I thought i would start a thread so everyone can share their funny / amusing events during your driving life , here's mine to start it .

I drove into an automated car wash in a Citroen CX , the car engaged in the chain and started on its way through , as soon as the water sprays started water POURED into the car from behind the dash like a mini Niagra falls .

The car immediately steamed up with heavy condensation so I couldn’t see anything and if I turned on the demister fan, water sprayed out of all the vents .

I couldn’t get out of the car so I had to sit there while it trundled through and filled up , by the time I reached the exit the water was up to the door pockets .

As I couldn’t see out at all and didn’t know if anyone was following me through ,I had to open the door and lean out , the door ripped out of my fingers with the pressure of the water and banged against a stanchion and a tidal wave duly poured out of the car , the racket this made drew everyones attention and they had a good laugh at my expense .

Having got my car out of everyone’s way I cleared the screens and proceeded to drive home , there was still a lot of water in the car and every time I accelerated or braked a wave of water flowed back and forth over my feet, I was soaked .

All this was caused by dead leaves clogging the drains for the heater airbox . that car never went through an auto car wash again.

I was jet washing my polo when a lil rust scab on the side came away leaving a massive hole! No other marks on it I was well peed off to say the least lol

My wife was driving her 750cc Panda into Wakefield when the exhaust snapped halfway down the length of the car. The rear part of the pipe fell down whilst it was still attached to the rear of the car, dug into the road surface and lifted the two rear wheels of the car off the ground. I arrived there (Bodie and Doyle stlye in my Capri) to rescue her and was amazed at how much air there was between the rear wheels and the road. I had to free the car by putting it in reverse and rag the t@*ts off it. Eventually the mighty 45hp engine pulled the pipe out of the tarmac and the car bounced back onto the road.

I took it to a local exhaust place and payed a huge £75 for a whole new system. It sounded brilliant on the way, like a rally car. Happy days, 45hp, cheap bills and insurance.

Whilst working as a tyre fitter many moons ago, I was called out by the motor police to attend an inccident with an articulated lorry at 3.00am in the morning, he said I would be met by a machanic with a new wheel and hub for the trailer unit (super single), when I arrived I could see a lot of activity in the nearby field, when I asked what had happened the policeman said the wheel had come off of the trailor including the hub and had bounced into the field and had hit a sleeping cow, the speed and the weight of the wheel traveling at 50mph must have made a big impact and he said the vet was trying to find out if it was one cow or two, sad I know, but when he said we could not use the original wheel and refit it because it was evidence in an animal cruelty case, at that point I could barely contain my laughter.