Automatic Vehicles

[fruitsalad]

Hi, I've been driving 40 years, always in a manual, which I prefer, I have only driven an automatic many years ago, for a short while, I am picking up my new vehicle next week which is an automatic (to good a deal to ignore) but I am feeling a bit apprehensive about driving an auto, and I'm sure although, I will soon get use to it, I wondered if there are any tips that could help a beginner.

[mikey4444]

I agree bhg...calm down everybody !

[ToraToraTora]

blame cactus bhg.

[cactusdriver]

Yes, it was my fault for twisting TTT's tail. I didn't realise his was such a fragile ego so I'll bear it in mind in future.

[cactusdriver]

Oh, and I hope you enjoy your new car, fruitsalad!

[ToraToraTora]

look sunshine you were wrong be grown up and apologise and we'll leave it there. I offered my advice to the OP in good faith you came on here making accusations and assumptions about me with no evidence. Regular posters will know that I am a regular in motoring and I try to be constructive and helpful. We all have different views on aspects of motoring, I do not expect abuse for expressing mine. I do not expect everyone to have the same view either. I do not feel it is I that has instigated the disruption of this thread. The place for inanity is Chatterbank.

[TWR]

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[Baldric]

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Think that's ^^ yours TWR, you dropped it into my Type your answer here box!
;o)

[TWR]

Thank you Baldric, all the bickering ended we hope.

[ToraToraTora]

so you agree with abuse in motoring then TWR, just as long as I know.

[ToraToraTora]

so I am just supposed to absorb insults then TWR am I? right oh, the precedent is set

[douglas9401]

As the perpetrator of 'abuse' in the past, Tora Tora Tora, (sweaties etc), maybe it's just payback time.

Suck it up.

[ToraToraTora]

that's not abuse.

[douglas9401]

Oh dear.

[aelmpvw]

ironic that an innocent question about automatic cars should generate so much road rage

[douglas9401]

That's not abuse either I suppose.

[stocksman]

TTT, if you don't use your handbrake when stationary then presumably you are holding the car on the footbrake, thereby dazzling the driver behind you. I assume that would be the 'dazzle' referred to, the cause of all, or most, of this unpleasantness.

[ToraToraTora]

"Perhaps TTT doesn't bother to dip his headlights for oncoming traffic or signal when leaving a roundabout, it's just common courtesy not to dazzle with brake lights when waiting. " - here is the quote, note the phrase "oncomming traffic". note also that the editor censors me but allows the initial abuse to stand.

[cactusdriver]

TTT
Your post was removed because it was an offensive tirade - my post wasn't because it was a tongue in cheek prod at an arrogant man who had just dismissed others' opinion out of hand.