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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Redbaron on 24 July 2005, 19:40
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With cheese.
Thraped my mk2 16v over to the girlfriends house the other day, parked it at the top her drive, congratulated myself at achieving such a mindblowing record breaking time from my place to hers before getting out of the car and going inside.
Left my phone in the car, so went to retrieve it about and hour later.
Came outside, car seemed to be missing.
Right, use brain, where did you leave the car.
Right here, im sure i did.
Ok, WHERE THE F**K is my car, lots of pacing up and down.
After brief search, car found to located in bush at bottom of driveway, disks had cooled from the earlier thrapeage and as such the handbrake released and as pillock brain (me) didnt put it in gear it rolled down the drive, into a wall, across the road and into a hedge.
Smashed my M3 crystal rear clusters, bent the rear Big Bumper, knocked a dent in the corner of the car, rippled the quarter panel, scraped the rear wheel arch, ripped the front arch off.
So, todays lesson, leave it in gear amigos!
Im off to cry now and scrap/set fire to my beloved 16v.
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i always leave my cars in gear. I know alot of people whos cars have been rolled away by theifs and the mk2 handbreak mechanism is sh!te aswel :tongue:
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ooo...guttin.... i dont leave mine in gear like :undecided:
Dinx :kiss:
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thats such a shame... don't lose faith.. least it can be fixed.. mk2's r worth it!
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I just dont know
The dent i can deal with, but the ripple in the quarter panel?
Pisses me off.
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I did the same once my drive goes the opposite way and the car ended up back in the garage :grin: the only problem was it went through the garage door first :laugh:
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my mum did that in our old audi... was a lovely car, left the car in gear and it lurched forward into the garage through the garage door, and dividing wall between main garage wall and single door!
it all will mend!!!!!!!  :smiley:
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i remember it happened to my brother......went outside in the morning and there it was, his Driver planted in the neighbours front bush :laugh:
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Used to have a customer with a mk2 1800GL auto. She managed to punch the rear wall out of her garage when her foot slipped on to the throttle instead of the brake , the Golf was unmarked apart from a broken number plate and a few small scratches on the bumper :shocked:
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:shocked: Sorry to here that, I'm Gutted for you mate :cry:
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i remember it happened to my brother......went outside in the morning and there it was, his Driver planted in the neighbours front bush :laugh:
Am I the only one that is having a "carry-on" style double entendre moment?
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i remember it happened to my brother......went outside in the morning and there it was, his Driver planted in the neighbours front bush :laugh:
Am I the only one that is having a "carry-on" style double entendre moment?
:laugh: :laugh:
Does sound a bit ooo-eeerrrr
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mmmmmm... bush! *cough*
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sorry to hear that mate i hope you sort it out. Its happened to me before, i left my mates house at 3 in the morning only to find that my motor had rolled 300 yards down the road. Fortunately it was a quiet street and it was late at night and the car had managed to roll off the curb and be stopped by the vurb on the opposite side oif the road. Lucky for me there was no damage. Now i always leave my motor in gear. The only problem with that is if some stupid cow in a citroen berlingo hits the rear of your car whilst parked up with considerable force then you gonna find yourself with a stripped gearbox.. You just cant win mate, hope it all sorts out
good luck :wink:
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Cheers guy and gals glad to hear its not just me!
Dude at the bodyshop wants £250 to straighten the quarter panel and weld on a new rear panel. Price dont include any paint tho and i have to supply the rear panel.
reasonable?
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Find another bodyshop!
If he was supplying the parts and doing the paint then that would be a fair price!