How to keep people from tailgating you

[Matt400]

Originally posted by Ramtough

Most of these idiots run the fog lights all the time.

I just hate that... Im ready to put some landing lamps in place of my fogs.

 

[NVR FNSH]

Originally posted by John - K5AWO

Here in the Phoenix metro area, Turn On Blinkers is the same as "Gas it like hell, don't let the !@#$ do it. "



Safety (for yourself) means, swap lanes quick, turn on blinker AFTER the change... .

I've sent more than one of those guys into the weeds on I-5 when changing lanes to pass a slower moving vehicle. They see a RV trailer and think that they just can't get stuck behind it and speed up from 300 ft back.



The exhaust brake works pretty good to get tailgaters to back off



Brian

 

[lizzyhermit]

I didn't fix the bumper......

last year I actually backed up into (and crushed the hood of) a Dodge Neon with my TT at a stop sign (long story). The spare tire got the hood and squished the radiator.



anyway, I didn't fix the slightly but noticeable caved in TT bumper. And I haven't had anyone close, moving or stopped, since.

 

[Duluth Diesel]

I just let my 20-ton clevis hitch hang out on my receiver. They have to eat that before the get to my bumper. When they're real close, I grab the lowest gear I can and slow down real fast without brake lights to see if they bump me.

 

[RHARVEY]

See the look on peoples faces when they come up along side a U-Haul trailer with a Chevy 4X4 and they notice that the tire straps are not over the tires. The tire straps were laying off to the outside because the 33X12. 50X15 tires were too large for the straps.

What they did not notice was the log chains around the axles with chain boomers pulled tight.

I seen a number of cars hit the brakes hard when they seen the tire straps off...



Rick

 

[Forrest Nearing]

after living in Dallas for 27yrs and driving for over a decade, I've developed a lovely little technique I've named, "the drunk driver"



let's say you want to change lanes from the left lane to the middle lane because some lady in her volvo has decided that just because she's going 62 in a 60 that she's welcome to use the fast lane.



BUT, there's someone right there to your right... there's almost enough room, or maybe there's absoluetly no room... doesn't matter...



DO NOT engage the turn signal. if there IS a hole, that's a sure fire way to insure that the person will quickly speed up to block the hole just to be an ass.



what you do is lazily creep over till you're only a foot or less away from hitting them and then YANK the car back into your lane... the yank is KEY!! if you creep over but they think you're doing it on purpose, they'll generally stand their ground, but if you YANK your vehicle back (over correcting so that you almost go into the next lane or into the wall is a nice touch) they'll think, "damn, this dude is passing out drunk and is about to plow into me!!!"



it's amazing how quickly a hole opens up and you can continue along your merry way.



I've found that leaving your victim in a cloud of black smoke isn't quite as satisfying as eclipsing the sun for the original offender in the left lane.



As a credit to ladies in Volvos, more than a couple times, I've seen them actually move over a lane after passing, coasting for a moment to let the turbo spool down, and then flooring it and enveloping them in a warm cuddly cloud of black smoke.



cheers to you ladies... you're getting there!



Forrest

 

[tgrfan2]

Put a TST plate in that 98 and smoke 'em back! I had a woman one time continually pass me on hills and pull back in on the crest and slow down. I finally had enough and told my wife to look for me on the next hill as I gave her the brush off. She followed me for 30 more miles, but never got close again!

 

[NPloysa]

Originally posted by PatrickCampbell

This is great. I hate tailgaters almost as bad as people who pass on the right.

Yeah I do too! Oh wait, I did that!



I was headed up I-25 from the Springs to Parker (south Denver) and noticed some jacka$$ going slow in the left lane. Well, he was doing 76 or 77 in a 77, slow to me! No one was passing him.



I was three cars back when I found a spot to get into the right lane and pass this slow poke!



I passed the guy on the right, doing 90. The bad part you ask? It was an undercover state patrol officer.



He pulled me over and knew I didn't know who it was. Believe me, if I KNEW it was him, I wouldn't have done it!



He let me go thankfully with just a "Do you know how much your insurance would go up if I gave you a ticket?" warning.



OOPS!



Anyway, I heard a good one for tailgaters. Take a small bottle, fill it with grape pop. Hook up electrical lines and windshield washer pump, plumb into bottle, mount under rear bumper with spray nozzle pointed up so the arc hits the tailgater properly.

 

[dpuckett]

with my right side of the bed flopping in the wind, mismatched tailgate, baling twine holding the right tail light on (baling WIRE broke),and Ranchhand-esque rear bumper, I dont have too much trouble with tailgaters. But when I do, I normally just hit the brakes while dropping a gear at the same time. They catch up to me REAL quick, then hit the shoulder or back off. They have to eat the bumper and hitch before they get to anythign improtant, and I sit far enough back in my r-cab that a whiplash (not my first- two from riding bulls) would be minor at worst.



Daniel

 

[JStieger]

Originally posted by NPloysa

Anyway, I heard a good one for tailgaters. Take a small bottle, fill it with grape pop. Hook up electrical lines and windshield washer pump, plumb into bottle, mount under rear bumper with spray nozzle pointed up so the arc hits the tailgater properly.

Never heard of this before! - what does the grape pop do? Smear the windshield?

 

[Farmall Hauler]

Another one that a buddy of mine does is just keep his pinel hook hitch in his reess hitch on his truck.



And, I like my brother's trick that he does. He will be driving down the road, and someone is tailgating! He will completely engage clutch, and put truck in reverse. Causing backup lights to come on!! This really freaks them out!!



mark

 

[JR2]

Up here in Alaska I have found that if you get in the slow lane (far right) you can drive 25 mph over the speed limit and pass all the folks who think the middle and left lanes where meant for them...



If folks tail gate me I just let off the peddle and put the box on kill then romp it and blow soot on em. Never fails make them back off. About two years ago I was coming back from dinner on night when a guy tried to pass me in a neighboorhood on the right... . he actually had to stop his car due to the smoke cloud I laid on him... .

 

[SOLER]

My dad is a cranky old fart, and he was a cranky fart before he got old. He was behind a Utah HP in the middle lane, and the UHP wouldn't move over. My dad passed him, then got pulled over.



The Cop asked him, "Just how fast did you need to go?"



He answered, "faster than you. "



The cop didn't like the reply too much and was going to write him a ticket. My dad reminded him that "yes there's a legal speed limit, but it's also a LAW to move over from the left if someone wants to pass. " He further told him that he would gladly see him in court, and let the judge know that he had cops setting a GREAT example.



He didn't get a ticket



Another time, same situation with a cop in the left name. My dad used his cell phone and "called the cops" on him. He moved over a couple of minutes later



SOLER

 

[bkroupa]

Good ideas!

I used to have an old windsheild washer tank & pump hooked up to a rear nozzle that I could anoy tailgaters with.

If you place the nozzle right, they won't know where it's coming from, just that they want to get away from it.

I put a few tablespoons of anti freeze in it once or twice to protect the pump from freezing & that really fowls up a windsheild.

 

[PJereb]

I have had good luck with my windshield washers. Around Oakland, CA there are a lot of ghetto trucking companies that run around in POS trucks hauling cargo vans from the docks. A couple days ago there was a trucker behind me that seemed to think I was going too slow, along with the infinite number of cars in front of me, so while rolling along at 50-55 in heavy rush hour traffic I just laid on my windshield washer for about 30 seconds or so, and he dropped off into the distance with his arm waving out the window. The best part was that his windshield wipers did not work, do he had to live with the spray all over his dirty windows.

 

[Matt42]

Smoke

The best anti-tailgater device I ever saw involved a fair amount of work. The "enthusiast" hooked up an electric fuel injector's feed line to one of the engine's oil pressure line, and then welded a threaded boss into the exaust pipe just aft of the catalytic convertor. Then he screwed the injector into the threaded boss, and hooked it up to a momentary contact switch on the dash. Just a tiny injection of motor oil produced a respectable blue cloud, which in turn caused any close-in idiot to back off.

 

[bmoeller]

Just a tiny injection of motor oil produced a respectable blue cloud, which in turn caused any close-in idiot to back off.

That's what 370s are for. :-laf Great "side effect" of them. The power ain't bad either.

 

[McCRam]

"Anyway, I heard a good one for tailgaters. Take a small bottle, fill it with grape pop. Hook up electrical lines and windshield washer pump, plumb into bottle, mount under rear bumper with spray nozzle pointed up so the arc hits the tailgater properly. "



I got an evil grin when I read this. I'm installing this over the weekend.

 

[travisch]

I had an en-law up in Casper that had an idiot keep pulling up beside him in the fast lane driving drunker then 10 naked indians. His solution after tolerating 10 miles of this was to point the old colt 45 out the window and while his wife held the steering wheel he shot out the guys tire sending him spinning through a snowy field.

 

[rholcom2]

Wow, he took "Report Impared Drivers" to a whole new level!!!! I will bet that dude sat in the snowy field and thought about what happend!!!LOL Were there any ramifications that your in-law had to deal with??