Weirdest place your car has broken down? [Archive]

murd0c

08-09-2011, 08:45 PM

Not a car but man this sucked big time. Tore my high steer arm off the knuckle 30k in the bush with no way to fix it lol

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This is called a pegleg LOL

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MG1

08-09-2011, 08:49 PM

I drive a Honda. Nuff said.

OK, how about the left lane at Mission Raceway Park? Blew the motor when I engaged the nitrous a little too early. First car of the night on one of the first Street Legal events ever at MRP. Delayed the event for about 45 minutes. When the track guys found out I had nitrous, they all freaked out. I guess noob crew for the street legals, 'cause the day crew would have been cool with it. Pretty memorable night, LOL. Cursing all the way home in the tow truck.

drunkrussian

08-09-2011, 08:57 PM

not broke down but tire blew on a highway in the rain grrrr....i always have nightmares of my car breaking down while im in the u.s or one of those ppl who's car breaks in the border LINEUP hahaha
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FN-2199

08-09-2011, 09:23 PM

With my old 91' Corolla a few years ago, the tranny broke down during a Sikh festival around Fraser and 49th. Couldn't get a tow because of the parades rolling through, and was trapped :(

AlphaKappa

08-09-2011, 09:25 PM

Never broke down :troll:

DiiCii

08-09-2011, 09:33 PM

coolant hose bursted downtown in stop & go traffic during fireworks night last week. lots of people walking on sidewalk, hood smoked up like crazy, people laughed at me :(

ptrinh

08-09-2011, 09:43 PM

i can't drive yet. lol :alone:

ae101

08-09-2011, 09:44 PM

not weird but funny when my dads corolla had a flat in front of canadian tires in COQ at 8pm at night, so then we then walked in to buy a new tire but we can installed them cuz they closed so we were like "damn it" then we change to the spare

right after the change we popped another tire & we were like FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU :fuuuuu: then had the car tow which cost use quite a bit

k2_alpha

08-09-2011, 09:47 PM

The gf and I just came back from a road trip to San Diego.
On the way down, the plastic mud guard that covers the wheel well started to drag on the ground.
Had to get it fixed at a repair shop in Lost Hills. I can not even make this up. Lost Hill is name of the town. No one spoke English; only Spanish. Luckily a sanitation truck driver just happened to be there.

link for Lost Hills CA
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EXV603

08-09-2011, 09:47 PM

It wasn't my car but a jeep we rented broke down in Goa, India. We were on our way to Baga beach, I think.

The jeep broke down in the middle of nowhere. The streets were pitch black. We were sitting there for about 45 minutes when some dude walks out. He said he had a van he could drive us in to the place we were trying to get to and we agreed... there was 6 of us and we thought we could take him if he tried to rob us or some shit.

We embarked on one of my scariest rides ever. Pitch black streets. We thought we were gonna die.

But, the guy ended up being cool. He took us to a place called Curly's on the beach. One of the best experiences i've had in my life. Must have been like a 1000 people just partying like crazy... the kind of parties you see in movies.

The next day we told the owner of the place we rented the jeep from the place we were going to and to go and find the jeep himself.

CorneringArtist

08-09-2011, 09:53 PM

Volvo-brickster

08-09-2011, 09:57 PM

none are really weird...just inconvenient

on the highway and my alternator decides to pack it in, battery died shortly after....had to pull over on in the HOV lane and wait for a tow truck..

another time my car wouldn't start ( bad starter ) had to get my friends to pus my car down the street so i could bump start it

another time my upper rad hose split , noticed it when i get out of my car to go the gym...saw a huge pool of coolant on the floor and said fuck it and went to work out anyways

cooling fan clutch died and overheated in traffic in Abbotsford

ignition switch on my truck is iffy...was going to the USA and they made me shut off my car even when i asked if i could keep it on....couldn't start it and held up their line and that pissed them off ( later fixed it by hot wiring the bastard )

countless dead batteries and jump starts from random people in parking lots

exhaust rusted off and part of the exhaust pipe fell off and got lodged between road and rear axle...dragged that bastard for a few hundred meters before i had to get under my car in the pissing rain on the side of the highway to try to rip it off

had my exhaust fall off on the air care dyno - attendant was not amused

dignatas

08-09-2011, 10:07 PM

coolant hose bursted downtown in stop & go traffic during fireworks night last week. lots of people walking on sidewalk, hood smoked up like crazy, people laughed at me :(

same thing but on entrance of knight bridge :okay:

Not going to bother fixing it :fuckthatshit: did it leak inside your car? I almost died from carbon monoxide

Alatar

08-09-2011, 10:44 PM

I've had a heater hose burst on a past car, just south of S. Lake Samish exit heading Northbound on the I-5. Waited for a tow-truck for 2 hours on the side of the highway.

If it was a rad hose, would've just duct-taped the sucker. Heater hose under the intake? No such luck. Made me glad I had the BCAA membership which includes tows up to 320km.

Got it towed back to my shop and fixed it the following Monday morning.

Aside from that breakdown, I've been lucky. I've had the pinion shaft of my rear differential blow through the differential cover on my old truck, blew up the side-gears on the differential when that happened. Happened in town, the day after I got back from a camping trip 35km down a FSR past Boston Bar. That would have been the suck if it had happened the day before.

CP.AR

08-09-2011, 10:52 PM

broke down next to a GT-R at the Oval just last week.

battery went dead

JoshuaWong

08-09-2011, 11:02 PM

E-40six

08-09-2011, 11:08 PM

Spun a rod bearing on my way to Tofino for vacation. I broke down on Hwy 4 at Sproat Lake. Right in the middle of bum fuck no where with 0 cell phone reception.

We were lucky that we broke down by a road crew who were patching up the road and they had a satellite phone to call a tow truck

EvoFire

08-09-2011, 11:23 PM

First time I broke down was in my first year of driving. I was parked at SFU and was leaving for day. Knew jack about cars back then, started the car and all the electronics had reset, it was weird and made note of it. Drove a friend home and went to get gas, car won't start after. Battery was dead.

Second time, funny enough, was also at school, just into my second year of driving. Car was bubbling coolant out fervently after I parked. Went into instant panic mode and called my mechanic. Nursed the car home, stopping for water every 10mins or so. Head gasket.

FerrariEnzo

08-10-2011, 04:44 AM

almost directly in front of an Adult toy store.. LMAO... waiting for the tow truck so i went inside...

blum2001

08-10-2011, 07:06 AM

Not really breaking down, but fuel pump failure led to limp mode on my 335i.

Car was shaking vibrating so badly, had to shut down car and restart it literally every red light while on the way to BMW. Everyone was looking like wtf is wrong with that car shaking and turning on and off.:okay:

I've had the fuel pump on my 335i die twice already. First time I was on Hastings by the PNE and I freaked out. Second time I was on the freeway and I said fuck it, gonna take this shaking as just a massage while driving lol.

toyota86

08-10-2011, 09:20 AM

bmw fuel pump died outside a bank. shitty part was that it was on valentines day while out with a date about to go for dinner.

GabAlmighty

08-10-2011, 09:25 AM

Hydrolocked my motor and blew a hole in the block 16k in the bush. That was a pain.

skylinergtr

08-10-2011, 09:46 AM

coolant hose burst twice around school.

Once at the parking lot, and the other at my friends house which is a minute away from school.

Both timers were after a spirited drive.

dachinesedude

08-10-2011, 10:57 AM

I drive a Honda. Nuff said.

werd

never broke down once

ptrinh

08-10-2011, 11:09 AM

werd

never broke down once

Its a honda, Its bound to break down eventually.

nns

08-10-2011, 01:58 PM

broke down next to a GT-R at the Oval just last week.

battery went dead

How is this weird?
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Dragon-88

08-10-2011, 02:09 PM

I drive a corolla... :troll:

AlphaKappa

08-10-2011, 02:11 PM

oh wait forgot lol, my camry broke down right after the fireworks on aug 6th, battery died and had to call tow truck :okay:

white_guilt

08-10-2011, 02:41 PM

my baby's a tank. but was in my friend's car when it broke down on east hastings coming back from dt at 4am. nissan maxima. nothing interesting happened other than ppl asking me for change.

oldsnail

08-10-2011, 03:56 PM

driving my work car, the ford van decided to stall and not start at woss, bc.. lets say i never even found woss for i was in it.

freakshow

08-10-2011, 04:05 PM

was with a friend when his car broke down on an on ramp.. that really sucked..

firebird79_00

08-10-2011, 04:46 PM

Neutral dropped my car around Marine and Kerr, ended up blowing multiple holes in the transmission. I dragged it from there to Boundary and Rumble in 1st doing about 30 blowing smoke all up Boundary until i hit rumble and then i waited for the tow truck..So many people gave me the finger and honked at me on the way up there, i was in the right lane and had hazards on.

Alatar

08-10-2011, 05:23 PM

Its a honda, Its bound to break down eventually.

And then the igniter goes, or the coil burns out, or the cam sensor fails.

I've been lucky *knocks on wood* with my Subaru. No breakdowns in the 2 and a half years I've had it.

elwell

08-10-2011, 06:09 PM

when i first had my N, i was rolling around my school area in a shit box and the engine broke down, had to push it off the road and a couple of kids from school saw and laugh at me. :facepalm:

stewie

08-10-2011, 06:21 PM

took a girl to cresent beach in white rock when i was 19ish? parked my exploder near the beach....went to leave late at night...the slave cylinder bit the dust...buggers located inside the tranny so it was a loooong awkward ride home with a tow truck driver.

DiiCii

08-10-2011, 06:32 PM

same thing but on entrance of knight bridge :okay:

Not going to bother fixing it :fuckthatshit: did it leak inside your car? I almost died from carbon monoxide

hahah i got home at 4am that night, had to work next morning at 7am..:fuuuuu: didn't wanna get it towed so i drove it home after i filled up with water LOL. got pulled over on the way home (just my night >_________________>) but luckily he only gave me a warning for speeding as he understood i was in a rush to get home cause of my car issues! next day, bro fixed it for me while i was at work. it turned out that a small coolant hose near my firewall had a hole in it

sleepywheel

08-10-2011, 06:58 PM

We were cruising home, after a day of wheeling, on Lougheed Hwy in PoCo and hit a stale green light that turned red just before we reached the intersection in my CJ5. Hammered the brakes, blew a front brake line, pedal went to the floor and sailed through the red light with no brakes. I always thought the rear brakes didn't work that well ................ Luckily no one was in the intersection. I kept a spare brake line in my tool box and we had it changed out with brakes bled and on the road in half an hour.

Jegz

08-10-2011, 08:11 PM

Not really broke down but last year I went to the nightmarket and parked in the area where its free on viscount way. Somehow I lost my spare key while walking around the night market and i already lost my main key the week before. Shitty dealz so my car stayed there for a couple days til i finally decide to tow it to my place and get a locksmith to make new keys :(

nns

08-10-2011, 08:23 PM

1exotic

08-10-2011, 08:30 PM

hahah i got home at 4am that night, had to work next morning at 7am..:fuuuuu: didn't wanna get it towed so i drove it home after i filled up with water LOL. got pulled over on the way home (just my night >_________________>) but luckily he only gave me a warning for speeding as he understood i was in a rush to get home cause of my car issues! next day, bro fixed it for me while i was at work. it turned out that a small coolant hose near my firewall had a hole in it

lols my car broke downdown on the night of fireworks as well.

$145 towing fee back to my house :alone: ..I need a new alternator

spoon.ek9

08-10-2011, 09:45 PM

none of the cars i've owned have broken down on me.. 1 mazda, 2 hondas. the family camry overheated once in the highway to alberta but that's about it!

beetea

08-10-2011, 11:01 PM

on oak street bridge during rush hour, when it was snowing. quite possibly the biggest embarrassment of my life.

fuel gage was broken, realized I had zero gas, had to wait for 45 minutes for someone to come with a jerry can.

people were super mean :okay:

Energy

08-10-2011, 11:11 PM

My old car and my current car are Hondas. Never broke down on me.

Our old delivery van in Asia was a Mazda MPV. I was doing delivery one day and it just overheated. Had to pull over to the side of the road for a bit and add water but that was it. Not as bad as some of the stories in here lol.

Gh0stRider

08-10-2011, 11:31 PM

almost directly in front of an Adult toy store.. LMAO... waiting for the tow truck so i went inside...

25 cent peep show? :fullofwin:

kungpow

08-10-2011, 11:39 PM

For all these break downs, it would have been better if you guys had posted year of the car and make and model.

Would have made it more interesting.

Jegz

08-10-2011, 11:45 PM

^How did you prove to the locksmith that you owned the car if the doors were locked? Or did the tow truck driver leave them unlocked after opening them? If so, how does the tow truck driver know it's actually your car?

i think i showed some insurance papers that i had at home.. and for the locksmith i THINK they checked the insurance papers after..not sure i forgot

Hawflakes03

08-10-2011, 11:51 PM

No breakdowns but some dumb mistakes on my part.

I was out with a girl one time doing some 4X4'ing in Slave Lake (sp?) out in Mission with my dad's 1994 Toyota 4Runner. I knew nothing about proper attire and equipment. Got stuck in a mud hole for what seemed to be 3 hours. There were some hillbillies who came and helped me out. I was initially embarrassed and afraid but they were super nice. The spent lots of time trying to drag me out. I just kept getting stuck again and again. One time I left my rear hatch window down and the guy trying to pull me out spun his wheels and threw a bunch of mud inside the 4Runner. Another guy even had his tow line snap while trying to pull me out. I had to run the truck through the car wash 2 times and there was still mud everywhere. Never did tell my dad what happened though.

Another time, I locked my keys in my Acura EL while hiking in Golden Ears. I had opened the truck, locked the car locks, and locked the trunk lock (this lock that's beside the driver's seat which locks the lever for the trunk). I was taking off my jacket when I threw the key into the trunk and then closed the trunk. Ranger station was 25 minutes so me and this girl was I dating hiked all the way there, waited another 30 minutes for the ranger to show up, another 30 minutes for the tow truck to come and then another 30 minutes for him to figure out a way to pick my trunk lock. $120 tow bill and I gave him another $20 for tip.

Both times I was with a girl I was interested in. I guess I get distracted easily. They were both really cool though and though the experience was embarrassing and humbling, they didn't give me a hard time and they were both really supportive.

Thatcd5Guy

08-10-2011, 11:52 PM

my car was right in front of the bank with no gas plus my light burnt out the gas light...
:offtopic:

BrRsn

08-11-2011, 12:00 AM

Highway 1 east off ramp from willingdon.. friends car. It had just been serviced by the stealership and they left a nice fat air bubble in the coolant loop. Needle hit the red and car started to smoke ... spend about 40 minutes trying to figure out how to fix it, finally just bled the system and it was all good after that.

geeknerd

08-11-2011, 04:48 AM

Hey this thread made me think and even thought their were minor but costly problems here and there, my e46 325i hasnt broken down/made me immobile in the 7years i had it. :)

7seven

08-11-2011, 06:50 AM

One of my friends just got back from Afghanistan after some private contracting work, the RG32 he was travelling in broke down out of the blue on a road in the middle of nowhere, after exiting the vehicle, he and his team did a quick sweep of the area and found an IED just 15 yards away, pure luck they broke down.

ws6ta

08-11-2011, 11:05 AM

car break down? :fuckthatshit:

Gumby

08-11-2011, 11:25 AM

Reading these stories, it sounds like the cars some of you drive don't seem very safe, or they're pieces of junk! :p

Apart from a few dead batteries (because I left the lights on), the cars I've driven haven't "broken down" (knock on wood)...

Cars I've driven in recent memory:

early 90s Acura Integra RS
1997 Acura Integra GS-R
late 90s Nissan Pathfinder
late 90s BMW 540i
2002 BMW 330ci (current)
2004 Acura RSX-s
mid-2000 Benz ML500 (current)
2005 Honda Pilot (current)

skyxx

08-11-2011, 04:48 PM

Both times I was with a girl I was interested in. I guess I get distracted easily. They were both really cool though and though the experience was embarrassing and humbling, they didn't give me a hard time and they were both really supportive.

I'm sure they gave you a hard time alright! :troll:

Nicotine

08-11-2011, 08:00 PM

trans canada, in northvan near westview. clutch went on my 92 prelude after a trip to whister and back. at least i was back in van and not on the sea to sky.

dignatas

08-11-2011, 09:48 PM

sleepywheel

08-12-2011, 07:01 PM

Reading these stories, it sounds like the cars some of you drive don't seem very safe, or they're pieces of junk! :p

The only reason the brake line blew was because the mud tire lugs grabbed at the rubber line and tore some chunks out of it. We were out wheeling with the front swaybar disconnected and I forgot to hook the bungy cords onto the lines to pull them back and away from the tires. The Rubicon Express springs really allows the axle to articulate when rock crawling.

I guess being a piece of junk would only be in the eyes of the beholder. I built the 350 engine with a mild cam and flat top pistons, lockers in the axles, lifted, 33 inch Swampers, on board air, etc. It's not a looker but did everything I wanted it to do. That was the only time it ever broke down on me and only for half an hour.

spoon.ek9

08-12-2011, 07:07 PM

none of the cars i've owned have broken down on me.. 1 mazda, 2 hondas. the family camry overheated once in the highway to alberta but that's about it!

forgot to mention, my mom thought it was a good idea to remove the rad cap. i had my back turned and had a hot coolant shower in the blazing sun.

:fuuuuu: :seriously:

firebird79_00

08-12-2011, 07:15 PM

forgot to mention, my mom thought it was a good idea to remove the rad cap. i had my back turned and had a hot coolant shower in the blazing sun.

:fuuuuu: :seriously:

I hate when that shit happens, i was draining my radiator out at mission and because its an older car theres no drain plug. I had to disconnect the hose and it all sprayed right up into my face. Got a good mouthful and eyeful.

Joreus

08-12-2011, 07:35 PM

Battery died at gary point, battery died at richmond center upstairs parkade, battery died at the end of no.1/river road. I like trance music too much, trance and girls. Bad combo when the car is off.

Oh and then my motor blew up driving down the 91.

ToneCapone

08-12-2011, 07:37 PM

After work, Christmas day, Driving home eager to open my presents.
Going up Rupert in a 95 dodge neon..... half way up the hill and BOOM, bitch runs out of gas!
:fuuuuu:

bloodmack

08-12-2011, 07:53 PM

wasn't my truck but my freinds 90's F150 fuel pump went. Luckily its lifted so he had to build something out of the fire wood we had, in order to slowly lower the gas tank up while he took out the pump w/out braking his lines. This was at davis lake.

ptrinh

08-12-2011, 10:32 PM

After work, Christmas day, Driving home eager to open my presents.
Going up Rupert in a 95 dodge neon..... half way up the hill and BOOM, bitch runs out of gas!
:fuuuuu:

AHAH how could you not realize you were out of gas?

JqC

08-12-2011, 10:59 PM

After work, Christmas day, Driving home eager to open my presents.
Going up Rupert in a 95 dodge neon..... half way up the hill and BOOM, bitch runs out of gas!
:fuuuuu:

:rolleyes:
Uhhhhh...that's not the car breaking down. That's you being retarded.
Up till now, I've only heard of girls running out of gas while driving.

ToneCapone

08-13-2011, 01:40 PM

AHAH how could you not realize you were out of gas?

lol I knew the tank was low but I was trying to push it to the next gas station.

:rolleyes:
Uhhhhh...that's not the car breaking down. That's you being retarded.
Up till now, I've only heard of girls running out of gas while driving.

Thats me being stupid causing the car to BREAK DOWN.
I was 18, shit happens.

!e.lo_

08-13-2011, 01:43 PM

Oh and then my motor blew up driving down the 91.

yep, that was a good two hours on the side of the road.

my car shut off out of no where, no power, going uphill on 72nd, pulled over right away with whatever momentum I had. couldn't start it. took me almost 2 hours to figure out, but the immobilizer ground became loose. better that than something important.

doma

08-13-2011, 02:06 PM

pulling into the twilight drive-in, in Langley, just as i pulled into my spot, my upper rad hose burst, nothing some ducktape and distilled water couldn't temporarily fix for the drive home!

OTG-ZR2

08-13-2011, 04:22 PM

My MSD coil died at school one time. Lordco was a 5 min walk away luckily, so tossed a new one on and was mobile again.

Other minor issues but still able to drive my vehicle:

Heater hose burst 5 min away from home, just continued to drive it. Motor had a nice hot shower with 2 week old coolant :|
Water pump X2, just started to leak.
Alternator died, but still had enough juice to pick up new one and drive home.
Starter died, but able to bump start due to manual tranny and creative parking.
U-joint started to click badly.
Dead batteries due to leaving interior lights on, listening to music too long.