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  • How many cars or vans have you killed?
  • wanmankylung
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    I’ve just counted what I’ve killed:

    3 Astravans, a Cavalier, a Zafira, a Passat, Peugot Partner van, and a VW Sprinter.

    5 of them were engine failures and the rest were gear box explosions.

    King-ocelot
    Free Member

    1 fiat cinquecento.
    I was on a test drive once, the owner took me out, the clutch smelt then gave up on the test drive. I didn’t buy the car.

    zoo200
    Free Member

    6 Alfa romeo’s – no deaths
    1 Audi A3 set itself on fire!
    1 Porsche 944 – rusted away…

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    Drac
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    2 Discoverys the governors went and they ran themselves into a big blue smokey mess.

    1 Fiesta the radiator went and it boiled before I could pull over safely.

    crankboy
    Free Member

    Daf 66 cracked the engine going up snake pass by flooring the so called accelerator.
    Volvo 440 took two goes but I finally crashed it so bad it wouldn’t mend.
    Fiat punto cracked the cylinder head within 200 yards of home killed the engine by trying to drive two miles away so I could call the AA.

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    1 Renault Kangoo van. Bought new, 105k miles FSH, turbo blew chunks (replaced), brakes seized (replaced), belt and tensioner span out last winter and shot bits of metal into the bonet (replaced), rear caliper Pistons squeezed what was left of the brake fluid out of its seals (replaced), head gasket blow out just before Xmas.
    Now sitting in a sorry heap on eBay “spares or repair” 😆

    ricky1
    Free Member

    1 Citroen ax,not mine it was a mates,burnt clutch out,we are no longer mates.
    2 nissan vannettes,died of rott.
    1 escort van,55 of nature,drove with duff wheel bearings untill death.
    51 plate transit,burnt out.
    Citroen Picasso,burnt out

    Blazin-saddles
    Free Member

    Not one, ever.

    Probably jinxing myself but in 20 years of motoring I’ve never had a vehicle repair cost more than fair wear and tear.

    I did however once have a cambelt break on a work van that wrote it off but it wasn’t mine so that doesn’t count.

    cookeaa
    Full Member

    I haven’t actually ever totally killed a car, I have flogged off some nags, had to get head gaskets done a couple of times…

    Never actually killed a car to death completely.

    mikewsmith
    Free Member

    Pug 205 diesel fatal cracked head.
    Next 2 were drivable to the scrap yard.
    Audi leaked power steering fluid and electric out but water in
    Van OK so all in 2 cars

    househusband
    Free Member

    No… in order;
    1 Fiat Uno; gear lever snapped within two weeks of buying – engine refused to die but it did rust some
    2 Citroen AX; it never died but I will never buy another Citroen again
    3 Toyota Yaris; served me faithfully for just shy of ten years
    4 Hyundai i30; faultless in the several years I had it
    5 Mini Cooper; love it each time I drive it, now ten months old

    squirrelking
    Free Member

    1x Clio.

    Snapped the “new” cambelt 13 days after I got it. Was replaced with a new head. 2 months later I went ditch diving outside Tyndrum. It did not end well…

    Made a pretty good effort on a borrowed works van, alternator was failing so couldn’t charge fast enough. A few bump starts later and it was dead, everything gone. AA bloke came out and soldered a spare battery fuse together before charging it enough to limp back to work. Sum total of fried alternator, fried starter and fried main fuse. Still running to this day, god knows how as it was in poor shape before I got my hands on it.

    PS.Nobody told me you weren’t suppost to turn the key when bumping.

    Civic is at the garage just now, looking like a comprehansive front suspension rebuild so far plus maybe a wheel bearing, a suspected crushed brake line (cheers tyre folk, any point will do) and what looks like a leaky gearbox, a blown exhaust or intercooler and a gunked up turbo. We’ll see what gets spent on it tomorrow or if I’m driving it to the scrappers (pleasedontdiepleasedontdiepleasedontdie)

    wrightyson
    Free Member

    I might have killed a mk 4 escort by driving it into another car head on at speed. Other than that I’ve got shut before they died.

    thomthumb
    Free Member

    Volvo 440. Not entirely sure what I did to it- but the driveshafts wouldn’t stay in the gearbox anymore 😯

    butcher
    Full Member

    Taken a couple to the scrapyard, but more because I was bored with them, and would rather a new car than put money into fixing them.

    Killed an Astra once. £60 for a new engine and it was brought back to life again…

    LoCo
    Free Member

    mini, crashed
    Renault 11, crashed
    BMW 3 series blew head gasket, terminally

    edit: allegro, field car crashed as well.
    Sure there’s some more that I have forgotten all a long time ago

    Malvern Rider
    Free Member

    1 Citroen ZX. Auto box died
    1 Beemer 5. Limp mode death too expensive.
    1 Scirocco GT Mk2. Driven and parked in the path of idiots until was pranged all over and engine on last legs. Only car I miss. Easily two bikes in the back and a load of camping gear.

    Could probably have saved the last two if had the cash but the dice rolled that way.

    slowoldman
    Full Member

    I’ve only killed one. By putting it on its roof.

    mark90
    Free Member

    Killed my then girlfriends mk2 Fiesta on the cat and fiddle road after hitting a patch of black ice. Was back in the days before mobile phones so had to hitch a lift to Buxton to call her to come and pick me up (in my series 3 land rover) and the AA to recover the car. It was a couple of days before Christmas. I wasn’t popular 🙁

    Have bought a few land rovers or range rovers to break for parts, sometimes given them one last ragging before doing so.

    MrOvershoot
    Full Member

    Marina 1.3 Rolled 3 times into a field
    Ital 1.7 Smashed into a wall (my dad thanked me for writing it off 🙂 )
    Simca 1.1 estate upside down in a ditch
    Hillman Avenger 1.6 Estate Gearbox blew to bits fitted a SH one an then put a rod through the block.
    Capri 3.0 Gearbox destroyed (fitted a Transit box and it sort of lived)
    Opal Manta 1.9 oil pump failure at 80mph killed the engine
    Opal Ascona 1.9 crashed into a bus at 70mph (lucky to walk away from that one TBH)
    Ford P100 pickup truck 1.7 TD cambelt at 70mph destroyed the engine
    Fiat Uno 1.1 sawn in 1/2 by a mini cab (also lucky to have walked away from)

    In the last 20 years not even so much as a chip in the paint! Moving away from Gloucestershire to Cheshire must have calmed me down 😉

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    Mr overshoot seems an appropriate username. That or crashy mc crash. 😆

    cbike
    Free Member

    Broke timing belt on a matiz during an overtake on beattock summit. rebuilt engine and recovery cost about 700 Pounds. they drive like wee go carts ehich must hadten their demise.

    j4mie
    Free Member

    Killed the engine on my mum’s Saxo in about 2004, luckily my dad filled it with some thick oil and it made it to the local car auctions for a poor unsuspecting buyer…
    Killed my first Panda about a year ago, I wasn’t really paying attention approaching a mini roundabout, only noticed the van to my right at the last second, I stupidly braked and he hit my rear wheel and spun me around and backwards into a bollard. If I hadn’t braked he would’ve missed me, oh well… Has made me a lot more careful these days though. Upgraded to a newer Panda afterwards (and to my surprise had zero excess on the insurance), quite like it, will do until I can save for a newer something.

    walla24
    Free Member

    My first car…a rover 214SI….paid 200 for it…..ragged the poor thing until it blew a chunk out the top of the engine block 😀

    Second car….suzuki swift 1.3, bent that one a treat drifting it round in the snow.

    Then I bought a Kangoo camper…..and couldn’t get it to go fast enough to do any harm 😆

    Trekster
    Full Member

    43yrs of driving, killed zero

    Bregante
    Full Member

    Transit Van – Hit by a runaway skip wagon and smashed through the wall of a pub

    Ford Sierra Estate – nicked and torched on bonfire night

    Vauxhall Astra – Rammed by a stolen Volvo that jumped a red light and smashed into me

    Vauxhall Astra – Rammed by a stolen connect van that jumped the same red lights but in the opposite direction (about 2 years after the previous incident). Hit the car so hard that it turned my (work) car over.

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    An old friend crashed his car into a boat, which is fairly unique.

    milky1980
    Free Member

    Various Mini’s and Metro’s I bought as dead carcasses and stripped for parts.

    Audi 80 – stripped for parts and scrapped after the radiator started leaking, couldn’t be bothered to repair it.

    Tried to kill my AX (all 945cc of it!) but failed, gave it to my sister and she failed too! Her friend Dave killed it driving over speed bumps. Still ran fine but wouldn’t have passed an MOT.

    Managed to get rid of everything else in time so that they still had p-ex value 8)

    shifter
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    Citroen AX GT – broke the nearside rear
    Citroen BX GTi – broke the nearside front
    Nissan GTiR – broke the back, the front, a wing and the roof.

    Kuco
    Full Member

    Mitsubishi L200 – Cam shaft went and took the engine with it. Only just had 2 BFG all terrain tyres put on it half hour before it went.

    To be honest it was a piece of shit of a vehicle. In 4 years it never spent more than a month out of a garage without something going wrong with it.

    TheFlyingOx
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    1 x Vauxhall Chevette – crankshaft split due to some overzealous “offroad” excursions (a farm track that linked Redmires Reservoir to Manchester Road, Wymingbrook Drive iirc). Carted off on the back of a scrap truck. An undignified end to a marvelous car.

    1 x mid-80s Mazda 323 – head gasket issues, kept trying to fix with that instant gasket stuff but it just prolonged the inevitable.

    1 x mk2 MR2 Turbo – rather predictably it went backwards into a hedge.

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    95 fiesta 1.8 diesel – 250,000 miles and the floor pan/strentheners and sills rotted out – and that had also been rear ended by a corsa – writing the corsa off – yet the fez just needed the little metal bit under the bumper pulling straight again.

    still drove – got 250 quid for it with 4 **** shockers – it had no damping – also when you accelerated it pulled left and when you braked it pulled right …. it was possible to drive to dundee with just your feet !

    1.6 escort – leaving fort william gondola station with the car fully loaded with people and bikes on the back after adays downhilling…. missed the speed bump before the cattle grid – hit it at 30 with no suspension travel left. bent both wishbones and the wheels pointed at each other – not horrendously but noticably . – no aa cover so drove home. totalled two tires and it took for ever.

    The golf of many failures. most notable being the “new” water pump – 12k old failed , mrs saw the engine got hot on the motorway – then cooled to normal – then sky rocketed over a period of about 15 minutes as the water boiled out of the header cap, engine cut out as she tried to limp it off the motorway – game over. Alu block and ti coated pistons great idea till they fuse together.

    Frontera. Mrs T-r for some unknown reason drove it to work one day and over took a parked car with its door open , and a bus. as she was passing the car it accelerated like a maddy into the passengers door and spun her into the bus. – result , bent wishbone ,and 2 flat tires and mangled wing. -changed tires and drove it back to my mates with only the drivers wheel doing the direction control – about a mile in convoy with hazzards etc as i couldnt get anyone to tow it without waiting about all day. fixed it(60 quid of breakers parts) up drove it out the garage and the steering rack shit its self by snapping in half – no doubt due to me driving it to his with only one moving wheel. Replaced that(45 quid – ebay). drove it for another 6 months before flogging it for 300 quid spares or repairs – told the buyer it probably had a bent chassis -and deliberately put the tracking out so it drove like it had a bent chassis i wanted no doubt about it. they still bought , then tried to flog it for 1200 quid on the same website i put it on when the snow hit….unsurprisingly people have memorys and when he neglected to say about the bent chassis he got callled out on it. Car was scrapped.

    Harry_the_Spider
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    Metro – Engine worn out
    Escort – Destroyed in crash – Not my fault
    Golf – Electrical fire in dash
    Bravo – Destroyed in crash – My fault
    The Mighty Vectra – ECU went mad – Humanly destroyed

    I’ve only had one car other than the present one that didn’t die in my care. I sold it to a mate and he totalled it.

    MrOvershoot
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    matt_outandabout – Member
    Mr overshoot seems an appropriate username. That or crashy mc crash.

    I got that nickname rallying, 90 left at T junction… No I’ll Overshoot through a farm gate 😳

    DezB
    Free Member

    Peugeot 205 – rolled it. Slowly. I’m not some idiot. 😉

    breadcrumb
    Full Member

    AX GT, van pulled out on me and I rear ended it. It went on to do Auto-Grass for a few years.

    Prelude Si VTEC, miss judged a gap and stoved the rear quarter in. Broke it for parts and made more than if I’d sold it pre-accident.

    sandwicheater
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    Killed a friend of a friends pride and joy, 1990 Ford Fiesta after I backed my Renault 5 into it. Not a scratch on my Renault but his car was a write off.

    I’ve never killed a car I’ve owned.

    kcal
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    Only written off one car/bike in 35 years of holding a licence.
    Not even my fault, stupid woman pulled out of T junction in v rural road in Northumberland, into my path, then stopped dead, frozen I guess. Couldn’t be sure of what she was going to do, didn’t want to swerve & brake, so hammered the brakes but kept car straight. Saab 900 written off (bent bulkhead, front end and quite old), her Fiesta was a sorry sight…

    Have come close several times, pranged a BX into a wall in the snow, was v cross about the wall until I realised it stopped me plummeting 50 feet into the Spey… Took a blind summit bit too quick in the 205 GTI, car didn’t turn too well in mid-air when I realised the road bent right, fortunately survived that, needed a lie down afterwards though.

    And sold an aged Golf GTI to a colleague, on its last legs I thought. It went on fire (blown oil pipe) but still it came back, Lazarus the red Golf I think it was called..

    sobriety
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    Blew the engine on my megane at 70 when the cam belt jumped.

    Every valve was bent and there were dents in the pistons.

    Whacked a new top end on and drove it for another 15k miles (8 months) before it got traded in.

    Other than a slightly noisey big end on start up it was fine.

    footflaps
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    Only owned two cars:

    Vauxhall Corsa (8 years, 200k miles, died of rust in the end from too many trips winter climbing in Scotland), traded in for:

    Golf V6 4Motion (12 years, 120k miles, developed too many faults and was scrapped)

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