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[daveholman]

Whilst I realise it's not a mini and therefore won't bother many of you too much, I thought I'd post some nice pics of my very clean 205 when Mr White Van man gets a bit too close for comfort. Gutted really doesn't do my feelings justice right now.

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[the.stroker]

the wife and i had white van man attached to the back of the wifes car rear bumper for 10 miles today,trying to cut her up on roundabouts,weaving from one side to the other,and the crime.......my wife sticking to speed limits due to the fog

[mini93]

ah man! that sucks! me next rally car's going to be a 205, its a shame

[taffy1967]

There are some real low life drivers out there.

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[james962]

> I'm truely gutted for you

the wife and i had white van man attached to the back of the wifes car rear bumper for 10 miles today,trying to cut her up on roundabouts,weaving from one side to the other,and the crime.......my wife sticking to speed limits due to the fog

Tail gaters are one of, if not THE most annoying thing that goes on on the road. They do my head in!

[stardude]

van drivers can be such a pain!

i was going down the M5 this morning and a big white van got pulled by a new unmarked police car in the form of a new style ford mondeo for doing some rediculous speed.

[stardude]

> I'm truely gutted for you

the wife and i had white van man attached to the back of the wifes car rear bumper for 10 miles today,trying to cut her up on roundabouts,weaving from one side to the other,and the crime.......my wife sticking to speed limits due to the fog

Tail gaters are one of, if not THE most annoying thing that goes on on the road. They do my head in!

answer to which it to have a reverse lamp fitted to the boot with a manual switch aswel as the reverse switch. they get to close then give em a good flashing!

[mimi the mini]

Oh no!
I hate them too, if you're in a mini they think you don't exist. I'm not even a womble but i get overtoooken and they stick to my bum & beep

[pyromaniac_yeti]

I drive a white van >

in the time my mini's been off the road scince my accident, ive had a white daihatsu hijet van (named hovis by freinds as it looks like a loaf of bread)
...it was cheap, cheap to run, cheap to insure.
admittedly some people drive like tits in vans, ive been cut up way too many times and tailgaited as has everyone. but the point is its a steriotype.
now my vans a little 1 litre jobbie. so hills wise when its fully loaded up then its a bit slow, and as for the back lanes it isnt going to corner.
and most of the time the people doing the stupid driving, cutting up, overtaking on blind bends etc are people in average everyday cars...
ford mondeos, vw golfs, pug 206's - but you dont get topics saying "i hate 206 drivers" or whatever do you??

perhaps something along the lines of "why i hate people who drive like c***'s part one" would have been more accurate...

not all van drivers are that bad!!

[rozzer!]

its the people who attend to children in the back seat while driving who get to me! for christ sake pull over, not manically swerve everywhere whilst giving the little sod a drink or something. grrrrr

[daveholman]

I drive a white van >

not all van drivers are that bad!!

Hey, don't worry I used to drive a white van as well so I'm not complaining at all of them, just a high percentage. I'm not entirely sure what this guy was doing, it happened at rush hour, he was behind me coming up to a set of lights, I stopped and he didn't. I have no idea why, it's not like I braked in some wierd place where you wouldn't normally expect people to stop and so took him by suprise.

[Goldie1275]

thats super gutting mate. i get bullied alot on the road due to the fact i drive a cinquecento!
i can't help but notice the fact the your number plate is "DOH"...
Is it fixable? X

[daveholman]

thats super gutting mate. i get bullied alot on the road due to the fact i drive a cinquecento!
i can't help but notice the fact the your number plate is "DOH"...
Is it fixable? X

Yes, a number of people on the 205 forum have commented on the number plate as well.

Everything's fixable, it's just a case of how much it'll cost and whether the insurance will let me have it back for a reasonable sum. I would like to keep it or at least sell it on to someone with the know-how to get it fixed up and running again cause it's a clean little car.

Just one slight update on this actually and one that I think everyone should be aware of is the fact that I had a Cobra Monaco S bucket seat fitted to a tailored 205 mount. Now I'm not the smallest of people and weigh in at about 17.5 stone but never received any warnings about wieght limits or anything on purchasing the thing. When the van hit me it obviously threw me backwards and I hit the back of the seat with some force. This shifted the seat backwards and bent the mount to such an extent that the seat was tilting backwards. Now, I'm not saying anything bad about Cobra seats or making any assumptions about their products but it has scared me a bit because this wasn't a very high speed impact, I was stopped and the other guy can't have been doing more than about 15-20 miles an hour, but to bend the seat frame the way it did is concerning and a higher speed impact could have broken it and caused me serious injury. I fully intend to contact Cobra seats or whoever makes these frames purely to bring their attention to this.

[mini93]

can you get pics of the sunframe please?

[daveholman]

can you get pics of the sunframe please?

Yeah, it'll be later on today though.