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Ok, over the years of doggy old snotters, ive had a front wheel shear off on a roundabout in Billericay, a propshaft snap at the front and dig in the road as I was showing off coming down the straight mile in brentwood at 50mph, the imp bonnet come off right outside brentwood cop shop, a jammed (wide open) throttle in an auto that was powerfull enough to push the locked front wheels as I was trying to steer round this corner, note the lack of fences and how low the houses are on the outside of the bend, My 24v Cortina bursting into flames while I was in it, untold fords that have the gearstick come out in your hand as your going for second for some much needed engine braking, more than one seized engine, a siezed diff and a siezed gearbox, both of which lock the rear wheels. there has been more over the years but I must have blocked them out, they may come back to me later. ooh, i've had several cars with dodgy door locks which is not so bad now with seatbelt laws or if your driving and have a wheel to hang onto, passengers panic though when the door opens and they are leaning on it. thought of another one, i had a W115 merc that used to randomly have no brakes at all, the pedal would just go right to the floor and nothing would happen, you had to hook it back up with the side of your foot and try again.
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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Colonelk
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Probably Marham, was sooooo keen to get past someone on the main straight, I missed the braking point completely (@ around 130-135mph!) and ended up with the car pointing at one of the Marhsall's RAF Landys slightly sideways. Was all over in a couple of seconds, but my passenger politely asked me never to shout "oh S***!" on track again haha.
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ThePollitt
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Mine used to go out at night on its own and kill people............ Jammy curse word, I'd love a Plymouth. Chris
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Had a few interesting moments over the years and some particularly hairy bike ones too.
I had the bottom balljoint fail on a Mk2 Golf Gti doing 60 (officer) in the lanes. It's amazing how much opposite lock you instantly pile on regardless of the fact you can feel one wheel has had a catastrophic failure! Wheel tucked itself into the arch, pitched me into the banking which then spun the car in the air almost 360 degrees.
Didn't look too bad at first, new front leg and a fresh rad got it back on the road again. It had actually snapped an engine mount, cracked the sump, bent the rear beam, pulled the front of the car slightly, damaged the linkages, made minor bodywork alterations, etc, etc.....
Fixed most of the bits and then someone promptly ran into the back of it on the M4 - payout got me an immaculate J plated valver. Every cloud an' all that!
Joe
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Davenger
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It's only metal
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Probably the worst ever (for me) was discovering I had no brakes at all at 60mph approaching the peterlee roundabout on the A19. 2 lanes of queued trafic in front of me, nowhere to go, no way to stop. Luckily I was driving a mini, and went straight between the two lanes and over the roundabout into the grass in the middle without hitting anything. When I had a look, I'd lost both the adjusting bolts from the back drums, which let the pistons pop out of the cylinder, and knackered the handbrake too. I know that feeling. When your bum hole tries to eat the seat as you pray for it to stop. Had that in the Mini and the Avenger
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In my old TR7, approaching roundabout, felt a slight vibration followed by tink,tink,tink, tink and then the n/s front wheel accelerated away from me while the car gouged a nice furrow in the tarmac. Just stopped short of the roundabout itself. I also had a Capri seize it's diff on the A690. It went off with a hell of a bang and showered bits of diff everywhere, car coasted to a halt but my nerves were as shot as the drivetrain.
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1989 Saab 900i Convertible 1993 Rover 416 GSi
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Scariest thing for me was not my car but a works van,
A Mercedes Atego removals van decided to incinerate itself whilst I was sleeping off one or six schooners.
Very scary waking up to flames.......
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I had a bottom suspension arm snap doing 60 down a winding country lane in my Passat. I travelled about 50 yards on the bottom of the snapped arm and left a very large gouge in the tarmac and almost made a very large stain on my velour upholstery. I was lucky as I'd just been bombing down the motorway and only a couple of days before I'd been 5 up coming back up the M74.
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Two incidents spring to mind. The first being when the propshaft on an MGB GT popped its gearbox UJ and unleashed hell on the trans tunnel as I was accelerating out of a mini roundabout.
The second was due to slightly suspect rear suspension bias on my old Skoda Favorit. It was always a bit rear biased but I stripped the car making the back end light, resulting in some fairly severe rear bais.
I was driving round a roundabout when a BMW pulled onto the roundabout ahead. I hit the brakes hard and locked the rears before the fronts resulting in a MASSIVE sideways slide. I pulled up sideways right next to the BMW looking the driver in the face! He was just about as scared as I was. I had to sit there for about 10 seconds taking it all in.
Lewis
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Driving back up the M5 from bristol in my volvo 240 estate,fast lane about 80 when the engine undertray came away from the front and started acting as a bucket on the front pickin up all the debris/gravel from the centre of the lane...... In a world of me own as always that certainly woke me up lol i thought the engine had fell out ;D
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1984 Subaru GLF Hatch 1983 Skoda 120LE Super estelle 1977 Subaru DL Wagon 1978 Datsun 120Y Coupe 1995 Skoda favorit estate
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I also had a Capri seize it's diff on the A690. It went off with a hell of a bang and showered bits of diff everywhere, car coasted to a halt but my nerves were as shot as the drivetrain. I did the same thing in an xr4i on the A194 a couple of years ago the most recent of the rse-clenchers for me was a week ago - rainy rush-hour at a mini roundabout, approached it in 2nd braking, taking 3rd exit, I spot the shimmer of oil or diesel on the road, when blipped the throttle to pull away, the scimitar auto box decides to drop to 1st and rear end spins out, takes the steering wheel out of my hands as I catch the kerb of the roundabout and as iam now heading towards the roundabout, I hit the foot brake, car stalls blocking the roundabout totally, it takes about 6 turns of the key before it fires - it seemed like an eternity
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Last Edit: Apr 1, 2010 21:14:11 GMT by Autofive
Someone just shot the elephant in the room.
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v8ian
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After going over a huge pothole in the road, Ive had a Handbrake cable catch on a UJ, then wrap its self around the prop, the flailng ends then ripped out the fuel line, brake pipe then the battery cable, and the fuel pump trigger wire, Car ground to a halt outside the local fire station as the battery cable melted back towards the boot, A quick open the boot as there was a lot of smoke now showing from the boot seams, switch off the battery, phew that was close, only for my son to comment, "Dad the cars alight under the floor" looked under the car to be confronted with a bonfire of burning fuel and brake fluid, just as well I have a extinguisher in the car, especially as the firemen who were enjoying the sunshine outside their house, never got off their arses, But did give me a round of applause, Funny, all my wiring and essential lines live NOWHERE near the prop any more
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style. Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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dugong
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One Of Us Will Live To Rue The Day We Met Each Other (Wire : 2008)
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The master cylinder failed spectacularly on my 306 TD when I was at Uni.
The pedal went to the floor when a Land Rover Discovery decided to pull an emergency stop in front of me. If you know Lancaster it was the hill leading to the Bowerham roundabout (just next to St Martin's College). I lived nearby at the time and was coming home from a lecture.
A combination of 14 stone's worth of sheer terror through the bulkhead, severe engine braking (4th to 1st) and smacking up the kerb stopped me by about half an inch from the towing eye.
I've not managed to terrify myself in the Amazon yet, although a good mate of mine went a bit quiet when I tackled the M60 'rollercoaster' 'feeder road that connects Sale's bit of the M60 to the northbound M56. I decided to take it at 50 on 37 year old tyres. Tiny little flick oppo, on the doorhandles, no problem.
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V-Force
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I like Hondas.
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Mine would be when I was in 2nd in an Autograss race, trying to get past the car in front. I turned into a corner a tiny bit early and clipped a lorry tyre with the inside back wheel. This sent the back end straight into the air, and as I'd already started to turn in (i.e it was already leaning on the outside wheels) so obviously I rolled it. This race was a re-run as someone had rolled in the previous race, so we were waiting for ages to start again, and being a hot day I took my helmet off whilst I was waiting. We got called up to the line, and of course in the rush I sort of forgot to do the buckle on the helmet, so as soon at the roof hit the ground, the helmet popped straight off! Quite scary seeing a helmet and 1kg fire extinguisher flying around when you're rolling It rolled 3 times, bending the rear subframe, snapping the studs on a wheel, moving the engine, and moving the front end about 6 inches to the right (check out the grey wing in the sigpic). That was July 2008, and it was racing again a month later, and is about to be raced again this year Anyone else rolled a car? What was it like? In some ways mine was over really quickly, I.e. probably due to the shock and the helmet coming off, but I seem to remember most/all of it in quite good detail. I'd imagine it's because I was completely not expecting it, whereas on the road something normally happens first such as sliding towards a ditch lol. I'd say its made me more careful, as before I rolled it never seemed like it was going to go over, no matter how hard I pushed it but now I feel like it's going over all the time
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Last Edit: Apr 1, 2010 21:45:16 GMT by V-Force
1999 Impreza WRX typeR STI Version 5 Limited 1999 Civic VTi-S Aerodeck 2005 Bora TDI daily
Several other 90s Hondas (shhh they're sleeping)
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Had a front n/s wheel blowout on a 16 tonner whilst overtaking a mini on the M3 , Dread to think what would have happened if they hadnt realised what had happened and slammed the anchors on , Truck veered across front of them and up the embankment .
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^^ yeah, I've rolled a car (on the road..) pug 309 did the lift off oversteer trick on me, went up the bank and rolled back down onto the roof. The slow-mo effect seems to be more part of having an accident than being surprised by it (from experience), I remember it all, even the seatbelt bit (it's in someone's sig...)
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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The scariest thing my Jeep's done is not that big - but did make me jump! I didn't switch the transfer case properly, so it was still in 4LO - turned a sharp corner on tarmac at 5mph, felt the transmission wind up then it just went 'BANG' and the car jumped about an inch in the air Remembered to always do it properly after that.....No harm done though!
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Last Edit: Apr 1, 2010 21:52:07 GMT by Lewis
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V-Force
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I like Hondas.
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That slow-motion thing's wierd ain't it? It does seem to go into slow motion but it's still over REALLY quickly, or is that just me lol? Whats the seatbelt thing, I've not seen it?
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Several other 90s Hondas (shhh they're sleeping)
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ah, the car landed on it's roof, I didn't realize, let the belt off, banged my head No, the slo-mo isn't just you , lol. Sometimes I can hear myself screaming Nooooooooooooooo as well ;D
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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V-Force
Part of things
I like Hondas.
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Oh I see lmao
And its nice to know it isnt just me lol
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1999 Impreza WRX typeR STI Version 5 Limited 1999 Civic VTi-S Aerodeck 2005 Bora TDI daily
Several other 90s Hondas (shhh they're sleeping)
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