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hmmm... last friday i had a near miss thanks to a dumbass taxi manuver... i was behind one at a set of lights... 3 lanes all turn left (anzac pde into oxford street)... i was in the far left lane... taxi driver starts out pretty quick (yay) the first car in teh center lane is a bit slow... so i megrge across fast while there's still a gap... only now the taxi that was in front of me starts merging across too (only i'm beside it and there's absolutely no where for it to go and there's no way I could stop... with nowhere else to go I just floored it and took the far right lane (kinda pissing off the guy in the 4WD who i half cut off) ...

but yeah my top 3 hates list are:

1) vans (these pricks do the craziest manuvers ... one tried to run me off the road once (intetionally)

2) Taxi drivers... just as bad as van drivers cept i can see through them and give em a little more respect as they spend there whole existance on the road and none has yet tried to run me off the road.

3) big ass 4WDs you can't see around em you can't see through them... and there friggen slow most of the time.

I think atm the best drivers on the road as far as i'm conserned would be R33/32 Skyline drivers... they drive pretty quick and don't get in my way.... and there not in that catogry of cars which are so expensive that most of their owners drive them painfully slow.

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oh yeah.. i'd just love it if someone came and rammed my skyline up the rear... I already got some body damage and as i'm all insured free repairs would be sweet :)

i got a new front end thanks to this asian guy (student) in a new honda prelude (daddy probably bought it for him) who came passed this stop sign collided with a car in the intersection, spun round and hit the front of my car... i was in a lecture at the time... but the cops left a note on my windscreen... i came back to my car and was like #%$@$! WTF?!! i got a ticket?!?! ... oh cool... someone just crashed into my car... well thats ok. cost me a few phone calls to the cops and insurer i got a courtsy car for free for a week or so and it was all sorted... parra smash repairs did a good job. there NRMA approved and 5/5 star (got a classy looking reception area and I guess are friggen expensive... so its all good if your insured :D)

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yeah...if we were going to stereotype a group it would have to been white vans not taxi drivers.

Reminds me of a headline I read once.......

"White Van Driver Accidently Sets Land Speed Record"

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well i'm just tellin it as I see it every day.. i drive about 40km or more daily... and i can tell you its all about location location location... places are sooo different ...

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hehe... well .. .do you drive regularly around the CBD?

ok ... let me clarify.... city driving is like twice (or 10x) as crazy as anywhere else... now the interesting thing is some vans are genreally bad everywhere... whereas cabbies at least seem to get better the further away from the city they are.

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I would have to say one of the most dangerous things on the road is a taxi on the lookout for a fare. They will do crazy shit to pick up passengers, it's as if they think if they don't do an instant u-turn across double lines or slam on the ABS as hard as possible then some other phantom taxi will beat them to the passenger.

Even when dropping off sometimes they will slam on the brakes to pull up or go around a corner without indicating because they didn't understand their passenger yelling out to them where to stop or turn. For these reasons I always get ahead of taxis asap especially if they're not carrying passengers.

As for a smash repairer, how new is the rest of your paint? Even if it's in good condition but it's the original paint, respraying the rear quarter of the car will be noticable when compared to the front. It will also age differently so the difference will get more noticable as time goes on.

This is the reason why when I got rear-ended I got a full respray of the car along with the rear quarter. It cost me some $$$ on top but nowhere near the same price as it would have cost if the repairs weren't being footed by the insurance company.

If you want a full respray then ask the workshops what sort of discount they'll give you on respraying the rest of the car. If your insurance company is a good one you'll be able to go to any workshop you like so you can get the best possible deal.

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hahhahaah GO Ken!

actually, R33s do rule the Streets!

AND my first accident was because of a TAXI too. I was at the lights on King Street, Sydney and started to proceed into the intersection as a taxi decided to run the red. Next thing u know, half of the taxi's bonnet was on my mum's $30K camry! yeeeer!

chills peeps.

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Originally posted by [Ken]

tell 'em the truth franky

Lol!! :P

I try to avoid taxis at all costs... I don't know how many times I've turned a corner and had a taxi just screech up in the middle of the road for passengers..

You need to watch out for buses (and trucks), not because they're bad drivers, but because they have long vehicles (need extra lanes to turn), a lot of momentum (long time to stop), a lot of weight (slow acceleration), and buses do have right of way in Sydney - if they pull out and hit a car, it's the car's fault for not giving way. If you see a bus put it's indicators on, and you're not already half-way past him, stop for him and wait.

Does anyone have problems with hire cars? I've noticed that most of them are ok, but you do get the foriegners who drive a little scarily

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