What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[dnw64]

Was just reminded of another one - paper clip manufacturers that don't properly adjust/sharpen their shears, so that the ends of the wire have a little nib on them that catches and tears the paper.

 

[masseyrider]

All people don't realise all the time that I'm always right.
Low IQ idiots.

 

[scootr]

Car Transport dispatchers are lying bast*rds. Here's how communications go...at 9 am
Driver will pick up the car between 11 and 1. At 1:00 driver will be there at 3:00. At 3:00 driver will be there in 25 minutes. At 3:30 driver will be there at 4:00. 4:30 driver shows. Thanks for wasting my whole day.
One time I had a dispatcher tell me the driver was late because he had a flat tire that took 2 hrs to replace. When I finally saw that driver I offered my condolences on the trouble he had with the flat tire earlier... He looked at me funny and said. I didn't have a flat tire.
See line #1.

 

[WinterDeere]

Car Transport dispatchers are lying bast*rds.

Could be extended to all trucking dispatchers. I had one show up over the summer at 6pm, while I was hopping in the truck to take my son to a baseball game. They were due to arrive at 11am, IIRC.

I actually felt bad for the driver, they had issued him a truck that broke down on the way, and then I think strung him along on when the repair truck would be arriving at his location. If the dispatcher had been honest with either of us, we could have both avoided some frustration, that day.

 

[BleedingOrange]

Up here in Ontario, Bell, Shaw and many other providers will give you a repair time of between 8 and 5. Really, you cann,t get any closer to at least morning or afternoon ?

 

[Jstpssng]

Here is another reason why I hate ABS. I got stuck halfway up a hill trying to get into work this morning... the snow covered the muddy ruts beneath.
It took about an hour to winch myself out, then I had to make it the rest of the way up. I drove back and forth to pack a trail, then tried to make the hill. The rear end kicked sideways so I hit the brakes...
ABS kicked in and said "You don't really want to stop do you?" By the time I stopped moving the truck was crossways in the hill, with the rear end nearly in the ditch.

 

[Highlandr]

ABS kicked in and said "You don't really want to stop do you?"

There's been a few times where I'm pretty sure I could have stopped when/where I wanted to if I'd been "allowed" to lock 'em up. Might have flat-spoted the tires, but I would have stopped.

 

[EscapedSuburbia]

There's been a few times where I'm pretty sure I could have stopped when/where I wanted to if I'd been "allowed" to lock 'em up. Might have flat-spoted the tires, but I would have stopped.

Everybody thinks so, especially those of us who's driving predates ABS. But over and over studies have shown we can't.

 

[WinterDeere]

 

[Jstpssng]

Everybody thinks so, especially those of us who's driving predates ABS. But over and over studies have shown we can't.

Actually, if you read your owner's manual it states "under certain conditions, ABS will increase your stopping distance."
When driving in snow, sometimes locking the tires allows them to cut through the snow to a hard surface underneath. I've seen times when two tires on one side were on snow, the other two on bare tar.
You may as well open the door and drag your feet, it'll stop you quicker.


With ABS on snow it's benificial to run in 4WD. In an extreme stopping situation you can use your parking brake to transfer the stopping power from the tire with the least traction so that all 4 are working.

 

[dnw64]

With ABS on snow it's benificial to run in 4WD. In an extreme stopping situation you can use your parking brake to transfer the stopping power from the tire with the least traction so that all 4 are working.

Just make sure that, if you have an electronic parking brake (almost all newer vehicles) that you know how to make it work when you're moving.

 

[Jstpssng]

Just make sure that, if you have an electronic parking brake (almost all newer vehicles) that you know how to make it work when you're moving.

Or just run into whatever is in front of you... which seems to be the logic of driving in snow with ABS.

My first company truck was a 2004 F150.
Personal truck was a 1998 Sierra with the ABS disabled. One day I did a trial; 45 mph on an unplowed road with each truck, I then checked stopping distance. I drove my truck the way that I normally do; with the F150 I stomped on the brakes as hard as I could.
Stopping distance for the Ford was 50% farther.

 

[drssg]

2.5 years ago. Page 5. I liked the post.

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa. Mea Maxima Culpa.

And it was ME!!!!!

If I take the time to write something, I expect the entire internet to commit it to permanent memory; otherwise, what am I even doing here????

 

[Jstpssng]

otherwise, what am I even doing here???

That's obvious. You're here to memorize all of my posts and eulogize me, of course!!!

 

[drssg]

That's obvious. You're here to memorize all of my posts and eulogize me, of course!!!

In the "You Know You Are Old" thread, you recently shared that you once had to remove your own catheter. When I read that, I recalled that you had previously shared that experience. So it appears that little tidbit IS part of my permanent long-term memory.

That's going to be part of your eulogy.

 

[Jstpssng]

In the "You Know You Are Old" thread, you recently shared that you once had to remove your own catheter. When I read that, I recalled that you had previously shared that experience. So it appears that little tidbit IS part of my permanent long-term memory.

That's going to be part of your eulogy.

OK. Please do me a favor and remind me not to post that a THIRD time!!!!

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Or just run into whatever is in front of you... which seems to be the logic of driving in snow with ABS.

My first company truck was a 2004 F150.
Personal truck was a 1998 Sierra with the ABS disabled. One day I did a trial; 45 mph on an unplowed road with each truck, I then checked stopping distance. I drove my truck the way that I normally do; with the F150 I stomped on the brakes as hard as I could.
Stopping distance for the Ford was 50% farther.

The reason I sold an otherwise great VW Golf R with new highly rated snow/ice tires was that its overactive antilock brakes took about 150 feet more come to a stop on hardpacked snow than did my completely manual '72 MGB with worn 12 year old tires.

 

[Jstpssng]

I call them "antistop brakes".

 

[WinterDeere]

OK. Please do me a favor and remind me not to post that a THIRD time!!!!

Hey... better to have to remove it on your own, than install it! Not that I'd know, but I can imagine.

 

[WinterDeere]

The reason I sold an otherwise great VW Golf R with new highly rated snow/ice tires was that its overactive antilock brakes took about 150 feet more come to a stop on hardpacked snow than did my completely manual '72 MGB with worn 12 year old tires.

There are a lot of variables at play, here. Different days and conditions, but also probably different tire widths, vehicle weights, etc. It would be a better comparison if you just disabled the antilock on the Golf and tested that.

The problem I spot with all the claims people have made about sensing a skid and pumping their own brakes, is that an anitlock wheel sensor will always sense a skid many hundreds of times faster than a driver (tens of milliseconds versus seconds). People fail to mentally tally how far they traveled at their original speed, before they even detected a slide and started applying the brakes, when naming their stopping distances. This is probably the most critical factor of all, as your car might have traveled more than 100 feet before you even noticed a locked wheel, whereas the antilock system would have detected that and started acting much sooner.

Beyond that, remember that most modern antilock systems operate independently on each wheel, rather than removing and subsequently pumping the pressure on three other wheels that had never even lost traction in that sub-second window of time. Not only that, but most systems today will pump the brakes up to 20 times per second if needed, versus maybe 1 - 2 times per second for a foot on a pedal.