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[lapsang1979]

I get alot of people deliberately up my backside as i try and negotiate all the bloody speed bumps that plague London streets but tonight a white van man has nearly caused an accident by pretty much ignoring me.

Someone has parked on the corner of the junction i'm coming out of tonight and i really can't see without edging out. from nowhere mr wvm have swerved around me to turn right just as i decide it's clear to go. I can't tell you what i would have done to him if he'd damaged my car. Does anyone else think you get treated badly in a mini by other road users?

PS as far as speed bumps go i'm seriously considering complaining to the council because i'm going to damage my spine continually driving over them.

Edited by mike174, 29 October 2012 - 07:40 PM.

[Mini Mad Drakeley]

ive not actually found anyone who tries to intimidate me on the road, so far its been people just stopping and letting me go and genearlly being nice

[minidave1991-89]

Never been intimidated in my mini..people are actually more courteous and let me go first.

[Cooperman]

You shouldn't need to slow any more than other vehicles for speed humps. I find that most vehicles slow too much for my liking.

[lapsang1979]

You shouldn't need to slow any more than other vehicles for speed humps. I find that most vehicles slow too much for my liking.

alot of the bumps are really up and down and i bang the bottom on them

[lapsang1979]

Never been intimidated in my mini..people are actually more courteous and let me go first.

perhaps it's a certain type

[Alex_B]

Oh yeah I do a fair amount of driving a week and thus pick up idiots regularly, but its not people that try to intimidate me thats the problem its people mis-judging me, roundabouts going round at the speed limit and people pulling out when they see an little old mini and then are very surprised when they look in their mirror to see me right there behind. very annoying when they pull out at the last minute and I have to hit the brakes.

But I do get idiots cutting me up on the a27 a lot, very annoying

[mars red mike]

I know exactly where you are coming from mate. I get it alot, mainly going to and from work. Knobheads ride my bumper, overtake then pull straight back in again. Seem to have the mentality of 'cant sit behind a Mini got to get past it, got to get past it'. Just tonight on the way home from work I was stuck in traffic with some dingus inches from my back bumper with his main beam stuck on. Had to bend the interior mirror down to stop me being blinded.

[CMXCVIII]

My Mini, which has new cones and runs standard ride height, flies happily over London speed humps every day without grounding!

... and I'm another who has found that people tend to smile at a Mini and let you pull out.

[Midas Mk1]

Had to use my horn twice on a 6 mile convoy yesterday, with the mk1 behind me nearly being squashed by a beemer on a roundabout.

People take advantage of Minis and try bully you around - I dont stand for it, thank god for airhorns

I find when people tailgate you, it's best ,especially when its impossible for them to overtake, to drop to 20 or so... soon winds them up

[MINI WILL]

Had the same thing happen to me, Audi comes flying up behind me tailgating me for 8 odd miles she had plenty of chances to overtake cleanly, no she decided to play tailgate the mini game, coming up to a junction slowing down and shes about 1 foot off my bumper, at this point iv had enough and wound down the window and gave her back off your to close hand gesture! she then backed off for about half a mile and then overtook me tooting and flashing swearing i then let my air horns off to thank her.

ha ha ha good old minis!

[firstforward]

I have to agree with some of the points raised on here, I tend to find I drive faster than I feel in the mood for sometimes to keep them away from my bumper, the other side of the coin is they are more tolerant of being overtaken as you pull in front of them when really you should not have.

I guess there are speed bumps and speed bumps, I really cannot drive over them at the same speed as most cars but I am about to get some coil springs fitted in my latest mini so that will help a lot, what do you think Mr Cooperman ??

[86mayfair]

Having coil overs won't do much about grounding on speed bumps. What will help more is putting it back to standard ride height, either by changing collapsed cones or raising it if it has been lowered

[firstforward]

I do appreciate that, I never mentioned grounding out, just the uncomfortable jolt of a speed hump or pot hole for that matter, I have no experience of coilovers but coil springs yes, I always fit them with excellent results.

[iMurray]

But I do get idiots cutting me up on the a27 a lot, very annoying

which part of the a27? In a Southampton lad so I know the a27/m27 rather well.