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I remember waking up from a slightly tipsy doze in the passenger seat of my mates Sierra as I had felt a large bump, I opened my eyes and saw trees going past, he said,
"Were going backwards Mart"
and apparently I said,
"Mind the trees"
and casually put my seat belt on as we reversed into the woods at about 60mph. :S
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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I guess there are two stories, well maybe three.
My 100E tried to kill me twice. Once on a roundabout in Essex the wheelbearing broke up and the front wheel came off. It trashed the bottom of the car. Second time I'd swapped to slotmags and I didn't know about different types of wheel nuts... doing about 60 up a hill with a mate in the car it decided to jetison a front wheel and proceded to scrape a deep groove in the road with the bottom of the TCA.
They weren't that scary though. What was scary was when I was giving it all the beans in my Anglia one cold Monday morning trying to get down from London to Bath to get to work on time and the cars in front decided to stop. I went to hit the brakes but the throttle had frozen wide open and the car was trying to fire me into the now stationary traffic at full power. Bum was twitching like a rabbit's nose.
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Loosing a wheel on the M6. Said it so many times before, I won't go into details again.
Another one I've just remembered is my old mini hated the wet (as most minis do) and on the M6 inbetween J7 & J6 in pitch black darkness in the middle of a major storm (the sort where you can see about 6ft in front of you) I lost power to the wipers and all lights and the mini wouldn't go any quicker than 20mph. Wouldn't have been too bad but where it is there is no hard shoulder for a bit as the traffic uses it to get off at J7. I really did think I was going to die that night.
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Showing this thread to the wife she laughed, and said nothing scared her more- not so much what the vehicle did, but what happened. Coming down off a major 4-lane highway offramp not far from here to join a crossroad, clear dry weather mid-afternoon the truck got hit bit a tornado that had come across the sugar-cane field in back of her, got spun round three times (three ton truck, mind!) and ended up facing the wrong way into traffic.
Lucky really as it could have put her into twenty feet of muddy water as there's no guard rail on the bayou at that intersection...
Other time was when she got called up by one of her friends to tell her that he went to slow down for a red light and his load drifted past him- about fifteen tonnes of marine generator... chain broke at just the wrong time!
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Nothing to compare to some of these, but here's the best I can think of for my previous cars;
Kombi: decided to lose all of the bolts holding one side of 1 axle in, at 70kph uphill
Type 3: Throttle stuck wide open (twice), also decided to turn itself off (complete electrical fail) at the entrance to a major intersection in peak hour traffic. Thankfully powered back on 30sec later (WTF!?)
122S: Piece of plastic worked its way into a brake pipe, seizing a front brake solid.
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Remade In Australia thereimaginarium.com.au
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On my old Chrysler Alpine the front suspension on each side was basically held together by a single nut. Said nut dropped off the left side while travelling downhill at about 70kph. I skidded to the bottom of the hill on three wheels and the remains of the left side front suspension.
One day in my Hunter I was travelling downhill again on a very wet road when I spotted some kids crossing the road up ahead. I had plenty of time to stop, but the minute I touched the brakes everything locked up. Came off the brakes and gently applied them again - another lock up. Tried a third time before realising I wasn't going to stop in time. There were cars to my left and I couldn't keep going ahead, so turned the wheel right and aimed for some bushes. The bushes pulled me up with no damage. After I was done shaking I reversed out and continued on my way.
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63 Alpine Series III 69 Imp Sport 930 07 Golf V GTI 11 Freelander 2 (hers!)
70 Hunter Royal (scrapped), 78 Chrysler Alpine GLS (given away), 84 505 STi (sold), 01 206 1.6XR (sold)
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driving home from london to somerset many years ago, in a bedford cf (friday night so caneing it in the outside lane to start the weekend) suddenly, horrendous bang and all the curse word in the back turned into a dust storm and no drive, so carved across the inner two lanes onto the hard shoulder and coasted to a stop, climbed under to find the uj at the axle end of the prop had disintegrated and the bang was the prop hitting the floor but luckily it then hopped on top of the exhaust but as it was pulled onto the truck to get us off the motorway, it fell off completely (possibility of a 60 mph pole vault if it had dropped at speed) but the day wasent over after being picked up to get us home one of the tyres on the trailer almost caught fire and upon further investigation the bellhousing had snapped almost in half with only a couple of inches left holding the gearbox on ttfn glenn
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I once had a brake pipe burst on a sierra going quite fast on a twisty gravel road, managed to keep it on the road luckily..
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joxvox
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3.0s capri 1990 at 80 mph the rear uj gave up and put prop clean through the back seats and popped all three rear windows car was unfixable
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smile it confuses people !!!
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My Dolly Sprint started first time, once. that was a suprise and i almost fainted.
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cut out on the middle of a really busy single lane round about on a major local bus route and not starting for about 5 mins afterwards with no where to push it to safety. Happened about a week after I passed my test and the first time driving on my own as well.
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My Dolly Sprint started first time, once. that was a suprise and I almost fainted. LOL ;D The Herald did that once as well
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Last Edit: Apr 2, 2010 10:40:23 GMT by yantorsen
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Mine got up around midnight,went to the local common and sacrificed two virgins.It then phoned me up in a drunken state and threatened to murder me.Now that's some scary sh1t!
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Blimey how many do you want? Mk4 cortina front WB disintergrating at 80 in the outside lane of the M25, fortunatly back in the day it was empty at 2AM, car pulled heavy to the left and I made the hardshoulder in under 2 seconds and into the the gravel very shortly afterwards ;D ending up facing the wronge way in the gravel bed, still it saved me getting out into the motorway I spose. Mazda 3233 (RWD) went over a train crossing at 50 landed a bit heavy, rear wheelbearing collar shatters and the rear right wheel makes a bid for freedom along with the brake drum, halfshaft ect ect Rear brake adjuster fell off on another cortina on the way back from Bristol, got to J25 M25 (i very rarely use me brakes on the motorway) pedal hits the floor (in the wet) fronts lock up, lorry comes closer very fast, puckers and I miss it only cos he pulls away onto the roundabout as I slide to where he was. Transit 190, trip up the M1 from London to Liecester, come off at the junction and the rear wheels catch light on the passenger side and I loose all rear brakes coming down the off rampp fully fully loaded with about 2 tonn of wine and spirits ;D still made the delivery AND drove the van home to London with the rear brake lines clamped off with some mole grips and a few zipties ;D Driving to loch ness one year I awoke in the passenger seat to find the driver asleep in the fast lane of some highland road grabbed the wheel, out of gear, hand brake 3/4 on, hazards on and pulled to the hard shoulder where the fooker woke up and said "are we there yet" wasn't funny at the time ;D Had many a throttle stick on full (usually on minis when the earth strap broke) never died though, guess i was clever enough to turn the frikken engine off I wish the worst that had happened to me was a king lead falling off and the engine stopping
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Last Edit: Apr 2, 2010 12:26:52 GMT by bortaf
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stealthstylz
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Apart from a blowout at 95mph on a busy motorway all my problems with cars have been self caused lol. I've lost count of the number of times i've come up to roundabouts after a good thrashing with no brakes left. Usually just engine brake and time it to get between the cars going round lol.
Matt
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al67
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Lost all power at 80ish in my type 3 in the outside lane of the busy a30.
Nearly papped myself. Old cars don't roll as far as new ones,do they? Also the only escape route was a deep concrete rain gully full of gravel!
Oh how I laughed!!!
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guess I was clever enough to turn the frikken engine off In my case i was hard on the gas until i needed to brake for the corner so i didn't find out the throttle was jammed until i needed both hands on the wheel to keep the thing on the road. It was a mk4 cortina auto with a small steering wheel and a 2.1 with a lumpy cam in it so not the easiest thing to control, i would have tunred it off or knocked it into neutral had i been able to take a hand off the wheel. Turned out a screw had fallen out of the base plate of the pancake airfilter and fallen into the weber. Most of my car issues have been due to lack of maintenance or dodgy mods, hence my aversion to things like cut springs and bodged exhausts. I borrowed a fwd triumph 1300 off a mate once and was driving round the M25 when it suddenly tipped down with rain, i switched the wipers on only to discover there were none fitted on the car. :S
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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Pearoast but at least I have a pic! Rolled two patrols on the M26, never happened to me before , or since. Deep lorry ruts in the tarmac started a sway and trailer rolled , then pulled towcar over. No injurys apart from wallet. Surprisingly neat landling though don't you think? My Dodge Charger caught fire once, the idiot that designed that car did so in such a way that when the fuel pump diaphragm fails, a jet of petrol from the vent hole is aimed directly into the alternator and distributor. Luckily caught it in no time and only some wiring got destroyed and had a slightly melted dizzy cap.
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I had a Cortina which caught fire when I was driving it. Twice.
I have had a couple of cars have complete brake failures. Come to think of it the flamable Cortina was one of them.
Thats about the top of the tree.
Also I was under a car when the trolley jack seal popped. I about had a heart attack in the 0.0001 second it took for the car to fall. Luckily I had some stands in place and they caught it.
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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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