i had a bad experience....i was driving to school and my wires under the dashboard started to burn and the car was starting to smoke and i thought i was going to die.........talk about a sista panicn' man i was yellin' and i jumped out and ran.....whats your experience???
2006-11-01 04:15:43 · 19 answers · asked by ceymeanie 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
I had an old VW Sirrocco GTi - quite a fast old car. Turns out it used to be an old race car that had been converted to a legal road car. I was driving rather fast on a quiet country road and had to brake suddenly, it turns out the seats werent bolted to the floor of the car and i went flying forward into the steering wheel. The seat belts weren's able to hold the weight and i was also hit by the rear seats flying forward. Ouch.
2006-11-01 04:28:00 · answer #1 · answered by Bilbo B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was driving my 73 Triumph GT6 along the road in Mexico on a stretch that had high cliffs with no guard rail and a drop right into the ocean. It was raining hard and visibility was limited at best. Suddenly the windshield wiper stopped and within a second the whole car filled up with smoke. The only thing I could see was flames behind the dash and there was no where to stop other than in the middle of the highway. I rolled down my window and I still could not see because the smoke had affected my eyes. I thought sure I was done for. I pulled off to the left side of the road and used water from a puddle to put the fire out. I then pushed the car completely off the road and disconnected the battery. By then I could see where the wiring was burned and cut the wires and reconnected the battery. I was able to make it into Ensenada by manually working my wipers with a string attached to the wiper arms and run through the vent windows.
2006-11-01 05:59:29 · answer #2 · answered by yes_its_me 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was not the driver, but a passenger.
I was sitting behind the driver and the car was going round a long sweeping left hand bend on a wide dual carraigeway. As we did so, a wheel "overtook" us and our driver laughed out "Look at that, some idiot has lost a wheel".
At that moment, my side of the car fell two feet with a high-pitched screeching noise.
Yes, the wheel had come from the rear axle of the car in which I was travelling.
The driver had had a puncture earlier in the day and had not properly secured all the wheel nuts.
The driver got the car off the road, we recovered the wheel and he called a breakdown truck.
I got the bus home!
2006-11-01 10:30:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was riding shotgun in a neighbor's 1980 Ford Fairmont (with scary drum brakes) as we were approaching a quiet country T-intersection. We were still going pretty fast when we discovered we didn't have any brakes. Bracing for impact with my feet on the dash, we flew across the side street and the car dove into the ditch. We hit the other side hard enough that the whole back end of the car got popped up a good 4 or 5 feet off the ground before we came slamming down. We got towed out by a farmer with a tractor who witnessed the crash and came driving over from his field. I look back on it now and just laugh myself silly.
2006-11-01 04:55:05 · answer #4 · answered by wreck_beach 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a pretty good driver in the snow. I have to drive for my job so I've gotten used to it. It helps my car has good traction control and weather ready tires. I think my worst experience was a couple years ago. I had just got my new car and it had been snowing and I was driving home and I saw a deer in the middle of the road on a decline. I tapped my brakes and slid a little but I corrected myself and slowed to like 3 mph. The deer started running in the other direction and then switched and bolted towards me and he ran into my car. I got a dent, I was pissed as ****. He hit me, and of course, it was a hit and run, he probably had no insurance. yeah, I drive well on snow, I don't have many bad experiences.
2016-05-23 03:06:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bought an old 65 passenger schoolbus once and was driving it home. I had never driven a bus before and it was too long to turn into my driveway. Just as I got it turned almost into the drive the engine died, so the steering quit and the brakes quit. I took out 20 feet of fence, a back fender and bumper off my pickup and the grill and front bumper of my wife's car... That was nearly 15 years ago and I still catch hell over it once in a while. (whenever I want to buy and old truck or car or )....."remember that damned bus".... Ok, dear! :-)
2006-11-01 04:53:45 · answer #6 · answered by J P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've had lots of cars, one was a 1950 Chevy. The idler arm was bad causing the wheel to have about a quarter turn in free play. Didn't really bother me with no wind, but on the way home from my uncles a storm came up, and I had to fight that wheel for over an hour!
I got that fixed the next day!
2006-11-01 04:19:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was a juvenile and driving my first old car, the brakes went out while going down a hill, and I had to run into a tree to stop before driving into a busy intersection.
The only real damage was to the fender on my car.
2006-11-01 04:20:35 · answer #8 · answered by festus_porkchop 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
car not starting leaving me stranded, and car overheating everytime it was at a light or in park. car making a loud noise every time I made any turns, visor not staying down. Thank goodness I finally got rid of that car... It was a 1998 Honda Civic. I now have a 2007 Scion TC!!
2006-11-01 04:19:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my 1969 Tempest had a engine fire while I was driving it to get the engine worked on
my 16 year old sons 1970 GTX had a rear tire blow out @ 80mph while in a concrete walled area of the freeway ( totalled it) ... WITHIN 15 minutes of buying it {yes it was a used muscle car} thank goodness for full coverage insurance
2006-11-01 04:20:20 · answer #10 · answered by Mopar Muscle Gal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋