Fastest time to crash your new car
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I remember seeing a G reg Sierra totalled in the south of France the day after new registration day - so somebody had got their new car, caned it 800 miles or so and binned it all in one day.
This got me to thinking - I bet a few PHers have done something similar. Myself the best I can do is just under 5 months old last November in an E class.
Any claims to shortest and most tragic car ownership?
This got me to thinking - I bet a few PHers have done something similar. Myself the best I can do is just under 5 months old last November in an E class.
Any claims to shortest and most tragic car ownership?
As a car salesman back in 1988 I reversed a brand new Austin Metro into the metal post supporting the forecourt canopy putting a huge V in the tailgate back to the roof on August 1st fetching it for a customer who had just turned up to collect it. I was s
tting myself as the week earlier I'd started an unregistered Rover 800 in the showroom whilst in gear and nudged it through a 4m high plate glass window hitting a glass support fin and breaking two panes. (If anyone remembers the Kennings showroom on Tenter St in Sheffield you know how big those windows were!)
Luckily two more people hit the same post, which had recently been painted grey, that week so I got away with it. They painted them black and yellow striped just after.
edited to add picture of offending posts and window. The petrol pumps had gone so the canopy was great for storing cars under
tting myself as the week earlier I'd started an unregistered Rover 800 in the showroom whilst in gear and nudged it through a 4m high plate glass window hitting a glass support fin and breaking two panes. (If anyone remembers the Kennings showroom on Tenter St in Sheffield you know how big those windows were!)Luckily two more people hit the same post, which had recently been painted grey, that week so I got away with it. They painted them black and yellow striped just after.
edited to add picture of offending posts and window. The petrol pumps had gone so the canopy was great for storing cars under
Edited by 4Q on Saturday 30th September 08:26
I recall seeing in the local paper about a lady who had just picked up a brand new car which was replacing a slightly older version of the same model, her first trip from the dealer was to a supermarket car park where she crashed into another car as the new one did not have the parking sensors that the outgoing car had fitted.
3 weeks - although I lose points for slowness, I should gain it for the event..... young guy, first job, had to drive from Reading to York with a car full of IT kit. Car was a boggo Vauxhall nova and brakes just couldn't cope.
Come off the motorway, went to slow down and nothing much happening. I had a choice of the following:
1) Veer down embankment.... lots of trees etc. Nothing good there.
2) go straight on into an old mini with a 'baby on board' sticker in the window. Nope, didn't want to be that guy.
3) swerve and try and get around that and stop before hitting the car in the next lane, a jaguar sovereign (few car lengths further away - plus built like a tank).
Went for 3; despite best efforts still hit it and hard.... A and B pillars had a slight kink, enough to stop the door from opening so I had to go through the boot. Jag had a crease to the bumper but that was pretty much it visually.
When I finally managed to get out I noticed engine and everything else in the bay was sitting back at the bulkhead.... lucky boy.
Come off the motorway, went to slow down and nothing much happening. I had a choice of the following:
1) Veer down embankment.... lots of trees etc. Nothing good there.
2) go straight on into an old mini with a 'baby on board' sticker in the window. Nope, didn't want to be that guy.
3) swerve and try and get around that and stop before hitting the car in the next lane, a jaguar sovereign (few car lengths further away - plus built like a tank).
Went for 3; despite best efforts still hit it and hard.... A and B pillars had a slight kink, enough to stop the door from opening so I had to go through the boot. Jag had a crease to the bumper but that was pretty much it visually.
When I finally managed to get out I noticed engine and everything else in the bay was sitting back at the bulkhead.... lucky boy.
My dad (ex-plod) attended a crash in Newcastle under Lyme around the mid 90's where someone had left the Subaru garage next to the Swimming Pool (now a Kwik-Fit) in a brand new Impreza and hit the outer wall on the exit at the roundabout 200m down the road which, while it didn't write it off (although the front right was pretty smashed up), I'm sure made for an interesting insurance claim
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RCBRG said:
a friend rear ended a mercedes slk as the guy was driving it home from the dealership. it was a surprise present for his wife too
A friend of a friend last week got hit by a brand-new Audi Q2. So new it was being delivered to the customer......so does negative time owned count?
I had a boss who became an office legend for this..
It was the first day of the 51 plates and our company had 6 cars arriving by transporter. All were parked up in the visitors bays.
A little lunchtime crowd gathered at this sight just as my boss started up his brand new 5 series, put it in reverse and drove straight into a Mondeo parked behind him, also one of the new cars just delivered!
I saw it happen and just couldn't believe it - he didn't nudge it at parking speed, or stop at the last minute too late and bump into it - the BMW didn't even touch the brakes, just smashed into it and actually punted the parked Mondeo into the hedge.
He never really lived that one down from what I can remember...
It was the first day of the 51 plates and our company had 6 cars arriving by transporter. All were parked up in the visitors bays.
A little lunchtime crowd gathered at this sight just as my boss started up his brand new 5 series, put it in reverse and drove straight into a Mondeo parked behind him, also one of the new cars just delivered!
I saw it happen and just couldn't believe it - he didn't nudge it at parking speed, or stop at the last minute too late and bump into it - the BMW didn't even touch the brakes, just smashed into it and actually punted the parked Mondeo into the hedge.
He never really lived that one down from what I can remember...
Truckosaurus said:
I recall seeing in the local paper about a lady who had just picked up a brand new car which was replacing a slightly older version of the same model, her first trip from the dealer was to a supermarket car park where she crashed into another car as the new one did not have the parking sensors that the outgoing car had fitted.
I very nearly did that in my own car, as my Father had just driven it, and randomly turned the sensors off.When I asked him why he did it, he said "I didn't know what it was for, so I just pressed it until the light went off."
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