Broken your parents car?

[Lloyd]

So... anyone smashed their parents car (or company car) like a new european car or something into anything hard (like a curb) recently?

[Alex B]

Yes. Tonight accualy, in a vw golf. How ever did you guess?

[Mr Revhead]

what you done?

[Lloyd]

Not me

Alex called me about a minute after leaving my place asking me to basically walk out my drive and down the street a bit because the car wasn't quite in as good order as it was when it left my driveway

[Mr Revhead]

hehe

oh dear

[Alex B]

Came down a steepish street covered in grit. Started to loose it and freeked out. So i slamed on the brakes. Hit the curb with the wheel face on. (as the road has a bend in it) Bent the lower control arm, possibly the drive shaft, possibly bent the rim. Best part is its mums company car (i work there too). I hope the boss is in a good mood tommorow.

[Lloyd]

You did the world a favour

Looks like a clown car when you drive it, bounces up and down on each turn of the front wheels. Tyre is still inflated but the driveshaft has a bend in and is rubbing on the chassis.

Anyone else got pics or anything of other peoples cars they have mashed up accidentally? Cant say I've managed to break much other than my EP71, though that was someone elses fault

[SkylineObsession]

Only car i've ever damaged was my car when i reversed into our apple tree a couple of weeks back. Well, i once put a scratch thingy in Mum's car (hatchback) after i opened the boot and it hit the top of Dad's garage.

[Mr.Phreak]

[AJz]

Mums 99 Corolla once, spun it down a ditch in the ice round a steep downhill corner. Learned the hard way ABS is pointless going sideways, hehehehe.

only broke one bumper clip so i came out of it better than most.

[ollieboy]

Windy day on the farm, park car near a big tree. Tree had been weakened by shooting with a .22 over a thousand times. Car completely destroyed by tree.

My friend left a car on their farm once. She didn't realise it was where the centre pivots go (Huge irrigation machines that are hundreds of metres long) Car got run over by centre pivot and mashed into the ground.

[MrOizo]

My friend left a car on their farm once. She didn't realise it was where the centre pivots go (Huge irrigation machines that are hundreds of metres long) Car got run over by centre pivot and mashed into the ground.

HHAHAAHHAHA thats a friggin crack up!!

[DJ]

Not me

Alex called me about a minute after leaving my place asking me to basically walk out my drive and down the street a bit because the car wasn't quite in as good order as it was when it left my driveway

nice alex

[Mr Revhead]

dont worry alex, i did something very similar a coupla months ago in my levin
had snow tyres on it mix that with rain, hill and leaves and 20kmh was too much.
stupid stupid stupid

completly rooted one rim, and the bottom arm. no other damage though

[rolla_fxgt]

ahh the goodness of snow tires aye revhead

though they do make good cheap burnout tyres that love to go bang

Sounds like a bit of tough luck there Alex

Pics?

[Alex B]

Behind that is one suverley $&#$% looking lower control arm, and the drive shaft is bent too. All in a days work....

[fuel]

ouch.. looks nasty. surely you were travelling a bit too fast though?

I've damaged my parents car twice though.
First time was when I just got my restricted and didn't have my own car, so borrowed their car to go down to the river for a swim with my mates. Going down the track to the river I misjudged a gate which was pushed over and on the side of the track. Did a nice long nasty scratch/gouge from the front indicator right back until the petrol flap. Had the whole side panelbeated and repainted. Cost them about $1200.

Second time was a few years later. I needed to tow a car on an A-frame about 10km. My car didn't have a tow bar, but theirs did so I borrowed it once again. Car was hooked onto the A-frame fine and travelled about 8km without a hitch. Came around a sweeping righthander bend at maybe 25~30km/h and the buckle on the passenger side of the car being towed came free. The result was the car being towed wanted to go straight while the tow car wanted to go right. Ended up jack-knifing and the A-frame went under the tow car and came back up under the rear wheel arch. About $600 worth of damage there.

My brother backed into a 4 wheeler and smashed the tail light, wasn't a biggie so replaced the tail light, but a week later he backed into the corner of the hosue and smashed the same tail light, and did some decent damage to the boot and bumper

[Alex B]

Possibly a bit to fast for the condition, didnt really expect to hit a big patch of loose gravel. As you can see the wheel didnt accualy make traction until about 1m before i hit.

[Bling]

thats one farkin dodgy bit of road!!! hard luck there!

and ollieboy, that story about ya mate leaving the car there and getting crushed...... thats just priceless

[HELBND]

APPARENTLY ive blown the engine in mums legacy.... twice
i hear i may have also blown her transmission on one occasion

this is all hearsay, however