MX5 Driving tips

[tomli123001]

I've got my mx5 na8 on the road now and I've taken it for a spin today. This is my first manual car and I have never been taught to drive manual before.
So do people have any tips for driving the mx5?

Are you on L plates? If not, how did you get a driving licence if not on a manual vehicle?

I got my license in NSW in an automatic. When it becomes P2, it became open to manual and auto. When I transferred it to QLD, it got carried over. So I learnt driving manual also in my mx5 on my own.

However, with a new HD clutch installed at the time, my learning was very difficult at the time.

[Okibi]

Here's a top tip for anyone driving a car.

Don't wash your windows if someone is driving behind you, it's a prick act that just forces them to wash their windscreen too.

Wait until you're at the traffic lights or there's no one driving behind you.

[M1474]

Here's a top tip for anyone driving a car.

Don't wash your windows if someone is driving behind you, it's a prick act that just forces them to wash their windscreen too.

Wait until you're at the traffic lights or there's no one driving behind you.

Thankyou! As someone without a washer bottle this pisses me off no end.

[Okibi]

Spot the Hazard, Assess the risk, Make the change.

Some cars carry L, P or E plates to warn other drivers they're inexperienced or inattentive behind the wheel.

There's other easy ways to spot bad drivers.

1) Anyone driving an enclosed car while wearing a hat.
2) Knuckle draggers who hang their right arm down the drivers side door. They use their exposed right arm to signal other drivers and warn them that they a) can't change gears and b) are more comfortable doing things that only require one hand.
3) Taxi drivers
4) .. anyone else who sticks their GPS right in the middle windscreen and blocks their view of the road ahead
5) Anyone with a box of tissues in front of their rear windscreen, obviously cleaning up post in car fellatio is more important than visibility.
6) Anyone with a stereo brand sticker the same size as their rear window, they're probably hauling so much MDF, dynomat and subwoofers their brakes are rendered useless and their bleeding ear drums have destroyed their sense of direction.
7) Volvo drivers, they have such little faith in their driving ability they're going into battle armed with a bouncy castle worth of Swedish airbags.

[Guran]

There's other easy ways to spot bad drivers.
7) Volvo drivers, they have such little faith in their driving ability they're going into battle armed with a bouncy castle worth of Swedish airbags.

I drive a Volvo too. Must make me a bad driver! Didn't you know that the Volvo drivers of old are now in Camrys?

[NitroDann]

Some cars carry L, P or E plates to warn other drivers they're inexperienced or inattentive behind the wheel.

"In todays news, the govt has just released the 'D plate' for drivers who just don't give a sh*t about driving properly or paying attention to anything around them while they commute."

No way lol. Thats just wrong.

Dann

[hks_kansei]

Some cars carry L, P or E plates to warn other drivers they're inexperienced or inattentive behind the wheel. .

What is an E plate?

edit:
so upon googling I found this is the reason:

It's for pussies who've lost their license and aren't man enough to take their punishment

lol.

[NitroDann]

Elderly, but I didn't know the plate actually existed.

Dann

[hks_kansei]

Elderly, but I didn't know the plate actually existed.

Dann

According to google it's not.

WA apparently have "exemption" licences or something, basically you get done for something and lose your licence and you apply for a special licence.
So you have to display E plates and can only drive certain times/places or whatever.

That's my understanding from google.



I don't know if it's just any licence loss, or if it's only minor things like points. (personally I think if someone gets done for drink driving they deserve full licence loss without exception)

[Okibi]

Yup an 'E' plate is so drink drivers can request to keep their licence because they need it for work.

14,000 people caught drink driving in WA last year but the courts and the law don't deem drink driving as dangerous as chirping your wheels although drink driving kills way more people than burnouts or loud exhausts.

[Rocky]

I'm all for 'graded' licenses for those who are too incompetent or too ignorant to justify a full license.
I know both young and old who would fit into this category and are just a menace on the roads.
They should stop their bitching as they should think themselves lucky to have any sort of license.
The problem would be 'categorising' them as the current crop of butt-head Driving Examiners would not be up to the task.
Where I live young guys usually require several attempts to get a license whilst anyone in a short skirt passes first time.

[hks_kansei]

Where I live young guys usually require several attempts to get a license whilst anyone in a short skirt passes first time.

lol, the guy at the Vicroads office where I used to live was the opposite.... he'd pass the young guys first go, couldn't care less about the girls.



The testing is pretty poor though, my test involved one lap of the block, one reverse park, one diagonal park, and that was it.

[sunlightsilver]

The testing is pretty poor though, my test involved one lap of the block, one reverse park, one diagonal park, and that was it.

I'm in QLD, took my test 2 years back. It went for 15minutes, I did a straight reverse in a side street with no cars and a reverse park.

I think the guy testing me just wanted his lunch.