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Old January 21st 11, 07:40 PM posted to alt.autos.alfa-romeo
Zathras
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:52:42 +0000, Catman
> wrote:


>Wanna bet? Here's one: When joining a motorway / dual carriage way, you
>should be in the outside lane of the slip road. I can see that being
>'not in the left hand lane except when overtaking.


I think you'll be failing your test if you were joining a motorway at
all! ;-)

>And let't not even start on 'making progress'
>
>In honesty, the IAM spend quite a lot of time arguing amongst themselves.


That may or may not be true but their stuff is based on/in agreement
with Police driving (within certain legal restrictions). It's unlikely
to be complete ********.

I'm the sort of annoying git that questions everything (which was
noted by my IAM observer) but I still found that everything the IAM
recommends seemed, ultimately, to have a good (IMHO) reason for it.

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Old January 21st 11, 09:00 PM posted to alt.autos.alfa-romeo
Catman
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On 21/01/2011 18:40, Zathras wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:52:42 +0000, Catman
> > wrote:
>
>
>> Wanna bet? Here's one: When joining a motorway / dual carriage way, you
>> should be in the outside lane of the slip road. I can see that being
>> 'not in the left hand lane except when overtaking.

>
> I think you'll be failing your test if you were joining a motorway at
> all! ;-)
>
>> And let't not even start on 'making progress'
>>
>> In honesty, the IAM spend quite a lot of time arguing amongst themselves.

>
> That may or may not be true but their stuff is based on/in agreement
> with Police driving (within certain legal restrictions). It's unlikely
> to be complete ********.


Indeed

>
> I'm the sort of annoying git that questions everything (which was
> noted by my IAM observer) but I still found that everything the IAM
> recommends seemed, ultimately, to have a good (IMHO) reason for it.
>


Oh I agree 100%. I like it a lot.

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Old January 22nd 11, 04:27 PM posted to alt.autos.alfa-romeo
David A Stocks[_3_]
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"Catman" > wrote in message
...
>
> But adds wear to the clutch release forks, and you should *check* you're
> in neutral
>

I don't see huge numbers of posts on car maintenance forums about premature
clutch release fork wear ...

The push-button start Alfas (e.g. my Brera, and the 159 loan cars I've
driven) require you to have the clutch (or brake) pedal fully depressed
before the starter will operate. I go for the clutch because it means once
the engine is running all I have to do is shove it into a gear and go.

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