DaiDap:
switchlogic:
The new DAF has really grown on me. You’ve got to give them credit, making a cab that’s approaching 30 look sharp again.You should drive one… I loved my Volvo but the Daf is something else.
Probably won’t pull as well as a 750 but you can’t have everything
Cant say im a huge DAF fan from a driving point of view, its like piloting a house
hiabman:
Smashing looking wagon but has anybody else noticed the following when being flashed in by one of these trucks in daylight?
I find that the lights are too high up on the cab front.
It does register a millisecond later but I normally look at the headlights or just above the top windscreen in the mirror when overtaking.
This is true and I was only thinking this yesterday ,I bet I’ve been cursed a bit .
hiabman:
I normally look at the headlights or just above the top windscreen in the mirror when overtaking.
I tend to look where I’m going and not concern myself too much with trivial matters like whether I get flashed in or not.
Contraflow:
hiabman:
I normally look at the headlights or just above the top windscreen in the mirror when overtaking.I tend to look where I’m going and not concern myself too much with trivial matters like whether I get flashed in or not.
You and me both. I tend to look where I’m going too.
Thanks for that.
Trivial? Maybe.
hiabman:
Trivial? Maybe.
Undoubtedly.
Contraflow:
hiabman:
Trivial? Maybe.Undoubtedly.
Harsh.
Contraflow:
hiabman:
I normally look at the headlights or just above the top windscreen in the mirror when overtaking.I tend to look where I’m going and not concern myself too much with trivial matters like whether I get flashed in or not.
When I’m overtaking tend to swap between looking in front and behind so I can decide when is a good point to return to the lane and can avoid driving into the traffic in front. Doing this I sometimes notice that some truck driver will flash their headlights when they think I’m far enough past, this is nice of them as it confirms my own thoughts on the subject of whether I should get back into the lane.
If they do this I then will operate my indicator switch, it’s a sort of thank you gesture that is understood from ancient times, I believe there was a Time Team episode where Phil Harding found a Roman mosaic of chariot drivers doing the same thing. 
I also use it as a bit of a workout and then treat myself to another bite of my Yorkie bar, so I don’t faint after such physical exertion. 
Not a fan myself, however we have a dozen or so CF’s on our fleet which i like despite the dinky cab, look at the big picture the XF is a proven if dated design paccar engines ZF transmission reasonable price, and electrics aside fairly good build quality.
There was a time when there was a significant difference between the marques in terms of quality now the difference seems to be cost, Volvos fall apart, M.A.N’s are made of plastic and Scania’s ain’t worth the price.
If it were my money then I would go with them.
They’re stickers
i’m getting one of these next year when i get rid of this [zb] bowel cancer
Presumably it’s got the gearbox from hell, the autochronic, has it and it’s Godawful programming been improved at all, particularly wondering about the default on/off switch clutch control especially when close manoeuvering, then the interminable wait for something, anything, to happen at junctions when that hell box is never, but never ever, in the right gear?
I like DAF’s, ever since i drove a 2600, good working lorries with a manual box but ZF’s autobox ruins them for me, or certainly has all the examples i’ve been unfortunate enough drive.
Hope you’re very decent looking new motor proves a good un.
SSC looks the nuts but it dont look right as a normal xfnot that ill be getting one i doomed to my cf
Juddian:
Presumably it’s got the gearbox from hell, the autochronic, has it and it’s Godawful programming been improved at all, particularly wondering about the default on/off switch clutch control especially when close manoeuvering, then the interminable wait for something, anything, to happen at junctions when that hell box is never, but never ever, in the right gear?
Yes the auto box has been updated. It’s not up there with the I-shift, but it’s not far off. Certainly nowhere near as tragic as it used to be. Close maneuvering is easy enough.
DaiDap:
Juddian:
Presumably it’s got the gearbox from hell, the autochronic, has it and it’s Godawful programming been improved at all, particularly wondering about the default on/off switch clutch control especially when close manoeuvering, then the interminable wait for something, anything, to happen at junctions when that hell box is never, but never ever, in the right gear?Yes the auto box has been updated. It’s not up there with the I-shift, but it’s not far off. Certainly nowhere near as tragic as it used to be. Close maneuvering is easy enough.
Thanks, and thank goodness for that, quite how they ever got that bloody box through type approval i shall never know, if i was a tester at MIRA or wherever they test the things i’d have abandoned the bloody thing less than 1/2 a mile from start.
Yes i too enjoy 
one of these piles of ■■■ daily but in a MAN, maybe slightly better programmed than in DAF or Iveco, but still hopeless at full weight having to do a proper days work.
