How do you handle EXTREME tailgaters?

[Nik247]

I say if someone is being a real asshole and tailgating you just tap your breaks and let them hit you. Since it was a rear end the fault is thiers for being so close and you could get money from their insurance! Of course this goes with the assumption that they have insurance.

[UFO]

Originally Posted by Nik247

I say if someone is being a real asshole and tailgating you just tap your breaks and let them hit you. Since it was a rear end the fault is thiers for being so close and you could get money from their insurance! Of course this goes with the assumption that they have insurance.

Yeah, that's it. Let some a$$ho13 ruin my day and my car. No thanks.

[KITT222]

An alternative is fake brake lights. Trigger them when they're on your tail, and it'll get them off. You can also use them when coasting to a stop.

[Formula413]

Originally Posted by UFO

Or Jan Brewer, JD Hayworth and John McCain.

LOL, don't forget Jon "they're ruining Christmas" Kyle!

[rdtony]

I tried the trick mentioned earlier in the thread; I run my r/side wheels over the rumble strip and they think I'm a 90 year old man. Go right around me every time. It's fun!

[Thymeclock]

Originally Posted by bestclimb

Was being tailgated by a teen girl, with her little brother a while a go. A steady 45 in a 45 zone and she was really close and sawing back and forth. I came to a red light I was going straight so I shut down and coasted. She went past me on the right on the shoulder , turned right on the red then turned around the raised center 200 yards down, into a corner gas station parking lot, and back onto the road in the same direction I was traveling. Mean while my red turned green and I proceeded down the road where I was already passed the gas station to find the same green integral back on my bumper. About .2 miles she turned off at the house where I often see that car.

Gee, dontcha know a dating opportunity when you see one?

Next time, smile and wave.

I'm old and have been married for decades. Not to offend, but I sometimes think of the old saying about youth being wasted on the young. :

[bestclimb]

Originally Posted by Thymeclock

Gee, dontcha know a dating opportunity when you see one?

Next time, smile and wave.

I'm old and have been married for decades. Not to offend, but I sometimes think of the old saying about youth being wasted on the young. :

I did smile and wave I don't think my wife would approve of me dating a teenage girl.

[Thymeclock]

Originally Posted by bestclimb

I did smile and wave I don't think my wife would approve of me dating a teenage girl.

Keep smilin'.

Sometimes the best part of life is what goes on in your own head. (And no one knows what goes on there, but you.)

[basjoos]

Found an interesting way to get rid of an extreme tailgater today. I was driving down the road I drive every day, so I know every characteristic of it including where all the shady snow and ice patches were to be found. I was coming back from NC where they plow the snow from the roads to SC where the backroads are unplowed and the snow/ice just is mostly left to its own devices until it melts away. This car turned off behind me and was impatient at the 40mph speed limit (I was doing PSL to 5 over) and started tailgating me close enough to where I sometimes couldn't see his headlights through my rear window, even though I hit the brake lights a few times to try to get him to back off. So I just cruised along, and deliberately hit the biggest ice patch on a curve with a fair turn of speed. I'm running Hakka R snow/ice tires and knew which line to follow through the curve so I had no problem maintaining control. Not so with my close follower. Needless to say I didn't have a tailgater problem anymore.

[comptiger5000]

Sounds like fun! I have no tolerance for idiots tailgating in bad weather. I've taken a couple of corners sideways in the snow to lose/scare over-confident subaru drivers before.