Pet hates - automotive

[johnydep]

I absolutely hate vehicles/people that have replaced their globes with higher wattage units, it is dangerous to oncomming traffic, as it blinds the driver. This can cause a head-on collision.

The standard globe is 60/55W, I'm pretty sure that 60 is low beam & high beam is the 60 + 55W.
There are two popular replacements, 100/55W & 130/90W

Anyone using a higher wattage low beem :the_finge

[EA2BA]

Higher wattage, melt headlights, you a fool to use them anways.

I hate coloured parkers, like red and green they are illegal and look friggen stupid IMO.

[brenx]

One word and that is "WAITING". I don't have much patience. I want my car back ASAP!

[EA2BA]

Oh and washers LED's how can anyone think they look good, honestly.

[outback_ute]

People driving with parkers on when they should have their headlights on

[geckoGT]

Above 55w on low beam is also against ADR's as far as I know and therefore illegal.
LED's on washers RICE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Same goes for the parkers!
Unpainted body kits
Big wings on stock V6 dunnydores
Dunnydores
People who drive dunnydores and think their V6 will stomp on an XR8
Huge Tacho's on stock motors RICE!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, know it alls that try and tell me that a stock XR6T will whip my eight, no matter what is done to my car (always people that don't drive a ford and usually dunnydore drivers)

[The Taipan]

G'day Gecko, I just read your signature, and would like to know about the underdrive pulleys, ie. does the aircon run with less power? does the alternator make enough current with such a device? Obviously you may not know the answer to this, but I guess they sound like a great idea, but I was just wondering about the negative side of them if there is one?

SL

[geckoGT]

no probs, in a new thread so we don't hijack this one

[TheSneakiness]

Originally Posted by geckoxr8

LED's on washers RICE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Big wings on stock V6 dunnydores
Dunnydores
Huge Tacho's on stock motors RICE!!!!!!!!!!

I agree there, however, I'll add more...

- Tachos that I can see from inside my car, even if it's worked, don't like
- Neons (Underbody, washers, valve caps)
- Stickers/decals

I will think of more.

[M14A-Mclaren]

Cars with LED's in the windscreen.

[hrtrip]

it destorys my love for cars when i see a hyundai excel with a massive kit on it and a milo can for an exhaust. it makes me want to shoot them or at least shake them up pretty good and tell them to buy a ford. :

i also hate those bloody coloured windscreen wipers that add 15rwkw. i really wanna know where i can get some...

[FRDGAL]

Originally Posted by geckoxr8

Above 55w on low beam is also against ADR's as far as I know and therefore illegal.
LED's on washers RICE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Same goes for the parkers!
Unpainted body kits
Big wings on stock V6 dunnydores
Dunnydores
People who drive dunnydores and think their V6 will stomp on an XR8
Huge Tacho's on stock motors RICE!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, know it alls that try and tell me that a stock XR6T will whip my eight, no matter what is done to my car (always people that don't drive a ford and usually dunnydore drivers)

I saw a Commodore with an un-painted kit on and huge wing at back the other day and I had a mate in the car and he's just looked at me and gone "what the hell was that?" Lol it certainly was an eye-sore.

Also got to agree with those annoying high watt lights - I'm always getting blinded by them.

Other thing I can't stand (and sorry for anyone on here that has these) but I can't stand those stupid big stickers that say stuff like "bi$ch on board" or "bite me" etc. I just think they're pathetic! Lol reminds me of one night ages ago I was out with a few friends and we pulled up next to a VN that had "0-bi$ch in 3 seconds" on it. My mate yells out the window "oi luv 0-bi$ch in 3 seconds hey? (then points over to me and says) "She can get their quicker - she drives a Ford" I didn't know whether to laugh or punch him lol.

But oh well, everyone has a right to do what they want to their own car :

[Heeno]

i hate anything to do with excels actually excels are my pet hate, burnouts on street are another, wgaf if you can spin your wheels plus most of the d1ckheads lose control anyway and hit things so i spose it makes up for it, unless they hit my car :

[merlin]

ridiculously oversized "sports exhausts" on non performance cars, e.g. excels, barina's ect.

[TheSneakiness]

Originally Posted by Fairmont_Krissy

Other thing I can't stand (and sorry for anyone on here that has these) but I can't stand those stupid big stickers that say stuff like "bi$ch on board" or "bite me" etc. I just think they're pathetic! Lol reminds me of one night ages ago I was out with a few friends and we pulled up next to a VN that had "0-bi$ch in 3 seconds" on it. My mate yells out the window "oi luv 0-bi$ch in 3 seconds hey? (then points over to me and says) "She can get their quicker - she drives a Ford" I didn't know whether to laugh or punch him lol.

That is really funny. Good call too.

[Heeno]

Originally Posted by merlin

ridiculously oversized "sports exhausts" on non performance cars, e.g. excels, barina's ect.

AAAARRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH yes, why do they do it, my mate has a 85corolla with the most stupid exhaust on it i swear its the size of a dinner plate you know the ones they have on skylines, all you ever hear from that thing is the scrapes it makes everywhere he goes AAARRGGHHH i hate it

Originally Posted by geckoxr8

Big wings on stock V6 dunnydores

A wing on any car that serves no performance purpose is 'rice' IMO.

Originally Posted by geckoxr8

Dunnydores

You're just biased.

Originally Posted by geckoxr8

People who drive dunnydores and think their V6 will stomp on an XR8

XR8's are not fast cars in comparison to alot of other 8's as they weigh alot, and hence that is why alot of 'dunnydores' (sounds stupid) do actually stomp them. If you're referring to people with stock older V6 ecotecs than i can understand you not liking them just talking crap, but there are alot of unstock Commodore V6's that will beat XR8's. A good driver in a new VZ SV6 .vs a dodgy driver in a BA XR8 will generally win and an SV6 with minor mods (exhaust, new ratios, etc) will beat XR8's no problem.

To top that off my biggest automotive pet hate is biased people, especially when its to Holden or Ford as there is so many people like this out there !

On the subject of lights being too bright. My parents both drive 100 Series Landcruisers and so often people flash us with their lights as if the highbeams are on, when they're not. The wattage is perfectly legal as they are the stock globes. When the highbeams actually do go on they realise how bright things can be :P


Cheers,

-Matty J

[johnydep]

Originally Posted by MattyJ

A wing on any car that serves no performance purpose is 'rice' IMO.

You're just biased.

XR8's are not fast cars in comparison to alot of other 8's as they weigh alot, and hence that is why alot of 'dunnydores' (sounds stupid) do actually stomp them. If you're referring to people with stock older V6 ecotecs than i can understand you not liking them just talking crap, but there are alot of unstock Commodore V6's that will beat XR8's. A good driver in a new VZ SV6 .vs a dodgy driver in a BA XR8 will generally win and an SV6 with minor mods (exhaust, new ratios, etc) will beat XR8's no problem.

To top that off my biggest automotive pet hate is biased people, especially when its to Holden or Ford as there is so many people like this out there !

On the subject of lights being too bright. My parents both drive 100 Series Landcruisers and so often people flash us with their lights as if the highbeams are on, when they're not. The wattage is perfectly legal as they are the stock globes. When the highbeams actually do go on they realise how bright things can be :P


Cheers,

-Matty J

I could say that you're biased to XR8's :evil_laug

Another pet hate is Landcruisers with sagged rear ends or heavy loads at the back, which makes the front end point up causing headlights to look like high beams, which blind oncoming traffic, which flashes the cruiser & then get blinded even more by the cruiser turning their high-beams on.

Have you physically checked that the globes are standard?

People don't flash their lights at other vehicles for no reason (mostly).

[XRated]

VY/VZ Calais (upper spec) lights that change from green, to pink, to blue to white... Grargh gives me the sh_ts!

[Paris Hilton]

Chicks that like a car juyst because it has a spoiler and a enkei sticker, even though my stock EA could whip it.

[smoo]

Automatic sports cars, sepecially Porsches. Anyone with an auto Porsche or MX5 or 200SX etc should be shot, unless they have one leg or arm.

[merlin]

Originally Posted by MattyJ

A good driver in a new VZ SV6 .vs a dodgy driver in a BA XR8 will generally win and an SV6 with minor mods (exhaust, new ratios, etc) will beat XR8's no problem.

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SV6's run mid 15's. XR8's run high 13's low 14's.

Sorry I dont see it happening (especially with "no problems")

Originally Posted by johnydep

I could say that you're biased to XR8's :evil_laug

Another pet hate is Landcruisers with sagged rear ends or heavy loads at the back, which makes the front end point up causing headlights to look like high beams, which blind oncoming traffic, which flashes the cruiser & then get blinded even more by the cruiser turning their high-beams on.

Have you physically checked that the globes are standard?

People don't flash their lights at other vehicles for no reason (mostly).

If i was biased towards XR8's i'd be backing them up? If you are reffering to me being biased towards them being bad, dad used to own one and i found it a reasonably nice car. If you're calling me biased towards reffering to the car, it was the car in discussion buddy :voldar02:

A) My parents only tow boats during the day and the cars don't sag very much as they're designed for towing heavy loads.
B) The cars are about 2 months old, the globes are deffinitly standard however the high beams are aftermarket lights.
C) The lights are very bright (the brightest i've seen come standard on a car) anyway, but they're totally legal.

[geckoGT]

Originally Posted by MattyJ

A wing on any car that serves no performance purpose is 'rice' IMO.


You're just biased.


XR8's are not fast cars in comparison to alot of other 8's as they weigh alot, and hence that is why alot of 'dunnydores' (sounds stupid) do actually stomp them. If you're referring to people with stock older V6 ecotecs than i can understand you not liking them just talking crap, but there are alot of unstock Commodore V6's that will beat XR8's. A good driver in a new VZ SV6 .vs a dodgy driver in a BA XR8 will generally win and an SV6 with minor mods (exhaust, new ratios, etc) will beat XR8's no problem.

To top that off my biggest automotive pet hate is biased people, especially when its to Holden or Ford as there is so many people like this out there !

On the subject of lights being too bright. My parents both drive 100 Series Landcruisers and so often people flash us with their lights as if the highbeams are on, when they're not. The wattage is perfectly legal as they are the stock globes. When the highbeams actually do go on they realise how bright things can be :P


Cheers,

-Matty J

Sorry, was refering to V6 hero dunnydores.
As for a SV6 beating an XR8 with even drivers ( keep it real, I could put marcos ambrose in a mazda 3 and he would whip most SS's + XR8's on a circuit) there is no way it is even close. I drive SV6's at work and own an XR8 and I can tell you the SV6 is nice but are not that quick, come to think of it, it would have to be a really crappy driver in the XR8. IMO the new V6 is a dog, now torque down low and the old one felt like it had more punch (don't let the figures fool you 190kw, yeah right!)

[geckoGT]

Other hate. 4wd's with lights adjusted too high. Low beam right in the eyes ouch. Oh and 4wd's that never see off road.

Originally Posted by merlin

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SV6's run mid 15's. XR8's run high 13's low 14's.

Sorry I dont see it happening (especially with "no problems")

Read it again.

I said a dodgy driver in an XR8 .vs a good driver in an SV6 would possibly win.

Now that statement and the next are not the same, hence the 'and' in between.

I said an SV6 with minor mods will beat an XR8 with no problems. XR8's run mid 14's, and once in a blue moon with a good driver run 13.9?. That's half a second difference. Minor mods will make up this time plus more very easily - the ratios on the SV6's standard are terrible and were designed to restrict the car in the first place, they're detuned to the max.

Understand?

[geckoGT]

Mate when you compare cars, keep it constant and use equal drivers, otherwise it is a pointless statement. My point is the box dunnydores, v6 and big wings that think their boot spoiler gives them 100 kw so that have to play road racer with the XR8, usually cutting me off in the process.

[LUXO_8]

people towing a big trailer, but having the saftey chains just dragging along on the road,

you're supposed to have them connected in a X, so that, in the even the trailer comes off the towbar, the trailer rests on the "cradle" thats made by the chains.

im also not impressed by high wattage globes, they produce a yellow light, use heaps more power and fry your wiring.

[merlin]

Originally Posted by MattyJ

I said a dodgy driver in an XR8 .vs a good driver in an SV6 would possibly win.

No you said the SV6 will win "no problem"

Originally Posted by MattyJ

Understand?

No, not really, even with a crap driver the torque on the XR8 will make up for it and reel it in. Besides you cant compare modded vs stock

Originally Posted by geckoxr8

Sorry, was refering to V6 hero dunnydores.
As for a SV6 beating an XR8 with even drivers ( keep it real, I could put marcos ambrose in a mazda 3 and he would whip most SS's + XR8's on a circuit) there is no way it is even close. I drive SV6's at work and own an XR8 and I can tell you the SV6 is nice but are not that quick, come to think of it, it would have to be a really crappy driver in the XR8. IMO the new V6 is a dog, now torque down low and the old one felt like it had more punch (don't let the figures fool you 190kw, yeah right!)

In a straight line Marcos Ambrose wouldn't be that much quicker than most good drivers and i never said anything about around a track.

SV6's do put out 190kW. My brother has an SV6 with minor mods and it beat my dad's XR8 over and over again. My dad isn't a hack either and the car wasn't a lemon. So lets be realistic and stop thinking an XR8 is a performance demon, they weigh too much.


As for automatic performance cars being a pet hate. Some people have the money and would stick with an auto no mater if they had a Mazda or a Porsche - not everyones a speed loving sports car enthusiast but they can still afford them.