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Ryuu96 6 days ago
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Chrkeller said:
EnricoPallazzo said:

Im too lazy to go back to the original post, whats up with the test you guys are discussing? I took it 7 years ago and my wife took it 5 years ago so I may be able to provide an opinion on it.

All I can say is I failed first time not because I was too fast, but because I was too slow at 20mph on a 30mph rd. I also took the test in US and Brazil, for reference

It truly is a dumb argument between me and a few others.  Basically, on the theory test there is a question, "what do you do when you get a flat on the motorway?"  I answered, "change the tire," which was wrong.  The right answer is call "emergency services with the closest phone."  

I'm being told I am wrong and that isn't true.  Then it got into some stupid semantic war to prove I don't know what I am talking about for reasons.  Bear in mind I was questioned by folks who never stepped foot in the UK or haven't even taken the test, because of course they would know more.  Just like some in this thread knowing more about middle American than me, because some how living in middle America for 32 years means nothing. 

The UK driver's test is no joke, both the theory, hazard awareness and practical.  Way harder, and rightfully so, than US driver's test.

The irony being I think the whole emergency services to change tires on the motorway is actually a good thing and better than the US's perspective of "figure it out yourself."  So I even like their position, but some how I am still the enemy for reasons.  

Why a mod chose to bring up a completely off the topic discussion is a mystery to me.  

Don't lie now, that's not what caused the initial debate. Here is your exact quote word for word.

"Another thing that was odd to me is in many countries cars don't come with a spare tire. Because if you get a flat you aren't suppose to change the tire yourself. You are suppose to call a government agency to do it for safety."

And

"One of the questions in the test is what to do when you get a flat. You call someone, you are 100% not suppose to change your tire. It is a government regulation."

You said nothing about motorway in the initial comment which caused users to respond with doubts, Pi said his friend had never heard of that rule to which you "called BS" on his friends story.

I provided a link to the Highway Code which says "Only change the tyre if you can do so without putting yourself or others at risk" which tells us that a tyre can be changed by yourself because your first comment heavily, heavily implied, that it's "against government regulation" to change your tyre full-stop, not just on a motorway. You said it was "100%" in your assessment.

I was actually the first one to seek clarification if you meant on the motorway.

I then provided multiple sources after you ignored my attempt of clarification, because I believed you was still claiming that you can't change your tyre anywhere, so I gathered two sources which state that yes, you can change your tyre.

You still did not reply to my comment asking if you meant on the motorway and instead tried to say that by "it's against government regulation" and "You are 100% not supposed to change a tyre yourself" that you did not mean it was illegal but it was still a rule in some way. So in effect what you was saying here was that, it's against government regulation but it's not against the law and thus it's irrelevant because you can change the tyre with no legal consequence, that became your new argument.

You didn't provide sources, it was in fact me who provided the source that "It is however against the law to attempt repairs on a motorway." once again in an attempt to seek clarification that you meant on the motorway.

I asked once again, did you mean on the motorway

I even then provided a source of the exact question you was talking about, unfortunately the image is deleted.

Only then did you change your argument to that you meant on the motorway/highway.

But I also saw people saying they've changed their tyre on the motorway so even then it's uncertain on "100%"

Bear in mind I was questioned by folks who never stepped foot in the UK

I live in the UK. I know people who drive in the UK. As did Pi-Guy and I provided sources based in the UK.

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Reason I bought it up was because of your constant condescending and high horse attitude in this thread, constantly getting on peoples asses for being wrong or making a mistake, demanding apologises, when you can't even do it yourself over a stupid driving test question and admit that you made a mistake in the first initial statement. Here you're still doing it but not only that, straight up lying about how the conversation went.

You never said motorway in the initial statement. It was ME who was the first one to post a source that it is not recommended on the motorway, it was ME who was providing all the sources and information on the matter. It was ME who was seeking clarification multiple times to which you ignored every single attempt. If you just said "Yeah, I meant on the motorway, my bad" at the start then we wouldn't have had pages of debate, I would have said "fair enough, that does look to be the case, for the most part" but hey now here you are lying that you said motorway from the start, Lol.

This is such a stupid debate though, like I said, if you want to continue it then you are welcome to PM my childish and immature self.

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