Bits falling off?

Many moons ago I was thumping along a dual carriageway in the outside lane, when the bonnet on my 1984 Renault Fuego (first car) suddenly opened, fully, and to the screams of the passengers smacked into the windscreen, blocking my view of the road ahead.

Panicking I tried to hold the car steady and not swerve all over the lane while trying to brake. The bonnet then detaches and flies off in the field to the left of the carriage way.

Pulled over to find the bonnet catch was missing. Had to turn around and drive the 30 miles home with my engine bay on display and a cracked windscreen. Remember my dad going mental for leaving the bonnet in the field - what on earth was I supposed to do?

Can only imagine the view the drivers behind got, as a gold bonnet came flying towards them.
 
Pete19s said:
Another more embarrassing incident I can think of was when I had first started my current job. Was out with another driver so I am going to claim it was not my fault. Had just done a delivery and we pulled out onto a main road when we noticed the chap in the car behind us flashing his lights and weaving around. We had no idea what he was playing at until we slowed down and in my mirror (passenger side) I saw one of the rear doors swing round. Hopped out to be informed that as we pulled out the door flew open leaving *some* crates of shopping in the middle of the road :o whoops!
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If you were stopped at the Harford roundabout when that happened then I drove past!*

If not then it must have been one of the other drivers!

*I may or may not have been laughing at the drivers misfortune at the time... ;)
 
Wasn't me! This was in Hethersett at the time, not sure who lost stuff on the roundabout. I do know that one driver managed to lose stuff into a river :D Oh and we did have a prop shaft remove itself leaving the van stranded on the Harford roundabout.
 
A massive sheet of perspex fell off a van near the A303 in the summer. I narrowly avoided hitting it at 70mph.

Oh wait actually no, I didnt narrowly avoid hitting at all - I *did* hit it because everyone in front just kept driving over it without braking or giving any indication at all that there was a hidden hazard on the road, the Golf in front flicked it up and it literally completely destroyed the undertray on the car. If it had been half a cm further up it would have destroyed the front bumper.

:(
 
[TW]Fox;17992923 said:
A massive sheet of perspex fell off a van near the A303 in the summer. I narrowly avoided hitting it at 70mph.

Oh wait actually no, I didnt narrowly avoid hitting at all - I *did* hit it because everyone in front just kept driving over it without braking or giving any indication at all that there was a hidden hazard on the road, the Golf in front flicked it up and it literally completely destroyed the undertray on the car. If it had been half a cm further up it would have destroyed the front bumper.

:(
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Count yourself lucky you weren't on a motorcycle and it wasn't flicked up even higher still.
 
On the M6 in my now deceased Integra I was following traffic only for a lorry on the inside lane to rune over and flick up a large board, similar to the election campaign wood type material. It hit my bonnet slide across it and smacked into the screen only to go up and over the car whacking the spoiler on its exit route. Pretty loud in the car but the only marks was a few 12 inch or so scuffs that mainly polished.

Pretty scarey at the time none the less.

Then of course there was my blowout that nearly killed me and Im convinced I ran over debris for that one as I heard a bang and then my tyre looked like an apple corer had took a slug out the tread face.
 
Saw a huge lorry wheel rolling up the M5 a few years back... No lorry to be seen until a few miles up the motorway, missing a wheel, still going with sparks everywhere! :eek:
 
I came face-to-face with a 6 foot pine tree spinning its way down the motorway, while I was doing 70mph, once. That necessitated some quick evasive action......

Also got stuck behind a scrap metal lorry that started shedding 6" steel bars, couldn't avoid them so had to just try and slow down as much as possible and cross my fingers. One of them picked up on a chassis rail and lifted the car up a few inches, left a nasty gouge too.
 
A massive piece of undertray flew off my Leon at 200km/h. (Those of you with mk4 Golfs know which one)
Thankfully the motorway was fairly empty, but I was livid.
The dealer had only put it back on the other week, so I knew that's why it flew off.
He claimed it wasn't his fault (I said I was only doing 150), but it most certainly was. He eventually found a second-hand one. Can't remember how much I paid though..

I went back the next day to pick it up, only had a few tyres marks over it :o
 
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I know about 4 months ago I was helping my M8 down his garage by taking a customers car for an MOT, a Saxo. The young boy down the garage had just done the brakes and I was taking it to the MOT. I was doing 35 when all of a sudden the whole car started vibrating and shuddering, I start slowing down gently when all of a sudden, passenger drops.

Then I see the wheel going down the road bouncing down the road while im trying to prevent the car from smacking a kerb. A car up the road was happy as the tyre near hit his bonnet, as it hit the kerb opposite and bounced up. To make matters worse, there was a boot full of sound systems and no jack tp get the car off the kerb and up to put the tyre on. I found the nuts back up the road.

So my m8 had to come from the garage with a trolley jack to sort me out. I was not happy at the time, but see the funny side now.
 
I was driving an ancient Nissan Bluebird with weighty Nissan wheel-trims, not the thin bits of plastic on modern cars, these things were substantial. Anyway as I was going over a speedbump one on the left flew off & rolled straight towards a guy standing at a bus stop. Luckily he was quick on his feet, he dodged & it ploughed into a privet hedge. If it was a granny it would have been a different story, she'd have been taken out.
 
Used to have old Vauxhall Chevette, got it to full speed in 4th (about 70mph), thought I'd hit a gull as something flew up & overhead. Looked in the rear-view just in time to see my right headlight lens shatter on the road as it landed.
 
i lost a round bale (nearly tonne) off the back of a trailor once.... i was young and stupid - hadnt tied the load well enough. Thank god there was nothing behind me .
 
I saw a bale of hay fall off a trailer a few years ago, the car infront of me ran into it, I saw what was happening in time though and was able to stop, the Citroen C5 which had hit the bale though actually did have some damage, broken headlight and it looked the bumper might be damaged too, hard to say what the true extent of the damage was though as I carried on after that. Luckily it was a smaller square bale though not one of the massive round bales, that'd have wrecked the car.
 
Not quite, but I nearly hit a breakdancing badger on the M60 once, true story. It got sucked under one car and came out the other end spinning, managed to dodge it as it was about 2am and I saw it in my rear view mirror toddle off back into safety!
 
I was driving on the M4 into London just past Heathrow one Sunday when a license plate flew up from under the van in front and bounced off my windscreen. No idea where it came from but it did scare me at the time.
 
Scariest thing I had happen was a truck in the inside lane where it's wheel exploded, cue rubber blasting the side of my car. The car in the middle lane swerved violently into the outside lane (which I was in at the time). For about 20 metres we were both side by side in the same lane until he realised I was there!

Felt sick after that.


A girl I know was following a car with a roof rack, then a badly tied down kayak and paddle flew off the car and bounced towards her, luckily, she only hit the paddle and the kayak found it's way into a field
 
It was years ago now but my dads Vauxhall Carlton was written off after a fridge freezer fell off the back of a lorry and hit the side of the car. Wasnt in the car myself though.
 
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