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Feb 19, 2008 19:01:05 GMT
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Parked my car on a hill at the building site where I work, a good 10 minutes later we are stood by the window and see my car roll off down the hill at not a bad pace ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png) , by the time I got outside it had rolled a good 25 foot and was grinding to a halt in a dry stone wall and some small tree's, the cause.... me not putting the car in gear or putting the handbrake on properly. Now considering what had just happened the only damage was about 3, 2 inch scrapes in the bumper and a load of marks which should buff out, Had I just backed into a wall I would have been p!ssed off, but considering how lightly I got away with it (it could have gone into cars or even off an 8 foot wall into a road) I had to find it quite amusing, thought I would share that with you so you can all laugh at my expense ![:-[](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/embarrassed.png)
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Feb 19, 2008 19:03:13 GMT
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P.S. it was my primera daily not my 02, thank funk
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Lazy Left armBenzBoy
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Feb 19, 2008 21:01:42 GMT
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P.S. it was my primera daily not my 02, thank funk Glad you added that bit! I was imagining your 02 rolling down the hill... noooo!
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Lazy Left armbriandamaged
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Feb 19, 2008 21:39:15 GMT
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Ooops........my sister's done that twice in her 56-reg Cooper S. Both times without hitting anything!! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) My mate wasn't so lucky....he did it last year in his Lotus Elise which trundled merrily down the road, across a main road, over a garden wall and into someone's porch. Write-off. ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png)
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Feb 19, 2008 22:00:23 GMT
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Nice work Dave. Is this the first time you've binned one of your cars without snapping any wheels off?
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Feb 19, 2008 22:02:27 GMT
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Lolz, lucky escape! I did that to a genuine AC Ace....... ended up teetering on the edge of a concrete ditch, resting on its sump! OpZ!
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Feb 19, 2008 22:22:59 GMT
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Lucky enough ( and not to the car that matters as much! ) Sis did the same thing to their new car ( Merc modern ) and it walloped 3other cars at a fair pace ![:-/](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/undecided.png) - wasn't a pretty sight! Good to hear it wasn't so bad.......... leson learned! ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Back from the dead..... kind of
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me and my buds were nattering outside halfords one day when we saw a load of women shouting and screaming at a car. we then realised they had just got out of it and not put the handbrake up and it was heading down a slope for us and the big glass doors of halfords lol
three of us and a plastic bin managed to stop a new audi estate lol
the dippy woman was so concerned about the damaged we had to practicly shout at her to put the handbrake on so we could let go of it lol she was just looking at the damage and saying that her husbands gonna go nuts lol
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I'd have just let the Audi roll ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) *n
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Top grammar tips! Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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Reminds me of the time I bought a BX estate with what must have been a shonky MOT a year or so ago. Left in the carpark and thought nothing off it until I heard a commotion outside. Handbrake hadn't work and it rolled back about 50 yards into a neighbours 3 year old car. Subsequently I leave all my motors in gear now when parked up ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png)
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Corsa Apology Champion 2014.
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Feb 20, 2008 10:20:46 GMT
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I used to have an Audi modern toss which rolled away all the time. PITA.
I always park in gear. My wife never checks for this before turning the ignition key though....
Worst one I had was my old Blue Victor Estate. We dragged it back to my house on a trailer from storage. We rolled up and I parked outside about thrree neighbours houses as thats where the nearest space was where I could get my tow car, trailer and enough space to roll the Victor off.
Anyway about half way through unloading the neighbour who hated me from one of the houses popped out and started having a go. So I agreed to unlad further up the road. Unfortuantly I forgot to apply the handbrake or it slipped off, and we hadn't bothered with the wheel straps and the Victor set off backwards, leaped off the trailer, caused the tow car to leap up in the air at the back, and then set off down the road (down hill) directly toward where the grumpy complaining neighbour's shiny new Rover 45 was parked....
Luckily my mate who was helping threw himself behind the Victor and managed to stop it before it got up enough momentm to be unstoppable!
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Feb 20, 2008 10:29:43 GMT
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Years ago I parked my company Cavalier on a slope in a car park during a cold snap. I'd reversed into the space with the car pointing down the hill. I applied the handbrake and got out to get a ticket leaving the GF at the time in the car to keep warm. I'd not left it in gear as I'd left the engine running for the GF's benefit. Ain't I sweet? Started walking away from the car and it started moving. The only thing that alerted me to the predicament was the GF screaming blue murder as the car slid down the hill towards another car. Rear wheels on sheet ice!!!! ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png) Fortunately it didn't get far, the rear wheels found grip and pulled the car up about two feet from another car!!
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If I have to explain, you won't understand. Maximum signature image height = 80 pixels
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Feb 20, 2008 10:31:42 GMT
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Ask V8Lee about runaway cars off tow trucks BTW....
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Feb 20, 2008 12:19:32 GMT
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Look at it this way you managed to inject some character into an otherwise dull motor.
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Feb 20, 2008 12:32:53 GMT
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I grew up round hills, and got into the habit of handbrake and in gear, poss even a brick too. unless I'm using the car to start my slightly disabled one. Its never runaway off teh steep drive despite just failing the rear drums grip and parking brake on the MOT! ![:-X](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/lipssealed.png) My dad had a run away Reliant Robin van with white goods in the back once, that was funny, course I had to keep a straight face at the time! ;D He was lucky the only scuff was the washing machine knacking bodywork from the inside!
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![](http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff16/stoppitandtidyup/Avatars%20etc/reansigys.jpg) it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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Feb 20, 2008 21:05:26 GMT
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My dad had two Minis when I was a kid. One of them had to be parked in gear with the wheels turned in to the kerb. The handbrake didn't work properly because the floor was so rusty the lever was starting to pull out of it...
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1989 Peugeot 205. You know, the one that was parked in a ditch on the campsite at RRG'17... the glass is always full. but the ratio of air to water may vary.
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Lazy Left armrustingdeathtrap
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Feb 20, 2008 21:14:19 GMT
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Reminds me of the time I bought a BX estate with what must have been a shonky MOT a year or so ago. Left in the carpark and thought nothing off it until I heard a commotion outside. Handbrake hadn't work and it rolled back about 50 yards into a neighbours 3 year old car. Subsequently I leave all my motors in gear now when parked up ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) BX's are prone for that. The handbrake works on the front discs and if youve been braking heavily the disc obviously get hot and expand. Put the handbrake on and after a while they cool and shrink and the car rolls off into oblivion.
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