Ouch.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

LOL - I've intentionally set it up like that.

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Since I have an excellent mechanic, and the SD won't smoke at all, I'm going to have to resort to a diesel fuel injection system.............exhaust injection, of course.

Install a 'proximity regulator'. A pump oiler next to the driver and a line into the exhaust manifold. A few generous pumps can take care of tailgaters. Saw one on an old Volvo I rode in when hitchhiking a shuttle for a canoe trip in the 70's. He demo'd it for me and it seemed an effective device.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Yep, these days the brake tap method will simply earn you an enraged response, as per the OP's story.

Last Friday night on the way home from work, had a gent in a late model Chevy Monte Carlo come screaming up behind me - with his high beams on - just as I'm coming up to the stop sign to turn right onto the main two-lane secondary road heading toward home. He finally turned off the high beams when he was about 5 feet off my rear bumper.

Apparently he was uber pissed off that I actually came to a full stop before turning right. I turned right and started accelerating. He ran the stop sign, turned right as well, and immediately jumped into the left hand lane - on a two lane road with double yellow line - and floored it to go around me while I was still accelerating.

I just kept accelerating at my normal rate, and he roared past me as I was coming up thru 50 mph. As he moved back over to the right lane, still accelerating, by now several car lengths ahead, I demonstrated to him that my Jeep Liberty had high beams as well - equipped with Sylvania Ultra Stars.

I stopped at 60 mph, my usual cruising speed - this guy must have been doing near 80, as within less than a minute he had disappeared around the next curve over a half-mile down the road.

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Mitchell Oates
Mooresville, NC
'87 300D 212K miles
'87 300D 151K miles - R.I.P. 12/08
'05 Jeep Liberty CRD 67K miles
Grumpy Old Diesel Owners Club

The bright-lite gig is still a provocation,and could lead to escalateing the situation.

Safer to simply do nothing out of the ordinary, and let the idiot go on his miserable way.

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The secret to a long life. Is knowing when it is time to leave.

I have decided that I will do nothing to DB driver's as there are no good outcomes that can arise but rather ignore them and continue driving. If I am in the left lane I move over at the first moment possible to let them by. It is not like the DB will learn his lesson from me tapping my brakes or brighting him or driving faster/slower, etc. The only two options for him are he backs off and now I'm the DB for doing something to him or he escalates the situation (see OPs original post).

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2009 ML320 Bluetec
1985 300CD
1981 300TD

Past Mercedes
1979 300TD
1982 300TD
2000 E320 4Matic Wagon
1998 E430
1984 300SD
1980 300SD

The brake method is not good as you can get rear ended or cause someone innocent to be hurt or die. Its just not worth that kind of thing hanging on your conscience or even a criminal indictment. If its night time I just like to smoke em out or shall I saw particulate them out with exhaust. Last guy that was rude behind me got some carcinogens in his face and he hung back after that.

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1984 300SD Orient Red/ Palomino
1989 560SEC
2016 Mazda 6 6 speed manual
1995 Ford F-150 reg cab 4.9 5speed manual

Years of driving with road ragers all around, taught me that there is no such thing as "victorious revenge" against these idiots.

Consider first and foremost, that you probably won't have any personal acquaintance with any of these fools, so there is no masculinity lost by simply taking the "high road" and letting them proceed unimpeded without recourse.

Taking them on could potentially result in a fatal altercation, and leaving loved ones behind dealing with loss all because you chose to play "brassier balls" with some unknown twerp isn't a logical outcome.

The most I'll do now in such a situation is report wreckless activity to law enforcement...especially if the perp's antics aren't limited to my presence on the road...

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

Where's a 75 year old oak tree when you need it?

I am glad to have them speed away. I want them far from me ASAP, and if thats what they want, too, its all good. I have even pulled to the curb lane and stopped to allow someone in a great hurry to get around me. Ego is good, but using wisdom to tell ego to take a hike is often the better way. Let the DB hurry to his own demise--solo.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

Normally I wouldn't have - but from this guys behavior, you could tell he wasn't interested in playing road tag - he was in too big of a GD hurry to get home, for whatever reason, and trying to pass/shove out of the way everything on the road ahead of him. And it wasn't a prolonged blast - more the quick blip-blip that truckers use to signal each other in a passing situation on the interstate - just to say "thanks a LOT, bud".

Actually, I was somewhat impressed - I didn't think anything made by GM these days, especially a boat that size, would accelerate like that.

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Mitchell Oates
Mooresville, NC
'87 300D 212K miles
'87 300D 151K miles - R.I.P. 12/08
'05 Jeep Liberty CRD 67K miles
Grumpy Old Diesel Owners Club

LOL..I like the 'Solo' part.

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CHILCUTT~
The secret to a long life. Is knowing when it is time to leave.

I think the diesel method is the #1 best, and least provoking approach to employ when dealing with these questionable individuals.

I have never encountered a problem feathering the accelerator on a car with no ALDA and an overfueled IP. It drowns them, they think there is something suddenly wrong with your car...They back WAAAAAAAYYY off. It works EVERY time. And again, they do NOT get angry. It wakes them up. Every other method is just begging for confrontation.

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1987 300SDL (324000)

1986 Porsche 951 (944 Turbo) (166000)

1978 Porsche 924 (99000)

1996 Nissan Pathfinder R50 (201000)

I still don't see how you get smoke when the engine is turning 2700 rpm and the turbo is spooled???