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CDSbigsby
Location: Lancaster, Ohio Gender: Male Total Likes: 5 likes
| | | | Breakdown aggravation < on 2/5/2010 3:53 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My truck broke down on the way home from my girlfriend's basketball game tonight. The motor started knocking so I went to pull over asap, still not sure if it died or if I got the ignition off first so the jury's still out on whether or not the motor is locked up. Started looking it over though and the problem turned out to be the shitty brittle plastic line that feeds oil to the oil pressure gauge broke the fitting, probably when I went over some rough railroad tracks not long before, and sprayed all my oil out. So that little fitting, a 40 cent part, may or may not have cost me my engine. I'll find out tomorrow. Another time, my truck broke down, acting like the fuel pump went out, at 2 AM on a middle-of-nowhere road at the end of December. It acted exactly like a fuel pump failure, I'd had it happen before, so I gave up and spent a freezing night in the truck on the side of the road. Turned out the wire running from the fuel pump to the fuse box came off. Post your stupid/aggravating/worst breakdown stories.
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| WarBird69
Location: Eastern TN Gender: Male Total Likes: 335 likes
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| | | Re: Breakdown aggravation < Reply # 9 on 2/20/2010 8:49 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | First time I broke down I was in my first car, a 1975 Chevy Nova with more rust than metal. I was on my way home from...somewhere, had a few of my friends with me. About 1/2 mile from my house, I heard a pop and smoke started pouring from under the hood. I pulled over and popped the hood, burning myself in the process. A radiator hose had exploded, lodging bits of rubber in the radiator and spraying hot coolant everywhere. I had some antifreeze in the truck, so as soon as things cooled off some, I opened the radiator cap, dumped in what I had, and closed the cap. It was enough to get me home before smoke started billowing again. I also ran out of gas a couple times in that car since the fuel guage didn't work. Oh, and lets not forget the driver's side door didn't latch correctly and would sometimes fly open going around corners. And who could forget the time my wheel shattered after hitting a pothole? Mmmmmm...good memories of that rust bucket.
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| Shael
Location: Witherbee, NY. Gender: Female Total Likes: 7 likes
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| | | Re: Breakdown aggravation < Reply # 10 on 2/20/2010 10:05 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Not really a breakdown story...more like a stupidity story. A friend of mine and I decided to go to visit some other friends who were camping in the woods. Well, what they didn't tell us was that it was 3 miles in off the main road between Malone and Paul Smith's, NY. The parking lot was 3 miles in, the campsite was another mile and a half or two miles from the parking area. So, we get the car about halfway into the place and bottom out. Nobody ever told us that a '92 Beretta had low ground clearance. Well, too low to make it through a very nasty road full of 9 or 10 inch deep potholes and ruts. How the flatbed got in and out without getting stuck is beyond me. Since it was springtime and muddy on top of it. An even better story...one night we both decided to go out drinking, she put one wheel off a ledge because the parking area didn't have a fence and both of us were somewhat too drunk to drive. She slapped the car into drive instead of reverse and turned the wheel. She managed to sweet talk 4 or 5 guys from the bar into picking up the front end of the car and pushing it back on the pavement. One last one, then I'll shut up. Another night of stupid college drinking, she backed over a "Legionnaire Parking Only" sign, after she'd parked where she shouldn't have, at the American Legion Hall in Saranac Lake. Well, the sign got hung up underneath the car as she pulled it out of the ground. I still remember telling her, "No hun, I don't hear anything dragging under the car" as we dragged that sign 26 miles back to campus, throwing sparks and making a hell of a racket. The next morning, I walked the half mile from my dorm to student parking with a hammer and a pair of pliers and got it out from under the car. I had that sign in my dorm room until I left school. Ahh, memories. Shael
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| rainman8889
Location: H.T.S.F.C. Time to gain and a time to lose. Total Likes: 26 likes
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| | | Re: Breakdown aggravation < Reply # 12 on 2/21/2010 4:16 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by WarBird69 First time I broke down I was in my first car, a 1975 Chevy Nova with more rust than metal. I was on my way home from...somewhere, had a few of my friends with me. About 1/2 mile from my house, I heard a pop and smoke started pouring from under the hood. I pulled over and popped the hood, burning myself in the process. A radiator hose had exploded, lodging bits of rubber in the radiator and spraying hot coolant everywhere. I had some antifreeze in the truck, so as soon as things cooled off some, I opened the radiator cap, dumped in what I had, and closed the cap. It was enough to get me home before smoke started billowing again. I also ran out of gas a couple times in that car since the fuel guage didn't work. Oh, and lets not forget the driver's side door didn't latch correctly and would sometimes fly open going around corners. And who could forget the time my wheel shattered after hitting a pothole? Mmmmmm...good memories of that rust bucket.
| Oh yeah. My first car was a 1976 Chevy Nova. Great little beast. Nine times out of ten that car would start on the first try and it was very reliable. Was a three tone (Red, primer and rust). Had a radiator hose pop on me as well. I made a patch of panty hose and duct tape which got me home without cooking the motor. And yeah, good memories of my rust bucket.
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