The Complaining and Bitching Thread

I worked with a guy from Portugal. His father was diplomat, his mother a teacher, so I assumed he spoke "proper" Portuguese. It sounded like a mix of Spanish and Latin.

 

stupid people piss me the fuck off

 

I could write a book about the ways in which pickup drivers annoy me.

The main one is when I'm trying to make a right hand turn at a red light, and some idiot driving a truck pulls up on my left, completely blocking my view of traffic.

It's impossible to see around them when pulling/backing out of a parking space. A lot of asshole drivers around here will keep going when they see you backing out of a parking space.

 

The law in my state is 54 inches for headlight height, which is routinely violated. They should be issued equipment repair orders to lower the truck but no one ever does. I have also seen tinted windshields becoming more prevalent, which is incredibly asinine. And then these idiot jeep wrangler owners and to a lesser extent truck owners stick multicolored lights over everything. Halo headlights on jeeps that are red. They look like fucking taillights from a distance. Green lights, which by law are for command vehicles engage in emergency incidents. Blue lights which are for emergency vehicles. Red lights on the front of vehicles. Lights on suspensions. Such idiocy.

 

To be fair re HD pick-up drivers...

At a previous job our office was on the same floor as The Houston Boat Show office. Some of the people who worked there drove large HD pick-ups because they needed them. They were courteous about parking on the outer edges of the surface parking lot.

A friend who drives a pick-up was ridiculed on another forum when he posted about having a flat while driving to New Orleans, and AAA couldn't find a wrecker driver willing to make the long drive late at night to go change his tire. Note: This makes sense to folks familiar with a section of I-10 west of New Orleans. Folks on the forum wanted to know why he didn't change it himself. IMLE changing a truck tire can be a little complicated if you're not used to it. And my friend is an older out of shape white collar guy, not someone experienced with changing truck tires.

 

Pickup trucks sold by manufacturers have legal headlights. Modified and lifted pickups are the issue. For people interested in towing heavy loads, heavily modifying their tow vehicle is probably not a good idea. The multiple engineers and designers built around a certain level of specs. Modern tow vehicles use a bevy of sensors and measurements to not only move forward, but also for trailer stability. An unstable load can introduce yaw in the rear of the vehicle. Trucks can sense that and use a combination of braking and steering input to stabilize that. Lifting the vehicle, changing the suspension dynamics, adding tires not designed with rigid sidewalls for towing add to bad inputs. There is a reason redneck engineering is a derisive term.

 

You work for TRump?

 

Never really saw myself defending pick up trucks, but here goes:

I'm an avid skier, that also enjoys camping, hiking, & snowshoeing. I've got 200# of dogs, a 4000# camping trailer, and 3 grandkids. I also live in Colorado (and need more towing capacity and clearance than you might at sea level).

I drive an All-Terrain diesel GMC Canyon 4x4. It's a smaller Tacoma sized pickup that gets me and mine where we want to go. While it is slightly lifted for off road use, it was done as a factory package and is all standard except for a topper that keeps the dogs safe.

I get a lot of snow at 8600' and require 4wd, adequate clearance, and studs to get home some days. I've pulled my trailer with a smaller vehicle; but the turbo diesel makes it effortless. Molly could get in the backseat of a Civic; but bringing the grandkids with requires a bigger ride.

I drive the smallest, most fuel efficient vehicle that meets my needs.

 

Right, you're not the problem. You have not modified your vehicle into a coal roller. And you don't see your truck as an extension of your feeble personality like some oilfield trash. I drive sports car, but I have not installed a fart can muffler and yanked out the catalytic converters to eke out a few more horsepower at the cost of our lungs. I have been up near the area you reside, like gold hill, rollins pass, and so forth. I'd have an suv or midsize pickup there as well. Especially when the road has not been graded in a while and some jackass with a live axle pickup has been gunning it up the hill, causing the axle to bounce and creating that washboard effect on the road.

 

I feel your pain.
Around Christmas I found a nice dent just behind the headlight on my Subaru.
Noticed it at work, but at that time of year I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. so who knows how/where it happened.
Then 2 months ago I cracked the rear fender on our newish minivan.
My fault.
About $900 just like yours.
Ouch.

 

That is odd. Are you certain it was available to them, i.e. if online no server issues, etc.?