What has your "friend" been up to?
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My friend has just put down a deposit on a very impractical car just three weeks before his first child is due. He's managed to convince his wife that it will work as a family car but is having doubts of his own - very worrying as it's not an insignificant amount of money that he's spending...
My "friend" shut the bonnet of his car to go have a cuppa, half way through work that had involved removing the bonnet release lever.
My "friend" forgot to put the sump plug back in until a good 3.5 litres of Castrol's finest had gone straight through onto the garage floor.
My "friend" tried to reverse up a narrow service road only to scrape the side of the car all the way down the pedestrian railings.
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am I doing this right?
My "friend" forgot to put the sump plug back in until a good 3.5 litres of Castrol's finest had gone straight through onto the garage floor.
My "friend" tried to reverse up a narrow service road only to scrape the side of the car all the way down the pedestrian railings.
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am I doing this right?
Jasandjules said:
Ah yes, my friend got pulled by three officers who were accusing him of being a burglar because he had his bag on the back shelf of his car (having just been to college). He got somewhat irate by these accusations and was being fairly mouthy to the officers in question using language not befitting of a chap, IYKWIM, and his friends had to drag him backwards out of the way. The officers just got back in their car and pulled away.
wtf does IYKWIM mean??mk2zetec said:
Jasandjules said:
Ah yes, my friend got pulled by three officers who were accusing him of being a burglar because he had his bag on the back shelf of his car (having just been to college). He got somewhat irate by these accusations and was being fairly mouthy to the officers in question using language not befitting of a chap, IYKWIM, and his friends had to drag him backwards out of the way. The officers just got back in their car and pulled away.
wtf does IYKWIM mean??My friend attempted a daring overtake in a Metro many years ago on a narrow country lane and had to take to the grass verge, hit some kind of drainage channel, got airborn and cracked the subframe. Damage was only noticed after he'd sold the car to his younger sister.
He also stuffed his first car, a lovely white Fiat Uno, through a farmers fence and on to it's roof in a field 5 feet below the road. Sounds bad, yes but at 3am on Christmas Day you can imagine the call to his dad to come and rescue him was not pleasant. Trying to find a recovery truck wasn't easy and not a good Xmas!
Getting up early for his school holiday job at the local supermarket after a heavy night out, opened garage door and reversed at speed up the drive. Completely failed to see his dads car on the drive, you know the one that was there every day, and dented every panel on dads car. Again that was fun waking up his parents to explain what had happened.
Oh and he raced a police car for approx. 7 miles across country lanes in the early hours one morning in a 205 XS - great little car! Police man explained after eventually putting his lights on, that he was too busy trying to keep up and only found the chance to hit the blues and twos on a straight stretch. He assumed my friend was a joyrider and slammed him against the side of the car arms over the roof, when he found out it was his car he reeled off a very long list of offences and said he was going to lose his licence. Friend then made up what I now realise was one of the best bits of convincing bulls
t ever and got him down to 3 points!
My friend has got a bit better as he's grown up, kind of
He also stuffed his first car, a lovely white Fiat Uno, through a farmers fence and on to it's roof in a field 5 feet below the road. Sounds bad, yes but at 3am on Christmas Day you can imagine the call to his dad to come and rescue him was not pleasant. Trying to find a recovery truck wasn't easy and not a good Xmas!
Getting up early for his school holiday job at the local supermarket after a heavy night out, opened garage door and reversed at speed up the drive. Completely failed to see his dads car on the drive, you know the one that was there every day, and dented every panel on dads car. Again that was fun waking up his parents to explain what had happened.
Oh and he raced a police car for approx. 7 miles across country lanes in the early hours one morning in a 205 XS - great little car! Police man explained after eventually putting his lights on, that he was too busy trying to keep up and only found the chance to hit the blues and twos on a straight stretch. He assumed my friend was a joyrider and slammed him against the side of the car arms over the roof, when he found out it was his car he reeled off a very long list of offences and said he was going to lose his licence. Friend then made up what I now realise was one of the best bits of convincing bulls
t ever and got him down to 3 points! My friend has got a bit better as he's grown up, kind of
antspants said:
He also stuffed his first car, a lovely white Fiat Uno, through a farmers fence and on to it's roof in a field 5 feet below the road. Sounds bad, yes but at 3am on Christmas Day you can imagine the call to his dad to come and rescue him was not pleasant. Trying to find a recovery truck wasn't easy and not a good Xmas!
Ahhh, your friend should have done what my friend did when his Fiesta tripped up and fell off the road - down an embankment, through a fence and rolled into a field. He just left it there and walked home, never to hear of the car again. It was simpler times and the farmer probably weighed it in.p4cks said:
my friend got photographed allegedly speeding in a Metro, then the following day in a Golf Diesel and managed to get away with both offences
my friend had his <overinflated> front tyre on his AX GT blow out at 90mph on a 30mph road
my friend was 22 and had a VX220 for 2 months until he encountered a wet roundabout and lack of talent
my friend once sold a Seat Ibiza with a fked gear syncro and when the guy test driving it noticed it was making a clunking noise when going in to 3rd he tutted and asked him to be careful and make sure his foot was fully depressed on the clutch
Your friend is clearly a tosser of the first order.my friend had his <overinflated> front tyre on his AX GT blow out at 90mph on a 30mph road
my friend was 22 and had a VX220 for 2 months until he encountered a wet roundabout and lack of talent
my friend once sold a Seat Ibiza with a f
ked gear syncro and when the guy test driving it noticed it was making a clunking noise when going in to 3rd he tutted and asked him to be careful and make sure his foot was fully depressed on the clutchMy friend strapped his daughter in her car seat very carefully. Upon performing an emergency stop he heard a loud thump as the car seat left the front seat and launched itself into the footwell. He then realised that he had not restrained the car seat with the seatbelt. Very luckily there was no injury.
SpaceCowboy said:
My friend was one of those kids whom you would see either on crutches or with an arm in a sling almost literally every other week for the duration of their school years.
At approx age 10, same friend broke an arm, as a result of the bag of sausages he'd picked up for his Mum getting entangled in the spokes of the front wheel of his Raleigh Burner, throwing him over the bars and onto the road.
I really shouldn't but At approx age 10, same friend broke an arm, as a result of the bag of sausages he'd picked up for his Mum getting entangled in the spokes of the front wheel of his Raleigh Burner, throwing him over the bars and onto the road.
The very first time my friend went to fill up with petrol he ended up hitting the petrol pump.
A few years later he wrote off his wife's car at less than 10mph, a car that had been fitted with a reconditioned engine less than 500 miles earlier.
Many years later he had a bump in his 3 week old car and caused over £1800 worth of damage.
A few years later he wrote off his wife's car at less than 10mph, a car that had been fitted with a reconditioned engine less than 500 miles earlier.
Many years later he had a bump in his 3 week old car and caused over £1800 worth of damage.
One of my friends put his Mother's Mini through a hedge 1 month and 1 day (IIR what he said correctly) after passing his test, in an area that he should have been nowhere near. The car somehow didn't make its way into the field, but back onto the road further round the bend that he didn't quite make.
On the way home, he found a more acceptable place to have crashed, and made a Mini sized dent in a hedge near there for a cover story.
It was on Guy Fawkes night, so my friend explained that some local youths had distracted him with inappropriate use of fireworks on the road.
On another occasion, in the same car, he managed to get substantial, as he said it, "air" while going over a humpbacked(?) bridge with 2 passengers at around .7 leptons, resulting in one passenger with a swollen head and the other with a bleeding nose.
On the way home, he found a more acceptable place to have crashed, and made a Mini sized dent in a hedge near there for a cover story.
It was on Guy Fawkes night, so my friend explained that some local youths had distracted him with inappropriate use of fireworks on the road.
On another occasion, in the same car, he managed to get substantial, as he said it, "air" while going over a humpbacked(?) bridge with 2 passengers at around .7 leptons, resulting in one passenger with a swollen head and the other with a bleeding nose.
Edited by simoid on Wednesday 25th May 01:03
My friend on his bike raced an Audi RS6 on a section of a NSL that he was unfamiliar with and ended up in a holy bush (thankfully).
He needed a few parts to fix up his bike including a mud gaurd which he got sparayed at the local body shop, however the same day he got it, it got blown of a bench whilst he was trying to fit it and rolled down his drive about 5 metres and needed spraying again.
He needed a few parts to fix up his bike including a mud gaurd which he got sparayed at the local body shop, however the same day he got it, it got blown of a bench whilst he was trying to fit it and rolled down his drive about 5 metres and needed spraying again.
my mate "borrowed" a builders plank from a construction site. He placed it running from the back seat of his car and out through the passenger window. Several feet of the plank were sticking out and so that no-one saw what he was doing he decided to take a short cut home through the country lanes.
Some stupid tree then jumped out and caught the protruding plank which not only modified the passenger door but also sent the plank through the rear seat and out through the offside wheel arch. Was this the most expensive plank of wood ever?
Some stupid tree then jumped out and caught the protruding plank which not only modified the passenger door but also sent the plank through the rear seat and out through the offside wheel arch. Was this the most expensive plank of wood ever?
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