drivers tag
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Drivers with death wishes, what have you seen? people entering motorway at 60kph when traffic on motorway is moving at around 100kph. someone reversing out of driveway onto other side of busy road. someone doing a U turn in front of you from other side of road - in the wet. |
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Subaru legacy drivers window problem have an 02 legacy. The drviers windows plays up. If I try to close the window in auto mode, it will go up about 1/3 the way then go back down. If I flick the up swtich in short bursts, I can sometimes get it back up to the top but need to leavesmall gap b... |
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Update to drivers door zapping me and you clever person who mentioned it could be my ugly new white plastic shoes.i havent worn them since and not a zap in sight .all fixed so thanks to those who suggested i remove items of clothingetc . all clothes are present and correct .oh bliss no more n... |
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Drivers door is zapping me constantly what do i do as soon as i touch door inside or out i am getting zapped .this has only been doing this for the last week ,it is after i turn off the key to get out . i am getting loathe to drive it as it is not nice .any help with a remedy please. |
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Drivers license endorsement certificates I completed the course for a WTR endorsement in 2009, but never got it endorsed because I lost the certificate, at the time I went to the AA who said that it never expires, so when it turns up just bring it in and put it on your license. Anyway, todayfina... |
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Do you need a drivers wing mirror for wof What year is the car! |
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Drivers door for 1990 for laser hi there new to this message board thing but he is hoping that someone knowswhere i can find this car part! any helpers out there! |
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Mk 5 Ford Cortina Drivers window regulator. Does anyone have one of these lying around. For the drivers side. Would be willing to pay. |
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Wanted toyota starlet drivers window anyone have a non drop hatch 4 door kp drivers window they would like to list! |
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Things drivers do without rhyme nor reason, like *entering a motorway with a clear lane ahead dedicated to the onramp lane but move over to the second lane anyway into the path of faster moving traffic. *following a another car on a two lane highway then pull out, move up alongside and slow down again t... |
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Truck drivers and TSL numbers ! i was wondering how long it takes to get the TSL number . i have just applied to NZTA. cheers Paul |
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Are you patient towards Learner Drivers? Just went for a driving lesson with my manager, got abused twice on the road, got the finger, and was tailgated by some idiotic moron, when clearly I had L plates on. I drove around a non-busy traffic area. I didn't speed, nor did I drive slow, minimu... |
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D i c disqualified drivers If you know enough detail to pin him down (eg name, address, DoB) you can obtain a certificate of particulars from the NZTA. It won't give you a licence number but will tell you whether or not he's licenced. Sounds like you already kno |
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Dim Drivers, are you one? This was my original first post of the thread. What is so offensive about it! Now when the daylight have reduced it is time to think about visibility again. See and be seen by other road users. Too many people drive without lights until |
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Wind Whistle in Drivers Door when moving! I've got a 1999 subaru impreza (the ones with no door frame - just the window against a rubber) and when Im driving there is a whistling/breeze type noise coming in from the rubber somewhere along the window. Is there anyway I can stop this/get a new rubb... |
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It's not just inexperienced drivers. that think they're better drivers - there are plenty of so-called 'experienced' drivers out there that are still incompetent and unsafe at any speed. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm!c_id=1&objectid=10749856 |
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Alcohol Limits for Supervisors of Learner Drivers I can't find anything in the road code that says that a supervisor of someone on a learners licence must be below the legal alcohol limit.(I know this would be foolish - so I am not condoning it.) But if a learner is stopped as a checkpoint, do they b... |
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Toyota Corolla 1989 SE Limited - drivers door? Rust is starting to show through the bottom of the drivers door and I was told at the last W.O.F. check that it won't pass the next check.I was also told that buying a door can work out cheaper than going to the Panel Beaters.I am new to all this &quo... |
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Insurance for drivers under 25 Which in your opinion is the best insurance for a driver under 25, on their first car. Cheers |
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Queues, Why don't drivers drive like they walk. what cracks me up is that the majority of people in this post think we should drive the way we walk. ok so what would happen to you on the footpath if someone walking faster than you came up behind! would you move over to let them past or would you step s... |
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Identifying idiot drivers by cars. While the new Accords are nice, and it would be good reliable motoring, they don't "do" it for me compared to my Dore with 20s. Yes, call it a mid life crisis if you want, but I am allowed to have some fun after all these years working hard.... |
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Dropkick drivers Has anyone had anything like the motorway rammers happen to them? https://ww |
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Still Blaming Tourist Drivers? err its all tourists including local holiday road warriors in their ego utes and over rated SUV's towing the titanic. |
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".targeting drivers going 1 to 10 km/h over" https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/123721241/one-district-ruled-them-all-when-it-cam |
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Worst drivers and the cars they drive So am I pity there are not more of us to annoy the cloud dwellers |
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Truck drivers question. How hard is it to get into truck driving at a mature age? Would love to drive a fuel tanker. |
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Kiwi race car drivers in accident Not even at the track, hope all concerned recover. http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/65864429/kiwi-race-car-drivers-injured-in-nsw-crash |
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90km/h motorway drivers apparently wasn't a concern to the A train that followed me at 100 from Waiouru to National Park . |
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Christchurch truck drivers Just interested to know if anyone still uses AM cb for general communications, or what is used these days? |
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NZ Drivers versus foreigners To all those that bitch about the quality of our drivers and roads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d28O10gTjaY#t=75 where would you rather be. |
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Drivers need to stop crossing the centreline In one day three accidents where car were on the road side of the road, why aren't the police enforcing this? it is a common cause of crashes this year yet police are doing nothing about it ! they are still chasing drink driving and speeding , it's time p... |
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Hey Truck drivers, Do large modern trucks have ABS or similar systems? I could google It but hey, no fun in that. And yes something did happen to have me ask this |
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Canstaff recruiting 1000 Irish Truck Drivers. https://www.irishcentral.com/news/new-zealand-is-recruiting-1-000-irish-truck-drivers I can't beli |
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I wonder how many of our expert drivers This includes https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/97680411/almost |
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Drivers Seat Rail Extension It it possble to Do, To gain some more leg room. |
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Innocent drivers can get replacement car paid for Ruling just out- can imagine people paying off the cost $5 a week |
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Tourist drivers This may have already been asked and answered, but does the recent death of a prominent rugby player driving overseas mean we get to have a discussion about bad driving practices by Kiwis when they are tourists in other countries? Or do Kiwis only get ups... |
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Why do some drivers. (add your own ending) * follow slow cars, pull out to pass them, get alongside then slow down to the same speed blocking the whole double lane road * back out of driveways without turning the wheel so instead of ending up reasonably parallel to the curb they block the whole ro... |
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Women Drivers From 1923, nothing changes. Caption reads "Mrs. Dorothy Holland, 20 years old, of Baltimore, lies in Georgetown University Hospital suffering from internal hemorrhages as a result of an automobile in which she was riding going over a 30-foot embankment ne... |
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Police don't have to chase Commodore drivers in Aussie ,they come to them http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-04/canberra-man-crashes-car-into-police-station-in-failed-burnout/6751802 |
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Women back seat drivers put your foot down. Ladies don't sit in the passenger seat like a stuffed duck when your partner or husband is speeding and overtaking, to feed his bloated ego. PUT YOUR FOOT DOWN He thinks nothing of putting the lives of yourself and maybe your children at risk.When he puts... |
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Is a drivers license A right. Or a privilege? Just interested in your opinions. I would of thought it's a person's right they can also have them rights removed. Or does that then make it a privilege? |
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Overseas drivers not used to our roads? just went out to motueka via inland highway, an open road with nice open sweepers, nothing less than 65km posted corners. Gentle stuff. Mates young adult Chinese students wanted to follow in their car, a late model Nissan Maxima. Once we got onto inland h... |
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Drivers window not aligned. I've just put another regulator into the Nissan, but it's not tracking right when it gets to the top - top back is almost coming out of the track. could it be the actual track [I had to undo the bottom of the front track to get the window up] - or have I ... |
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Aggressive drivers Something I've noticed is whenever I see a bad, aggressive driver that there is almost always 4 interlinked circles where the car badge usually goes. Is this a symbol for a secret society of wankers? One guy came speeding up behind a line of traffic on th... |
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Overseas drivers no insurance Got side swiped by a driver changing lanes, he never saw the dodge ram beside him , he tells me sorry I should have looked first before changing gives me phone number and name ,also then tell he is not insured because its a cheapy my insurance company can... |
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Tourist drivers Came back from Te Anau today after a roadie to beautiful Milford Sound ( where there were so many tourists you could not get a park ). Some of the driving I witnessed was horrific, they don't know what yellow lines mean, drive a ridicously slow speeds , b... |
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Seatbelt for toyota corolla drivers side I am looking for a seatbelt to replace my drivers side as it has frayed and failed wof. It is a toyota corolla 1989 hatchback and needs a replacement. I found an auction with a guy selling bulk lots of them and wanted to know if Toyota Corolla AE80/AE82 R... |
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Self righteous drivers grrr sitting in a line long of traffic in a 100kph zone, old chook 3 cars ahead at the front doing 60 holding everyone up. Yellow lines end so I indicate, pull out & overtake, oncoming car appears in the distance but I get past, indicate & move back le... |
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Drivers license. Just had torenew mine amp noticed on thepiece of paper they give you there isconditions amp 1 saysonly vehicles Just had torenew mine & noticed on thepiece of paper they give you there isconditions, & 1 says"only vehicles with automatic transmission may be driven". So does that mean anyone who got their license in an auto can only drive an autonow... |
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Drivers license. Just had torenew mine amp noticed on thepiece of paper they give you there isconditions amp 1 saysonly vehicles Just had torenew mine & noticed on thepiece of paper they give you there isconditions, & 1 says"only vehicles with automatic transmission may be driven". So does that mean anyone who got their license in an auto can only drive an autonow... |
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An apology to car drivers. I should not ride my bike to work. I should not ride my bike close to parked vehicles. I should allow plenty of room between you and me. I should know what you are going to do next. I should swerve to avoid your car door which opens suddenly. I should all... |
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Random question for all subaru drivers I own a subaru impreza gf 1999 model. only has 65000 on the clock. I was wondering what is the best fuel to run it on, at the moment im using, 91 octane. from bp/caltex. but wanna know your opinions and reasons.thank you kindly. |
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Talking about drunk drivers isn't ok? So Trade me --its ok to throw garbage around message boards. But when an innocent person is killed by a drunkdriver we will remove the thread discussing it. GOOD ONYA. -Ohh and for the record no Im not deraling is second hand whispered half facts. EVERYTH... |
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1990 VW Passet GT. Any short cuts to fixing the drivers door handle apart from replacement it39s pulling away from the door in t Any short cuts to fixing the drivers door handle apart from replacement. It's pulling away from the door in the middle of the handle Probable cost of replacement front brake rotors as well & are they easy enough to swap over (no sneaky tricks) |
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VT Holden Drivers window. my electric drivers window on the vt holden has been acting up lately but tonight it went down and wont come back up, the motor is working but the window just wont move. Any suggestions! |
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Chrysler 300C drivers What is it about this car that attracts complete twats to buy it! You aren't driving a Bentley, and nobody thinks you are (apart from you). |
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Any Wingroad owners or drivers here? Very keen on a Wingroad wagon, 2005 onwards with the 1.8 motor. Haven't driven one yet, but a lot of online forums say they are a Tiida underneath. Drove a Tiida and thought it was great, but much prefer the Wingroad styling wise and would be more use... |
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Elderly drivers ? Selecting the wrong gear seems to be a problem lately, or is it just silver cars http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm!c_id=1&objectid=10850332 http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm!c_id=1&objectid=10850735 |
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Jeeze slow drivers. Why do people drive so slow.! Your allowed 10k's over the limit, so use it. |
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Do female drivers have different traffic rules! I have noticed many times that female drivers behave differently and make different mistakes in traffic than male drivers.Males make stupid overtaking and tailgating to be fair. What I have noticed with women is that often they are a majority of those who... |
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Getting drivers licence back who do you need to apply to, to get your drivers licence back after it has been taken off you! NZTA! cheers |
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Elderly Drivers Thought this was rather good. http://images.trademe.co.nz/photoserver/83/239541283_full.jpg |
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Hilux Lift. Calling all recreational 4x4 drivers out there i have a 28d hilux double cab and i am wanting to do a 3inch suspensi Calling all Recreational 4x4 drivers out there, I have a 2.8D Hilux Double Cab and I am wanting to do a 3inch suspension lift. I am after a setup that is a good mix of on road and recreational off roading. I am in CHCH and after brands of shocks and suppl... |
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Drivers license testing. 64% Failed a few months ago.54% failed last month.(NZH) Is it a revenue gatherer for those involved in licensing drivers.Should the tests be done from a police station instead whereby their is no financial qain to the privateer.seems ludacris too me that ... |
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Why don't taxi drivers have euros? In general there is a lack of euros being used as taxis. We have plenty of Jappas, some aussie steel rolling around and now a few korean cars but hardly any Euros! Anyone know why! The most common I think I have seen is the Pug 407 HDi |
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HQ Drivers Door Anyone got a good one! its for an insurance repair but just cant find one around that is actually any good.Cheers |
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Drivers licence I have just realised that my drivers licence has expired! I am only on my restricted and have been for 10yrs and see that has endorsement has expired as well - does anyone know if i have to now resit the test or can i just go in and pay for a renewel of l... |
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Subaru legacy B4. I own a 1999 subaru b4 non turbo it has the hid bulbs in it now my problem is the drivers low beam starting fl I own a 1999 subaru B4 non turbo. It has the HID bulbs in it, now my problem is the drivers low beam starting flickering a few weeks ago when lights were turned on, but it still worked. but then a few days ago it just stopped working. I took the bulb out ... |
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Where are the worst drivers in NZ So having driven all over our lovely country where do you think the worst drivers live |
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Mitsubishi Diamante Drivers seat HELP I have a problem with my Mitsubishi Diamante Drivers seat it will not go back I think is locked in the forward postion it just makes a click sound how can I unlock it PLEASE HELP! |
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What's with Holden Drivers? Driving back from Geraldine yesterday back to CHC and this twat in a VR commodore didn't like being passed down the passing lane. Pretty much tail gated me all the way to Christchurch. Obviously didn't like being passed by a VW Passat Tdi. |
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Toyota Corolla.. Front drivers headlight for a 1989 cielohave tried wreckers and japcarparts with no successany help appreciated front drivers headlight for a 1989 Cielo.Have tried wreckers and jap.carparts with no success.Any help appreciated. |
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I tried to set up a website 4 women drivers but it kept crashing . |
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Private car sale and test-drivers So the old Corona is going to be up for sale soon. It??™s fully insured (and registered and warranted) but only for drivers with full licence over 25.What is the norm for private sellers when someone who doesn??™t meet these criteria wants to take it ... |
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Mazda 323 Cabriolet Drivers side window Anyone know where i can get one of those windows, it seems they don't make them anymore so need to source a second hand one. |
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Hamilton drivers Your council is consideringhaving Parking Wardens prowling the various private mall carparks looking for un-warranted and un-registered cars.Not sure that they have the right to ticket cars in private carparks but the council wants more money so be warned... |
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Drivers window not staying up my drivers window in my 94 nissan mistral wont go up or down, have wedged it up but is a pain going through the drive through arrgg lol,does anyone know if it is very expensive to get fixed |
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Trucks and bad drivers as per a tv show Hmm im thinking that its no coincidence alot of risky driving goes on around trucks they seem to be like madness magnets.wonder why that is.lol Ever followed a truck and been hit by the stones they throw up.or been unable to see in front of you .or freake... |
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Thanks to the car drivers that didn't stop. We [ me and wife ]had an off on the bike going through Arthurs Pass on Saturday morning,hit a patch of black ice and lost it over the bank,nothing to bad as landed in soft gravel but it still hurt .lol. Thanks to all the car drivers that didn't stop [... |
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Auto or Manual for Full Drivers License My son passed his full drivers license last week in an auto car. His license has just come through in the post, and says he can only drive automatic cars. (He owns a manual, but did the test in our automatic car) I had rung LTSA a few months ago asking if... |
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Restricted drivers licence - passengers? are they allowed to carry younger siblings in the vehicle with them, unsupervised; ie 17yr old driver, siblings 9 & 11.I know they can carry dependants but not sure about siblings, picking them up from school etc |
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Impreza. I got a 95 impreza as i sit in drivers seat to the left of me beside the handbrake is a rocker switch with a white sign I got a 95 impreza, as I sit in drivers seat to the left of me beside the handbrake is a rocker switch with a white sign on it saying hold. what is this for! |
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Cefiro - drivers headlight - intermittent off Hi all Got a 94 Cefiro - the only issue is the drivers headlight goes out - everytime this has happened over the last 18 mths the mechanic sticks in a new bulb $25 and I am away. Then someone points it out and back to mechanic and new bulb. It has WOF etc... |
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