Your biggest mechanical failure?
Discussion
Where do I start? 
Bottom end went on my MR2.
Valve and associated damage on a Defender. We'd just done 6 days doing various trips in the Libyan Sahara and it went on the main coast road bang next door to some Cypriot workers who sorted us out.
HGF x 3, although never on a K series despite owning three.
And lots more minor stuff.
Bottom end went on my MR2.
Valve and associated damage on a Defender. We'd just done 6 days doing various trips in the Libyan Sahara and it went on the main coast road bang next door to some Cypriot workers who sorted us out.
HGF x 3, although never on a K series despite owning three.
And lots more minor stuff.
Coolant hose split and sprayed coolant over the manifold. Huge amounts of steam as people swerved away from me thinking it was smoke and the car was going to explode. Windscreen wipers became loose on the motorway in heavy rain. I pulled over and found I needed a deep 13mm socket - the tool kit had everything except a 13mm one. That's as bad as it gets!
But as a passenger in my friends car.... he decided to slam the car into reverse at 40 mph. I can still hear the noise and screech as he lost control.
But as a passenger in my friends car.... he decided to slam the car into reverse at 40 mph. I can still hear the noise and screech as he lost control.
Engine went bang.
In more detail I had a valve stem break which dropped the head of the valve into the cylinder while I was on the motorway. The valve is about the hardest piece of metal in the engine so it carved big chunks out of the piston and block leaving the entire thing scrap and sending oil and bits of hot metal down the exhaust pipe.
It was a tuned 1.8 Mk1 Golf GTI and I had no doubt overrevved it at some point btw.
In more detail I had a valve stem break which dropped the head of the valve into the cylinder while I was on the motorway. The valve is about the hardest piece of metal in the engine so it carved big chunks out of the piston and block leaving the entire thing scrap and sending oil and bits of hot metal down the exhaust pipe.
It was a tuned 1.8 Mk1 Golf GTI and I had no doubt overrevved it at some point btw.
I tried to jump a concrete drainage pipe laid lengthways across the dirt road, using another as a launch ramp.
B-DUM - B-DUM!
No air. No hi/low transfer box casing remaining. Cogs, oil and various metals scattered. Still finished the rally though. Had to do one section up a really steep river bank in reverse as it was a lower gear than 1st...
B-DUM - B-DUM!
No air. No hi/low transfer box casing remaining. Cogs, oil and various metals scattered. Still finished the rally though. Had to do one section up a really steep river bank in reverse as it was a lower gear than 1st...
broken piston on a 205 maxi turbo sprint car causing the sump to pressurise and blow the dipstick out , oil then went all over engine onto turbo and caught fire melting the paint on my fibreglass bonnet amazing how quickly you can get out of a car when you think its going up in flames ! :-)
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