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BeemerFanatic
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I hate when people do this. I always have to take speed bumps at an angle and really slowly. I also change my route when driving the Beemer to avoid speed bumps and pot holes or known roads where metro fiber or Telkom decide to dig up across the road
I hate when people do this. I always have to take speed bumps at an angle and really slowly. I also change my route when driving the Beemer to avoid speed bumps and pot holes or known roads where metro fiber or Telkom decide to dig up across the road
Skywalker325i
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Same thing happened to me in Bedfordview this week, I was driving cautiously over the speed bumps as I usually do (because I have mechanical sympathy and I don't want to destroy my pride and joy) and this Hilux comes blasting pass me and the 2 cars behind me, hitting 2 speed bumps and a raised turning circle, Dakar rally style and catching air in the process...
This level of aggressiveness on your daily commute?!?! Wow, people need to clam down.
This level of aggressiveness on your daily commute?!?! Wow, people need to clam down.
TurboLlew
Honorary ///Member
Well I just let them get flustered. They don't have a 100K exhaust system non run flat tyres and a (slightly) lowered car to worry about. Chances are our paths will never cross again so I don't really care what they think of me.
SUVs are usually the culprits in these instances and in the wet weather on the west rand in particular it seems they believe its their time to shine doing frankly insane speeds for the conditions...
I just boycott centres that are "anti-nice-cars" - Waterfall corner had a hump that they have now reprofiled. I know of so many people that just stopped going there (if cars could bleed it would look like an unholy alter prior to this). It is a stupid solution to a problem thought up by the typical idiotic security people that seem to operate at centres. it does absolutely NOTHING for security or to stop SUVs from speeding. You can make speed humps that require a reduction in speed but don't need you to do 1km/h - I can only imagine it is out of sheer idiocy or spite that this is done. Growthpoint office parks are another source of frustration.
Kyalami corner's solution to their security issues has been to erect nonsensical and sequential humps and barriers which just means that I simply won't go there anymore. You push a button and you can exit... great improvement to security guys...
mgwaiting:
No centre has a point of difference anymore with the sheer volume of them (certainly in the north) all of which have the same stores and same items at the same prices etc... In the case of Kyalami Corner, even the Elantra scrapes so basically unless you have an SUV or don't care about your car, you can't go there.
SUVs are usually the culprits in these instances and in the wet weather on the west rand in particular it seems they believe its their time to shine doing frankly insane speeds for the conditions...
I just boycott centres that are "anti-nice-cars" - Waterfall corner had a hump that they have now reprofiled. I know of so many people that just stopped going there (if cars could bleed it would look like an unholy alter prior to this). It is a stupid solution to a problem thought up by the typical idiotic security people that seem to operate at centres. it does absolutely NOTHING for security or to stop SUVs from speeding. You can make speed humps that require a reduction in speed but don't need you to do 1km/h - I can only imagine it is out of sheer idiocy or spite that this is done. Growthpoint office parks are another source of frustration.
Kyalami corner's solution to their security issues has been to erect nonsensical and sequential humps and barriers which just means that I simply won't go there anymore. You push a button and you can exit... great improvement to security guys...
mgwaiting: No centre has a point of difference anymore with the sheer volume of them (certainly in the north) all of which have the same stores and same items at the same prices etc... In the case of Kyalami Corner, even the Elantra scrapes so basically unless you have an SUV or don't care about your car, you can't go there.
sash
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Zound said:
The ones that were in the corporate park when i worked were crappy, but i didn't have a BMW then.
Tshwane has a plan for speed bumps, question is who is supposed to follow the guideline?
Tshwane speed bump guideline
r0ckf1re said:
I am the same, irrespective of the car, I drive over them slowly. On my worst of days, when I am really late, it is still considerably slower than most.
my car is a reasonable ride height if it scrapes i wont go back to the center again... im not spending money to damage my car on their parking lot
TheMo
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I always go slow over speed bumps even when I drive my mother's X3 and people always get irritated. I remember when my car was on the ground I use to take millions of years on a speed bump then then people get cross and try over taking after but then I'm already off so they cant pass :roflol:
but people get cross whether you take 3 second or 15 seconds on a speed bump, dont understand why they want to jump over it quickly then once on a straight they go slow haha
but people get cross whether you take 3 second or 15 seconds on a speed bump, dont understand why they want to jump over it quickly then once on a straight they go slow haha
Jerry_112
Member
ChefDJ said:
I see what you did there :fencelook::smilebounce:
Every morning several cars will overtake to pass on the oncoming lane just because I slow down to a proper speed for the bumps...and I have standard suspension - not for low and slow purposes...I also get the annoyed look and high revs as they speed off - and its both cars and SUV's / bakkies.
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