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police someone else's life on the basis of fuck all information?
I'm not.
I'm just politely pointing out that your post, that you wrote, made it sound to most people here that the van wasn't very safe to drive. Then you did a tonne.
I'm genuinely confused now. And wondering if this is all part of an elaborate troll session.
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As this is a thread about vans I reckon the people posting understand some of the basics about vehicles, for example that power steering isn't necessary at speed, and that brake vibrations indicate worn pads or discs, so vibration does not portend complete brake failure.
Braking performance degrades gradually. Complete, instant brake failure in a binary fashion, from effective braking to zero braking, is incredibly rare. Modern brakes are designed not to do it. It happens in the movies, but not real life.
So when I did 100 on a motorway with nothing in front of me there was in fact far less risk of anything bad happening than there might be in, for example, any urban journey at a busy time in a mechanically sound vehicle.
I'm fairly sure that most people here do understand all that, and that the few who don't are unlikely to pipe up with a judgement about mechanical hazards.
The interesting thing is that the people who do understand a bit about vehicles, and still want to make some daft criticism, are just people who want a pile on beause they think pile ons are fun. I don't think LFGSS should be like that. I don't want it dragged down to the level of Mumsnet. But at least my posts have identified a few of the undesirables, enabling me to put them on my Ignore list, after telling them to fuck off.
nick_h.
@hugo7 No you haven't. The only person who knows is the guy who's fixing them. How about you stop trying to police someone else's life on the basis of fuck all information? Or maybe everyone should post footage of every ride so the tyre kickers can gather round and say 'ooh, you were a bit close to that manhole cover, and that pedestrian might have tripped over, and that car door might have opened...'. Perhaps you could accept that I'm accountable to myself, not to you, and that on this occasion nobody died, end of story.