Luckiest situations with your car?

luckiest situations with your car?

rollover in my old 1999 jeep wrangler. Drove it home with only a shattered windshield

Took a really sharp turn in a corner at 60mph in a 3 series, thought I had destroyed my side on the curb but only scratched my rim and had to get the rubber fit back on it.

Drifting around dirt roads in my area like a true redneck. Lose controll and jump burm on side of the road. I jump the truck and land the truck after being airborne for 3 seconds. All i needed was a new drive shaft and i picked it up on Craigslist pic related

Was drifting my old fwd saturn ion in the slippery snow

hit a pole and only damage was a cracked hub cap and a bent rim

Curb at the mall a little too high for you op?

>in ute
>big fat arse tyres on the back
>bout 150km/h
>hit water
>aquaplain
>get a bit off grip on one tyre
>spin out
>end up doing about 3 full circles down the road and end up facing the wrong
>somehow stay on the road and don't hit the trees on the side
>spew in my lap
>????
>drive home with giant flat spots on my tyres

>Ford 6.0
>drive home
>headgaskets still intact

>my vw jetta vr6
>no check engine light on

>ford pinto
>rear ended
>no explosion

>'16 GTI
>Windy backroads
>Bald rear tires
>Going down this twisty road about 80mph
>"Slow to 35mph" sign shows up prior to a corner
>"Nah it's fine"
>Accel to 100mph
>Corner came up faster than expected causing me to brake into the turn more than I wanted to
>Rear goes flying out due to bald rears
>Do a nice 360
>Slide off the road into some grass and dirt
>Half a foot away from fencing
>Nothing damaged other than chunks of dirt and grass in my tires.

Got new supersports and took the same corner at the same speed and managed just fine a couple of weeks later. Shit was wild though. Glad it was at 1am and there were no cars on the road.

OFF TOPIC

I'm actually looking into one of those right now, except a 98 with the 4.0 I6 and 5speed. Have you had any major issues with yours? The one I'm looking at has an issue where it literally won't idle unless I keep my foot on the gas. Other than that it drives perfectly. Any ideas?

>in FWD shitbox on highway
>doing 110km/h like a good boy in the center lane (don't want to do anything faster because i don't want to brake accelerate brake accelerate ad infinitum), pretty decent traffic
>see COMPETITION ORANGE (tm) mustang and STI approaching from behind, in the middle of traffic, easily doing 160km/h+
>mustang is right behind me and slams the brake so hard/tries to get out of the lane that he begins to fishtail
>shit bricks and run into the left lane like a little bitch
>mustang recovers and dips off with the WRX
actually thought I was going to die that day because of some mad cunts hooning during moderate daytime traffic

>3g eclipse
>timing belt broke while driving
>it's an interference engine
>first mechanic
>"it's probably fucked and I'm too old to deal with that"
>he runs the shop himself so whatever
>second mechanic
>"it's fucked, and I doubt you'd pay what I'd have to charge for labor for my mechanics"
>third mechanic
>"It could go either way, but I'll take a look at it and if it's fine I'll charge you for the inspection and belt. If not we'll talk about a price for that"
>it turns out to be perfectly fine, just needed the belt

>fast forward two months
>leaking power steering fluid
>take it to mechanic for opinion (does free inspections)
>"looks like you're going to need the whole rack and pinion replaced. $650."
>lol fuck that
>find the leak myself
>it's coming from a metal cooling pipe placed behind the bumper
>I live in the rust belt
>I don't think the car has ever spent the night in a garage before I bough it
>cooling pipe covered in rust
>you can guess why it started leaking
>spend a bit looking up people with leaking power steering fluid
>finally find someone with the same problem
>everybody told him to just bypass the cooling pipe with extra hoses
>apparently it doesn't actually need that pipe anyways
>do it and no more problems

>fast forward four months
>out fucking around in the country
>understeer off the road around a corner
>asshole farmer put up wooden poles to keep people out of his field
>about a foot thick, and five feet tall
>hit three of them on the side of the car when leaving the road
>still wound up in his field anyway
>had to get towed out because the car stopped on top of one of the poles
>headlight and turn signal busted
>bumper busted
>fender crumpled
>rear quarter panel dented
>pole missed the rear tire by about three inches
>no mechanical damage

I don't think I'll ever part with this car.

Sounds like you should

idle air control valve or a vacuum leak

>had a yugo as my first car
>only problem i had with it was a fucked headlight

Keked

Rolled over in a golf cart with three people inside, going down a hill about 30mph. Only a rolled ankle.

I once slipped when stepping into the bus

got cut off in my tacoma on the interstate doing 75+, bald tires and blown shocks, ended up hard braking, catching a few fishtails, and spinning out in a glorious cloud of smoke. No one hit me from the rear and I stopped short a couple feet of the center median, accidentally stalled so i just started it and kept going in the fastlane. This was on I80E into Sacramento, shocked I didnt get hit or roll or something...

Jeep 4.0 I6s are basically indestructible unless they go without oil changes frequently or overheat.

Blew a tire in my dad's 96 Nissan Sentra going through a construction site. I was lucky the speed limit was 45.

>hooning mountain road at 9pm
>never been on it before so of course doing 90mph
>come to corner that starts rather calm then gets really sharp about half way
>oversteer
>rear end brakes lose, do a 360 and slam into an embankment
>two tires came off rims
>start calling around trying to find a tow or someone to take me to get my spares
>firefighters, police, ambulance all show up within 5 min
>Im perfectly fine just a little Adrenalin
>tow truck shows up fills up my tires and they let me go
i blew a ballJoint and dented a already dented fender

i had a yugo but non-import version, out of kragujevac
its somehow still running

>be me
>15
>driving to school in my dads 96' camry on icy roads
>slow down to turn right
>hit the brakes
>wheels lock up
>start sliding/spinning
>rear kicking out
>do 180
>on the other side road
>about 5 ft from a 50ft dropoff into a ditch

Who was phone to police etcetera etcetera etcetera

I guess the only "moment" in my car where I wasn't well within safety margins and still got away clean was when about 5 years ago I once locked up my tires to stop behind traffic that really just slammed on their brakes as well.

not sure, no one i called would think about the police. might have been someone living near and heard it.

buying the car was just one whole red flag no sane person would have bought it.
This car never failed me even after abusing it for 3 whole years you might know as the once gray trd polo.

Took my Mom's new Chrysler 200 S out, on the way home I went around an S curve too fast, got into a death wobble and bashed the side of the car along the curb. No body damage at all, just two scratched rims and a need for an alignment

Seconding
If it otherwise ran fine, It's probably just a sensor that shit the bed. Assuming you keep up on regular maintenance all you need to worry about is minor shit. Also expect sensors to fail because lolChrysler.

t. Own a 98 XJ, I6, 5 speed. Pic was after I power washed the engine bay. Only "major" repair was the water pump. Bought it unknowingly with a shot o2 sensor. Later had the oil pressure switch fail. The TPS shit the bed too, but that was my fault.

Got sideswiped by a speeding tractor trailer. Only took off my mirror and a plastic fender over my rear tire. An inch or two to the right and I could have been dead.

Hell, I bought a 213k mi Ford Tempo as my first car. Didn't even pop the hood before I bought it lmao. Somehow that fucking thing never let me down

>driving to school in 30 degrees weather in the winter
>car is known to short-stop
>lots of people behind me on a stop-sign 10 min away from my house
>about to turn but car stops and i cant gas or move
>hop out of my car in cold weather and tell people my car broke down just pass by
>called up my parents to help me
>dad fuckin speeds up all the way to me and comes out to help me in nothing but shorts and a shirt in cold weather
>goes in my car and instantly fixes it
>wtf
>got to school on time

Johnny Knoxville?

Drove this thicc bitch for another 6 months after doing this before selling it
Nothing was broken on it except the left running light was hanging by it's wires like an eye from a socket
Pulled it out 3 days after ditching and drove it home
Only sold it because torque bind kept eating my axles