RE: PH Blog: Clio Elbow

RE: PH Blog: Clio Elbow

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steve_n

382 posts

201 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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No problems with elbows in my e46 330Ci with padded alcantara rest but boy do the seats make my lower back hurt! No decent lumbar support, and the side support is so far away from my slim frame it may as well not exist.

Funnily enough the Mrs' Clio 1.4 has very comfortable seats and the same poor armrest as the 200.


goron59

397 posts

170 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Nasty bruise on left knee from driving a Nissan 370Z a tad enthusiastically - not massive amounts of space for your legs.

Pulled left calf muscle from trying to leave another 370Z too quickly.

Acute shame from having to drive a Vauxhall Astra.



leon9191

752 posts

192 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Same as you my right elbow starts to hurt when driving for a long time in my diesel focus. Even started wrapping a scarf around my arm to protect it!

Krikkit

26,500 posts

180 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Rawwr said:
340R Forehead. When stepping into it in the pouring rain, the foot on your supporting leg slips on the wet aluminium floor and you violently headbutt the exposed aluminium sill on the passenger side, leaving you unconscious, bleeding from the head in a car that's slowly filling up with water.
Haha, fantastic-sounding accident. biggrin

I have Rallye elbow from leaning my arm on the side of the door while holding the wheel - without full-size doorcards on it's just bare paintwork, so digs right in between the bones. frown

enroz

98 posts

164 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Many years ago, got my tie caught in the door of a Ford Cortina i had just got a lift in. Had to run along with the car when it drove off, as i was now part of the vehicle.
Luckily the life or death banging on the window shocked the driver enough to make him slam on the brakes, which also nearly had my head off! Luckily his drum brakes were the main protagonist in the cars recent MOT failure, so the car slowed gradually, allowing me to come to a halt with the vehicle and unattaching myself from it.

The people at the bus stop over the road thought it very funny. So a bit of a sore neck and hurt pride to boot.


mark944gold

125 posts

161 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Dislocated my kneecap after getting in to my wife's Swift which my daughter had been driving leaving the seat that close to the steering wheel that my leg was bent so when I went to push the seat back my kneecap popped out.

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Different kind of elbow pain brought about by Lotus though.

Went for a ride in a mate's Exige. 20 miles on the clock. Someone in build had overtightened a screw head on the door trim passenger side and had sheared the head leaving a razor sharp metal filament just waiting for tender flesh. It found it when I went to adjust the air vent and I remember thinking at the time, 'that came keen' but about an hour later, we realised that the mottled brown on silver finish wasn't OEM but actually my blood smeared all over the door trim. I have a 9 inch scar down my left arm from elbow to wrist.

Bash Brannigan

211 posts

186 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Dad took me for an early morning blast in his old Westfield when I was about 15, did a half asleep yawn-stretch thing when we got to our destination and burnt thumb on the exhaust. Being an arsey teenager I couldn't see the funny side but the old man was wetting himself.

Switch

3,455 posts

174 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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I got cappuccino elbow in my last one.
Being 6'2" in a Cappuccino by itself is fine.
But there's no where to rest your elbow on the door, it's rest it on your leg or on the top of the door, which is fine when then window's open, but when it's closed your arm is forced to be straighter than it would and because of that you hold the steering wheel higher up (1/2 o'clock instead of 3/4)
And on a long motorway drive it cramps up propperly!

ETA: and i've got a little dent on the side of my left leg just below the knee because it's been resting against the plastic trim on the tunnel for 3 hours on the M4 sat in 5th...

Edited by Switch on Friday 20th April 13:52

macdougle

27 posts

144 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Oh no, I've bruised my knee on my car, mummy please kiss it better... dear lord, and you lot call yourself car enthusiasts?! Tsk tsk...! wink

GregR1

11 posts

144 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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nearly extended my backside crease on the door pin sliding into an S2 Elise...

dabofoppo

681 posts

170 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Sore ribs from the seat on my saxo suddenly coming loose and sliding into the steering wheel under hard braking.

roystinho

3,767 posts

174 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Man up Chris, 20k in my cupped 200, no injuries to date

probably chalk

671 posts

191 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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My current 968 came with strange (quickly replaced) after market seats that caused terrible hip pain on the motorway. No problems once I put in a pair of stock seats.

Crush injuries from electric passenger seat in rented Rover 75 that decided to pin me against the glovebox of its own accord on the M6 a few years back.

Electrocuted myself on the HT leads of my first car (Nova) through sheer stupidity.

Many moons ago my dad was picking me up from cubs and I managed to open the door of his Escort ('86 I think) into my own face and broke two teeth

Carpal

3,630 posts

187 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Land Rover shoulder.

I drive Lands Rovers regularly in the summer. Being three seats abreast there is no shoulder or elbow room and as the season goes on the shoulder gets achier and achier.

ringweekends

616 posts

252 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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I once ripped a pair of Firetrap jeans getting into an Elise at Brands?

PK1970

25 posts

200 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Ski goggles saved me from the 70 mph stone chip between the eyes, when I had a Westfield Megabusa a few years back. After that I always wore a full face crash helmet!

gcpeters

959 posts

231 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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ever driven an audi a3 (8P) shape with sports seats and no lumbar support?

if not give it a try and welcome to the world off chronic back pain if your 6ft!

it was so bad that I stripped my brand new audi's seat and retrofitted it, even audi said it couldn't be done, how I showed them!

GP

ringweekends

616 posts

252 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Dear Harris.

May I suggest some appropriate attire for your next high powered business meeting in the Clio?


Rawwr

22,722 posts

233 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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ringweekends said:
Dear Harris.

May I suggest some appropriate attire for your next high powered business meeting in the Clio?