Oh Dear I Have Overcooked it!

TaffZee

TaffZee

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British Zeds
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Near Llangollen North Wales
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Z4 3.0 SE
Lets see what stories we can pry out of you, ever overcooked it while driving, had to go home for a clean pair of underwear? Tell us your Oh S*** moments. I will begin:

During a cruise to the Elan Valley the group stopped for Lunch, my wife was not with me so had the opportunity to test one particular driver who I had not been able to shake off in previous cruises (no Names but I think he will know who I mean) So leaving the lunch stop I was in the lead when lo and behold the little silver Z3 slipped into line behind me, so off we went, the roads we were traveling on were a new experience and I had not driven on them before, so once on the open road, I tightened my seat belt gripped the wheel and floored the car, with the little silver Z3 behind me, now in fairness the Z3 driver did have his missus with him and I knew he would be getting grief from her, the speed increased and at last the Z3 behind me started to disappear in the distance, off I roared putting my 2.8 through its paces, My aim to pull into a lay-bye and be standing next to the car before anyone else appeared, this spurred me on to even greater speed and all was going well until, I came upon a little left hand bend, and yes it did have chevron's on it but entering the corner it did not appear that sharp so foot down and off to go, but the left hand bend immediate turned into a right hand switchback, and to make matters worse the road fell away in the form of a steep hill, The car bucked and the revs climbed as the rear wheels left the ground, worse still I still had to get around the hairpin bend, as the car landed tyres squealed spouting out clouds of smoke I was into the bend the car was totally unbalanced at this point and as I took the bend the rear slewed around, I just managed to control the car Phew I was shaking, but a car coming in the other direction had seen all this happening and as I went flying past him the obligotary finger to the temple came up, with me shouting I know I KNOW!, I thought I was a goner and it took me an hour to stop shaking. Lesson learnt, well until we got onto to the Aberystwth Mountain Road.
 
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Great thread, look forward to some more happenings.

As for me, loads of scary moments on bikes hence giving up the big ones years ago.

Best one for me was trying to overtake my friend in his TT on a large roundabout.

I thought my VX220 was invincible.

Tried to take him on the outside, hit the camber change and went into a spin, so fast I didn't have a chance. (lesson learnt VX not invincible)

By pure luck came to a standstill surrounded by my tyre smoke without hitting anything.

When the smoke cleared (the smell was horrendous) a lorry driver was stopped right above me and slowly clapping his hands.

This was many years ago and I've grown up since then, I drive like a grandma nowadays.
 
Be careful :p
 
My first zed nearly had me,

One cold November afternoon with snow on the grass areas I decided to head of to bath. Now being 22 this was my first sports car a 2.8 and very new to rear wheel drive. I had an Audi TT behind me as I came off a round about onto a sharp left with negative camber under heavy acceleration, in hindsight I know I was carrying way to much momentum on a damp road needless to say I begun loosing the rear, I could see the light flickering telling me I had lost traction but it carried on going...... In fact the arse end went so fast round I spun 6 times down the centre of a duel carriageway, about 3 spins in I tried to catch the car which actually put me onto the grass on one side but this only removed a bush and placed it nicely in the road with heaps of mud everywhere. Safe to say I was quite shaken and quickly placed the bush back in its place, kicked the mud of the car and carried on. Even had a chance to give a quick bow to the guys laughing.
 
not in a car yet:cool: strangely since owning the zed i have slowed down quite abit. plenty of moments on bikes though, some very scary, and usually my fault.
 
Loads of moments in Wales with bikes and dry stoned walls but always managed to sort it out.

Then 3 months ago I ran out of talent big time, Now I drive like a oldie...

Lesson learnt.

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Russell O said:
Loads of moments in Wales with bikes and dry stoned walls but always managed to sort it out.

Then 3 months ago I ran out of talent big time, Now I drive like a oldie...

Lesson learnt.

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Russ - that's quite some mess to make of a big car!
I suspect the computer wizardry contributed to the departure - first of all protecting you from spirited driving up to the point it had nowhere to go.Without it you would have backed off long before because the car would have told you a lot more. All those electronics tend to give you an air of confidence and invincibility. When they say I'm done and tell you you're on you own, you're already way past the point of no return. It's down to the metal around you and air bags to protect you. Thankfully they did. A smaller car would have sadly been a different story.
 
That Merc really did it's job and absorbed the impact, the roof and screen look intact in the pic.
 
Redline said:
Russ - that's quite some mess to make of a big car!
I suspect the computer wizardry contributed to the departure - first of all protecting you from spirited driving up to the point it had nowhere to go.Without it you would have backed off long before because the car would have told you a lot more. All those electronics tend to give you an air of confidence and invincibility. When they say I'm done and tell you you're on you own, you're already way past the point of no return. It's down to the metal around you and air bags to protect you. Thankfully they did. A smaller car would have sadly been a different story.
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That was just going to work on a dual carriageway and hit standing water, Car went straight of the road and into a tree.
 
Tfp said:
That Merc really did it's job and absorbed the impact, the roof and screen look intact in the pic.
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That Merc did do it's job Tfp. The dash was again'st my head which in turn was again'st the headrest so a bit frightening but the rest of the drivers cockpit held up very well, Not so the passenger side. Part of the dash came forward and went straight through the middle of the seat. Good job on my own that day,

Not only did the car do it's job, The 3 emergency services were incredible and totally put me at ease whilst they got me out...
 
Russell O said:
That Merc did do it's job Tfp. The dash was again'st my head which in turn was again'st the headrest so a bit frightening but the rest of the drivers cockpit held up very well, Not so the passenger side. Part of the dash came forward and went straight through the middle of the seat. Good job on my own that day,

Not only did the car do it's job, The 3 emergency services were incredible and totally put me at ease whilst they got me out...
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That's a colossal amount of energy to do that. A few inches either side and you would have hit the chassis and that would I would have thought reduced the impact by transferring the energy under the car. Looks like the engine and transmission pushed up through the car buckling the floor pan. Unlucky and extremely fortunate at the same time.
A couple of years ago I climbed inside a wrecked car seconds after an accident (massive rear end shunt) with a very calm off duty paramedic to help a frightened young woman right up to the point they cut the roof off to get her out. I don't remember much of the activity around me while I we were talking to the woman. Having been on the other end I knew what she was feeling. These blue light guys earn their corn alright.
 
Redline said:
That's a colossal amount of energy to do that. A few inches either side and you would have hit the chassis and that would I would have thought reduced the impact by transferring the energy under the car. Looks like the engine and transmission pushed up through the car buckling the floor pan. Unlucky and extremely fortunate at the same time.
A couple of years ago I climbed inside a wrecked car seconds after an accident (massive rear end shunt) with a very calm off duty paramedic to help a frightened young woman right up to the point they cut the roof off to get her out. I don't remember much of the activity around me while I we were talking to the woman. Having been on the other end I knew what she was feeling. These blue light guys earn their corn alright.
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They certainly do Ian.

Utmost respect for all of them. You can see why they get a bit miffed going out to a drunk in town causing trouble...

That's exactly what happened to mine.If it had hit either chassis leg I would have thought it would take the corner off and no drama..

Bad positioning by me I'm afraid....=))=))=))
 
Been very lucky in my youth TBF and never had a close call. Miss Daisy since I had the kids. Luckiest I've been was in Germany going south to Meschede to provide fire cover for a Harrier display. Doing "Smiths" on the speedo the rear left wheel came off and overtook me. I needed to order my brown trousers but fortunately being a 6x4 it was quite stable.

Not this one but one of the fleet.

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