I thought the same but frankly as the years pass, I find my lead foot closer to titanium. I'm constantly on the lookout for distracted drivers. The car alone distracts drivers, adding to that, their textograms, instasnap and whatnots....God @ 59, I feel like 70 sometimes. Think I'll go sit on my front porch and yell at some kids.

 

I hear you Sean. I am the same way.

I just redid a brake bleed of the rear brakes with my pressure bleeder and took the car for a run.

No ride height messages since I did the leveling with my JLR SDD the other day and I am pleased with the ride height now.

Brakes are definitely not what they were so will do them again with the engine running this time and use the brake pedal in conjunction with the pressure bleeder.

While on the run this afternoon a kid drove for about a mile within 4-5 feet of my rear bumper. This was in a 30 mph zone and I was doing 40. No other cars behind the kid.

Oh and from a standing start at a stop sign both rear wheels burned rubber on kick down for a while. Traction control off.

 

That happens a lot around here too. No matter what speed, people don't understand basic physics or simply forget how many car lengths you can safely follow the vehicle in front of you.

I just slow down to a ridiculously slow speed and let em pass.

 

Yep, now I miss it again. Anyone remember the old days of bleaching the tires in the high school parking lot and smoking em?

 

Numbers stamped on pinion face are normally for setting backlash.

NM ... saw the numbers in a later post and they are not backlash numbers.

 

Throwing rocks works better ... as long as you can run fast enough.

 

Waiting for all cars to have auto braking.

Just stand on the brakes and watch the phone fly out of their
hands and the latte spray the windshield.

 

I used to do that in my III Land Rover 88. Some times that giant pintle hitch would modify their grill and radiator. Truck didn't miss a beat.

 

A good way to cure this issue at night is to light the rear fog lights. That'll get em to back off.

 

Yes that does work!