Most wrong load in a vehicle, what've you done you really shouldn't..

[comfortablynumb]

Inspired by @MikeR's arse dragger. 

What have you stuck in a vehicle and driven home, or elsewhere with that you really shouldn't have.

Not looking for anyone to start pointing fingers here, but I'm sure we've all done the "I'm not leaving that behind" bit.

Two of mine that spring to mind.

14 in a MK3 cortina estate, dropped the rear seats down and just everyone jumped in 

Injected late model Ford V8 engine, which the college I was attending at the time were going to throw in a skip, despite the fact that it'd only ever run for six minutes on a test bed, in the back of a Peugeot 505 estate.

Anyone else?

[Tickman]

7 of us in a mini during lunch break at college.

Made a little scraping noise going up the ramp to the parking at Stretford Arndale.

I've had a disassembled 8 foot by 6 foot shed on the roof of a Vauxhall Astra estate but I consider that perfectly acceptable.

The car was also rammed with all my work kit and it was only from Glasgow to East Lothian.

[Shite Ron]

I have loaded several of my Cortina estates with more car parts and building materials than you would think possible on many occasions, I also went to Le Mans with three friends where we packed our tents, cooking equipment, two mountain bikes, two petrol engined scooters, clothes etc. into the mk5 2.3 Ghia estate, the people in the next tent couldn’t believe we got everything inside the car! It was sitting low to the ground when fully loaded. More recently my brother wanted to get rid of a load of concrete blocks, slabs and bags of sand and cement before his new patio was laid, I kept loading the Mercedes E320 estate thinking just one more until everything was in. The rear wheels were inside the arches! I started it and the hydraulic suspension raised to level, I could feel that it was overloaded when driving home!

The worst was probably just after passing my test and starting work. I had just turned 17 and did day release in technical college as part of my apprenticeship. I was the only one in the class who could drive and all the boys wanted a lift to the bus stop about half a mile away. I had a mk4 Cortina 1.6GL saloon, I remember there were 2 in the front passenger seat, at least 6 on the back seat and 2 sat in the boot with the boot lid open. I didn’t do it a second time! 

[Volksy]

Towed a 1961 Split Screen Camper on a dual wheeled trailer behind a 1985 Passat GL5 Estate. 

Following morning, both rear quarter windows had exploded overnight. Probably as the now stretched shell of the car retracted in the cold night air. 

Managed eight seasonaires in a Mk1 Clio Commerciale many times when I lived in the Alps. 

[warch]

Only a month or two ago I managed to exceed the 450kg unbraked towing limit on my elderly Astra by about 300% towing an fully loaded IBC down to our cricket pitch to try and soften it a bit. It actually did quite well until the bottom coolant hose split end to end, necessitating a bodge up until I could get a replacement sent to me. 

[comfortablynumb]

@warch, do I have to remind you, you've got a landy? 🤣

[warch]

14 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

@warch, do I have to remind you, you've got a landy? 🤣

No I've got two landii, which in a scenario familiar to many owners are currently both off the road (I haven't actually sorted the electrical issues out on my 2a yet).

(It did donate its bottom radiator hose which I bodged on to the Astra so I could use it for a day or so until the correct part arrived though).

[gm]

i’ve made a few inappropriate uses of the mx5s over the years 

but none quite so impressive as this chap

[MikeR]

Used to do a regular run through the tunnels , nearly lost the windscreen once when I got cut up and some wood slid forward and hit the dash , a puncture would of been "fun" .......

The C1 had its dragging  arse kissed by a sleeping policeman .... 

 

[warch]

12 minutes ago, gm said:

but none quite so impressive as this chap

How? 

I mean a Firestorm (even sans fuel tank) is the best part of 200kg. 

[bezzabsa]

13 ex council slabs (3x2 and close to 2inches thick) in the back of a rover 214... suspension was Verrryyyy low.. but as a plus point it didn't squeak after the slab incident...we had tried to load them into a small trailer but the indespension units gave up the ghost and collapsed hence Plan B ..

[Asimo]

[grogee]

Just now, Asimo said:

Nice hat

[LightBulbFun]

I had 73 or so different fluorescent tubes and lightbulbs crammed into an Invacar  (and people tell me an Invacar is not a practical vehicle!)

[ETCHY]

Me &a mate once transported a tatty old wardrobe on top of a very rusty Marina. ( just tied to the roof with ropes through the windows)

We weren't going that far but when we arrived there were small horizontal cracks in tbe paint at top of A & B pillars..

I'd not recommend it.

[doug]

Must have been a ton of industrial lights in my camper a couple of weeks ago. 

 

 

[robt100]

Mrs Robt100 once bought one too many compost bags, so it didn't quite fit in the tiny boot of the mx5 (As can be seen in the photo)....




So instead decided the best option was to put the roof down and just rest bag no.3 on top of the folded roof and hope there was no sudden movements needed 🙈 Sadly haven't got a photo of that, was too busy staring at the very black cloud coming over, and the prospect of being decapitated by soil!



One I inadvertedly took part in was at my old job. Working in the IT department in a large bank in canary wharf, we had a load of servers to dispose of/recycle, so sent them off to our IT company's HQ for processing. The van that took them could fit 3 pallets, but due to having a cage fitted for security, could only run about 750kg payload. They hadn't supplied us with anything to weight the pallets with, so it was all eyeballed to a weight. Needless to say, servers are a lot more dense than other IT detritus...I may have accidently put 1350kg on the van 😬🤯

Needless to say, we had a pallet truck with built in scales by the next week🤣

[Volksy]

2 hours ago, MikeR said:

Used to do a regular run through the tunnels , nearly lost the windscreen once when I got cut up and some wood slid forward and hit the dash , a puncture would of been "fun" .......

This reminded me when I put a mates Kayak in the back of my Volvo 855.

Fitted straight through the car, with the front passenger seat folded forwards. Closed the tailgate, got in the drivers seat to find the prow of the Kayak had smashed the windscreen. Doh! 

[83C]

I’m sure I’ve mentioned before using a Citroen Berlingo to shift 4 11R22.5 bus wheels and tyres from Mid Wales to Stoke. I’d been told to use the old LDV Convoy which was a hateful pile of shit and had all the get up and go of a heavily drugged sloth. Being clever* I reckoned I could get all the wheels in the Berlingo by putting three of them side by side and the 4th across the back of them, which just fitted with the doors closed. Between the 4 wheels they weighed between around 500kg, so not massively overloaded. 

The thing I’d forgotten to take account of was the location of the weight, and its ability to move side to side. This became very obvious when I took a tight right hander at some** speed and the three wheels which had been leaning towards the offside suddenly leant the other way with a loud clonk , accompanied by the Berlingo’s O/S/R wheel getting some air and the N/S/R dragging through the verge and hedge. This was the moment when I suddenly understood why the boss had told me to take the LDV, the rest of the drive was taken much more gently as a result. 

*I’m not.

**Lots.

[comfortablynumb]

28 minutes ago, Volksy said:

Fitted straight through the car, with the front passenger seat folded forwards. Closed the tailgate, got in the drivers seat to find the prow of the Kayak had smashed the windscreen. Doh! 

Reminds me of taking an old high-level grille cooker to the tip in my Granada Ghia X estate, with all the kit, plush carpet etc.

Stopped at the end of my cul-de-sac, road clear, pulled out, the the cooker slid down the deep pile carpet and took the rear screen out 🤦

[Rust Collector]

Err…

Not pictured is the time I put about 500 kilos of cut down steel pipe in the boot of my shogun sport. The rear suspension looked very sad.

[Austin-Rover]

I'd carted home a brand new A+ engine in the boot of this thing. You'd think being a saloon would preclude such abuse, but it propped up quite nicely in the spare wheel well. I also picked up thirty reconditioned starter motors for thirty quid. Stacked neatly between the rear suspension turrets, it made for some interesting handling. 

 

[GeorgeB]

5 hours ago, warch said:

Only a month or two ago I managed to exceed the 450kg unbraked towing limit on my elderly Astra by about 300% towing an fully loaded IBC down to our cricket pitch to try and soften it a bit. It actually did quite well until the bottom coolant hose split end to end, necessitating a bodge up until I could get a replacement sent to me. 

IBC?

[dean36014]

Ton and a half of blocks in a mk2 swb transit with a 600kg payload. Well over half a ton of blocks in an  xantia estate. Towed a bloody huge tri axle car trailer, extra wide and extra heavy empty behind a 1.9 n/a xantia. Came back with a Morris minor pick up on said trailer,  progress was extremely slow but straight and true. Car nearly stalled trying to reverse it round a bend, uphill.  

37t on a 32t Erf tipper. First load of the day before the visa weighbridge opened. Also a broken down merchant 814 with a caravan on its back, plus a 18t merc 1617 with two caravans on board, all on a 380 day wagon and drag. We were toying wether we could fit a sub transit on using the greedy boards, but decided against it. They were great days.

[dean36014]

A slightly smaller load back in the day.

[Andyrew]

220 miles back from Exeter to luton with 2 1.6 16v suzuki engines with all ancillaries attached in the back, with a modified transfer box that was very noisey and increased the Rpm. 

[warch]

1 hour ago, GeorgeB said:

IBC?

Takes 1000 litres 

[Spiny Norman]

Back in the days when you could get away with this kind of shit I carried a 9 foot long roll of Colorama background paper (about the same size as a 3m plank of CLS) in one of these. 
 

[Knotty Ash Towers]

When I was in Primary School, I think it was either bad weather, or the buses were on strike, making it difficult to get to school. One of the mums took it upon herself to pile a load of us into her brown Mk2 Austin Allegro! I think there were about 8 kids in there altogether, including 1 crouched down in the front passenger footwell. Thankfully, we didn't get pulled over...

[stuboy]

nothing as flash as u guys but 28 18 litres of ad blue in a car.. very boaty