OK all, following the success of my last age thread and because there is so much wreckless driving in LFS races I thought I'd ask another question.

Since I was 16 I have managed to write off 4 cars (yes I know you don't get a licence in the UK until 17).

So, how many cars have you written off? We can see if the wreckers in real life are the same wreckers on line.

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in driving 19 yrs

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Speeding offences too

6

Cars owned in that period

03 Impreza WRX (265)

current car


Troy Mclure

You not trying hard enough!

oh but i do
and yes i have hit the speed limiter on the wrx (152)

Best take it off then!

see that the bonnet lifts about an inch at that, best leave it in

At that speed, if it comes off it'll fly straight over you.

not that it would hurt seeing its made of alluminium with the normal subaru thickness off 6 nm (3 less than the paint thickness )

And there was me thinking the scumbaru's were made of chocalate.

oops - seems I made a typo.

I have wrecked 0 cars, unless you count the bonnet breaking the catch and flying over the roof (not that I have a licence, but I have driven a few on and off road ).

No one in my family has ever wrecked a car either. But my dad after two days of getting his licence, got caught speeding in a post van (All he wanted to do was make sure people get their post on time. Is it such a crime?).
My mum however has never got caught speeding (though she does it a lot). Their new car (a 2.0 omega) has some massive pull over their old car (2.0 Granada, which tbh had a lot, was the rice killer), her last speeding was going up a hill (long steep hill) and was behind a ricer who was crawling up in his nova, so as you do, she pulled out to go around him. He saw her and put his foot down. So she just put hers down, and flew past him at 120mph uphill! Though after seeing how fast she was, she did slow down.

But this is also the same women who found that the accelerator had a comfort spot. Just a shame that spot was at 90mph. Not so bad now, but when the speedo was broken, she'd happly drive around town at those speeds... god I love my mum, she used to take me to the old landing strip and throw down a few laps (also where the bonnet broke free from the rest of the car).

'ricer who was crawling up in his nova'


i thought a ricer was a term americans use for japanese cars that are 'juiced' up (usually only visually) hence the 'rice'

big up to yo mum!

Quote from FlintFredstone :

'ricer who was crawling up in his nova'


i thought a ricer was a term americans use for japanese cars that are 'juiced' up (usually only visually) hence the 'rice'

It was a nova with a Type R sticker on the back, and the body kit thrown up my satan hanging off it. So I think he was trying to make people think it was something it was not. But yeah, mostly Rice is jap imports. But meh, you adapt words to fit.

Nah, never wrecked a car. Bent the lower control arm on a 1.0L Nissan Micra once, but thats it.

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Never written one off. More luck than good judgment though I am sure.

A couple of accidents, usually people driving into me. Often when I wasn't even in the car. One unfortunate incident in a BMW, in which a slightly shy driver in front of me didn't take his gap in the traffic at a motorway on-ramp...

The car that probably should have killed me was a 5.8 litre Ford Fairlane I used to drive when I was about 19. Luckily for me, I suspect, my brother wrecked it before I could. Oh, and I had a couple of exciting near-accidents in a Toyota station wagon: once the front left tyre delaminated at high speed, and another time it suffered total brake failure coming up to a big intersection. Great stuff!

These days I tootle around happily in my Honda Civic and save the idiocy for LFS (offline, of course!).

I beat up a lot of cars, but only 'totaled' (write off) one car, a 1986 VW Golf.

It was also my favorite car and the first car i drove, oh, and it wasn't mine,
it was my aunt's. Passenger was the craziest bit...eh, gilrfriend i ever had
(also the hottest), it was christmas eve and we were heading to my mother's
place, after dropping by a friend's party...i had ONE beer and remember that
someone told me that i shouldn't drink, to which i replied : "Oh, i'm only
having one, i DO have to drive".

Well, seems even ONE beer was too many, add to that how i barely had my
license and still was a raging hormone late-teen, oh and it was winter, car
had proper winter tires though, but still, they were no racing clicks...

Long story short, as traffic started to grow denser, i tried to go from the
far-left to the far-right lane (one a 3 lane highway) in too short a
time/distance and i lost the rear end (on a FWD !!) and 5-7 pendulum swings
of the rear later i still couldn't control the car and i started hitting the
cement walls on BOTH sides alternatively until the car came to rest. I must
have scared the crap out of people behind and the following concert of
angry horns confirmed this. Everything under the beltline was completely bent
out of shape, the car still 'drove' but only very slowly, and sideways. The car
was totaled/a write-off.

Now imagine how i felt having to call my family on Xmas to tell them i just
crashed my aunt's car (who was already there). Happy Xmas !!!.....

Quote from Fonnybone :

...and i lost the rear end (on a FWD !!) and 5-7 pendulum swings of the rear later i still couldn't control the car and i started hitting the
cement walls on BOTH sides alternatively until the car came to rest.

Very nice!

Hey, the BMW in your avatar looks exactly like the one I jammed into the back of somebody. Actually come to think of it I guess that car was a writeoff, so I suppose that's one for me. Damage wasn't bad, but it doesn't take much to write off a cheap used car in the UK.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

I have wrecked 0 cars, unless you count the bonnet
breaking the catch and flying over the roof (...) god I love my mum, she used
to take me to the old landing strip and throw down a few laps (also where the
bonnet broke free from the rest of the car).

l0l, so i'm not alone...

This must be the single most stupid moment in my entire life, i had just gassed
up (filled with gas...) my VW Scirocco when a police car pulled-in the gas
station. Being the eternel rebel without a cause that i am, i decided to 'piss
off the authority' by accelerating as hard as i could up to the speed limit.
What i forgot was that i had just checked my oil level and hadn't closed the
hood properly (old VW with old latches....had no 'security' latches).

As i shifted to 3rd i noticed the hood starting to shake, then as i pressed on
the throttle, it just went SMMMMMMMMMMASHHHHHHHH in the windshield,
it didn't rip off so i was stuck with a smashed hood completely blocking my
view. I was scared out of my mind and tried to stop without crashing. The
hood was scrap, it ripped all the sheetmetal from the base of the
windshield as the hinges machined their way through... needed a LOT of
bondo lol

Somehow i doubt i managed to piss that cop much, if he even noticed me,
he was surely laughing his head off.

I dont crash.

If i crashed on the road IRL, it will hurt a lot, because i dont have a big metal box to "protect" (read - Squash ) me when i do crash. Instead i'll get thrown into the nearest lamp post headfirst.

Btw, i hope i never EVER have to be anywhere near you lot in cars, you all sound f**king dangerous.

I leave that to my girlfriend. Till now she wrecked one of my cars!

I'm still clean. Never had a ticket. No accidents nothing. I did wreck a snowmobile when i was 10 .

I kinda get my speed fix on my 4-wheeler, snowmobile and in LFS so i keep it cool on the road. Also the crazy insurance rates for cars stops me from driving nuts hehehe.

Cars crashed - 2, A Toyota Landcruiser/4runner/some-jeep-type-thing and some smaller sedan.
Motorcycles crashed - 1, Honda CB 125TD Deluxe

In late 80's my father had a business that installed various accessories to cars. In the garage I was "driving" in the Toyota and had turned the key so that all the dashboard lights turned on. When I "arrived", I was turning the key to off position but I accidentally turned it into the wrong direction and of course the car was in gear and having a powerful diesel engine it jumped forwards and crashed into the sedan infront of it.
Thats why I nowadays always push the clutch in when I start a car

With the bike I fell couple times and broke blinkers and levers etc. One bigger crash was when I just got my learners permit, and even had to go checked, was not my fault. One dumbass came from the left over me in a intersection where nobody has right of way (then you have to give way people coming from the right). Luckily I only got small bruises and cuts neither did the bike anything big, it was up and running after a weekend .

If I had driven above the 40kph limit, nothing would have happened, on the otherhand wee bit slower result could have been worse.........

Quote from Fonnybone :

l0l, so i'm not alone...

This must be the single most stupid moment in my entire life, i had just gassed
up (filled with gas...) my VW Scirocco when a police car pulled-in the gas
station. Being the eternel rebel without a cause that i am, i decided to 'piss
off the authority' by accelerating as hard as i could up to the speed limit.
What i forgot was that i had just checked my oil level and hadn't closed the
hood properly (old VW with old latches....had no 'security' latches).

As i shifted to 3rd i noticed the hood starting to shake, then as i pressed on
the throttle, it just went SMMMMMMMMMMASHHHHHHHH in the windshield,
it didn't rip off so i was stuck with a smashed hood completely blocking my
view. I was scared out of my mind and tried to stop without crashing. The
hood was scrap, it ripped all the sheetmetal from the base of the
windshield as the hinges machined their way through... needed a LOT of
bondo lol

Somehow i doubt i managed to piss that cop much, if he even noticed me,
he was surely laughing his head off.

Nice. I'm sure the cop was pissed, well, pissed that he pissed his pants laughing.

I think the only reason this bonnet snapped off was because of the speeds though. As when it happened to a guy I know it just flipped up and smashed into the windscreen, and he had to stick his head out of the window to guide the car into the side of the road. Freaky as hell when it happens though. I'm just glad it did fly off, cost more to fix, but I didn't crash, which is better in my eyes.