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kevinshally

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Some little coward decided last night to spend a couple of minutes throwing bricks at cars from an overpass on the way into Dublin. Not much I could do about it.
One hit the bonnet a good smack. 3 nice dents, paint a mess (you might remember I got a full respray on in September).
Whats the most gut sickening thing that has happened to your car, your fault or otherwise??
I'm sure there are a few bad stories out there that make my experience last night look like a vacation...

Back to the body shop for The Bull McCabe.

Kev.
 
Bad luck Kevin.

However you might like to have a word with the police just in case they have a suspect - or can set up a cctv nearby to catch this half-wit when he does it again.
 
I took my car to Spa and then did 2 days at the 'ring came back without so much as a stone chip...

Went to work the following monday and got a phone call from home telling me that my mum had had an accident in her car... I got all worried and asked the all of the usual concerned questions then asked what she hit.... "She reversed into your car on the drive!!"

It wouldnt have been so bad but her car has got parking sensors!!!


glad to hear you're Ok thogh Kevin, similar thing happened to friends dad while we were at Uni... concrete bollared came through the winscreen, he ended up in hospital for 6 months.
 
Hospital !! Holy crap.
I guess I was lucky so.
I did have the cops around and we drove around in the squad car for a while but no joy.
I guess that when that kid is older he will have some young fella do something to his car, and he would be able to moan about it.
I dont' think I'll be driving slow under any bridges for a while though.
Kev
 
You really do have to wonder about some people. How anybody could throw a brick, or concrete bollard, off a bridge and not realise that they could kill someone is beyond me.
 
I had the person who was doing an MOT on my 911 come to the door and tell me the car had gone through a hedge backwards....

Car was a write off, just started looking for a replacement after getting the insurance money

Pete
 
Sorry to hear your news Kevin , at least you've not been injured , just a couple of months ago I came back to the S2 to find both the rear tyres slashed together with another couple of cars .

 
This happened last year but it wasn't a brick but a car battery!!!

It killed a van driver.

There was a huge man hunt and a youth was convicted of man slaughter

Mike[:'(]
 
ORIGINAL: burrow01

I had the person who was doing an MOT on my 911 come to the door and tell me the car had gone through a hedge backwards....

Car was a write off, just started looking for a replacement after getting the insurance money

Pete
[FONT=verdana,geneva"] [FONT=verdana,geneva"]Is that part of the new computerised MoT system?[FONT=verdana,geneva"] [FONT=verdana,geneva"]Sorry to hear about both, but I have heard of several people being injured quite badly so perhaps count yourself lucky Kev.[FONT=verdana,geneva"]
 
ORIGINAL: burrow01

I had the person who was doing an MOT on my 911 come to the door and tell me the car had gone through a hedge backwards....

Car was a write off, just started looking for a replacement after getting the insurance money

Pete

Being really crap at geography but Rutland sounds kinda in the countryside so I'm guessing that might explain why they have hedges in MOT stations there!! I cnt believe I'm about to say this but I'm glad I live in Coventry!
 
No computers on this 911, maybe thats why he lost it

Even in our small village, we have had problems with kids stretching ropes across the road
 
Nasty scum! glad you are ok.
Worst I did in my current car - removed the brake calipers to repaint - my brother wanted to use the garage so I dropped the car back very carefully using the handbrake, onto the otherside of the driveway about 30m away (my mums house). Had a complicated business call while I sat with the engine idling, then still thinking about the call drove it back hit the brakes which sent the pedal straight to the floor and I bounced of the garage door. actually resulted in very little paint damage to the car and a cracked fibreglass garage door but I felt sick afterwards for being so stupid.
Tony
 
Sorry to hear that Kev, but echo the sentiment - better the bonnet than the windscreen.

My pains are rather minor... didn't manage to track the white van that caught the rear quarter and drove off (incomplete number plate). The car still at Solus, but 'on the finishing stages' apparently, can't wait to get it back, if only to erase the experience of 2 weeks and 2000miles in a Chrysler Impala!

I also managed to reverse into an 2ft tall 'stealth' post in a B&Q car park, the post was conveniently positioned so that it was not only difficult to see when reversing, but also that the contact was with the corner, rather than the flat of the post, to inflict maximum damage - cracked the bumper. Felt like a right idiot.
 
ORIGINAL: lali

ORIGINAL: burrow01

I had the person who was doing an MOT on my 911 come to the door and tell me the car had gone through a hedge backwards....

Car was a write off, just started looking for a replacement after getting the insurance money

Pete

Being really crap at geography but Rutland sounds kinda in the countryside so I'm guessing that might explain why they have hedges in MOT stations there!! I cnt believe I'm about to say this but I'm glad I live in Coventry!

It's about as much in the countryside as you can get [:)] - Unfortunately that's why he had to drive it to another location to get the welding done, and crashed it on the way back....

At least there was a shiny new MOT certificate on the seat as he disappeared off the road [:mad:]
 
I was stuffed up the back by a Honda crappy 4x4 rubbishy thingy [:'(], thankfully he admitted liability.

Nearly £6K of damage, plus loan car costs. It was touch and go whether they would right my baby off [:(], but at the same time I had asked for a quote for some other paint and it convinced them that I love my car and they agreed to repair it [:)]. 2 months in an Astra convertible in the middle of winter followed, 1.6 litres of crap, still manage to get the roof down a couple of times though [8D].

I still shudder and shout obsenities when ever I see one of those Honda things arrrrggggghhhh[:'(][:'(][:'(][:'(][:'(]
 
My mate killed a turbo on a test drive, only did 200 yds.......he did the descent thing and bought it!

Still got the engine if anyone wants a 87 220

Cant hear it running any more because I pinched all the electronics and sensors from it to play about with mine.

We will take the engine out over xmas so we can dispose of the shell.

Mike[:'(]

 
" then still thinking about the call drove it back hit the brakes which sent the pedal straight to the floor and I bounced of the garage door. "
Good one. Especially with a signature of "The skill is in the corners".

I've got the bodyshop guy looking at it either after christmas or the new year.
I think that any scum firing things from bridges should be made to hang by the balls from said bridge by a bungee cord and be hit by oncoming traffic.
 
Nightmare [:mad:]

Out of interest - Which bridge was it (I'm in Dublin quite a lot).

I've had nothing in the 944 (deperately grasps at bits of wood) but have had a nice £450 bill in the past when some n*b drove into the rear door of my old ZX Volcane and utterly destroyed it..... and then just naffed off without a care. [:eek:]
 
Clean Driving record for 9 years, then:-

1) 2002, reversed into stupid cow parked opposite drive (yes, my fault - didn't look!!)
2) 2003, reversed into bloke in ASDA car park (yes, my fault, have a problem looking in mirrors!!)
3) 2004 Bloke hit me in car park (my car parked) and did off. Thanks to the 7 witnesses [:D]
4) 2005a Bloke hit my car while driving, then buggered off - followed him 40 miles, and eventually the police stopped him. Cheeky bugger got away with 50/50 as well! Police were as much use as a slice of mouldy toast. At least my insurance put it down as non fault for the record!
4) 2005b Old lady crashed into the back of the Porsche at 35MPH while I was stationary. 6 months and £11K later, car back on the road.

To be fair, at least only two of them were my (stupid) fault, and least any injuries have heeled.

Chucking objects off bridges is just stupidity. The only way to get them to learn is to have them drive buy, and you get 3 goes.....
 
ORIGINAL: mik_ok

Nightmare [:mad:]

Out of interest - Which bridge was it (I'm in Dublin quite a lot).

I've had nothing in the 944 (deperately grasps at bits of wood) but have had a nice £450 bill in the past when some n*b drove into the rear door of my old ZX Volcane and utterly destroyed it..... and then just naffed off without a care. [:eek:]

Driving in from the north county on teh M1 you pass under the bridge at the exit of the port tunnel works. Thats the bridge. Above you is the road from Coolock/Clonshaugh to Santry.
It's brutal cos traffic slows down due to the roadworks and sometimes in bad traffic it's stoped completely so you are a sitting duck. I raced through it this morning on teh way to be bodyshop at about 70.
The guy I droped it into said that he has a lovely merc with damage to both sides where some youths pelted it with stones from both sides of the road near dublin airport.
We need about 5000 more Gardai here. It took 20 minutes for the cops to come to me cos on the way they chased some guy who had stolen a car while the person was putting petrol in it.
Kev

ps. Come to Dublin, deadly spot. I'm not the best seller of the place though.
 

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