Worst things to happen to a car owner

[obi_waynne]

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.

 

[nig]

teaching the wife to drive

 

[obi_waynne]

OOH! Let's hope she doesn't read this then! (Teaching your offspring is probably worse!)

 

[nig]

OOH! Let's hope she doesn't read this then! (Teaching your offspring is probably worse!)

ill be to old then lol

 

[pgarner]

buying a car and the timing belt / chain snapping just after the warranty is out.
car damaged by unknown
car damaged by spouse

 

[wardyc]

buy rims for car, leave car, return to car, car sitting on bricks

 

[dpsubaru]

mine would be car stolen,

 

[turbonutter69]

Same as DP for me.

 

[WLBjork]

Mines more of a "WTH?" 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.

 

[coupe]

have a piano fall from the sky onto my morris marina.

 

[turbonutter69]

 

[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

 

[obi_waynne]

have a piano fall from the sky onto my morris marina.

That's the last time you lend your car to the BBC then!

 

[obi_waynne]

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?

 

[Country Bumpkin]

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.

 

[hemingway]

how about having a blow out in the fast lane of the motorway.

 

[aston]

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

 

[aston]

Years ago a friends bonnet opened whilst he was motoring. I bet that woke him up. (Morris Marina van)

 

[gendox]

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

 

[obi_waynne]

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.

 

[WLBjork]

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.