Cornering hard and breaking stuff

[obi_waynne]

Have you ever cornered, or braked really hard and ended up breaking something in the car?

It would appear that the contents of a car still follow the laws of physics if they are not clamped down!

A friend of mine just smashed a thankfully old camera lens with some enthusiastic cornering! He left it on his passenger seat and just forgot it was there, remind me never to let him borrow stuff from me.

Have you ever broken something in this way then?

 

[HDi fun]

Wrecked a bag of very expensive camera gear and several bottles of wine when I was involved in a near 60mph frontal in 2009. Decelerating to zero mph in half a dozen feet generates some serious forces. :-(

 

[obi_waynne]

Did the insurance company sort you out eventually or are you still waiting?

 

[HDi fun]

Still waiting though they did finally admit liability about a year ago.

 

[turbonutter69]

3 odd years and your still waiting? That's ridiculous.

 

[Loz]

I broke my car does that count.

 

[pgarner]

bottle of irn bru that was sitting on the back seat. didnt like hitting the seat base

 

[Loz]

Oooh I bet that was nightmare to clean up.

 

[obi_waynne]

I broke my car does that count.

Was it through cornering or braking? If not it doesn't count

 

[Jakeymd]

I wad mucking about it the astra a couple of weeks ago, i slammed on the brakes andthe passenger seat, which was loose in the back, 'flew' forwards and whacked my hand which was on the gear stick and pinned my hand against it so i couldnt take it out of gear. This left my hand bleeding while i tried to get it off which was difficult because i didnt think to switch the engine off so i was pressing down on the clutch pedal which made everything more difficult.
Clever boy me.

 

[HDi fun]

I wad mucking about it the astra a couple of weeks ago, i slammed on the brakes andthe passenger seat, which was loose in the back, 'flew' forwards and whacked my hand which was on the gear stick and pinned my hand against it so i couldnt take it out of gear. This left my hand bleeding while i tried to get it off which was difficult because i didnt think to switch the engine off so i was pressing down on the clutch pedal which made everything more difficult.
Clever boy me.

Ouch ! ! !

 

[Jakeymd]

Just to clarify, the frame hit my hand, not the nice soft cushioney bits.

 

[HDi fun]

I gathered that too. Not good mate. Seats are best bolted to the floor in my experience Are you recovering OK?

 

[Jakeymd]

I agree, it wasnt even my seat, my friend just dumped one in there. Recovering fine just a little cut on the hand thats all.

"tis just a scratch!!"
"your arm's come off!!"

 

[HDi fun]

Never mind, you have another (arm)