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Offline Ben Lessani

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I am an idiot and high centered my car ... :(
« on: 30 April 2008, 01:05 »
Man, stupid me, I was going to do a three point turn in a rather unsuspecting driveway when after pulling onto it, I realised it dropped a pretty steep gradient towards the house. I tried to reverse back out - but it was too late, the chassis was firmly sat on the ground - with only some nice wheelspin and clutch burning smells...

...Fortunately, at 12:00am, the fella's house I stuck my car at happened to be a bit of a car person and had a nice low entry, high lift jack, got it wedged under the subframe, got the car in the air and slammed a few bricks under her wheels and teased her back out with the jack still under the car.

Looks like no real damage was done - just caught an exhaust bracket, but will have it on the ramps to check tommorow anyway.

As Borat would say -  "I am retard!"

Offline boneybradley

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Re: I am an idiot and high centered my car ... :(
« Reply #1 on: 30 April 2008, 09:01 »
ah the joy of driving lowered car's.... I catch mine a fair few times and thats before my coilovers go on!! :angry:
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Re: I am an idiot and high centered my car ... :(
« Reply #2 on: 30 April 2008, 09:13 »
Bad luck to get stuck, but this...

...Fortunately, at 12:00am, the fella's house I stuck my car at happened to be a bit of a car person and had a nice low entry, high lift jack

... is remarkably good luck!
You might easily have had some angry old duffer phoning the law and giving you grief.

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Offline russ-vdub

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Re: I am an idiot and high centered my car ... :(
« Reply #3 on: 30 April 2008, 10:48 »
yeah ben you got lucky that the dude was helpful, we all know how many squares there are in this country