The Mercedes-Benz Thread
I've only had one car let go like that. A 95 Peugeot 405 estate (station wagon).
My fault as I neglected to use antifreeze and as it slowed and made odd noises on the motorway I just dropped it down a gear and floored it, then down to 3rd...bang!
Oil, water and stuff I've never found out the origin off all over the windscreen of me and the following four cars behind and all rendered undrivable due to lack of visability. Wipers just made it worse.
An oil slick 400 yards long along with a handful of cars marooned in various lanes ensured traffic chaos.
After the police turned up and restored order I glanced up and watched an articulated truck plow into the rear of my stricken Peugeot, now safe on the hard shoulder, pushing whence it came into the once clear road.
Traffic chaos version 2, much improved, with a disabled truck blocking two lanes.
The copper said the truck driver was texting.
I think he just disliked my car.
Anyway. I never saw it again and got a nice Mercedes 190D with the insurance money! (Non turbo. Nerve wracking joining motorways!)
pew, pew, pew, pew!
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Hahahaha ! Oh man, proper Lol!YaTingPom wrote:
I've only had one car let go like that. A 95 Peugeot 405 estate (station wagon).
My fault as I neglected to use antifreeze and as it slowed and made odd noises on the motorway I just dropped it down a gear and floored it, then down to 3rd...bang!
Oil, water and stuff I've never found out the origin off all over the windscreen of me and the following four cars behind and all rendered undrivable due to lack of visability. Wipers just made it worse.
An oil slick 400 yards long along with a handful of cars marooned in various lanes ensured traffic chaos.
After the police turned up and restored order I glanced up and watched an articulated truck plow into the rear of my stricken Peugeot, now safe on the hard shoulder, pushing whence it came into the once clear road.
Traffic chaos version 2, much improved, with a disabled truck blocking two lanes.
The copper said the truck driver was texting.
I think he just disliked my car.
Anyway. I never saw it again and got a nice Mercedes 190D with the insurance money! (Non turbo. Nerve wracking joining motorways!)
I do like farcical jalopy stories. Clarkson built his fortune on their erratic and rusted backs.
Haha - my money’s on Playboy
Hmm, he's sold it already!
Look out for a steaming pile of shite at the side of the road soon. Hopefully, then I won't feel so bad.
Look out for a steaming pile of shite at the side of the road soon. Hopefully, then I won't feel so bad.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
Does anybody have the updated contact info for Mr touch, the Merc garage guy ? The number I had , which is mentioned on this thread, is no longer working.
Here's why I don't want my krauts to be funny. If I want frivolous I'll buy another Alfa.
Oozing down the motorway in the UK with that 12 speaker system and Marley singing turn your lights down low and suddenly I'm introduced to this thing called aquaplaning. Hit a flash flood at perhaps 140kmh and just took off, left the ground - it's the strangest feeling. We flew straight for a bit with absolutely no control then spun around and hit the back off the central reservation. After this we span a few more times and then I don't really know what happened. The car went the right way down the road in a perfect straight line, but backwards. I think the ESP system did this but I don't know. Few more spins and we ground to a halt up the bank of the motorway. It didn't flip when I really thought it should.
So I am pretty sure that that Merc saved our lives, sacrificing its own in the process. Couple of bruises between us, a broken finger and that's about it.
Buy Merc I say. Get some.
Oozing down the motorway in the UK with that 12 speaker system and Marley singing turn your lights down low and suddenly I'm introduced to this thing called aquaplaning. Hit a flash flood at perhaps 140kmh and just took off, left the ground - it's the strangest feeling. We flew straight for a bit with absolutely no control then spun around and hit the back off the central reservation. After this we span a few more times and then I don't really know what happened. The car went the right way down the road in a perfect straight line, but backwards. I think the ESP system did this but I don't know. Few more spins and we ground to a halt up the bank of the motorway. It didn't flip when I really thought it should.
So I am pretty sure that that Merc saved our lives, sacrificing its own in the process. Couple of bruises between us, a broken finger and that's about it.
Buy Merc I say. Get some.
Holy shit
How on Earth did you find a motorway in the UK where you coujd drive at that speed?
Pics or it didn't happen
How on Earth did you find a motorway in the UK where you coujd drive at that speed?
Pics or it didn't happen
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If you want to talk frivolous, I once owned a Fiat X19 ...RobW wrote:Here's why I don't want my krauts to be funny. If I want frivolous I'll buy another Alfa
I know, I know, I was young ...
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Bloody hell, if that little thing hit a large puddle it would become a Fiat Sinky-Cento.Playboy wrote:If you want to talk frivolous, I once owned a Fiat X19 ...
My posts are just jokes, maybe they're rude, offensive, and politically incorrect. They're not my opinion, viewpoint, idea, or judgement, but they're just fucking jokes so lighten up.
A2 between Dover/Canterbury has a nice little stretch of single lane carriageway where you can top yourself if you like, the A256 also (Dover/Ramsgate) - maxed out a Porsche 928 on both*logos wrote:Holy shit
How on Earth did you find a motorway in the UK where you coujd drive at that speed?
Pics or it didn't happen
* the private airstrips either side of course, not actually on a public road, that would be reprehensible - but you probably could, if you wanted!
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
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That's funny, I quite liked the style of them when they were around but I was pretty young then. I can't remember when the last time I saw one was, they seem to have all rusted and disappeared like TR7s etc.Playboy wrote:
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
I liked those Fiats too- probably worth a few bob in mint condition nowadays too
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
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