[Vette TPI]

Originally Posted by Wild Bill

I hate tailgaters, especially trucks. If you have to panic stop, your Bremos are going to stop your car a hell of a lot sooner than the truck can stop. That being said, the best way to deal with a tailgater is not to speed up, but to slow down. He/she will get frustrated and pass you.

Originally Posted by Powhusku

Slow down to twenty under the speed you were originally doing. If he still doesn't pass you by then, try to get next to him and start pretending to take his picture with your phone or something, that always scares 'em.

Originally Posted by Ladybugsmom

I hate tailgaters!!! Tempted to have a light made for the rear window that flashes "Get Off My Ass" when you tap the brakes...

I'm getting one made already but tail instead

Originally Posted by Steve Dallas

Back when I was younger...about 1984, I had a 73 Charger SE. One of my jobs was folding papers for the L.A. times at a distribution point with about 8 other people. I would drive in at about 2am. One morning, this 2nd Gen Camaro decided to glue himself to my bumper with NO traffic on Sunset Blvd near Will Rogers State Park. This went on for a couple of miles, and I even slowed down & sped up a little to make him go around...since he could have changed lanes and easily passed me.

I'm pretty sure this guy wanted to race, since my Charger had a 440 Magnum, and was lifted in the rear to give it that slanted stance...and huge rear tires...I think they were 305's or something insanely wide.

Anyways, I ended up getting sick of him doing this and was doing the speed limit again after he just wouldn't pass. I think he was about 2 feet from my bumper or less the entire time, and I was doing anywhere from 20-50, with the speed limit being 35.

I jammed on the brakes, HARD...pretty muck locking up the tires. I expected him to hit me, but instead he went sideways...then off the road, over the sidewalk into a ditch.

I wouldn't do that sort of thing now...now I tap the brakes, and then brake check...but not like I did back then.

I had to break check people twice with this car already! Not hard enough to get hit but enough to say "Get off my tail!"