What "um-derrrrrrrr!" moments have you had with your Z, or any other car?

Tell your story.

 

I have 2, one Z related one not.

 

After the first rebuild, we (my dad and I) start up the engine for the first time, and it started in 1 second. Yay! We where so proud, and we left it ticking over. After about 3 mins, it was stuggling, and it got worse and worse until it died. Thinking it had melted, we checked everything for over a hour but we didnt know why it was not not even turning over.

We asked a mechanic neighbour to come and help and we told him what happened.

"Right" he thought for 10 seconds. "Have you connected the alternator?"

 

It was then the penny dropped.

 

Also when I was about 2 or 3, my dad fixed a car of a neighbour, and also painted it a nice mint green. (This was the early eighties and and the green was the original colour) While waiting for the first coat to drie he decided to paint the wheels silver. Alloys where a not common those days so cleaning your wheels and painting them make the car look nice. Being so small I was in awe of my dad and wanted to help. While having a rest I appeared from around the other side of the car with a paint brush dripping with silver paint and told him "I finished painting the car"

In a panic my dad went to the other side of the car to see that I had painted virtuall half the car in silver paint. he had to strip it all off and start again. He wasnt happy.

What on earth does your signature mean....... :D

 

 

Copy and paste into a search engine, and see what happens !

 

 

Alan..........

buy it!!!

 

then

 

buy a new engine which is broke from a trader on the forum

Probably a classic. parked at a local leisure centre, slight downhill gradiant. waited in the car for 2 mins ish for the turbo's. So car in neutral (manual). got out and locked the car, off i went, gets round the corner. heard a massive crunch and the alarm going off. ran back round and the handbrake (which had held the car with me in it fo 2 mins) had slipped and off it want into a steel hand rail. minimal damage to the car. flattened the handrail though.

danny

My ex-boss was changing the coolant on his company VX astra TD. As he was filling it back up he found a hose that didn't seem to have any water in it, so he dissconected the hose clip. pulled it off and filled it with water and anti-freeze.... It was one of the intercooler hoses... Silly twat!

I removed my radiator a while back and when I replaced it I put the two oil pipes at the bottom back on I got them the wrong way round, needless to say a short drive later resulted in the pipes being forced off and the gearbox oil emptying all over a road in Salisbury! Fortunately no damage done, just lost all drive :D

yeh i remember :p

Once, at Ztech, I leaned in through the open driver's window to take my keys out. The cat1 security did its job and wound the windows up. I panicked and pulled my arm out, minus the keys. Fortunately my wife was with me in her car, but I had to do a 120 mile round trip to re-open it with the spare after Jock and Ryan's attempts to open the boot catch with a nylon strip failed.

Once, at Ztech, I leaned in through the open driver's window to take my keys out. The cat1 security did its job and wound the windows up. I panicked and pulled my arm out, minus the keys. Fortunately my wife was with me in her car, but I had to do a 120 mile round trip to re-open it with the spare after Jock and Ryan's attempts to open the boot catch with a nylon strip failed.

 

should of called a locksmith ;)

most stupid thing i done :p well fixing up a peeling dash as we all know they all do it, so i get's me piece of wood in a cheese wedge shape.

 

place glue along peeled dash and begin to wedge the dash down between the glass and the dash, the next thing i hear is crack and the window goes, no insurance cover so i forked out £200 for a new windscreen :slap: you can find the post if you do a search it was well over a year ago :rofl:

That reminds me of one time I was putting my kayak in the car - I used to carry it inside the car, upside down, with the front resting on the dash (obviously with some padding underneath) and it was a perfect fit. Anyway, this particular day I didn't have the passenger seat down far enough so as I shifted the back end of the kayak around, it pivoted on the top of the passenger seat and I heard a dull thud. Wandered round the front and found I'd cracked the windscreen. :slap: :headvswal

Haven’t yet....touch wood. :p

"BUYING IT" never been so Po.Which is worse than poor. Oh well maybe me engine bay will be finished soon LOL. :cool:

buying the Zed in the first place. I've just had to sorn the car for the 3rd time....nuff said!!

well its a toss up between putting a tenners worth of diesel in the tank or the cream re-trim

i think it has to be the cream re-trim!

Hi SRRAE - Sorry to gatecrash your thread but can you contact me urgently regarding the indiglo group buy. My email is z32dave@talktalk.net or mobile 07711 696960

 

Regards - Dave Kilford

Fitted a Veilside C2 bumper to it and expect to get over speed humps :headvswal :headvswal :rofl: :rofl:

What on earth does your signature mean....... :D

 

it says "sorting you out since y2k" in Hex (a computer language)

let someone else drive it ..... :headvswal :headvswal

 

 

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de-cats, mig tips and 1.3 bar without any fuelling, timing or other change. bang. oops. lol

Bought the car off ebay in blackpool. Drove it all the way home after a night stop over. Once I got home thought I would show off to the kids and took one of them off down the road. Great performance sreaming off down the bypass. Tried to turn round at the end only to hit the kerb with the bumper. If you look at the signature photo you can see the damage to the bumper and the paint on the wing.

 

Many years ago my old man (god rest his sole) was rebuilding an MGBGT in the garage. Had stripped out the interior to the extent that it had no seats etc. while he worked on the engine. Needless to say got the engine running and like we all do wanted to give it a go. He wasn't a small man but decided to push the car down the end of the drive and give it a go up the drive. Sitting on a paint can he gave it a big boot, left 2 black skid marks up the drive, fell of the paint can and nearly went through the end of garage.

 

Morale of the story. Wait till you at least have some seats in the car before trying it out.

Bought the car off ebay in blackpool. Drove it all the way home after a night stop over. Once I got home thought I would show off to the kids and took one of them off down the road. Great performance sreaming off down the bypass. Tried to turn round at the end only to hit the kerb with the bumper. If you look at the signature photo you can see the damage to the bumper and the paint on the wing.

 

Many years ago my old man (god rest his sole) was rebuilding an MGBGT in the garage. Had stripped out the interior to the extent that it had no seats etc. while he worked on the engine. Needless to say got the engine running and like we all do wanted to give it a go. He wasn't a small man but decided to push the car down the end of the drive and give it a go up the drive. Sitting on a paint can he gave it a big boot, left 2 black skid marks up the drive, fell of the paint can and nearly went through the end of garage.

 

Morale of the story. Wait till you at least have some seats in the car before trying it out.

 

 

sorry bud but that is funny .... :x: :rofl:

 

how did the tin of paint do ...!!!!!

 

 

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sell it :cry:

 

 

 

ditto!!!!

My brother had an automatic Granada and arrived home one day with his kids in the back seat and it was p#####g down with rain. The drive gates were shut so he slammed it in what he thought was 'park' and leapt out sharpish to open the gates. When he went to return to the car it was gone, down the road. He missed 'park' and had stuck it in 'reverse' and of course no handbrake had been applied. He was lucky tho' because he also left the drivers door open which got caught on a lamp post and stopped the car. Door and 'A' post completely f##ked. Kids were still crayoning in the backseat unaware of the catastrophe.

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: I know :D

Ok heres one.

 

When I was at college a few years back my mate was obsessed with this girl, Tammy. Fair enough she was hot but he had no chance and we all could see it but him!

 

At the time he had only been driving about 6 months and had a mk2 fiesta. We were larking about in the college car park one lunch time and she asked him for a go in his car. Blinded by lust he handed over the keys and forgot to ask her if she could actually drive! We were parked with a car on each side and the drivers door open, I was sat in the back and my mate was in the doorway showing her what does what etc. I was thinking surely this is a bad idea just as she revved it to about 5k rpm and dumped the clutch in reverse! The door was still open with my mate stuck between it and the car next to us! The door dug into the metro next door and folded round, him still hanging onto it! We then go flying across the car park in reverse out of control, she still has her foot firmly planted! I got up and pulled the handbrake, the car stalled and skidded to a stop about 2 inches away from a two week old 7 series belonging to a lecturer!

 

The metro was knackered and the fiesta lost a door! My mate got crushed but was ok. I was laughing my ass off!

 

And the best thing is, he never even shouted at her, she never appologised!

 

We all get burned one way or another!