around my place people always ride me when im driving down the road. how do i get the "fireball" effect to get them to not ride me anymore.

 

I just throw on my brakes and they get the message

 

get one of those remote ignitors from a gas grill. Put the spark end in the tail pipe at the end. when driving- rev, press button. Then "Presto!" fried front end of a tail gater!!

 

i usually drive next to the slowest car on the road and match speed. then watch tail gater's face on the rear view mirror.

 

Yeah brakes usually evoke the proper response. The only time I've ever been tailgated was by this crappy VW rabbit at night. Comming up to a 4-way, I hit the brakes a little sooner than he anticipated. He backed off until we stopped then out of spite, came up real close.

That's the only time I wished my 7 was a truck. Then from the stop sign I could do a little...GO! STOP! GO! STOP! GO! STOP!


My work here is done.

I like that igniter idea!

 

in my old crown vic I would just slam on the brakes,

Got that NICE HEAVY CHROME BUMPER for their molded front end to mash into.

I had a Neon hit me at a meter light.

I felt this moderate bump, ends up with the front of his cars was just screwed.

My car was fine (not a scratch) and he said he didnt want to bring insurance in, I was cool with that so we just left it.

Only accident Ive ever been in.

 

i wonder if you flamed someone if you woulde be liable.... they were riding yer *** and shouldnt have been that close to get flamed... but u never know, there are some fucked up laws out there

 

I would commonly shoot flames at cars while i was being tail-gated, worked everytime.

 

My dad did this once! He was driving his car and this guy was tailgating him, so he thought it would give the guy the message by slamming on his brakes! Well, the guy in the other car was too slow and endup hitting my dad. The guy actually got out of his car, pulled my dad out of the driver's window and commenced beating his ***.

Motto of the story? Lock door, raise window.

 

Haha that aint good..

I'm not sure about the laws there but here in BC the rear-ender is 100% at fault

So that guy wouldve have been completely at fault AND charged with assault, and if I were your father i'd be seeking some maaajor compensation

 

I use one of two methods:

1) Slamming on the brakes is a great deterent, unless their car is a POS.

2) My rear window sprayer is aimed such that it sprays out about 3 feet past the back of my car at a stand still, not sure how far it shoots when moving. But this metthod seems to work well also. It is harmless, because it's just clean water. But people tend to get freaked out and get the hint anyway.

Later,
Brian Heston

 

i like the ignitor idea.....i once got tailgated late at night and i was in a crappy mood and i tried the braking idea but this guy was trying to be a smart *** so i tried going a lil fast still dint work by now i was fuming so i hit the brakes hard and did a 60mph to 0 stop and got out of the car and smashed the guy's windshield and drove off leaving the guy totally freaked out...see i felt bad for him later on but he tested my patience and it got his *** into trouble. oh yea and by the way at the time i was driving around with fake plates....lol

 

Cool idea got to try this with my car
dan

 

i was thinking of getting fog lights installed in the back for the **** who like to flash me with their fog lights

 

Or just drive off. ???

 

During the day, you can just flick on your driving/parking lights - two big glows of RED suddenly appearing at the rear, especially when they are right up your ***, is a bit of a shock. At night time, rather than risk getting a hit up the backside, try slowly slowing down, 60, 50, 40, 30 before ya know it you have switched anger from you to them. . . then they either take off around you - or you can, your in a 7. . . have fun. I HATE ppl that follow to close, it's a pet peeve of mine too. In Aus, you are 100% in the wrong if you are the person that rear ends someone - our law (rule of thumb) here is the 3 second rule. At speeds over 80 k's youshould be 3 seconds behind.

 

One of my first impressions when I started driving my 7 was that people sure liked to drive right up on me. I realized that a lot of this has to do with the short rear end and overall lowness of the car. Still, when someone tailgates me on the highway, I like to hit the windshield washer. The sudden appearance of liquid on the other car's windshield is usually enough to make them back off, at least momentarily.

 

Imma definately be aligning my rear window sprayer up, but i heard that 7's can shoot flames without any mods, is taht true?

 

Yup.. hitting the brakes and slowing down...way downnnn and the rear window sprayer it shoots a good 10 feet back while the car is standing still .. needs to be refilled it too
In my old street ported engine stomping down on the gas for a few seconds then letting up while in high gear would unleash a nice 2 to 4 foot flame.

 

My friend had a hydraulic tilt-tray installed on the back of his 4wd Toyota Landcruiser. We were driving in it one day and some guy kept on tailgating us. So at the next set of lights my friend said "watch this" and proceeded to press the "lift" button for the tray which happened to be piled full of junk at the time (we were going to the dump). Never seen anyone reverse so fast in my life.

 

My oil control seals are going out... so i just rev up to about 8k, and let it go back down.... smoke them out.... Works really well if they have their windows down.. *grin*

 

I've slammed on my brakes... works okay, and I haven't had anyone hit the car yet... close tho.

I've also played tag with other drivers... i.e. slow down a LOT and hit the gas when they try to pass.. Fun!

Third thing I've done is have my passenger grab my big-*** Maglight (same one the cops use) and shine it at the driver behind...

 

I like the Mag Light method myself, I used to do that a lot. It seems to work on some, but others just get more pissed off, and since right now my mirror doesn't have the night flip switch, it's not good to have someone behind me with brights. Especially since just about any car's lights shine right into a 7's mirror.

Brian Heston

 

What I'd love to do every time.

 

True... I scared some stupid Honda kid straight tho...

He was driving some old rusted out accord.
I spanked his *** off a green light, and I guess he took it badly, 'cause he poped on his brights.
Well, we were on a country road so I decided just to leave it alone. Anyway, when we got to town, he flipped off his hi-beams.
We pulled up to the lights, and he was turning right, while I was going straight. He decided to shoot me a dirty look as he drove past.
Well that set me off, so I followed him, with my brights on him whenever there wasn't any traffic.
He eventually pulled into the local Tim Hortons (donut shop). He sent his g/f into the store and waited in the car for me.
I parked right behind him so he had nowhere to go.
I walked over to his car and asked him if his hi-beams worked properly. He said yes, so I asked him what his f---ing problem was. He played all innocent, but was shaking like a leaf the whole time. I finnished by letting him know I'd be watching for him...