Driving down the road and my entire back window came out flew

>>13916791
I had an rx7 with a bad sunroof motor. So I rigged it to just unbolt by hand. Forgot to put the bolts back on
>Going down highway at 75
>feel cabin pressure change
>wtf.jpg
>look in rear view mirror
>it's sailing like 50ft in the air
>narrowly misses a car behind me.
That was shitty. Luckily I had a spare at home.

>>13916814
At least you had the spare haha
I didn't even notice a pressure change I just caught it in the rearview as it popped out didn't even really make a sound luckily all the cars were pretty far behind me I just kept going was nothing I could do at that point. Felt like a dumbass driving home with no glass back there

>driving down interstate in my old truck
>loses spark for a about 5 seconds because of an intermittent connection
>carburetor
>spark comes back
>BOOM
>blows the rusty old exhaust system off at the bends after the exhaust manifolds
>drive home with the exhaust dragging on the ground and my earmuffs on because it's loud as fuck
I used this as an excuse to put some better flowing exhaust manifolds I had laying around on, and welded up a new, quieter, dual exhaust system.

I also had a backfire happen on my old KZ900 that was so bad it blew the carbs off.

>>13916814
I lold

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>Head gasket issues
>Can't drive three miles without overheating, pull over on highway
>Open boot
>Immediate pressure change causes coolant reservoir to explode
>Not just popped the top, it literally fucking exploded into pieces, scalding magma flies everywhere
>2nd degree burns on my face for two weeks

Idk how I wasn't blinded, anons.

>>13916827
Sunroof guy here. Have another
>be driving up north to see my brother in college.
>55mph on highway
>cross under train bridge
>head sized rock flies through window
>narrowly missed my grandpa's arm (driver)
>lands exactly where my friends head was lying 30sec before
>glass shards hit me in the rear seat while I was sleeping.
>woke up to the feeling of getting sandblasted
>stopped to clean ourselves up
>next town we kicked out the windshield
>drove all weekend with no windshield
>muhfuggin bees!!!!
>any time we stop be have to bail out and run because of angry bees
Was pretty hilarious seeing peoples reactions with our feet hanging out the front though

Had a tie rod end break on me in the middle of traffic once my whole tire was sideways and I had my toddler in the car I just got sat on the pavement and hate kicked the tire back straight to get the little ball joint part back on long enough to get out of danger area.Ended up using zip ties, duck tape and prayers to get it the rest of the 20 miles home never took such gentle turns in my life.

>>13916862
You dodged a bullet there

> looking at buying car
> on test drive
> engine blows on the expressway
> coast it down conviently close exit
> park at carwash
> buy that fucker anyway at a lower price

>Driving downstate on interstate highway
>At least 3 hours from home
>Car suddenly loses power
>Cabin smells like gasoline
>Pull off the road
>Try to start car but it won't turn over
>Towed to shop
>Find out timing belt blew out
>Just had water pump replaced a month ago which I had requested they change the timing belt while they were fucking with it
>Shop didn't install a new belt
>Pay $300 again for someone to do the job right

And now I just don't let anyone touch my car unless it is entirely infeasible for me to do it on my own.

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Two blown turbos when riding shotgun with my cousin in his S4... he wasn't too happy

>>13916870
I hate being behind dump trucks and stuff for this very reason always afraid something is gonna smash through final destination style.

>be driving a super clean bone stock EK civic hatch.
>in dairy queen drive through
>ping!!
>exhaust gets really loud right as she's taking my money.
>pretend like nothing happened
>she's screaming my change numbers back to me and handing me my order
>pull in parking space and see the factory exhaust just feel apart at a weld
>no rust or damage, just fell off
>proceed to remove exhaust with a butter knife
Never owned a Honda again

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>be driving home from a holiday
>2 day riding from home
>taking the small roads because more fun
>exit village and take a turn
>give some gas to get to 100km/h in a normal fashion
>suddenly a loud noise and now more power going to the rear wheel
>get it to a garage
>broken drive shaft

Ford axod transmission pueked its fluid all over in the mountains an hour from home when I tried taking my first long distance trip to snowboard when i was 17. It was also how I learned to change a transmission, and that one needed a new shift actuator thing. Ford sucks. Just helped a random local fix his ranger cause it had mixed up plug wires after po fucked it up.

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>on way to club loose north meet
>get to the gate
>shut off car, get out and walk to the ticket booth
>Get ticket
>start car, drive down to park
>she sounds really Fucking loud
>the manifold blew from the bottom flange that was welded shut because they didn't seat properly
>no flex pipe caused this because engine lift FWD fag car
It spit fire out of it and I have a video, will post a screenshot from video of best flame haha

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>>13917005
Pic related hahahahah the video is funny because the pipe jumps around a lot

>>13917029
nice

>>13917029
looks kinda badass

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Got you all beat
>buy a rusty '99 Accord for $800
>driving to work
>press brakes
>nothin
>press them in all the way and I hear one wheel screeching
>drive to garage with one wheel actually braking
Apparently the brake line / tube rusted through, it was just like a cartoon

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>>13917068

>>13916791
>tfw all my 1¢ pennies got recalled

>>13917101
Kek

>>13917055
Yea it was fresh as fuck hahaha

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>>13917029
>tfw you will never own a car that runs off a fusion reactor

>>13916910
Please tell me you gave that shop hell.

>Replaces water pump.
>Doesn't replace timing belt.

wat the fug?

>driving 71 Ford F100
>master cylinder failure
>foot to floor. Intersection coming up
>don't panic don't panic don't panic
>calmly press ebrake while holding release lever ton act as brake
>do this for 7 miles through town
>get home
>everything went better than expected

>driving BMW
>starts overheating like a motherfucker
>needle past 260
>steam fills cabin through vents
>on 2 lane country road
>have to shut engine off and stop IMMEDIATELY
>start to pull off road into shallow ditch
>flip ignition switch off to kill engine, then back on so steering wheel wont lock
>except ignition jams, key won't move, steering locks
>40 mph, heading into on coming lane
>car does a complete 360 in the middle of both lanes
>somehow doesn't fly off road
>comes to a stop, in dead center of road
>cars at a screeching halt 20 feet from my bumper
>push car off of road
>atleastimalive.jpg

>>13917283

I gave them shit for it the day I went to pick the car up. I had explicitly requested they put a new belt in since the car was just over 120k miles on the odometer, and when they said they didn't I tried to get them to put a new one in before driving it off and forking over even more in labor to get the whole thing done again.

The only reason that didn't happen is the mechanic was really bro with my Dad and my Dad played it off like he knew anything about cars saying it wasn't needed.

The week prior to dealing with that asshole, I had taken it into another shop that scheduled my car in but they sat on it for over a week prioritizing their family's shit because small town and so it never was looked at.

I tried to get the shop that did the water pump to pony up some money for the bill but they weren't going to budge short of being dragged to court over it and I didn't have that kind of time or resources to wring them in small claims for $300. They'll never see any business from me again, I can guarantee that much.

>Sophomore mechanical engineer
>Broke as fuck driving '99 Camry
>Fixing to turn into Wally World to buy some damn groceries
>Car already has some damn problems like a bad starter and 3/4 of all the door handles broken off
>On a two lane applying brakes fixing to turn into shitplace.
>Suddenly hear a somewhat loud "Tink-tink-tink-tink" and lose 3/4 of braking.
>Make the horrifying realization that both front brake pads had jettisoned themselves from the vehicle.
>End up having to careen into the Walmart turn at about 30-35 mph and run over a curb doing so.
>luckily it's the gardening section at 10pm so there are no cars there and I can essentially coast and turn Us until the brakes do enough.

If I didn't love the car so much I would have scrapped it there but I got it fixed. I gave up on it when it did the same thing with another brake pad as I was backing out of my driveway. Mechanics could never find anything that was wrong either.

>>13916912
I got hit in the chest by a piece of tire that flew off of or got kicked up by a truck while riding my motorcycle, it broke a rib and left a giant crescent shaped bruise across me. Plot twist: the truck was in the opposing lanes, on the other side of a jersey barrier, in the middle of the night when there were no other vehicles around. I just happened to cross paths with this truck at the wrong moment. Double twist: I didn't crash the bike, just pulled over, called 911, then my insurance company to have them tow it to my house.

>>13917467
>Step 1) aquire some pick and pull calipers
>Step 2) re-manufacture old calipers yourself
>Step 3) then paint red for extra 25 kW
>Step 5) ?????
>Step 6) Profit

>>13916791
I've had two engines seize on me. But a close call is a better story.

>driving a borrowed 2000 F250
>heading home with mattress in the back when handling started feeling funny
>I start hearing a noise from front right wheel
>I kind of have an idea what the problem is and keep going
>Almost home and notice I'm getting weird looks from other drivers.
>pull into my driveway and hop out to find front wheel is hanging on to the remaining 5 out of 8 lug studs, no lug nuts and is leaning at more than 30º
>quickly grab floor jack to support the truck
>Once the weight is off the wheel, it falls off the truck
>3 lug studs broke off ( from prior accident)and the remaining lug nuts walked off while I drove, and the aluminum wheel was damaged beyond repair
>called truck's owner, he put the spare on and limped it to the shop

>Lower ball joint falls out
>Honestly not sure how it happened
>Fortunately have my jack and a really basic tool kit
>And duct tape and zip ties
>After fucking around forever, manage to get ball joint back in, since the nut just fucked off apparently
>Zip tie everything together, wrap in duct tape, more zip ties, repeat maybe 4 times
>Great big mass of sticky and plastic to hold this thing together
>Drive 50KM home on it, and 5 more to get a new ball joint

Not sure how I got that to work, when I got home with the new joint it was working its way through the tape.

>>13919130
how to fuck do you duct tape a ball joint in?

>>13919157
You just do

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>>13919165
Do you mean the ball joint separated, or it actually fell out?

>>13917149
>Electric car
>Powered by electricity
>Electricity made by the sun
>Sun is a fusion reactor

One time I put new rotors on my car cause they were warped and forgot to properly torque the caliper stay bolts. Upper one fell out and startef clicking on the way home from a fishing tournament. When i pulled over to see what was wrong it locked up at abour 30. Luckily I had a close enough wrench to switch top and bottom and make it home but fuck I felt like an idiot. Proper torque for those is hard as you can with big ass breaker bar now.

2003 Intrepid

The top radiator hose blew in the middle of a four lane interstate at 5:30 in the afternoon.

I don't consider myself an apprehensive or nervous person but I was about to have a stroke getting onto the shoulder as my temp gauge was shooting up

>>13916791
>Driving along country road about 11:30, taking friends GF out to her dads for christmas, me her and mate in the car
>Fox runs out in front of me
>No time to slow down
>THUNK
>shhhh shhhhh shhhhh shhhh
>Think the fox has broken something, pull over
>Me and mate get out
>There's the head, front legs and upper body of a fox wedged in my foglight
>Still twitiching, head is pretty fucked up
>Pull it out, stamp on it's head
>Mates gf watching from inside vomits on my back seat
>Drive the rest of the way with her blubbering in the back, got some cleaning supplies off her dad and my mate cleaned it up
>Later stole her foglights when she was rear ended by a bus, replaced mine with then (not even the same manufacturer, but they fit)

>>13916910
Why didn't you just replace the pump and belt yourself? It's not a difficult job.

>driving old shitbox civic
>coming to a stop light
>press brake
>nothing happens
>OH SHIT

Luckily it was like 3am and there was no traffic, I pulled up to a circle k and called my bro to pick me up

>>13919230
use a torque wrench

>>13919230
>Not having crown nuts and using cotter pins

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>got a call for friends ford focus because he said the engine was making a weird noise and wanted me to check it out.
>we are at a gas station, hes scared
>started it up
>pinging like a motherfucker, running on 2 cylinders maybe?
>say i'll drive it to his home.
>what could possibly go wrong?
>ohboy.jpg
>pull into the residential area
>BOOM
>silence
>oil fucking all over the god damn street
>blew a hole in the side of the engine block the size of a baseball.
>then it happened to 2 other friends ford focuses (thats another story)

beware of the split port 2.0L engines.

>flying around at WOT in my P71
>car slams me on my front end
>i back it up and slam him back.
>this happens for around 10 minutes
>my car is now a hatchback
>try to WOT one more time
>slowly goes from redline
>lower
>lower
>lower
>BAZINGA
>starter wont work
>fug

ive got a video of it if you guys want to see.


oh yeah, that was a Demolition Derby fyi

>>13919421
Sounds like an opportunity for an LS swap.

>>13919460
yeah, i kept telling him that. but he just called me a retarded faggot who says that to everything. some people.

he ended up getting a honda.

>driving 87 honda accord in the late 90s
>take a turn with a bump into an apartment complex
>suddenly feels like I'm in neutral
>engine revs fine, but horrible screeching grinding noise
>keep trying to find a gear, no go.
>suddenly loud bang followed by crunching, clanging, thrashing and pinging from under the hood.
>frozen in terror
>it dies away to silence
>get out. Fluids everywhere
>can't open hood
>get towed to a shop
Turns out all the engine mounts broke or rotted away.
The bump shifted the engine which pulled the axle spline apart.
Then while revving it the whole fucking engine jumped, warped the hood and all that noise was from the fan destroying itself and the radiator/shroud.

New axle (i ground that fucker smooth), new engine mounts, new radiator, fan and shroud, plus some belts and hoses.

Wasn't actually too expensive to fix. The hood got fixed with some vice grips and a rubber mallet.

>horrible rainy day
>driving to friends to pick him up so we can chill
>friend just moved, so driving through flooded roads looking for friend's house, almost lost
>can't find friends house
>car starts making a nasty grinding noise
>start freaking out
>finally get to friends house, get out of the car
>rainbow puddle flowing out of the car since there's a stream of water (parked in a hill)
>Shit self, pick friend up and limp the car home hoping it doesn't eat shit
>drive about 5 miles like this
>friend questnioning why i'm freaking out about the car
>car pisses power steering fluid all over my driveway
>turns out it was a power steering hose that blew out somehow

audi ownership, folks.

>>13919852
nah mate, you're just a pleb

>driving shitbox 2001 civic lx cross country with friend
>battery light is intermittent as we are guessing if there's a loose connection or something
>suddenly loose all instrumentation of highway and throttle response starts to go
>oh fug
>coast it into lot, alternator ded
>pay shameful price at nearby dealer to get a new one
>get home sell it

>>13916862
she saw you mirin' a Miata, brah

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>>13916791

>Driving to the o'reillys my buddy works at to pick up some oil and cleaning supplies
>Everything fine until the drive back
>Turning left off a stoplight and accelerating back up to speed limit
>Slips into neutral after like 30mph
>Vvroooooooooooooooooooom vrooooooooooooom "FUCK!"
>pull over and cry a bit but not really
>Drive an hour home with piece of shit automatic transmission binded in 2nd
>Spend way too fucking much on a rebuild

Should have bought a manual Should have bought a manual Should have bought a manual Should have bought a manual

>>13916862
fuck dude, same thing happened to me whilst I was doing a coolant flush. Fucking pump hose burst on my aw11 but luckily I had moved away from the car a few seconds beforehand.

>>13916791
Running out of washer fluid in the middle of a dirty storm.
Thanks, headlight washers for spraying every fucking time I want to clean my windshield.

>>13916854
The ultimate keybang. Do this all the time going past cyclists on my motorbike. Thank God for carbs

>>13916862
How did you get home?

>>13916791
The the left side of my rear window in the corner the glue stuff isn't stuck to the window, should I be concerned for this to happen to me?

>>13920014
Go ahead and have it resealed. Even if it doesn't fly off, it could be letting water in.

One time I was driving down this road and all the sudden my car suddenly rolled twice into a ditch all of the sudden.

nothing too serious t b eych f a m . a coil went out on my VW. other than that vw's are solid

>>13916791
do burgers actually call spanners wrenches?

>>13920709
do britkeks actually call wrenches spanners?

>>13919219
>internal combustion car
>powered by fossils
>given the energy for life by the sun
>sun is a fusion reactor

>>13920725
>britkeks

>>13920709
To wrench does mean to twist or turn. How does the word spanner has anything to do with the operation of the tool?

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>>13920709
Do bongs really call shotguns rooty tooty point and shooty?

Also, more relevant to the thread, although nothing serious
>Brother is driving FWD third-world-made shitbox
>takes a corner we like to hoon on
>does a sikkkk handbrake skid
>something snapped, car jumped out gear
>trying to shift into gear does nothing
>turn car off, put gear on, works well, so we drive off
>limp home and then the mechanic in second gear

Turns out a piece of plastic in the gear selector linkage broke. Pretty simple fix, pretty simple little bit that can ruin your day

>>13916791
probably when a ford transit lost control and crumpled the front of my old beetle in, the front left wheel was completely bent at an angle like it had mad camper and toe, the body work was trashed and the windscreen smashed. Because it was rear engined it still drove, so I limped it home scraping the front of the car along the floor.

>>13916898

Something similar:

>Looking for winter beater, go to cheapest dealer in town
>95 Outback for like 1000 bucks with 250k on the clock
>little beat up but whatever probably will only have it for a year or two
>out driving
>engine works fine, car actually drives really nicely for how old it is.
>going to turn, downshift
>gear stick fucking snaps off

Not just the knob, the whole gear stick snapped in half. Drove it carefully into the nearest parking lot and called the dealer who sounded very surprised.

I ended up buying it anyway and the dealer put a new transmission in it because he felt so bad.

Kept that car for 5 years lol. I think it had close to 425k miles when it finally gave up.

>car wouldn't start, got a jump
>on freeway during rush hour
>radio shuts off completely
>engine shuts off soon after
>be the cause of additional traffic by closing off part of one lane at a three-lane junction :^)
>had to call 911 to get pushed off the freeway and then AAA towed me home

My alternator died

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>>13916854
This happened to me very recently

>>13920975
Did you fix it?

>>13920977
I figure (with the help of qtddtot) it's the ignition could getting wet that causes it to sputter and backfire so I got some motomaster spray stuff to protect them (6 dollars) to help diagnose if it's really the issue of not.

Still debating if I should just put a glass pack on myself with no real welding skills or decent tools or just bite the bullet and pay like 100-200 dollars at the shop. I have two DDs anyways. #shitboxlife

>>13921003
Ignition coils*

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>>13919344
>>press brake
>>nothing happens
>>OH SHIT

>>13916920
>things that never happened

>driving 2001 malibu 3.1 v6
>take a 2 hour ride out to a mall
>on the way home coolant temp just rising
>wtf
>gets to 260 feel a sudden power loss, pull over turn off car
>open hood
>fucking radiator cap blew off
>system wasnt pressurizing
>threw some coolant in there duct taped the expansion cap on
>mfw temps steadied at 232F
>got home ordered cap replaced
>back to 190F driving

only time ive ever owned a car that has let me down to some extent. Take care of your cars guys

>>13921003
>>13921008
With $200 you could buy a cheap welder on craigslist and learn how to weld, then fix it yourself.

>>13919443
fuck yes i want to see that video man

>friend replaced rear wheel bearing on 96 golf.
>over torqued bear nut.
>riding along on Chinese deliveries.
>hear consistent screeching from rear.
>suggest drum brake shoe has come loose. Just get it back.
>sudden lurch from rear end.
>ohshit.jpg. slow down.
> another lurch and rear end drops.
>rear wheel rolls buy us.
>proceed to laugh ass off and call for parts.
>vw doesn't make rear spindle anymore.
>head to pull and pay for entire rear assembly.

Owned a late 80s Cherokee that I was driving down the interstate in CO. 5 speed went out gear by gear. Made it home in first gear. Just as I pulled in the drive it went to shit too.

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>Be me
>first car is a 97 v6 camaro with auto trans
>thing was nice but of course, my first car, and its a "sports car" (ha, v6) so I'm always speeding in that thing.
>Be driving down the highway at 80mph
>car is driving fine
>hear "THUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUD"
>thefuck.jpg
>start to slow down and was going to pull over
>"THUUOOO GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR--------"
>"BBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM"
>rear end of car lauches into the fucking air
>have thoroughly shit my pants
>slam hard back onto the ground going 40mph
>begin sliding left and right, have no fucking control over this bitch
>know from a early 2000's TV to turn in the direction that you're sliding
>eventually gain control and pull over.
That was fun explaining to the insurance company.
Turns out, the drive shaft was a 2 piece shaft and at the connecting point, it shit itself and caused the car to basically pole-vault.
Luckily, and miraculously my car didn't destroy itself. I took it to a shop and they got a new junk yard drive shaft and had to reset the position of the rear end but I drove the car for a few years after that. The transmission went out so I sold it.

>>13916912
Watched a dump truck run a yellow turn only to dump around a hundred 6in diameter plus rocks all over the road.

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>clutch master cylinder going out. Leaking dot 3 everywhere
>order new one at NAPA from across the country.
>pick it up
>wrong master cylinder in the right box
Drive to school buttmad about fuckup (only one NAPA had in the country)
>Start to drive home after school
>press clutch.
>pedal falls to floor limply
>force car into 2nd and run stopsign to get into a church parking lot.
>no fluid in reservoir. Filled to max before leaving to school...
>fill to top, and bleed line.
>order new one from O'Reilly.

This time I got the right one. NAPA keeps giving me the wrong shit. Fist time I got a ball joint and the box contained a Tercel CV boot..

>>13916910
.....

Your timing belt broke and it was only three hundred dollars to do the repair?

>>13916791
>on holiday with friends
>driving on highway
>casually check rear view mirror
>we are smoking like a fucking chimney
>some old dude pulls up next to me and waves but I already know
>get scared as fuck, pull over at next gas station which was luckily only a few hundred meters away

Turns out the oil cap flew off for some fucking reason, spilling all the oil basically everywhere. It had a horrible smell but once we filled it up we could continue as if nothing happened. Was pretty scary though, i thought for a moment that the car might catch fire or something. It was my father's 12 year old Opel btw, when i told him the story he just said that "oh yeah that happened to me once as well". Apparently it's a design flaw which just occasionally happens with the oil cap.

>>13926031
I paid $350 for water pump and timing belt in my '93 Ranger. Including the cost of the parts.

>>13926044
Yeah but he said the timing belt broke. I was under the impression that the repairs for that were considerably more expensive.

>>13926049
if its a non-interference motor, nothing internally gets damaged in the break. You buy a new belt, line it all back up, and you are done.

>>13926049
This depends on the engine. Some engines will allow contact between the pistons and the open valves when the belt brakes and the crankshaft continues to spin before the vehicle is stopped. Others are non-interference and have enough space between the two that this will not happen. Usually higher compression engines will have interference.

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>Going for a cruise before crashing at a mates house for a party
>Hitting boost like a boss
>suddenly hear a pop
> oh shit pull over open hood
>intercooler pipe has popped of and has cut into heater hos
>coolant pissing out like a champion
>defcon 1
>drive to mates house 1.5 miles away
>temperature gauge rising
>steam intensifies
>temperature at max
>reach friends house steam flooding everywhere
>turn off car without letting it turbo spin down

Latter took off entire system found every join was welded except one tacked it up re-connected filled up coolant just thankful nothing got damaged. 2 years later someone torched my car Pic related motor i question

>at red light in Toyota Yaris
>In front of me is a Ford C-Max
>green light, he limps forward but his car dies
>I bump into him, at like 5km/h
>his towing hook absolutely destroys my front end
>leaking water all over the road, car doesn't drive anymore
>the other driver is some slav immigrant, looks desperate and can barely understand the language
he paid for getting my car towed, I still had to spend a lot to get it fixed

>>13916791
>Test drive car for the first time after I got it running
>goes to 7 PSI of boost
>WOOOSH
>Welp guess that's just that vacuum leak
>continue driving, car will push up to 4 and stop every time
>finish test drive
the coupler hooking up the intercooler to the turbo was the woosh sound. No big deal though

>On road trip 150 miles from home
>Rear brake line burst at gas station
>try using curb to stop but just keep going up the fucking raised pavement close to the door/displays
Drive home on the highway with no brakes just engine braking the whole way.Turns out one of the rear drum brake cylinders burst.

>>13926063
>>13926077
I genuinely did not know that. Thanks for the info.

>>13925849
That picture has the brake master cylinder missing

>>13926846
>not using the hand/e-brake

Are you retarded or something?

>>13929405
>Are you retarded
He drove home with failed brakes instead of getting a tow, you don't really need to ask that question.
We know the answer.

>get on highway with friend following
>gun it
>eeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>car sounds like a turbo
>i dont have a turbo
>slow down and drive like a grandpa in the right lane to get home
>try it a few other times and i still get a loud whine at WOT
>check with mechanic
>remove accessory belt
>no more sound
>look at fan cluth
>the bearing is literally spitting metal chunks out of the housing
>replace fanclutch and fan at the same time since its old/cracked
>back to being able to hoon at WOT

>>13921066
That's extremely common on EK hatches.

>>13920003
I had it towed.

>>13916911
thats a VW turbo for ya

>>13921016
i thought that was happening to my explorer so i slammed on the e-brake pedal to find out that it didnt work either. luckily my brakes didnt give out, turns out the ABS was actually kicking in due to a bad sensor which made it feel like the brakes gave out for a second.
scared the shit out of me since a semi was hauling ass through an intersection that i was supposed to stop at

>>13929426
I had to bleed someone's brakes because they let the reservoir get empty and kept driving for a whole day with no brakes. I hate driving in city traffic because there's people like this out there that could rear end you

>>13917068
Got you beat.
>1970 international 6 ton
> first time driving manual on the road
> 5 speed split axel so 10 speeds
> driving down main road doing 50
> red light
> press brakes
> nothing
>go from 10 all the way to 5
> 7000 rpm in a vt903 cummins
> coast through the intersection at 25 mph
> run the wheel along jersey barrier until I got to about 5 mph
>slam it in tenth
> wheels lock up

Mfw I look under and the rear master cylinder burst open and I lost all my brake fluid (truck has two but all connected)

I got three for you.

1993 Honda Civic EX
>Trying to turn onto busy street.
>Give gas, start rolling forward
>hear sound similar to twisting a soda can
>car rolls backward into car behind me.
>other driver really chill, he watched the whole thing and knew what happened.
>look under car, driverside CVT shaft is missing. (found in the middle of the road)
>passenger side shaft is hanging loosely.
>off to the shop she goes

And another...
>driving to friends place after work
>cruising along
>steam rolls up from under the hood and the engine stall
>Open hood to find radiator header tank is split, spraying hot coolant all over the engine compartment
The radiator was in such bad shape that the fins could be poked out with your finger. My mechanic at the time said if the top hadn't blown, the bottom would have.

And a more recent one.
2005 Pontiac Sunfire
>Get off work and start car
>loud banging and car shaking violently.
>CEL blinking: misfire condition
>try to limp car to shop
>stalls trying to get out of parking lot
>will not start
>sounds like there is no compression
>stops cranking all together
>timing chain failed
>2.2 litre is an interference engine
>new head, valves, camshafts, and water pump.
My car was in the shop for a month.

I should have scrapped it and got something different. Ah well, not much I can do about that now.