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Trip down memory lane and story time for y'all... let's talk about my first day car incidents. They are but a few of my woes.
First ever car, it was 2003. The car was a 1994 civic EG 1.3DX. I inspected it with my clueless father (bless him), he knew more than 17 y/o me at the time let's be honest. Drove it home, no problems. Drove it later that night, problems (seems awfully familiar). I picked my friends up, first one with a car, big deal and all that. Got 2 corners and around 300 yards from my mate's house before being pulled over by the police for no lights. My lights were technically switched on, just the guy had wired it with some household 1.5 single and earth. The policeman took pity and very kindly let me off. I was coincidentally learning how to wire aircraft at the time, so yea. Kind of worked out.
Skip a few cars. It's 2008. I buy a 2005 EP3 from honda approved used. The rear tyre has a huge gouge out of it, I insist it needs replacing. They refuse and give me £150 off. I accept. It blows up on the way "home" (I took a VERY long detour, maybe 80 miles or so). I end up getting a brand new rim, wheel arch liner and tyre... plus I kept the £150. I didn't enjoy the month in a Auto Jazz courtesy car though.
2012. R33 GTR from Japan. Fuck I miss that car. It sold AGAIN about 6 weeks ago for £55k. 3rd time I've seen it sold since I got rid. 43k loss there, not bitter at all. Drove that home feeling like a celebrity with people taking pics and filming. Good times. Until I got home and split the practically irreplaceable front splitter in half on the driveway.
2016. The best one. The deathtrap itself. Bought from bristol from a guy who built it in his shed for a laugh. The B16 (now B18) mini. Scary drive home. So uncomfortable and just generally horrific. It's better now, in marginal and relative terms at least. It can stop and it doesn't try to kill you as much when you accelerate or go over a small bumps. Anyway. I Drove that back on the same route as the DC2 but in summer this time, so no rain or darkness to contend with. Only heat. I boiled the contents of my radiator away over the course of a 280 mile journey. Only 2 or 3 miles from home I started to overheat... in traffic of course. I shut her off & cooled it down. Waited for my gap and cruised it home, holding traffic as I went. A few hours went by, I topped it up. Took it for another drive with my dad just to show him. It overheated again shortly into the drive (still not really sure why, rad fan stopped working but doesn't explain the 2nd rapid overhead, never got to find out...). Got it home & went in for dinner. When I came back out after, I wanted to see where it was leaking from. So I popped the front up, opened the driver's door, put the key in and started it whilst leaning into the car. The car which unbeknownst to me I'd left in gear because the gearstick felt like stirring porridge. The car that weighs 600gks and has and engine from a car nearly twice that weight with wheels 2"s bigger in diameter... A car that doesn't stall in first gear when started from a standstill. It ran me down on my own driveway.
I scrambled/dragged along with it in slow motion hopelessly reaching for the brake or clutch pedals as it crunched into my garage door. The radiator pissed out all over the place and it snapped & bent a couple locating brackets for the flip front. Shout out to aerocatches for hooking me up with free of charge replacement eye bolts BTW. Top fellas. Ended up just being a new radiator and modification to fit, cost me about £300 all in (plus another £600 or so for a new garage door). I rewired my radiator fan to a manual switch at this point and never looked back. Injury wise I got away with a scuffed knee and a very very bruised rib cage. If it was in reverse, holy shit. The door would have dragged me into the gatepost if it didn't fold back first. Still think about that to this day every time I park my car on an incline. The glorious vision of 20/20 hindsight reveals that a simple grab for the key would have been all it took to stop the horror show.... Or maybe just check your gearstick next time?
Honourable non-first-day mentions go to the E46 which snapped in half from the rear suspension mounts. The E36 which I wrote off with my so called 'friend' and colleague who subsequently forced me through insurance for his banger 106. The 1.25 Zetec which I blew up & caused a huge oil spill on Preston M6 roundabout and last but by no means least, my favourite car of all. The faded pink 1.3 '00 Hayundai accent mk1 which I also wrote off with the help of a 2014 M3 dealership car.
We live and we learn folks. And the rest of us? We just buy 90's jap cars.
First ever car, it was 2003. The car was a 1994 civic EG 1.3DX. I inspected it with my clueless father (bless him), he knew more than 17 y/o me at the time let's be honest. Drove it home, no problems. Drove it later that night, problems (seems awfully familiar). I picked my friends up, first one with a car, big deal and all that. Got 2 corners and around 300 yards from my mate's house before being pulled over by the police for no lights. My lights were technically switched on, just the guy had wired it with some household 1.5 single and earth. The policeman took pity and very kindly let me off. I was coincidentally learning how to wire aircraft at the time, so yea. Kind of worked out.
Skip a few cars. It's 2008. I buy a 2005 EP3 from honda approved used. The rear tyre has a huge gouge out of it, I insist it needs replacing. They refuse and give me £150 off. I accept. It blows up on the way "home" (I took a VERY long detour, maybe 80 miles or so). I end up getting a brand new rim, wheel arch liner and tyre... plus I kept the £150. I didn't enjoy the month in a Auto Jazz courtesy car though.
2012. R33 GTR from Japan. Fuck I miss that car. It sold AGAIN about 6 weeks ago for £55k. 3rd time I've seen it sold since I got rid. 43k loss there, not bitter at all. Drove that home feeling like a celebrity with people taking pics and filming. Good times. Until I got home and split the practically irreplaceable front splitter in half on the driveway.
2016. The best one. The deathtrap itself. Bought from bristol from a guy who built it in his shed for a laugh. The B16 (now B18) mini. Scary drive home. So uncomfortable and just generally horrific. It's better now, in marginal and relative terms at least. It can stop and it doesn't try to kill you as much when you accelerate or go over a small bumps. Anyway. I Drove that back on the same route as the DC2 but in summer this time, so no rain or darkness to contend with. Only heat. I boiled the contents of my radiator away over the course of a 280 mile journey. Only 2 or 3 miles from home I started to overheat... in traffic of course. I shut her off & cooled it down. Waited for my gap and cruised it home, holding traffic as I went. A few hours went by, I topped it up. Took it for another drive with my dad just to show him. It overheated again shortly into the drive (still not really sure why, rad fan stopped working but doesn't explain the 2nd rapid overhead, never got to find out...). Got it home & went in for dinner. When I came back out after, I wanted to see where it was leaking from. So I popped the front up, opened the driver's door, put the key in and started it whilst leaning into the car. The car which unbeknownst to me I'd left in gear because the gearstick felt like stirring porridge. The car that weighs 600gks and has and engine from a car nearly twice that weight with wheels 2"s bigger in diameter... A car that doesn't stall in first gear when started from a standstill. It ran me down on my own driveway.
I scrambled/dragged along with it in slow motion hopelessly reaching for the brake or clutch pedals as it crunched into my garage door. The radiator pissed out all over the place and it snapped & bent a couple locating brackets for the flip front. Shout out to aerocatches for hooking me up with free of charge replacement eye bolts BTW. Top fellas. Ended up just being a new radiator and modification to fit, cost me about £300 all in (plus another £600 or so for a new garage door). I rewired my radiator fan to a manual switch at this point and never looked back. Injury wise I got away with a scuffed knee and a very very bruised rib cage. If it was in reverse, holy shit. The door would have dragged me into the gatepost if it didn't fold back first. Still think about that to this day every time I park my car on an incline. The glorious vision of 20/20 hindsight reveals that a simple grab for the key would have been all it took to stop the horror show.... Or maybe just check your gearstick next time?
Honourable non-first-day mentions go to the E46 which snapped in half from the rear suspension mounts. The E36 which I wrote off with my so called 'friend' and colleague who subsequently forced me through insurance for his banger 106. The 1.25 Zetec which I blew up & caused a huge oil spill on Preston M6 roundabout and last but by no means least, my favourite car of all. The faded pink 1.3 '00 Hayundai accent mk1 which I also wrote off with the help of a 2014 M3 dealership car.
We live and we learn folks. And the rest of us? We just buy 90's jap cars.
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