a COLD car? Thats just been cold started. It seems all my neighbours are like this and this is really ticking me off cause I always take it easy on my car for the first few blocks. I keep the rpms under 2500rpms and light shifts til at least I get down the street, onto the main street and pick up speed to get it warm. Its like maybe 10 houses from my house to the main street, I aint gonna red line it you idiots! I just dont get this whole mentality of everyone flooring it, slamming on brakes, flooring it, slamming on brakes.
Sorry I cant help but laugh each time, but everyday, every morning, of all hours I constantly hear people on my block starting their cars, backing out....and they gun it. Even in the -30 winters, doesnt matter, they still do it. I can hear it from my basement! Everyones driving their cold cars like their on a race track. Everyones in such a rush to leave in the mornings and its all about who guns it faster for bragging rights. And who can get ahead of the pack. Like really?
They just floor it when the car is cold to the end of the short block, brake hard, then redline it again to the next stop.
i mean theres even some people on my block who floor it in reverse out of their driveway. Just last week I saw this one guy, 6 houses from me, floors it in reverse and nearly hit a car parked across the street.
I always have to monitor and see if I can get away with no one behind me but often I get stuck with these morons behind me that get so impatient. We get onto the main road and they almost always pass me cause they all floor it. So what if they get impatient, im not wrecking my car and blowing a head gasket or my engine by redlining a cold engine. My car and trans does not get hot after doing down 2 blocks!
Or people after a turn will roar past me, then cut back in front of me. For what? to gain 10ft? Everyone on my block is so impatient.
Sorry I cant help but laugh each time, but everyday, every morning, of all hours I constantly hear people on my block starting their cars, backing out....and they gun it. Even in the -30 winters, doesnt matter, they still do it. I can hear it from my basement! Everyones driving their cold cars like their on a race track. Everyones in such a rush to leave in the mornings and its all about who guns it faster for bragging rights. And who can get ahead of the pack. Like really?
They just floor it when the car is cold to the end of the short block, brake hard, then redline it again to the next stop.
i mean theres even some people on my block who floor it in reverse out of their driveway. Just last week I saw this one guy, 6 houses from me, floors it in reverse and nearly hit a car parked across the street.
I always have to monitor and see if I can get away with no one behind me but often I get stuck with these morons behind me that get so impatient. We get onto the main road and they almost always pass me cause they all floor it. So what if they get impatient, im not wrecking my car and blowing a head gasket or my engine by redlining a cold engine. My car and trans does not get hot after doing down 2 blocks!
Or people after a turn will roar past me, then cut back in front of me. For what? to gain 10ft? Everyone on my block is so impatient.
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