The Official Car Break Down Thread.

[Stike]

i wanna know peoples funniest/worst/most annoying story of their car breaking down. i will start with my two.

my first one was in my 1986 for thunderbird turbo coupe. my girlfriend and i got to my friends house about 10 miles from my house. we got outside to smoke and as i was sitting down going to smoke my gf looks at me and says "i think your car is leaking" and i looked over, it dumped the whole system of anti-freeze in about 30 seconds. so i had to replace the water pump.

my second is in my 'oo civic ex. two months after i boosted it,i was behind a lady doing 35 in a 55. so naturally i was pissed. so i dropped it into second from 4th to pass her i started building boost and at about 9 psi i heard a boom and my whole front of the car including my windscreen was covered in coolant. so as the lady passed me back i looked over and she was busting up laughing. i ended up stretching my headstuds and pushing so much exhaust gases through my coolant system i blew about a quarter sized hole in my radiator..


your turn!

[Spencer]

When I put my roll bar in the first time in my MINI Cooper I had struck a ground wire while drilling the holes for the bolts. The wire was from the fuel tank so my gas gauge had stopped working... Removing and installing and roll bar is a pain in the ass so I waited a while to tackle that again. One day my car started running funny and I didn't know what was wrong. I decided I was going to punch it off the line at a light and got all the way through second gear when I heard a huge pop and my car died immediately and my ECM light flashed. I literally shit myself. I didn't know what had happened... Luckily I cruised into a parking lot and called towing. Luckily before towing got there I figured out I had ran out of gas. Dumb blonde moment. Needless to say I went home and fixed that wire...

[Lukey]

the igniton coil in my dizzy shit itself when was driving in my honda integra one day, was happily crusing along and when i put my foot down to gain a bit of speed nothing happened so i looked at my cluster and my battery warning and oil pressure light were on and no revs no speed nohing. i got stuck at a set of traffic lights for about 15 minutes waiting for friends to come give me a push lol.

[Stike]

When I put my roll bar in the first time in my MINI Cooper I had struck a ground wire while drilling the holes for the bolts. The wire was from the fuel tank so my gas gauge had stopped working... Removing and installing and roll bar is a pain in the ass so I waited a while to tackle that again. One day my car started running funny and I didn't know what was wrong. I decided I was going to punch it off the line at a light and got all the way through second gear when I heard a huge pop and my car died immediately and my ECM light flashed. I literally shit myself. I didn't know what had happened... Luckily I cruised into a parking lot and called towing. Luckily before towing got there I figured out I had ran out of gas. Dumb blonde moment. Needless to say I went home and fixed that wire...

i would shit myself too. lol

the igniton coil in my dizzy shit itself when was driving in my honda integra one day, was happily crusing along and when i put my foot down to gain a bit of speed nothing happened so i looked at my cluster and my battery warning and oil pressure light were on and no revs no speed nohing. i got stuck at a set of traffic lights for about 15 minutes waiting for friends to come give me a push lol.

now that blows.

[Spencer]

My favorite and most epic car break down:

I had just finished my best game of golf (3 over par) when I was driving my Jeep to drop my friend off. We started smelling some smoke about a mile from his house and figured it was someone burning some stuff. As we drove the smell got worse. I dropped him off and then though to myself "Is my car burning?" I popped the hood and it was okay, got back in the car and it was way worse, popped the hood again, nothing. Put the hood back down and the cabin was full of smoke. Minutes later, up in flames.

Proof




I have a tendency to total nice cars.

[Stike]

holy shit are you for real?!

[Spencer]

holy shit are you for real?!

yes.

[Stike]

yes.

i don't even know what to say right now.



that blows.

[Lukey]

lol jeeps catch fire all the time

[pitbulldrifter]

1990 f250
im out hunting with my dad and uncles over an hour away from a tiny town that only has one parts store. where driving along its a beautiful day and we're almost to where we need to be when BAMM!!! now the truck dosnt turn left. luckily it happened next to a log truck turn around on our right. we pull over and get out and the right front wheel is completely turned the fucking tie rod snapped my uncle and dad go into town in the other truck and the only parts store actually has a tie rod in stock they get back and its the wrong thread pattern. they go back to town and the retard behind the counter garbed the wrong box so after like 6 hours we finally made it back home

1964 impala
me and my dad are in reno for hot august nights we just bought a 64 impala at the auction. we're on the way back to my aunts house and the dam thing dies on the freeway we coast off to the side and start trouble shooting. we changed the plugs did just about every thing you could do on the side of the road. its starting to get dark when my dad finds a wire that was cut in half and poorly put back to gather this wire went to the coil fix that and it starts right up. that was my first time causing a traffic jam

[Dr.AK]

Some time last year, I bought an E30 6cyl with my dad for 500€.

We went to pick it up. It was unregistered, but still had the old plates, just with the TÜV plaques removed. The battery was dead and the car required to be jump started. One of the intake hoses had a tear and so the car often died while in idle or at low rpms.

So... what do we do? Right, jumpstart the car, hop in and drive it home 40kms all the way with the illegal tags. We came to the first stop light. BAM. Car died. Since I was driving my E36 behind the E30, I had to pull up around hin and jump start hin - while behind us the line of backed up cars was getting longer and longer.

Long story short: The car died another 5 times on the way home. We finally got it home, took of the old tags, replaced the battery and wrapped the intake hose with some black tape and sold it for 1650€.

[Lukey]

haha awesome stuff Dr!

[K.rischan]

98 318i
One day my steering wheel started to wobble pretty hard without a reason. i ignored it for a while, then my brakes locked. right on an intersection. never felt so much **** .
after 10 minutes everything was okay. like nothing ever happened.
2 days later i drove from hamburg to berlin (300km) and again broke down after 60km. took the next exit from the autobahn and parked the car. it smelled horribly like burned rubber and my left front brakedisc was smoking.
what happened? brake cylinder was fucked so my brakes braked all the time. and i was driving 100mp/h and just noticed that my car wanted to turn left all the time.

[nellydragracer]

I've a 1961 Ford Anglia 105E 997cc (yeah it's slow but i love it), the car in my avatar. When i got it, it'd been stood for about 10 years so the fuel tank was rusting from the inside out, wasn't such a problem at the start then it started fucking me about. So i'd be driving along i'd put my foot down an it would just bog down an cut out, it did this many times in the most inconveniant times/places... turns out all that rust was blocking up the fuel pick-up pipe. A quick blow down the feed pipe had it back running again, it took me a good few months for me to finally take the car of the road an sort it.

[Stike]

Some time last year, I bought an E30 6cyl with my dad for 500€.

We went to pick it up. It was unregistered, but still had the old plates, just with the TÜV plaques removed. The battery was dead and the car required to be jump started. One of the intake hoses had a tear and so the car often died while in idle or at low rpms.

So... what do we do? Right, jumpstart the car, hop in and drive it home 40kms all the way with the illegal tags. We came to the first stop light. BAM. Car died. Since I was driving my E36 behind the E30, I had to pull up around hin and jump start hin - while behind us the line of backed up cars was getting longer and longer.

Long story short: The car died another 5 times on the way home. We finally got it home, took of the old tags, replaced the battery and wrapped the intake hose with some black tape and sold it for 1650€.

now that is how you flip a car!