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22-08-2009, 06:30 PM
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What do you think are the worst things that can happen to a car owner?
Here's my top 3
1) Really bad non fault accident
2) Finding car damaged on your return with no note.
3) Finding car has been broken into?
What are your worst ever things? Catastrophic MOT failure will probably feature as will cost of fuel and insurance and filling up with the wrong fuel.
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22-08-2009, 06:31 PM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
teaching the wife to drive  | |
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22-08-2009, 06:33 PM
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OOH! Let's hope she doesn't read this then! (Teaching your offspring is probably worse!) | |
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22-08-2009, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by waynne  OOH! Let's hope she doesn't read this then! (Teaching your offspring is probably worse!) | ill be to old then lol | |
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22-08-2009, 06:51 PM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
buying a car and the timing belt / chain snapping just after the warranty is out.
car damaged by unknown
car damaged by spouse
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23-08-2009, 01:25 AM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
buy rims for car, leave car, return to car, car sitting on bricks | |
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23-08-2009, 04:20 AM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
mine would be car stolen, | |
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23-08-2009, 09:20 AM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
Same as DP for me. | 
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24-08-2009, 05:58 AM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
Mines more of a "WTF?" moment.
Came back to the vRS to find the Dust Caps missing from the tyres.
Pinching the car or the wheels, I can understand (good job it uses locking wheelnuts) but dustcaps? Locking ones in place now anyway. | |
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24-08-2009, 09:18 AM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
have a piano fall from the sky onto my morris marina.
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24-08-2009, 09:36 AM
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24-08-2009, 02:23 PM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
3 months ago someone decided to shoot the car and occupants (of which i was one) Luckilly only the car was full of holes. Now I don't think anything worse will ever happen to me in a car
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25-08-2009, 11:34 AM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
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Originally Posted by coupe have a piano fall from the sky onto my morris marina. | That's the last time you lend your car to the BBC then! | |
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25-08-2009, 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by aston 3 months ago someone decided to shoot the car and occupants (of which i was one) Luckilly only the car was full of holes. Now I don't think anything worse will ever happen to me in a car | Thats pretty scary! Glad we don't get that sort of thing over here! What had the driver done to annoy them? | |
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25-08-2009, 07:28 PM
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I reckon that having the 'old bill' turn up and confiscate your motor must be pretty bad. This is an experience a few people have when they have bought a previously nicked motor. Even ones that pass the HPI as everything tallies up with the 'new' plates.
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25-08-2009, 09:23 PM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
how about having a blow out in the fast lane of the motorway. | |
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26-08-2009, 01:17 AM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
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Originally Posted by waynne Thats pretty scary! Glad we don't get that sort of thing over here! What had the driver done to annoy them? | A gang of surfers were baying for the blood of a gringo in the car, not the driver, we didn't even know him, He'd punched one of them down the previous evening apparently. He wouldn't get out of the car to fight them so they started shooting. thats not the norm here, I was only accepting a lift home, i was going to walk home and wish i'd had | |
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26-08-2009, 01:19 AM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
Years ago a friends bonnet opened whilst he was motoring. I bet that woke him up. (Morris Marina van) | |
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26-08-2009, 01:55 AM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
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Originally Posted by wardyc buy rims for car, leave car, return to car, car sitting on bricks | atleast they left it on bricks and not on the floor haha
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01-09-2009, 10:59 AM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
I had one of these! The car was still on finance, thankfully I wrote it off a week before they claimed it! I think I'd have been more miffed to have lost the car that way than writing it off. | |
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02-09-2009, 06:39 AM
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| Re: Worst things to happen to a car owner
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Originally Posted by hemingway how about having a blow out in the fast lane of the motorway. | Oh, reminds me of someone I know through work.
He was a police (traffic) officer. Responding to a call along a motorway when a vehicle pulled out in front of him. I get the impression it was deliberate, anyway he wound up having to hit the central reservation but something went wrong and he ended up on the wrong side of the road, and sadly had to take a medical retirement.
Damn lucky to survive though. | |
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