Don't you hate people who leave their blinkers on... Now I'm one of them!
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Don't you hate people who leave their blinkers on... Now I'm one of them!
One pet peeve of mine is people who are driving down the road with their blinker on, oblivious to their surroundings. I often think "don't they know what they are doing???... hey stupid! turn the blinker off". Well, it happened to me. I have owned a few cars before and never had this problem. The Z blinker is VERY difficult to tell when it is left on. It is nearly silent and the visibility of the "micro bubble" is not so great.
I was on the highway in the left lane. After a couple of minutes, the car in front of me puts his left blinker on. I think "what is he doing....". After a while, I realized he was telling me that my blinker was on. I felt pretty stupid. So yeah.... I am one of "those" people now, and I consider myself to be an alert driver.
Has this happened to anyone else???
I was on the highway in the left lane. After a couple of minutes, the car in front of me puts his left blinker on. I think "what is he doing....". After a while, I realized he was telling me that my blinker was on. I felt pretty stupid. So yeah.... I am one of "those" people now, and I consider myself to be an alert driver.
Has this happened to anyone else???
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I think Ive done it once... but no one ever informed me of it, so I dont think I left it on very long. But I ALWAYS pull in front of people who leave theirs on and flash my blinkers on each side going back and forth.... usually they never catch on.
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Originally Posted by Silver_Racer
One pet peeve of mine is people who are driving down the road with their blinker on, oblivious to their surroundings. I often think "don't they know what they are doing???... hey stupid! turn the blinker off". Well, it happened to me. I have owned a few cars before and never had this problem. The Z blinker is VERY difficult to tell when it is left on. It is nearly silent and the visibility of the "micro bubble" is not so great.
I was on the highway in the left lane. After a couple of minutes, the car in front of me puts his left blinker on. I think "what is he doing....". After a while, I realized he was telling me that my blinker was on. I felt pretty stupid. So yeah.... I am one of "those" people now, and I consider myself to be an alert driver.
Has this happened to anyone else???
I was on the highway in the left lane. After a couple of minutes, the car in front of me puts his left blinker on. I think "what is he doing....". After a while, I realized he was telling me that my blinker was on. I felt pretty stupid. So yeah.... I am one of "those" people now, and I consider myself to be an alert driver.
Has this happened to anyone else???
You know what I hate worse though, people who don't use signals at all. Maybe it is a Southern thing, but people around here do not use turn signals. I hate being behind people who turn with no signal. I always blow the horn at them and they look at me like I am crazy. I wish law enforcement looked at not using turn signals like they do speeding or other traffic violations.
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I am in Houston. I do use signals sometimes. You can figure that if someone is using their signals, they are out of town or the car has short-circuited.
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I'm guilty of this too ... never had the problem before the Z and always thought it was just an old folks problem. I really can not hear the thing if the A/C or Radio are on and as you say the light indicators are not very good attention grabbers during daytime. It embarasses me when I notice I've had them on for a mile or two.
Does anybody make an after market clicker that makes more noise?
Does anybody make an after market clicker that makes more noise?
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Worse than one turn signal
is when the hazards are on, and both turn signals are flashing. That happened to me once when the top was down. I hit the hazard button on accident (nissan's great button placement ) and was cruizing down the street. I found out only when I stopped at a light and changed over a CD. I heard the faint ticking. I sped off like a bat out of hell once the light changed green though.
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Used to be standard equipment...Now costs extra!
I agree with the other guys above, you'd think they didn't have turn signals in most cars since almost no one uses them. I hate waiting to pull out and you wait for the oncoming idoit to pass by and he turns into the street/entrance in front of you.....Grrr!!
And I've left the signals on too, can't hear them clicking with the music up and the wind noise...
And I've left the signals on too, can't hear them clicking with the music up and the wind noise...
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I'd rather people leave them on than not use them. Around here all the people with really expensive cars never use their blinkers unless they are using their hazards to park in a fire lane. For some reason they think that hazard lights allow you to do whatever the hell you want. I always go by screaming, "What that $100,000 didn't come with blinkers jackass!" It's friggin annoying when someone cuts you off w/o even using a blinker, at least if the signal it gives you a little warning.
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Originally Posted by Paul350Z
Better than the Mercedes Benz cars. You'd figure in a +$50K car they'd put turn indicators in ... I have yet to see a MB driver use their blinkers when making a lane change.
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On a side note, I still sometimes accidenaly turn my headlights off when using my turn signals. Thing is, the xenon headlights aren't that bright and a few times I've driven down a dark road for a while with them OFF.
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Originally Posted by taurran
On a side note, I still sometimes accidenaly turn my headlights off when using my turn signals. Thing is, the xenon headlights aren't that bright and a few times I've driven down the road for a while with them OFF.
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Man I hate it when people leave their blinkers on! It confuses other drivers. Unfortunately, I have become one of them. I do that atleast twice a day, the Z blinkers are cool to look at but you can't really see it or hear it. I like the fisheye lenses . I often look in my rearview mirror to see how many pissed off people there are behind me, hehe. I think I'm too conservative of a driver where I signal for everything, I think I'm going to have to cut down.