Yes, the ignorance is striking:

Never know what space someones mind is in..whether or not they have a gun..if they are crazy enough to use it.....

I was never a champion of the 'tap the brakes' method.

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

I rarely run accross a road rager but when it does happen I like to floor it and dump a bunch of diesel smoke in there face.

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Jim

You ought to find a good mechanic who can fix that diesel smoke problem for you.................

I get the tailgating idiots leaving work almost every day. All the way out of the parking garage, through all three lights on the property's driveway, then up the ramp to the highway... THAT'S when I give the old SD full throttle, and when she's cold, she will cough out some smoke...
They always back off. That enables me to merge on the highway with plenty of room

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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I started doing that after I backed off the ALDA thingy works great !!!!


An old buddy of mine had a gasser, and had a line to the exhaust pipe, when he opened the valve it would feed diesel fuel in to the pipe. Looked like a DDT sprayer from the 60's.

me neither. Why risk your property and your body to tell some tailgater off? Quite a maladaptive practice

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

Of course it DOES matter what you are driving. JiveTurkey in his Big Ford is one thing, someone in a Prius is quite another matter.

In the interest of honesty, I must admit that I have used my f250 Diesel to smoke out one well-deserving BMW ( imagine that!) driver, a convertible, no less. about 12 years ago.

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

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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Jim

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.

Unfortunately the USDOT rules don't apply to California turning lane markings.

The yellow dashes are on the inside of the turning lane and yellow solids on the outside.

Back east, we had solid white single lines denoting where entry/exit of turning lanes was permissable.

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2013 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid SEL Premium (Sparky)
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It's a car not a science experiment! Open the throttle!

Right - they are there for a reason. Such as an intersection coming up and who's going to look both ways before turning right?

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80 300SD (129k mi) 82 240D stick (193k mi)77 240D auto - stick to be (153k mi) 85 380SL (145k mi) 89 BMW 535i 82 Diesel Rabbit Pickup (374k mi) 91 Jetta IDI Diesel (155k mi) 81 VW Rabbit Convertible Diesel 70 Triumph Spitfire Mk III (63kmi)66 Triumph TR4a IRS (90k mi)67 Ford F-100 (??)

I agree. These DB's will cause you untold misery. Always realize that the DB absolutely will retaliate..........and the usual retaliation is to jump in front and SLAM on the brakes. I'm always on top of that. I hit the brakes before they do.

My problem is how to handle the DB's in the HOV lane who tailgate within 5 feet and start flashing headlights. I'm travelling at +7 over the limit............obviously way too slow for them.

I usually slow to about 45 mph..........that gets them off at the next HOV exit. Usually they use the exit to simply pass me and get right back into the HOV lane. Of course, they must do a near sideswipe and a fake cutoff to show who's the boss............nobody can slow down their DB's selves

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