Car accidents, whilst not driving...
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Right, I'm feeling pretty annoyed right now and need cheering up. Schadenfreude and all that.
Basically, I had a 4 litre jerry can of engine oil at my dads place, picked it up when I went to see him earlier. I went over a speedbump a bit too fast on the way home, but thought nothing of it.
Opened the boot up when I got home, and I stress that the boot was full of other stuff I had picked up.
The bloody jerry can had split. I assume it was when I went over the bump. Stuff, absolutely ruined.
To make matters worse, both my headlights went as well. Basically, the aldi bulbs I bought a few months back were s
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Your turn. Go!
Basically, I had a 4 litre jerry can of engine oil at my dads place, picked it up when I went to see him earlier. I went over a speedbump a bit too fast on the way home, but thought nothing of it.
Opened the boot up when I got home, and I stress that the boot was full of other stuff I had picked up.
The bloody jerry can had split. I assume it was when I went over the bump. Stuff, absolutely ruined.
To make matters worse, both my headlights went as well. Basically, the aldi bulbs I bought a few months back were s
t Your turn. Go!
I left a fresh tin of paint in the boot the other day thinking it wouldn't be a problem, I was wrong, very wrong. Paint all over the floor, up the sides and over the back of the seats. On the plus side it was water based paint so not too disastrous.
I prefer that story to having to think about the three occasions that c-nuts have drove into my car damaging it and then fking off without leaving any details or on the one occasion I saw the person it then turned out they were uninsured, unlicenced and shouldn't be in the fking country.
I prefer that story to having to think about the three occasions that c-nuts have drove into my car damaging it and then f
king off without leaving any details or on the one occasion I saw the person it then turned out they were uninsured, unlicenced and shouldn't be in the fking country.aka_kerrly said:
I left a fresh tin of paint in the boot the other day thinking it wouldn't be a problem, I was wrong, very wrong. Paint all over the floor, up the sides and over the back of the seats. On the plus side it was water based paint so not too disastrous.
I prefer that story to having to think about the three occasions that c-nuts have drove into my car damaging it and then fking off without leaving any details or on the one occasion I saw the person it then turned out they were uninsured, unlicenced and shouldn't be in the fking country.
could be worseI prefer that story to having to think about the three occasions that c-nuts have drove into my car damaging it and then f
king off without leaving any details or on the one occasion I saw the person it then turned out they were uninsured, unlicenced and shouldn't be in the fking country.
I found one morning that some c*nt had tipped a tin of paint over the roof of my gf's mgtf. new roof needed and another time two of my cars keyed.
funnily enough only happened since the council built a 'halfway hostel' around the corner in the middle of a private estate. They deny anything to do with them.
Also one of their mowers missing guards resulted in stones being thrown up and smashing all front lights, windscreen and stone chips over front to the TVR. On top of that one of their tenants burning half my house down, then them stealing nearly 900 quid council rent from my account whilst the house was being rebuilt at my own cost (just bought it week before, hadnt moved in so no insurance). They took the bank details from a garage I rented from them and helped themselves! Cue long legal battle!
Do I hate the council as much as car insurance companies- not even close!
funnily enough only happened since the council built a 'halfway hostel' around the corner in the middle of a private estate. They deny anything to do with them.
Also one of their mowers missing guards resulted in stones being thrown up and smashing all front lights, windscreen and stone chips over front to the TVR. On top of that one of their tenants burning half my house down, then them stealing nearly 900 quid council rent from my account whilst the house was being rebuilt at my own cost (just bought it week before, hadnt moved in so no insurance). They took the bank details from a garage I rented from them and helped themselves! Cue long legal battle!
Do I hate the council as much as car insurance companies- not even close!
dabofoppo said:
I was Clearing out the Saxo on Saturday and I tossed some pliers into a box next thing I know a can of silver spray paint explodes out of the box and lands next to my car and continues to spray all over my freshly cleaned black car 
. The hole in the can was bloody tiny as well.
Did something very similar a couple of weeks ago, wiped it off the cut it, then polished it, totally wasted a Saturday.. The hole in the can was bloody tiny as well. i spent 4 hours polishing a 635 bmw i had, it was black and now it was gleaming black. i had a giant tub of car polish, i stepped back to admire my work and a van went past in front of me and blocked out my car. but he ran over the polish!! when the van had passed, the whole car was covered in pink spots, everywhere, it took me ages to reclean , i havent polished a car since and this was 20 years ago, i get somebody else to do it now 
My wife once came back to her XJS at the end of the working day to find a notice from the police on the windscreen telling her that the car had been involved in an accident. It had been in the car park all day! Turns out someone had forgotten to put their handbrake on and their car had, during the day, rolled back into the Jag.
My dad had a W124 300TE and often used it for lugging stuff around. The lid on a large tub of chemical adhesive came off, allowing the contents of the tub to run free, all into the boot, down the back of the rear seats. It hardened very fast leaving it impossible to remove. If I remember rightly, he claimed it on the insurance and it was all replaced.
I had just finished rebuilding most of the mechanical bits on my old Rover 420 turbo, including the gearbox. Took it for a shakedown and whilst driving along the A40 I heard a small thump from under the car. Thinking I'd just run over some debris in the road, I kept going. Then the gearbox started getting rather noisy and to my horror I realised I hadn't tightened the gearbox oil drain plug back up. The whole lot had drained out, thankfully I wasn't too far from home and nursed it back there without any terminal damage.
I had just finished rebuilding most of the mechanical bits on my old Rover 420 turbo, including the gearbox. Took it for a shakedown and whilst driving along the A40 I heard a small thump from under the car. Thinking I'd just run over some debris in the road, I kept going. Then the gearbox started getting rather noisy and to my horror I realised I hadn't tightened the gearbox oil drain plug back up. The whole lot had drained out, thankfully I wasn't too far from home and nursed it back there without any terminal damage.
I had a 3/4 full 25 litre tin of green gloss paint in the boot of my old E30 when I was labouring on an MOD site, I pulled into a new area to work and realised that somewhere I'd taken a corner a bit quick or braked a bit hard as the lid now wasn't there and the contents was, well you can imagine!
Went to B&Q with my mum, in my step-dads 6 week old range rover (maybe 20 years ago). She put a 5 litre tub of masonry paint on the back seat and drove off. 2 minutes down the road some stupid duffer pulls out from a roundabout (we had right of way) causing some heavy braking and an upturned tub of paint on the floor. It was leaking out of the doors, up the back of the seats, on the roof, etc.
Luckily we managed to drive straight in to a valeting place just round the corner, and they managed to clear every scrap of paint from inside the car, stripping the carpets and seats out in the process.
He never noticed, and to this day, does not know.
I don't put things on the back seat any more. Especially paint.
Luckily we managed to drive straight in to a valeting place just round the corner, and they managed to clear every scrap of paint from inside the car, stripping the carpets and seats out in the process.
He never noticed, and to this day, does not know.
I don't put things on the back seat any more. Especially paint.
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