how come car trouble always happens when its raining? tell me your worst car break-down story!!?

Question

you know... when its raining and your car just breaks down at the pump of a busy gas station. so when the AAA guy finally gets there he tells you that its not just the battery u need a tow. and in the process you are 3 hours late for work and are now waiting for a damn taxi to take u to the garage to pick up your OTHER awesome car!!!!!!! tell me something worse please

Answer 1

Oh yeah. I can tell you one. Picture it: New Years Eve, 1993. Somewhere in the Boondocks out in upstate NY. I had the misfortune of dating a cheap bastard who wouldn't put more than a thimbleful of gas in his car at a time. I kept saying, you need to get gas, your tank is on E. And he said naw, I got enough to get us where we are going. See, for every buck he put into something else, it was one less beer he could buy. Never mind that the car was a peice of CRAP and ready to fall apart if the wind blew too hard.

So you guessed it, we ran out of gas. Now mind you, in the course of our 4 year relationship, we ran out of gas over 30 times. I kid you not. But on this particular New Years Eve, everything was closed, we were in the middle of west nowhere, and it was snowing and freezing. I'm wearing high heels and an evening gown as we were driving back from a party. The jack off tells me he's gonna leave me in his tin can and go get some gas, nevermind that the last gas station we passed was over 8 miles back. Now remember, this was before everyone had cell phones, and even if we had one, I doubt there was a tower anywhere.
So I'm sitting in the car freezing my patootie off and getting frostbite. Was sitting there until morning, no boyfriend. Finally the bastard shows up. Seems he found a gas station, but didn't have anything to put it in. What does he do? Buys a 24 pack of beer, drinks it, and then FILLS THE BOTTLES UP WITH GAS AND TOTES IT BACK.
Never mind that he was drunk as a skunk and couldn't even drive back. Trying driving a Chevette with bald tires through the mountains. I still don't know how I managed to drive home. By the time we got to his grandmother's house where we were staying, I had enough. I left him passed out in the car, went in the house got my crap and called a cab.
And he still wonders why I left him. So that's my story. Hope you find some humor in it.

Answer 2

Well being an automotive technician for over 20 yrs I have never been in a situation like this. But being a tech for over 20 yrs I have seen some funny ones like the day a guys car was towed in because the right rear wheel assembly and axle were gone. or when a girl filled her car up with diesel fuel went it was a gasoline engine. Or when a car came in and the cooling system was a popsicle, that guy was very lucky, only took me 2 days to that it out and add some antifreeze :) just some of the many

Answer 3

OK OK OK here goes-----I was in the Yukon with my convertible VW when the heater box sheeped the bed! It was 40 below zero and I was shivering like a dog taking a sheep over a brier patch when all of a sudden, the convertible top rips completely off the car! I continued driving until snow was reaching blizzard conditions when all of a sudden my front tire blew. I got out to change the tire and my spare was flat. So I took the straw out of my Mc Donald's milkshake and began blowing up the tire until it was completely aired. Then I jacked up the car to put the tire on and the darn thing falls on my leg! (not the jack, the whole darn car) So then I start back down the highway, no heat, no top, McDonald's tire fix, and what do you think happened next? That's right, I run out of gas! So I pushed it 200 miles by hand to the next gas station and gassed her up! Go into pay the guy and realized my wallet fell out of my pocket while I was slithering out from under the car when it fell on me whilst I was changing the flat tire on the VW with the blown off top and the faulty heater box!
Want a hear about my trip to the desert??? I'm alive and well here in the yukon just a few missing body parts from frostbite but I never let something like that keep me down!!!!!!!!! Would you like to join me on my next trip? I'm going to the Antartica by bicycle!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

I don't know if this is worse- but it was pretty bad.

A few years ago, I was on my way to see a friend at about 9pm. I pulled into the gas station to fill up, and when I went back to my car, I had locked the keys in. Well a few days earlier my little triangle back window was broken out (and all my cd's stolen), so I tried to reach the lock thru the broken window. I succeeded in cutting my arm and hand up pretty well, but did not unlock the car.
So there's a guy in a big truck there at the gas station, he offers to help....2 hours later, I got into my car...yay!
I was pulling out of the gas station and big truck guy backed over the front of my car and totaled it. (he came out of nowhere-I have no idea to this day exactly how it all happened.)
That day was really bad.

Answer 5

I just bought a truck and 3 days l8r I was coming home from work in what can best be described as raining slush puppy type weather, the truck died I found a small crack in the side of my coil I took it off and dried it off in the truck wraped it with some e-tape and put it back on ,by this time i was drenched and when my girlfriend started the truck i was still touching the coil and got FRIED the state road guys got a good laugh!!!

Answer 6

When a car breaks done in wet weather(or cold) it is usually a lack of maintainance issue,you know, tune up,spark plugs(and wires for the older cars so equipped),it is important to stay on top of your car's maintainance dilligently,I use a old fashioned method of spark plugs twice a year(spring and fall) and a battery every 2 years, need it or not,up here in Canada, we get lots of cold, wet weather,and I need my car to be reliable.

Answer 7

I had a tire blow out at 30 below weather (50 below if you factor is the wind chill) 5 miles from my house. That was the one time I forgot to take my cell phone with me, needless to say is was a COLD walk home.

Answer 8

My Lexus and Toyota have never broke down. But i had a flat tire once while it was raining, and that ruined my day. lol. I guess when it rains, it pours. LIke if your having bad luck, it becomes the worst luck ever.

Answer 9

No way. I wouldn't even open the door. I would tell him to give me a phone number and I would make the call for him. But first I would call 911.

Answer 10

Christmas Eve morning. It had been snowing the passed couple of days, light and fluffy/slithy and I had a hair appointment 15 miles from home, but all the way thru town with the maddness of last minute shoppers. My son had to work til noon, and he borrowed my car, his bronco wouldn't start. My boyfiend(husband now) went out and started his dodge 4x4 for me so it was warm when I got into it with a dress and heels on. Not knowing, he took it out of 4WD, because the roads were plowed off and salted, but was cold and drifty. I had got thru town and as I headed towards Stratford, the roads were still wet. Then they froze! Black ice! The truck began to fish tail. As I zoomed across the centerline and into the ditch, I seemed to pick up speed. There in front of me was a driveway and a culvert. I prepared for the worst. Up and over taking the steel wagon wheel and 3" iron post with. I came down on the otherside, unhurt and in shock! Steam billowing from under the hood. I tried to open the door...and the hood was pushed over the door. Now I am crawling out of the other side as passer by's and rubber necks crept by. Not one stopped until I dredged thru a foot of snow back onto the driveway The young man and his mother and family dog asked if I needed a ride. I accepted. They took me back into town where the city police dept told me I had tocall the county! Then when I got a hold of them(having to look in the phone book for the #) they said they would send someone out. Now there I stood...no ride back to the scene. I called my son, he then went and got my boyfiend and came and got me. By the time we got back out there the sherriff was out there and had all kinds of berry pickers! I warned my son to slow down when it was black ice. The car behind us was driving with her hair on fire! We were pulled over on the shoulder as she couldn't stop and decided to pass us on the right....hitting the passenger side of our car. I ALMOST had the door open to get out already. Needless to say I missed my hair appointment! Then we headed to my boyfiends mom's house for xmas. The truck still drove...it wasn't pretty to look at, tho. After the festivities were over we all decided to go to a neighborhood pub for one....that's when a drunk driver came passed our parked truck, with a snow plow on, and hit and run the driverside of the truck..... Over $10K in damage to the truck and 1500 to the car.....when it rains it pours(or snows here in Wisconsin)...in 3's.