Examples of car mistreatment ?
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What examples of nice cars being mistreated have you seen ?
New Audi A6 used to tow wheelie bins on the tow hook, the bin digging into the pain when it turns, creasing the panel and damaging the paint.
Brand new Seven series BMW, muddy Springer Spaniel gun dog on the rear seats, leather pretty much ruined, claw marks, dirt ground in, slobber everywhere.
Some metal roofed cabrio thing, Eos or similar, saw at brand new and then at six months, all four wheels kerbed to the point of the fronts being probably needing being replaced, every corner damaged, random scrapes and lookign like it was six years old not six month.
New Audi A6 used to tow wheelie bins on the tow hook, the bin digging into the pain when it turns, creasing the panel and damaging the paint.
Brand new Seven series BMW, muddy Springer Spaniel gun dog on the rear seats, leather pretty much ruined, claw marks, dirt ground in, slobber everywhere.
Some metal roofed cabrio thing, Eos or similar, saw at brand new and then at six months, all four wheels kerbed to the point of the fronts being probably needing being replaced, every corner damaged, random scrapes and lookign like it was six years old not six month.
The usual Nissan Micra, being driven by an elderly lady. Started from cold, straight onto the rev limiter whilst riding the clutch all the way down the road....on the wrong side of the road! All the way down a high street, on the wrong side, bouncing off the rev limiter! How are you still driving?!
danyeates said:
The usual Nissan Micra, being driven by an elderly lady. Started from cold, straight onto the rev limiter whilst riding the clutch all the way down the road....on the wrong side of the road! All the way down a high street, on the wrong side, bouncing off the rev limiter! How are you still driving?!
Funny you should mentioned abused Nissian micrasI had a piglet running around inside mine the other week when one had got lost from the local farm
thinfourth2 said:
danyeates said:
The usual Nissan Micra, being driven by an elderly lady. Started from cold, straight onto the rev limiter whilst riding the clutch all the way down the road....on the wrong side of the road! All the way down a high street, on the wrong side, bouncing off the rev limiter! How are you still driving?!
Funny you should mentioned abused Nissian micrasI had a piglet running around inside mine the other week when one had got lost from the local farm
thinfourth2 said:
Anything owners by a detailer aka OCD sufferers
As the car will never ever go anywhere or do anything where there is a chance it might encounter a piece of dust
Agree with this. Keeping a car clean and tidy yes, but go and drive it still. Maybe even skip a weeks washing the car to drive it instead.As the car will never ever go anywhere or do anything where there is a chance it might encounter a piece of dust
J4CKO said:
That then is the only Micra that has ever had enough "Grunt"
Okay I'll bite...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F43fNZUVB8#t=55s
KrazyIvan said:
That's 'awesome' as I'm sure the douchebag with the chin adornment is fond of saying. I particularly enjoyed his trying to open the 'hood' to see what could possibly have gone wrong. 
Motorrad said:
My neighbour in Paris who used his (then) brand new 360 as a battering ram to move other cars to enable him to park.
Give a Parisan a Veyron and they'll park it the same way.It's a cultural thing running very deep in the blood line. Bit like how a gun dog that's never worked will 'point' when it finds a downed pigeon in the park.
Motorrad said:
KrazyIvan said:
That's 'awesome' as I'm sure the douchebag with the chin adornment is fond of saying. I particularly enjoyed his trying to open the 'hood' to see what could possibly have gone wrong. danyeates said:
The usual Nissan Micra, being driven by an elderly lady. Started from cold, straight onto the rev limiter whilst riding the clutch all the way down the road....on the wrong side of the road! All the way down a high street, on the wrong side, bouncing off the rev limiter! How are you still driving?!
Ha. I stopped to let an old lady in a Micra reverse off her drive the other day (because it looked like she was going to do it regardless). Engine screaming. She got onto the road, took about 10 seconds to go from reverse to 1st, and then drove the entire length of the street on the wrong side of the road before turning (without signalling) cutting the corner quite badly. Wasn't a high street fortunately, but a deserted suburban road.
Perd Hapley said:
danyeates said:
The usual Nissan Micra, being driven by an elderly lady. Started from cold, straight onto the rev limiter whilst riding the clutch all the way down the road....on the wrong side of the road! All the way down a high street, on the wrong side, bouncing off the rev limiter! How are you still driving?!
Ha. I stopped to let an old lady in a Micra reverse off her drive the other day (because it looked like she was going to do it regardless). Engine screaming. She got onto the road, took about 10 seconds to go from reverse to 1st, and then drove the entire length of the street on the wrong side of the road before turning (without signalling) cutting the corner quite badly. Wasn't a high street fortunately, but a deserted suburban road.
Ps. I mean high street in the loosest sense of the word! There's nothing in Lairg, just a hotel and a couple of shops.
danyeates said:
How strange?! Wonder if it was the same old lady. Mine was in Lairg I think, Scottish Highlands.
Ps. I mean high street in the loosest sense of the word! There's nothing in Lairg, just a hotel and a couple of shops.
Mine was in south Manchester, so there's two of them. But on the bright side, if one met the other coming the other way, they wouldn't hit each other!Ps. I mean high street in the loosest sense of the word! There's nothing in Lairg, just a hotel and a couple of shops.
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