Ever crunched a mate's car?

[Spiny Norman]

Or a neighbour's?

 

One of my neighbours has a large dent in the side of his car, his missus has a large dent in the front of hers. These two facts are not unconnected.

I've done it myself, the early morning brain fug resulting in finding reverse rather than first, thumping into the bloke downstairs's Lada (it was a good while ago...) and doing his headlight.

 

Anyone care to own up to anything similar?

[vulgalour]

I managed to reverse my Dad's Espero into my Polo, didn't even notice until I got out and found the towbar was locked under the Polo's front bumper. No harm done, but it did teach me that the vague squishy Daewoo lump is a hateful car, for all it looks kinda funky.

[myglaren]

Trying to tow a mate's Renault 4 out of his drive with a furniture van, turned a bit too soon and dragged him into the gatepost.

I didn't have to admit it as he was in the Renault

[trigger]

My Father in law drove his 308 into my sister in laws Yaris yesterday, I've been asked to fix them

[Rod/b]

When I were a nipper there was some old giffer who lived in our road who was virtually blind, but a pillar of the community, knew everyone, you know the sort.

 

Anyway, one day he drove his purple Marina down our road, hit the gas instead of the brake, shot straight across the road at the end, across the pavement and up into my friend Edward's dad's drive. Unfortunately Ed's dad's Beetle was parked on the drive at the time and it got punted straight through the garage doors, through the garage and throught the back wall of the garage. Old boy ended up parked in the garage and couldn't get out of his car as it was too narrow.

 

They took his licence off him.

[Rod/b]

Oh and I once drove my Dad's car into a ditch, about a week after i passed my test. No damage, thankfully.

[Louise2cv]

On my very first lesson I drove my mom's Citroen ZX out of the driveway and then round round round smack into to front of the house. Should have probably quit then I guess!

[oldford]

My mate reversed into my MK3 Cortina, taking out both front indicators, whilst he was parking up outside my house. The funny thing was he was driving another MK3 Cortina which I had lent him.

[ayd]

never a mates car but

 

I used to work for a company that refurbished hire cars.

We used an old aircraft hanger and I was reversing a 306....at speed...and didn't spot the Primera until the last minute, braked hard but not hard enough and stuffed the rear bumper of the 306 in to the near side door of the Primera.

Made a right fuggin mess of the door but not so much of a mark on the 306...

Most had gone home for the night so I put the 306 in the line where it was supposed to go for a valet and turned the Primera round so it'd be a 'surprise' for whoever found it.

 

Must have got away with it as it was never mentioned but do feel slightly guilty about it

[MikeKnight]

Almost plowed volksangyl's Austin Princess into the back of another car that was doing an emergency stop, as the car in front of that had spun out on a tight corner.

 

The Princess has damn good brakes. Yes, I said that with a straight face.

[meggersdog]

When driving a Citroen Xantia always wait for the suspension to rise before setting off.If you don't then, like me, you will find you have no brakes and this will result in you whacking into the neighbours (luckily) towbar.

[Rod/b]

Almost plowed volksangyl's Austin Princess into the back of another car that was doing an emergency stop, as the car in front of that had spun out on a tight corner.

 

The Princess has damn good brakes. Yes, I said that with a straight face.

 

They have got good brakes. Many a car has been upgraded with a set of Princess callipers.

[Ross_K]

When driving a Citroen Xantia always wait for the suspension to rise before setting off.If you don't then, like me, you will find you have no brakes and this will result in you whacking into the neighbours (luckily) towbar.

 

Yeah, that STOP light on the dash isn't there for decoration... :D

 

Don't park the rear end too close to a wall either, or you might find that the bumper scrapes down the wall as the car settles.

[Micrashed]

I managed to rip the rear bumper off a local Nissan dealers courtesy Sunny on a tree stump.

 

Fioxorated using wood screws and washers.

 

Mother in law reversed her 206 into the drivers door of my AX - wrecked the AX, not a scratch on the 206. And I never ever did get a penny off her for that.

So when she dies Im having "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" played at her funeral.

[worldofceri]

I wrote off my friend Sarah's Punto when I'd borrowed it to drive to my HGV driving course. That was expensive, what with being on third-party-only insurance. My wife had already paid out for a new driver's window on the same car having had it broken into when she'd borrowed it one time.

 

Mind you, my mate Adam (Sarah's husband) later told me he was glad the Punto got wrecked 'cause it was shit. Talking of whom, Ad got his number plates stolen once when parked outside our house, and we had the wheel trims nicked from our Scenic when parked outside theirs.

 

And I very nearly wrecked my current Volvo at the Nürburgring when it was still half-owned by the same Adam. So I guess that counts. Still haven't fixed the bumper properly and that was 18 months ago.

[eddyramrod]

When you drive for your living, the law of averages suggests that you are going to have a tale or two to tell in this vein, and lo, I have.

I won't bore you with a load of them, but the first one that leapt to mind was a customer's brand new 1986 BMW 318. He'd driven it into the yard at the back of his chip shop and thought he'd left plenty of room for deliveries... like certain spudmen with a flatbed 307D (hateful box of shit, but that's another story). Line up truck, open gates, reverse in slowly... and in... and in... hmm, must be on the kerb where the lawn is, just a little gas then... oh shit. I missed his bootlid and lights entirely but put a lovely apple-size dent in the top corner of his NSR wing. Boss was not pleased, but that was his default setting every day .

[Angrydicky]

Reversed my A35 into the front of my mate's Clio in the 6th form carpark at school in the winter of 2008/9. The back window was all misted up and I couldn't be arsed to wipe it. I thought the space was empty

 

Fortunately, he'd crunched the front of his car a couple of weeks before, so there was a big fuck off dent in the bonnet and the numberplate was broken already. I don't think he ever noticed