up to get them to spin, and i like that.

Make and model of car bears no meaning on maintaining it and KNOW YOUR CAR is another great one. If you know you're car, then there really wouldn't be that may problems.

it's always the dick behind the wheel that is the problem......cars don't drive themselves

[Deutscher]

I'm not looking forward to the rain. Just brought the MR2 and apprently they go sideways easy. So i'll be one of these people that will go extra slow till I get used to the car.

I know too many people that think they are rally driver or something, couple rode of their cars and still don't learn.

[2DIE]

Not defending anyone but not everyone means to do it.

A few years ago I had a series 2 Bluebird, series 3 front end, 2L worked motor, lower, 15's with 195's on them (pretty fat for a old Bluebird)

I was in QLD visiting friends, from where they lived to go to the shops I had to drive through a industrial area, a few round abouts and speed humps here and there to slow down cars because a lot of hoons like to drift the wide streets and sweeping bends at night..

Anyway one day it was pissing down rain and I was going to the shop, only doing about 10-15km left turn at a round about.. with nearly no acceleration at all the car spun around back to the way it come from. I shit myself for a second and wondered how the hell it happened, looked around and drove off to the shops.

Back at my friends house when I told them about it they laughed, they said around that area and especially at that round about there is a fine coat of oil over everything, not to mention the roads are so smooth you could play marbles on them without getting them scratched.

I was being careful as I usually am but a bit of rain on a smooth oily road, doesnt matter what tyres you have.. they wont stick.

But yeah back on the main topic, Im always extra careful when its wet and where I live it seems like most other people are too.

Now I have a VN the first few weeks took a little getting used to, even in the dry take off's when turing always got the wheels spinning by accident even thought it has 225's on it. Didn't take long to get used to it though, just got to be a little more careful than other cars I have driven.

As for Hyundai's and Camry's spinning the wheels in the wet, its probably the only time they get the chance.

[sleepa]

Yeah, the hyundai and camry drivers probably don't get the chance to spin them up much. Still means they want to think they are rally car drivers, not much difference to the people thinking they are fully sick drifters.

Also I know how tail happy old bluebirds are in the wet, had a few spins in my old one, was a gutless motor too.

The 180sx I had was worse going around corners in the wet, had to basically stop as not to spin, bloody lightweight turbo cars

[ryno_vrx]

dont worry those wet road d*ckheads are up here to ..... in the middle of a cyclone the tossers are fish tailing up and down small residential roads wtf is wrong with these people

[soop]

FWD cars are horrid in the wet, you don't have to do anything special to loose traction.

[acarmody]

I know a lot of people that drive *faster* in the rain, because they want to get out of the rain faster, these idiots cause accidents. They believe that the longer they are in the rain the better chance of someone else hitting you.

The other thing mentioned is that I hate people who go loike 20km/h slower in only moderate rain. If your car can't drive safely in the rain, then get it the hell off the road.

[VZ_SS]

Its pretty lame if people can only get there cars to slide in rain lol. Its also pretty lame people doing it on public roads...

[cracker]

rather people do it at 6am rather then peak hour?

[VZ_SS]

I'd rather people don't do it at all lol

[Jezza]

when i first got my vl back in june last year my first rain experience was interesting because its a non-lsd and i was used to driving my mums forester (4cyl AWD) and so when i went to get around a corner quickly from a stand still i found i didnt go anywhere and the wheel was spinning so i learned to lightly use the throttle in the rain when goes around corners