P20SPD

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Right, to me there is nothing more annoying than driving with a person who sits like a raggy doll and does not brace themselves in any way when you are accelerating, braking, or cornering.

I give a lad a lift to work for about 15miles each way, and it is hell for me watching him go backwards and forwards in his seat,m due to the kick of the turbo an dthen lifting off to change up.

Thank god for bucket seats, because that would make him worse!

He is even worse now since the recent mods!

I have told him, and he has also said its like going to the Gym being in my car, you use your abdomen to brace yourself!

Yet he still flails about like a rag doll!

Anyone else feel the same.

Da Booga

lol

had a similair experience with a new starter at work, his first job after starting was to assist me at a clients, I picked him up ine morning and all the way to the clients he was moving and sliding about in his seat, it really started to wind me up.

When we got there he got out and I noticed that he had been sliding about on a car mag I had just bought FOOL

The same person is also one of those people who i'm sure take it upon themselves to try and close the car door as hard as they can everytime they get out [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] It really winds me up.

[Edited by Da Booga - 10/30/2002 3:02:20 PM]

davyboy

Nothing to do with your erratic driving then?

Can you not drive smoothly with a passenger?

I hate it when I get in a car and people throw me about in the passenger seat whilst tying to impress me

dogmaul

my mother is the same slides about like a foooooool i then have ago at her and she just gets worse !!!!!

merkin

My Blow up doll is exactly the same, just sits there slipping all...ermmmmmmmm......<cough>..errrrr

yoza

I dont slip around or sway backwards and forwards....

But I cant help myself from going for the brake pedal,the invisable one that is......ask Mellow,I think I owe him a new foot plate as Ive bent the one in his Cossie

Later Yoza

Alas

Yep
Same problem here. My sheep has great difficulty not moving in the seat as its legs don't reach the floor and it can't brace itself.
Does'nt help that the seats are leather too

Seriously though my wife does this to plss me off when we've had an argument. Usually put up with it for a while then tell her I'll tie her head to the seat if it keeps on nodding like the bloody Churchill dog.
Alas.

Pavlo

Steven,

My sister is the same, even in a rover 214.

You need to tell them to use their feet to brace themselves.

On occasion my wife screams, one hand on the dash, one on the roof, and it's most offputting.

I had no problems in the back of yours so you're driving can't be that bad!

Paul

The Boy

My Dad has the "nodding dog" syndrome when he's in my car and it drives me mad

( comes from spending to much time half asleep in an auto BMW me thinks )

Biffo

Ladies and Gents there are two answers to this problem.
1)if these people insist on exaggerating there body movement while your driving, do what i do, floor it go broadside round corners then slam your feet on the brakes and see which one of your passengers makes the deepest teeth marks in your dash board....teeth left in dashboard after passenger has disembarked earns more points....or...................................... ....
2) Tell them if they can`t sit still while your driving and stop smacking their heads on the windsreen you`ll stop the car and give them the bus fair

P20SPD

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Cheers Paul, and i was driving pretty aggressive for me on sunday, so it is not my driving that causes it.

Not sure what you would be doing to make your wife do this though


Biffo......virually tried both. Stopped giving him a lift for 2 weeks, by saying i did not know where i would be each day, so could not gaurantee that he would be home for his tea!

2 weeks of blissfull driving

[Edited by P20SPD - 10/31/2002 10:05:35 AM]

Scooby-Doo

My 1 year old never complains

Dream Weaver

This is where the MR2 comes in handy

There is a huge tunnel wedged between both seats, so both the driver and passenger "fit" into the car. There is no possibility of sliding around after that

DW

Pavlo

fit a full harness for passengers, no nodding options left.

better in my car since I put the p1 seats in.

Wife goes mental if she thinks we might hit a car that might pull out on us if we happen to perhaps go near it. I ignore it now, as before I used to think there was something bad happening I somehow didn't know about and slow up, only to find it was nothing.

with the exception of the terminal velocity, I didn't find the driving on sunday to be agressive. Coming off roundabouts in a 4 wheel drift towards the armco is agressive. I only felt a mild touch of oversteer leaving the roundabouts, and a little understeer as we straightened up. All pretty under control really.

Paul

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Pavlo

speed is relative

and sometime peoples relative speed is very high

only the direction can sometimes be wrong

ianfergus0n

I have suffered from this in the past....

My cousin took me out in his new cossy a few years back, everything looked spankingly clean, upon breaking from 120 - 0 I found myself compelled to sit in the footwell, althogh I had 'braced myself'.

moral of the story... dont polish new leather seats too much

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lol

teen_machine

we have nothin to hold onto tho!!! you drivers have got the wheel to hold on to, etc, and you know before hand what your gonna do,,,,!!! im not a rag doll, cause im good at guessin... but still!!

Laura

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Cant you reach the grab handle above you? or the door handle?


steven

gareth60

Polished Leather seats, lol...

My wife sometime does this, annoys the hell out of me. I never have the problem with her driving and it not my driving....

blair

The sudden dash for the grab handle and the gripping of the side of passenger seat with the left hand is another annoying distraction.

It usually seems to happen to my passengers when approaching a corner at speed (or even better - when making good progress towards a hump backed bridge )

uxg

Don't mean to sound sexist but in my personal experience this raggydoll phenomenon seems to effect females more than males. I have had male passengers in my car who seem fine and know when to tense up or at least hang on to something but 90% of women who have been in my car seem to end up getting stuck to the side windows and I don't drive like a nutter all the time.

I have one female friend who almost without fall will end up a**e over t*t although this does happen to her in nearly every car she gets into. I have tried to advise her of the merits of tensing up a little bit when the car is turning\braking etc as I am rather worried about what could happen to someone like this if they were involved in an accident.

swan

Interesting. Anyone else notice a correlation between rag dolls and helpful navigators? The types that will scream, "CAREFUL!", "WATCH OUT!" and similarly useful terms that scare the hell out of you? Normally highlighting something harmless (like there's a stop sign 500m away or another car on the road).

David_Wallis

Harness...

TeenMachine... it aint guessing you can tell by looking at the road..

Hope im not like a raggy doll steven (oo er)

Buy a 5 point harness for his seat.. Remove std seatbelt. watch out if it has seatbelt pretensioners (dont think it does on the seat.)

Or tell him to use two of the handles..

Either use that one (pointing up) to hold on, and that one (pointing at the door release) to get the **** out of my car.

a1, a64 roundabout.. sideways??

David

MrDeference

I understand exactly where the passengers are coming from. In an experiment to get to the bottom of the issue I strapped 10kg of wobbly lard to my chest and had the seat inconceivably straight to ensure the rocking motion.
Then I wore a tight skirt and put on my false nails so that bracing myself was impossible.
Then I put on some badly pescribed glasses so that my sphere of awareness extended as far as the bonnet, and talk incessantly to exclude all external influences.
Within 10 minutes I had screamed twice, was moaning about road sickness and back ache from being jolted by the driving.

P20SPD

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And you were driving

northernmadbugger

If they nod then stick em in the boot

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

LMAO @ MrDeference

Next you'll be telling us beer contains female hormones........after ten pints you cant drive and talk complete cr@p!