Was just going to say this - Yes they do I had to attend a speed awareness course for doing 56mph in a 60, because I forgot I was in my van!!! Its annoying, I do 50 on that road now, 9miles end to end on the main route out of the village for most of my journeys. Can see that other cars get annoyed, swerving and up my rear trying to get past. Even had one brake test me a few months ago, yet 5miles down the road I was next to them at the queue for the roundabout, wound down my window to have a friendly chat about why I am doing 50 but I was obviously invisible at that point as he looked straight ahead and couldn't see the big white van to his side all of a sudden!!!
Sure you had OE tyres on in the first place? 911 speedos are pretty accurate. Maybe your ‘new’ set up was the OE set up?
It had 18” GT3 wheels and the tyres were the recommended size, but then I replaced the wheels with a 19” x 11” split rims and for reasons that I can’t properly remember, but was something to do with the sidewall profile being a percentage of the width of the the tyre, it meant that I had to have a wheel/tyre setup that either resulted in a smaller or larger rolling diameter. I didn’t want to look like I was driving a Matchbox car with wheels that didn’t fill the arches, so I went for over rather than undersized.
I honestly don't know how fast I was going or where it was, the only detail was a stretch of the A40, I didn't know about it at the time, probably about 50
The amount of van drivers that are seemingly unaware that they can only travel at 50mph on single carriageway roads is surprising. Along with those that seem to believe 70 mph on a dual carriageway is also legal.
From the comments above some Police force areas have a lower tolerance than convention would suggest.
It always makes me laugh when I’m sat at an indicated 52mph through a 50mph average and get overtaken. Then overtake all those cars when it goes back to a 70, and they’re all doing 65. Twats.
Does the term van also include the small ones like the old type Astra and Fiesta vans, or is it just the larger transit sizes ones?
I used to have a batshit fast 997. I once did a runway day in it and remember seeing 199 at the brake marker (not flat out either). It was a true 197 between the beams so only a ~1% over read… so pretty accurate.
My favourite is being stuck behind an old Doris at 45mph (in a 60) then when you get to a 30 through a village, she maintains 45!
When I was working in the UK, set my cruise control by the satnav for average speed cameras. Typically speedo would be 3-4 mph under. Never had any points.
Also found out that the Ducati Monster R had a fairly accurate speedo at French speed limit. Luckily that lesson only cost 1 point (off, as the French like to be different..)
I know her. I was behind her a few months ago when she pulled out of a side road, straight across the 70mph A414 and into the outside lane doing about 30. It wasn’t far off ending up like one of those situations where an F1 driver stalls on the grid and causes absolute carnage. Naturally, she was completely oblivious
I heard there's a new detector van coming out, it can tell if you are wearing a seatbelt, on your phone, using social media, your speed and what you had for breakfast.
The worst kind of driver imo, dangerously slow in the fast bits and then dangerously fast in the slow bits.
I believe in France there’s no leeway on the limit. When driving through France I don’t risk it. I set my cruise control to 80mph (130kph) and leave it there. It’s fine, French roads are a doddle and it’s nice cruising through…
Not far off the mark. I often spot young lasses and occasionally lads, texting on the move… skillz man, I’d be straight up the kerb… Have you watched that saddo Cycling Mikey on YouTube? How he hasn’t been stabbed yet is a mystery…
