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Has anyone got any funny stories about little knocks or prangs they've had in the past?

 

Back in my 1st year of driving, winter came and I had my first experience of driving on snow and ice! I had not long had my Mk3 Escort and had bought some shiny new spotlights which I put on the day before.

 

I picked my girlfriend up, proudly showed her my spotlights (she wasn't that impressed!) and took her out for a spin. On returning to her house, I thought I'd show off a bit on the snow and do a few handbrake slides!

 

She kept saying "Dal, you're gonna hit something in a minute!", I said "naah! Its alright! I know what I'm doing!". She said "DAL, DAL, you'll smash you're spotlights!" then.........CRASH!!!

 

 

I smashed me spotlights :(

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I have never found it funny when I have crashed funnily enough!!:(

 

I did once get off my morotbike outside a shop where there were two really tidy girls sat on the wall outside. I took off my helmet and smiled at them, got off the bike and walked towards the shop. After two or three steps I realised I hadn't put the kick stand down........:(

 

New indicators and fuel tank for me!!:D

 

H.

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I have never found it funny when I have crashed funnily enough!!:(

 

I did once get off my morotbike outside a shop where there were two really tidy girls sat on the wall outside. I took off my helmet and smiled at them, got off the bike and walked towards the shop. After two or three steps I realised I hadn't put the kick stand down........:(

 

New indicators and fuel tank for me!!:D

 

H.

 

 

Bet you felt like a right T*t. LOL :D

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when I first passed I drove a 1.1 fiesta Mk2 ....ghia :eyebrows:

 

coming up to a roundabout I started to break and turn...and slide.

 

So slide over the top of the roundabout satright into one of those lighted up signs between lanes at roundabouts. The ones that have the blue circle with the arrow to tell you which side to go on.

 

So I pull over and go to take it out the road and rest it against its someones wall with the wires left sparking where it use to be :innocent:

 

My damage....new side indicator and corner of bumper....least back then it was the cheap corner bit that just went on the car and not a whole new front bumper.

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One of my freinds went into the back of me once when arriving at a house party, he didn't attepmt to brake or anything(staring at women I think) and he said I just slammed on and he didn't have time to brake, which would of been feasable if it wasn't for the fact that I had been parked up outside the house for about five minuites.

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My first car was a 1955 VW Beetle peppered in rust.

 

One time when parallel parking I managed to catch the inside of the rear wheel arch on another car's bumper (big chrome things in those days) and it pulled the whole rear wing off my car.

Damn thing just fell off into the road. :blink:

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I've recently bought a '96 Citroen ZX 1.9 Diesel Estate for a runabout. I bought it on the Thursday evening, and drove it to work the next day. At lunch time I went to get some diesel, and whilst I was actually filling it up, someone drove into the back of it!

 

With his car still firmly planted into the back of mine he then got out the car, and asked me to pull forward! When I said, "no" (although in maybe a little more colourful language) and explained he should reverse up. He said that he didn't know which gear he was in. I mentioned that

"seeing as you're fu***** stood outside your fu***** car and it's still fu***** running it would seem to fu***** suggest that you're in fu***** neutral."

Who said that the occasional bit of anglo saxon doesn't add anything to a conversation? :D

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I've recently bought a '96 Citroen ZX 1.9 Diesel Estate for a runabout. I bought it on the Thursday evening, and drove it to work the next day. At lunch time I went to get some diesel, and whilst I was actually filling it up, someone drove into the back of it!

 

With his car still firmly planted into the back of mine he then got out the car, and asked me to pull forward! When I said, "no" (although in maybe a little more colourful language) and explained he should reverse up. He said that he didn't know which gear he was in. I mentioned that

"seeing as you're fu***** stood outside your fu***** car and it's still fu***** running it would seem to fu***** suggest that you're in fu***** neutral."

Who said that the occasional bit of anglo saxon doesn't add anything to a conversation? :D

 

A couple of years ago I started a job as a sales rep. They gave me a Peugeot 407 as a temporary vehicle. This was a hire car. I nipped into town to get my watch fixed and came back to find the back end of the Peugeot damaged and some woman in a brand new BMW 320 estate sat behind my car. On closer inspection the BW was all bent at the front. Give the woman her due, she'd stayed for 45 mins waiting for me to return to the car. She claimed she'd tried to park behind my car too fast.....:blink:

 

I left the job after 4 weeks, sold nothing and fooked my car...:D

 

H.

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A couple of years ago I started a job as a sales rep. They gave me a Peugeot 407 as a temporary vehicle. This was a hire car. I nipped into town to get my watch fixed and came back to find the back end of the Peugeot damaged and some woman in a brand new BMW 320 estate sat behind my car. On closer inspection the BW was all bent at the front. Give the woman her due, she'd stayed for 45 mins waiting for me to return to the car. She claimed she'd tried to park behind my car too fast.....:blink:

 

I left the job after 4 weeks, sold nothing and fooked my car...:D

 

H.

 

LOL

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One day sitting doing F all @ work the MD decides to actually make me do something......."Daman, take the van to the car wash"

 

Now my works van is a pug partner, which a cross between a large and small van, either way its a b*stard to park.

 

ok so here is "my account" of what happened which was passed onto my boss for the insurance claim

 

 

I purchased a bronze car wash option and returned to the van. I drove into the entrance and found someone was already in there so waited patently. A few minutes latter the shutters opened and were able to drive in looking out for the rails you have to park between. I parked and double checked for the rails “yup spot on” little did I know they were the rails for the actual car wash arms, not the guidance arms. The car wash started and I picked up my phone to enter the expense for the car wash on the matrix. The brush’s then passed me knocking the drivers wing mirror in. thinking it was the brush’s I dismissed any thoughts that the arms were going to attack me. They passed and then proceeded to make a deep screeching noise down the side of the van, at that point I went for the ememergency button. After I finished shaking off the soap and water, the front shutter opened with a dismayed shop assistant. She asks if im ok etc and then explains the van wasn’t within the rails and get the manger to reset the washer. The manger turns up a couple of minutes latter and explains that he can’t reset it without further risk to the van. Thinking that the gym is paying off I proceed to then try to push it out, and swiftly realise that more bench press’s are needed and decided to drive out. The crunch noise’s return as I creep away from the arm. I went inside to fill out a form and swiftly made my getaway.

 

 

 

What i didnt include in that statement was i blatently drove over the guidance rails. :innocent: When aiming for the spot i came accross something stopping me driving straight ahead (the guidance rail), i investigated by opening my door to have a look. Now car washes are faily dark inside, so stupidly i mistaked this as being a broken part of an exhaust (Duuuuuuhhhhh) :haha: . I proceeded to rev the living crap out of this poor van in order to get it to go over the 'broken exhaust' in order to get the van to park in the "spot on" spot. :badidea:

 

The result was one half of the van was tottally fcuked, after all a car wash arm had been trying to mate with it, the garage actually appoligised to me aaaannd i wrote the car wash off!!!!

 

Because of one arm getting stuck halfway on the van and the other arm carrying on as normal to the back of the car wash, it sheered off somewhere along the supporting arm. For the next month i chuckled to myself everytime i drove past the car wash as a horde of engineers were assigned to task of replacing the entire car wash :eyebrows:

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That story reminds me of a silly thing I did in a Transit Van that belonged to my parents. In my defence I was barely 18 and a little naive.

 

Anyways I am driving along the road in this Van doing about 50 miles and hour and for some reason the gear shift wouldn't work very well so as I am hurtling along I am pushing and shoving the gear stick around like crazy, eventually I got it into a gear and released the clutch. :blink: The noise that followed was awful.

 

I had selected reverse and it shredded the gearbox. :taped:

 

I ran the parents and told them the Van had gone wrong and they ended up getting it towed back to their place where a Mechanic friend went to replace the gearbox. He said to my parents blimy it looks like someone stuck this in reverse when going forwards it's completely disintegrated.

 

To this day I haven't admitted I ACTUALLY did put it in reverse :search:

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i havent ever been in a crash i found funny but i saw on you tube this lad was showing of in a mk3 fiesta and placed macdonald trays under the rear whells was showing off and that then he rolled his car *snigger*

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The result was one half of the van was tottally fcuked, after all a car wash arm had been trying to mate with it, the garage actually appoligised to me aaaannd i wrote the car wash off!!!!

 

Because of one arm getting stuck halfway on the van and the other arm carrying on as normal to the back of the car wash, it sheered off somewhere along the supporting arm. For the next month i chuckled to myself everytime i drove past the car wash as a horde of engineers were assigned to task of replacing the entire car wash :eyebrows:

 

Your story has reminded me of one of my work colleagues who had a Mazda 6 estate. He went into a car wash and the rollers banged on the roof as usual. The Mazda has a safety system where it opens the windows if you roll the car. The sensor was somehow activated.

 

Suffice to say that my colleague got more than he bargained for as the alarm went off and all the windows opened fully as the car wash continued to wash him and subsequently fill the car full of water.......:D

 

H.

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Your story has reminded me of one of my work colleagues who had a Mazda 6 estate. He went into a car wash and the rollers banged on the roof as usual. The Mazda has a safety system where it opens the windows if you roll the car. The sensor was somehow activated.

 

Suffice to say that my colleague got more than he bargained for as the alarm went off and all the windows opened fully as the car wash continued to wash him and subsequently fill the car full of water.......:D

 

H.

 

:rlol:

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My first crash happened on black ice at the end of my road....

 

 

I was in my mkiv Escort and went tootling down the road towards the junction, going 'very, very' slowly as it was icy... saw this guy in an old astra on the next road so I applied the brakes gently, and...

nothing....

 

 

at this point I try them much harder and ...

nothing...

 

 

the guy in the astra realised that I couldn't stop and hit his brakes too, and....

nothing...

 

 

we were both doing less than about 5mph but there was nothing either of us could do :) we just looked at each other, shrugged and whinced as the cars bounced off of each oter :) No damage to his at all but my body coloured bumper was all cracked... fixed it with some duck tape and it stayed like that til the day I sold her :)

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