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[quote=Good Soil (Pete)]
I've got two, one when I was collecting car from body shop after a rock had taken a chunk of paint of the wing of my Beemer, it started snowing and I nearly lost the whole front of the car on three posts at @3 mph, stopped with a couple of mm to spare, new pants required after the slow motion death struggle! Second time, two days after having stone chips removed from front splitter, manage to catch a plant pot I've missed every day for 8 years on my driveway. Fail.com JohnG1 said:
Oooh, get you!
Full disclosure time now - have you ever dinged a car? Self deprecation is one thing but mickey taking is another thing entirely....
hahah glad you took it in the jest that it was meant! I could see from other threads you were being a good sport about it......and yeah I scratched the bumper of the Aston within two weeks of owning it :-) Caught it on my gate post.....boy was I cursing!Full disclosure time now - have you ever dinged a car? Self deprecation is one thing but mickey taking is another thing entirely....
krisdelta said:
I've got two, one when I was collecting car from body shop after a rock had taken a chunk of paint of the wing of my Beemer, it started snowing and I nearly lost the whole front of the car on three posts at @3 mph, stopped with a couple of mm to spare, new pants required after the slow motion death struggle! Second time, two days after having stone chips removed from front splitter, manage to catch a plant pot I've missed every day for 8 years on my driveway. Fail.com
A few weeks after I'd got my SL, I drove it into a load of bricks at the side of the drive that were there during some building work, managed to put 3 or 4 scratches down the length of the passenger door 
Oh and the other time I crashed I rolled a car one and a half times over a ditch and side on into a tree at circa 80mph. But that isn't the sort of crash John is getting ridiculed about
Picked up brand new X5 on 28 December last year. On 2 January dropped my paretns at my brother's house in Queen's Park and set off home. Coming up to Finchley Road, I thought, "would be good to get some more beer", so I went to Waitrose. I've negotiated the car park at John Barnes for years without problem mentally pouring scorn on those who scrape their cars, so I sailed round in my usual confident way, only to be brought up short by an unpleasant crunch sound and feeling as I scraped the rear nearside door on a corner on the way past the lifts. The X5 is wider and taller than the cars I'd been used to driving. What a knob!
Ten years ago in Germany, I replaced my 330Ci with an M3. I had a long, narrow drive to negotiate to my parking space, but I was so used to it that I was on autopilot. The M3's wheelarches are about an inch wider on either side than the 330Ci's, just enough to hit a protruding tree root.
Three days before selling my DB9, a white van and I made equally ambitious moves for our respective lanes that had been narrowed by buses either side. I lost the wing mirror glass. Three days after I picked up the V12V (so the same bloody week), I did exactly the same thing!
Ten years ago in Germany, I replaced my 330Ci with an M3. I had a long, narrow drive to negotiate to my parking space, but I was so used to it that I was on autopilot. The M3's wheelarches are about an inch wider on either side than the 330Ci's, just enough to hit a protruding tree root.
Three days before selling my DB9, a white van and I made equally ambitious moves for our respective lanes that had been narrowed by buses either side. I lost the wing mirror glass. Three days after I picked up the V12V (so the same bloody week), I did exactly the same thing!
Zod said:
Picked up brand new X5 on 28 December last year. On 2 January dropped my paretns at my brother's house in Queen's Park and set off home. Coming up to Finchley Road, I thought, "would be good to get some more beer", so I went to Waitrose. I've negotiated the car park at John Barnes for years without problem mentally pouring scorn on those who scrape their cars, so I sailed round in my usual confident way, only to be brought up short by an unpleasant crunch sound and feeling as I scraped the rear nearside door on a corner on the way past the lifts. The X5 is wider and taller than the cars I'd been used to driving. What a knob!
Ten years ago in Germany, I replaced my 330Ci with an M3. I had a long, narrow drive to negotiate to my parking space, but I was so used to it that I was on autopilot. The M3's wheelarches are about an inch wider on either side than the 330Ci's, just enough to hit a protruding tree root.
Three days before selling my DB9, a white van and I made equally ambitious moves for our respective lanes that had been narrowed by buses either side. I lost the wing mirror glass. Three days after I picked up the V12V (so the same bloody week), I did exactly the same thing!
Is it a North London Aston owners thing and slow speed crashes?Ten years ago in Germany, I replaced my 330Ci with an M3. I had a long, narrow drive to negotiate to my parking space, but I was so used to it that I was on autopilot. The M3's wheelarches are about an inch wider on either side than the 330Ci's, just enough to hit a protruding tree root.
Three days before selling my DB9, a white van and I made equally ambitious moves for our respective lanes that had been narrowed by buses either side. I lost the wing mirror glass. Three days after I picked up the V12V (so the same bloody week), I did exactly the same thing!
yeti said:
JohnG1 said:
George H said:
Or just Southerners not being able to handle the power? 
Possibly - let me know how you get on with 510bhp. Oh wait, you've only got a DB9...
h John! 470 is plenty for me! I tested an SL65 once with something like 610bhp and to be honest, no road car really needs that much. It was immense fun when opened up, but there are so few places to really do it. Plus the DSC or whatever the Merc accronym is was always coming on. Not to mention the chassis wasn't best suited for all that power
LordBretSinclair said:
George, please don't lump all those from "the smoke" in with the more genteel Aston owner who lives in the Shires 
Us country folk know how to drive.
Apologies, it was aimed mainly at those city dwellers (although it was tongue in cheek) Us country folk know how to drive.
Edited by LordBretSinclair on Wednesday 23 November 19:53
Edited by George H on Wednesday 23 November 21:20
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