Ford Ranger Drivers - is it me or are most dickheads?

[eckolsim]

As the post says, is it me or are the new dickheads on the road Ford Ranger drivers?

I accept as a D4 driver I have better visibility than most and am a confident driver. (Translates to not interested in sheepish driving). But my favourite pastime now is counting the Ranger drivers cutting traffic. Interested in your views.

Simon the curious.

[BradC]

I’d add Hilux to the list, but yeah. Dual cabs are the new boganmobile.

[eckolsim]

Agree on the Hilux Brad, but the Ranger has more hoon power. Plus all the **** factor tuff up packs.

[Saitch]

Isn't this thread appropriate. My wife and I came to the conclusion that Ranger drivers are the 'New' WRX drivers.
This was due to several observations during a return trip to Brisbane, last week.
Also, age doesn't appear to be a governing factor.

[Geedublya]

Plenty of them on the roads and they are attractive to the boys who want to look tough. A lot of them think they are in some sort of sports car. I think it's all dual cabs but especially Rangers.
Owning one now and looking on the facebook groups it seems a lot of the owners are after the look with poke and tyre diameter being a major discussion point.

[Tombie]

Welcome to "Frequency Illusion" a great form of Confirmation Bias

[Blknight.aus]

take your pick of rangers bt50s or anything else similar...

usually driven with minimal situational awareness, no traffic awareness but can not stand to be over taken or not be the lead vehicles despite taking up to several life times to work out that the green light means go, once moving they will drive well over the speed limit and recklessly to pass anyone who is in front of them.


Also usually unaware of braking distances, lane position, and the fact that if you're over taking a vehicle and trailer combination you must leave room to pass both in order to safely complete an over take.

If its lifted, has all the lights, a winch, side steps, brush guards belly plates and obnoxiously large rims with licorice strip tyres the occurance is usually worse.

But then, that applies to a lot of other vehicles in melbourne as well.

[PhilipA]

I think It's great!
The more that crash the more and cheaper parts are available for we staid Everest drivers.
Complete 3.2 engines are about 7k at the moment. Tell that to a D4 driver and watch them cry.
Although the V6 should be in increased availability from a couple of years out, although they may break cranks also as LR Time has found that the crank is exactly the same as the 3 litre in Rovers.
Viva the 3.2 Puma.
Regards PhilipA

[Saitch]

Welcome to "Frequency Illusion" a great form of Confirmation Bias
Mike,
sit on the beach at Bribie Island, Fraser, Inskip and the like and you'll get plenty of 'Confirmation '.

[Arapiles]

Have to say that the worst road-rage incident I've experienced in 40 years of driving was from a Tesla, and Tesla drivers generally appear to be vying for the idiot driver title that used to be held by Volvos, but with more aggression.

[Tins]

Welcome to "Frequency Illusion" a great form of Confirmation Bias

Spot on. Like trucks, the things are everywhere, and being big, stand out. You could easily point the same criticism at Range Rover drivers, or Audi, or BMW, but there ain't so many of those. Come up my way on the weekend and take a look at Tesla drivers, although with them it's usually arrogance. Are they all arrogant? Of course not.

[Discodicky]

take your pick of rangers bt50s or anything else similar...

usually driven with minimal situational awareness, no traffic awareness but can not stand to be over taken or not be the lead vehicles despite taking up to several life times to work out that the green light means go, once moving they will drive well over the speed limit and recklessly to pass anyone who is in front of them.


Also usually unaware of braking distances, lane position, and the fact that if you're over taking a vehicle and trailer combination you must leave room to pass both in order to safely complete an over take.

If its lifted, has all the lights, a winch, side steps, brush guards belly plates and obnoxiously large rims with licorice strip tyres the occurance is usually worse.

But then, that applies to a lot of other vehicles in melbourne as well.

You forgot to add that the front belly plate and front tow brackets have to be painted bright orange or yellow thus making them very prominent so that plebs like us admire them and understand that the vehicle is set up very purposefully and used for really serious 4Wdriving...[bighmmm]

[loanrangie]

I agree, i saw a P plater the other day in fairly heavy trafiic flying up the car in fronts arse only to hit the brakes nose diving the ranger then repeating that numerous times before using the next exit ramp lane as an overtaking lane.

On the weekend i saw some of the worst driving i have seen in a long time, did a few trips from home to St Leonards both Saturday and Sunday taking my youngest to her friends 18th birthday party do clocked up a few k's.
On the Saturday coming home just on dusk i saw 2 little ****boxes flying in and out of the traffic with no lights on cutting every vehicle off with each lane change, then later on we were crawling in traffic due to an accident and by this time is was after 6pm and dark we came up to car beside us again with no lights on at all.
My wife tried to tell him he had no lights but he was oblivious, i even yelled out at him but nothing. No lights on the dash of the craptiva so dont think it was because of an issue.

[Tins]

You forgot to add that the front belly plate and front tow brackets have to be painted bright orange or yellow thus making them very prominent so that plebs like us admire them and understand that the vehicle is set up very purposefully and used for really serious 4Wdriving...[bighmmm]

That's true. The ones on a HiLux or Colorado (!) are usually a more subtle red.

[RANDLOVER]

...... once moving they will drive well over the speed limit and recklessly to pass anyone who is in front of them.


Also usually unaware of braking distances, lane position, and the fact that if you're over taking a vehicle and trailer combination you must leave room to pass both in order to safely complete an over take.......

I had a clown in a Ranger exceed the 100 speed limit on a main road to pass me on a hill, so I used late braking and cornering speed to pass him in the next roundabout. [biggrin]

I also agree with other posts, that Tesla drivers seem to think they are saving the planet so can and do ignore road rules.

[Blknight.aus]

So, in arkie towing the car trailer, pulled into a bunnings car park to get some screws.

Upset driver followed me into a car park as apparently stopping in the in left lane of a 2 lane T intersection blocking him from turning left while I waited for the traffic to clear is a heneous crime and decided that I had to be informed of my poor driving, his triad derailed when I interupeted to ask "is that bash plate chromed?" which I followed up to his confirmation of my suspision with "figures" and just walked off.

Then found him in the tradies bay arguing with the staff member over correct tie downs with his 6m lengths of pine stuck into the tailgate and over the tube rack pointing nicely into the sky at an ungodly angle with the end 3m off the deck in the front.

Apparently commenting on how he should have bought a proper sized ute did little to defuse the frustrations of the other parties

[Blknight.aus]

I had a clown in a Ranger exceed the 100 speed limit on a main road to pass me on a hill, so I used late braking and cornering speed to pass him in the next roundabout. [biggrin]

I also agree with other posts, that Tesla drivers seem to think they are saving the planet so can and do ignore road rules.

I like to do this when the round about is one of those truck friendly ones that you can put tyres up onto with little fear of damaging the tyres or suspension. When I've got the tall roadies on and its a tight two laner roundabout any race driver would go a whole row of 6's for track limit abuse. If they take the left lane and the little pedestrian island has no squish bumps, any signage is in far enough and the curbs are the 45 degree ones you're just not going to see a flatter line through a corner. Best bit, so long as I keep one set of wheels in the lane, Its legal because well, truck.

[4bee]

I agree, i saw a P plater the other day in fairly heavy trafiic flying up the car in fronts arse only to hit the brakes nose diving the ranger then repeating that numerous times before using the next exit ramp lane as an overtaking lane.

On the weekend i saw some of the worst driving i have seen in a long time, did a few trips from home to St Leonards both Saturday and Sunday taking my youngest to her friends 18th birthday party do clocked up a few k's.
On the Saturday coming home just on dusk i saw 2 little ****boxes flying in and out of the traffic with no lights on cutting every vehicle off with each lane change, then later on we were crawling in traffic due to an accident and by this time is was after 6pm and dark we came up to car beside us again with no lights on at all.
My wife tried to tell him he had no lights but he was oblivious, i even yelled out at him but nothing. No lights on the dash of the craptiva so dont think it was because of an issue.


DAMN! I thought you were about to tell us the cause of the accident was created by Mr No LIGHTS>[bighmmm][bigrolf]

[loanrangie]

DAMN! I thought you were about to tell us the cause of the accident was created by Mr No LIGHTS>[bighmmm][bigrolf]

Well it could have been the 2 dickheads racing thru the traffic but we never got to see what the cause was.

[vnx205]

Since it was a few years ago, the aggressive dual cabs I saw on one trip probably weren't all Rangers.

However, the dual cabs were the most common vehicles overtaking when there was barely time to complete the pass.

On that occasion I think I know why they were in such a hurry. It was Friday afternoon on the road from Canberra down to the coast. At that time a lot of the tradies working in Canberra were from out of town. My guess is that a lot of tradies in dual cabs were eager to get home after a week working in Canberra.

I once saw even more aggressive overtaking on a trip from Canberra to Yass. A slow moving farm truck had created quite a convoy behind him. There were few passing opportunities especially as there weren't big gaps in the convoy.

One driver decided he would overtake as many cars as he could and just bluff his way back in at the last moment when a vehicle came the other way. He did that at least three times, working his way up the convoy.

He was driving a Rolls Royce.

When I arrived in Yass, he was parked in the main street.

[RANDLOVER]

Since it was a few years ago, the aggressive dual cabs I saw on one trip probably weren't all Rangers.

However, the dual cabs were the most common vehicles overtaking when there was barely time to complete the pass.....

My mate would agree about the popularity and speed of the dual cabs, as he calls the morning drive to work "The Great Australian Ute Race".

[Arapiles]

On the Saturday coming home just on dusk i saw 2 little ****boxes flying in and out of the traffic with no lights on


Driving on the freeway in the dark with only the fog lights on - so no rear lights on - is now a thing with hot hatches, and I've seen it a few times lately on the Eastern Freeway. Obviously breaks a few road rules, apart from being utterly stupid. Pulled up next to someone in a hot hatch at the traffic lights after the freeway and told him his lights were off and he put his window back up and then drove off with his lights still off.

[RANDLOVER]

Driving on the freeway in the dark with only the fog lights on - so no rear lights on - is now a thing with hot hatches, and I've seen it a few times lately on the Eastern Freeway. Obviously breaks a few road rules, apart from being utterly stupid. Pulled up next to someone in a hot hatch at the traffic lights after the freeway and told him his lights were off and he put his window back up and then drove off with his lights still off.

I suspect they might be the daylight running lights as if any like my D3 IIRC the rear fog lights come on first and then the front?

[PhilipA]

I must say I hate aholes passing on roundabouts regardless of what they are driving. Even Land Rovers.
Regards PhilipA

[V8Ian]

I suspect they might be the daylight running lights as if any like my D3 IIRC the rear fog lights come on first and then the front?
My D2 has separate switches for front and rear fog lights, which are are totally independent of each other.

[Arapiles]

I suspect they might be the daylight running lights as if any like my D3 IIRC the rear fog lights come on first and then the front?

No, these are the fog lights they're using. May be that they think that they can avoid the speed cameras?

[Pedro_The_Swift]

I think it falls under the heading "Advertising works"

I mean, it WON Finke didnt it??? [bigrolf]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmXukZpimnA

[DieselLSE]

I must say I hate aholes passing on roundabouts regardless of what they are driving. Even Land Rovers.
Regards PhilipA
How do you pass on a roundabout? If there are two lanes, then each driver is entitled to travel at their own speed in each lane. Or do you mean those single lane roundabouts that are really wide so trucks can navigate safely? If so, and one car is travelling slowly, I don't see a problem with overtaking as long as the exit is wide enough.

[Tins]

Dual lane roundabouts are just dual lane roads in essence. Overtaking, obviously if safe, is neither rude nor unlawful. Single lane, not so much.

[Roverlord off road spares]

Spot on. Like trucks, the things are everywhere, and being big, stand out. You could easily point the same criticism at Range Rover drivers, or Audi, or BMW, but there ain't so many of those. Come up my way on the weekend and take a look at Tesla drivers, although with them it's usually arrogance. Are they all arrogant? Of course not.

You have to admit the Ranger Rover L322 is more of a classy car than a hoon Ford Ranger. [bigwhistle]Heather

[PhilipA]

How do you pass on a roundabout? If there are two lanes, then each driver is entitled to travel at their own speed in each lane. Or do you mean those single lane roundabouts that are really wide so trucks can navigate safely? If so, and one car is travelling slowly, I don't see a problem with overtaking as long as the exit is wide enough.

There is a roundabout near my place at Yattalunga on Avoca drive where the roundabout starts at 2 lanes on Avoca Drive with a right angle off to Saratoga and Yattalunga and becomes one lane immediately after the roundabout on Avoca Drive.

I have been overtaken by a person in the right lane desperate to get one car ahead on Avoca Drive on several occasions.
Now the recommended safe speed into a roundabout is 40Kmh ( in NSW) and these people came from behind at 60-or 70 to force in ahead.
IMHO this is dickhead stuff.
Regards PhilipA

[DieselLSE]

There is a roundabout near my place at Yattalunga on Avoca drive where the roundabout starts at 2 lanes on Avoca Drive with a right angle off to Saratoga and Yattalunga and becomes one lane immediately after the roundabout on Avoca Drive.

I have been overtaken by a person in the right lane desperate to get one car ahead on Avoca Drive on several occasions.
Now the recommended safe speed into a roundabout is 40Kmh ( in NSW) and these people came from behind at 60-or 70 to force in ahead.
IMHO this is dickhead stuff.
Regards PhilipA
If I've got the right intersection, the merge distance to the single lane is 65m effective (90m total). Whilst I agree with you on dickhead behaviour and speeding (and the absolute imperative of getting one car space ahead), I wouldn't have an issue with a slow vehicle being overtaken.

[Tins]

You have to admit the Ranger Rover L322 is more of a classy car than a hoon Ford Ranger. [bigwhistle]Heather

Indeed. I was speaking more of the more recent supercharged versions...

[V8Ian]

You have to admit the Ranger Rover L322 is more of a classy car than a hoon Ford Ranger. [bigwhistle]Heather
Yes Heather, one gets a far better class of hoon, in a Range Rover.
(Read, imagining a plum planted firmly in one's froat) [wink11] [bigrolf]

[4bee]

There is a roundabout near my place at Yattalunga on Avoca drive where the roundabout starts at 2 lanes on Avoca Drive with a right angle off to Saratoga and Yattalunga and becomes one lane immediately after the roundabout on Avoca Drive.

I have been overtaken by a person in the right lane desperate to get one car ahead on Avoca Drive on several occasions.
Now the recommended safe speed into a roundabout is 40Kmh ( in NSW) and these people came from behind at 60-or 70 to force in ahead.
IMHO this is dickhead stuff.
Regards PhilipA

More your ****wit stuff.



Have you ever tried the UK M1 with even small roadworks?? Straight up the inside without a care in the world. You never see them again so obviously they pushed their way in & gone. Seems only idiots await their turn. I did. [biggrin]


Selfish & inconsiderate me, me, me, stuff.

[4bee]

Yes Heather, one gets a far better class of hoon, in a Range Rover.
(Read, imagining a plum planted firmly in one's froat) [wink11] [bigrolf]

They may dress a tad better but remember they were probably a 1st class hoon earlier in their driving ability.

Paul Kelly.. " From little hoons big hoons grow da de da".