Not all Hyundais (or older cars) are the same. I get the spirit, but while my 17 year old Santa Fe has a lot of miles on it, I’d rather the assholes just stay away so I don’t have to go through the experience of a wreck, insurance, and possible new car payments on a newer vehicle that I have to relearn all the quirks. So I let the idiots fight each other and watch from afar as much as possible, which includes being a “beta” driver. But that’s what they taught us, right? Defensive driving?
It’s very freeing. Not having to care about door dings in a tight parking lot is nice.
Then they’ll block your road, get out of their fancy car and assault you for hitting that precious car.
I was on a bike path when a car driver cut me while exiting a driveway and I bumped my wheel into his back bumper. Well, he stopped, got out of his car, whined that I didn’t do “my” stop and ended up slapping me twice in the face… because he cut me and I bumped into his car…
So even if you have an old car AND it’s not your fault, they’l still be mad at you for existing and being in their way.
Some drunken redneck rear ended me once then got out and sucker punched me in the head. It wasn’t two seconds later my knee was on his throat. Some people just need some sense beaten into them.
Yeah not my proudest moments but whenever a douchenozzle zooms up behind me as I’m just getting around someone in the fast lane and I flip my blinker on to move back into the slow lane and I see the asshat darting into the slow lane to go around me I just keep moving over.
That’s the right thing to do though. You’re indicating switching lanes, finished passing, and they’re in the fast lane. I just assume they need to pull off at the next exit and ignore it.
username checks out tho, at least you have that going for ya.
I’ve noticed significantly less tailgating ever since my rear bumper and trunk were damaged from a dumb bitch that rear ended me last month.
I’d leave it as is… but, it’s pretty ugly. I want my baby back in shape.
I know what you mean, my paint job has degraded due to sun damage and the cars general value being worth less than a paint job. So I might as well hold out buying a new car as long as humanly possible. 😣 The cars lasted over 20+ years, so I suppose it’s a win.
Just beware.
I got rear ended last spring.
While stopped.
At a red light.
This entirely not my fault incident, paid for entirely by the other party’s insurance, was rewarded with a thirty percent increase in insurance premiums come renewal time.
You
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My brother’s car got sideswiped parked on the street, there was full CCTV footage of the vehicle registration which did it.
Although it was an open and closed case he was left without a car for 7 days, had to pay taxi to get to work, spent 2 months with a shitty courtesy car worth 20% of his actual car. Car finally returned and there are rattles and doors don’t close properly.
You
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I drove a 14 year old Hyundai and I would drive aggressively because I could play the game of “who cares more about their car”, I would never lose.
Sounds about like my '86 S.A.Ab. 900 SPG. Thing was a tank. A fast tank, but a tank nonetheless.
The Swedes always did build things rather sturdily…
- Blinker
- Mustn’t
- Work
Blinkers on BMWs are not included in the basic package.
It’s out of blinker fluid.
Dash cams. They cost very little compared to what a crash can cost.
I often wonder how many people self incriminate with a dash cam.
You only ever hear about people catching others with a dash cam lol.
I bet people hide it when they’re at fault
Oh dear, look at that, it’s a recording error. Third one this week. Oh well …
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Back when I used to visit the roadcam subreddit you’d regularly see people either posting incidents where they were at fault. Those were always fun threads. The other thing I saw a lot was scammers massively speeding and denying it in the comments after someone calculates their speed from the video.
This happened to me today, what a coincidence.
You hit OP with your BMW?
I drive an old Toyota pickup with almost nothing still attached in the factory way, I doubt I’d even notice if someone hit me.
I miss my '87 yota… 2WD long box, 5 speed hooked up to a 22r. Hands down the best $400 I ever spent honestly. It was fully painted in bed liner and had two different side mirrors, one of which disappeared while parked at a friend’s house over night, and a rusting box patched with spray foam (which always had moss growing out of it, no matter how much I cleaned or cut away). Sad times:
First time I heard this theory was in a James Bond story. Bond meets a woman who drives a bashed up car. Same reasoning; if it looks like she’s dangerous people will steer clear of her.
Problem is with your 14 year old Hyundai, you probably don’t have full coverage, so your insurance is going to pay to fix his BMW, you are going to pay to replace your Hyundai, and your insurance rates are going up.
If you get hit, the other party’s insurance pays, not your own.
correct but your premiums still go up
Why would anybody in their right mind not have full coverage with a shitbox car? It’s kinda the whole point.
Well the car is worth $500.- the repairs cost $2000.- . So the car is totaled. Here is your $500.- K bye.
Not everyone can afford it.
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