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[ianbunyan]

I'll start

Was trying to impress my new girlfriend with my Mini... she loves it! Coming home from Ashford one night, it was dark, and I had her, her sister, and her brother in the Mini poodling along. The main beam was busted, so I was gonna high beam it all the way home. Come out of Ashford heading toward Faversham on the A251 in the dark and then...

... the brightest flash you will EVER see!!! ...

Nothing... no light... nothing!! Poo... still travelling 35 miles per hour.

Oddly enough, I used to practice what owuld happen in that kind of event... so on went the indicators, which gave off just enough light to see the edge of the road to pull over :cool:

AA came out... ALL 4 front bulbs (main beam/high beam, and side lights) were blown to kingdom come! So he fitted some new ones, and sent me on my way.

A couple of weeks later, my cars smells of wrotten egg stuffed haddocks... nice! Turns out the alternator was kicking out a trillion billion (28) volts!!! Cooked the battery, and caused the bulb-blowing incident.

Aaaah... it's a Mini adventure Gotta love your Mini

[Don't Panic]

funny you should mention that, my mate just had to spend a fortune on his ford focus because the alternator fried the battery which in turn fried the immobilizer.

[ianbunyan]

Hahaa... no such fortune on the mini... the battery survived, even though when I turned it upside down NO liquid came out... hehee... so I went and bought 2 litres of distilled water and filled it up again, all working well A new alternator... £25 ish... what more can you say Cheap to run for sure

[crocstarr]

so im driving my mini home from stourbridge with my ex girlfriend (was my girlfriend then) and we are doing 60 mph down this hill towards a set of traffic lights. they turn red as we are heading down, so i apply my foot to the brake pedal. hmmm nothing, not even slightly slowing down, well that doesnt normally happen, so i try it again, and nothing, then i start to panic, furiously pushing in the brake pedal, after about 5 attempts the brakes began to work and we managed to stop at the lights. after the incident the girlfriend refused to get into the mini again.so the mini was sold, but 2 years later, the girlfriend went, and now i have a mini again. yippee.

turns out the problem was wheel bearings, and it was moving the wheel away from the brakes or something like that, cant remember exactly.

[Jammy]

Have to say this is the best mini story I've ever heard, posted a while ago by our own scrapy:

Boy oh boy did i have an eve in my car tonight. went to drop a dvd off at blockbuster with a mate in the next town over and ended up having quite a night out.
On my way over some bloke in a 4x4 was doing a u turn near a corner in the road, bit surprised to see him there so went round him without waiting boy was he unhappy, straight up my arse lights flashing like mad, and me being me, decided to stop in the road to bring him to a halt (not a good idea) if he was mad before NOW he was pissed. Full beam right up my arse and what lye ahead in wait, the dreaded traffic lights. now this guy was pissed so i did not want to find out what he had to say. took a side road to avoid the lights and again he was full beam up my arse he was so close we could feel the heat off the headlights. Now i new the mini had the advantage of handling so i flung it round the corner at the end of the road and carried on surely this guy would get fed up but no he kept on coming.

My mate asked about the petrol situation it was fine so he said keep driving, thought about flooring it but didn’t want to crash so steadily pressed on. $h*t what lye ahead another set of light couldn’t avoid them this time so had to go through them on a red light (stupid i know but what else was there to do) Now SURLY he wont come through a red light but no he kept on coming, this guy was out for blood.
i was heading into town now were i knew there would be traffic and red lights so i shot up into a residential area, but this guy kept coming, round all the bends deep into the houses i didn’t have a clue were i was going i kept a steady pace making sure not to hit anything he was so close i was sure he was going to ram me. Then when i saw a windy road i floored it, the mini shined through handling like a dream and pulling away, i was on a high that was until i saw the end of the road i was in a cul-de-sac trapped with no were to go i slammed on my brakes just stopping inches away from the parked car in front i knew this 4x4 would be round that corner any minute, i just managed to turn the mini around and bang there he was cornered me in, it was me my mate the mini the pavement & road and him lights full beam couldn’t see a thing. I pulled up on the pavement next to his door so he couldn’t get out the car and was about to wind the window down to try and reason with him, when i heard my mate say "the mini will fit" what was he on about we were cornered between him parked cars and the pavement..... THE PAVMENT he didn’t have to say it twice before i knew it i had thrown the car into first gear and we were hurtling down this pavement with parked cars to the right and a wall to the left 1, 2, 3, 4parked cars and there was a gap out shot the mini onto the road and off we went into the maze of houses, when the 4x4 was attempting to turn round. Pure poetry in motion.

That i have to say was one of the most exciting times i have ever had in a car, the mini rules and saved my bacon THE MINI RULES

he he just had to get it off my chest

[crocstarr]

cheerz for that jammy, superb that is, i take it he manages to lose the 4x4 then.

[Ryan B]

Thats a truely inspiring story, something out of a movie! Fantastic!!

[Add_Gee]

quality story, keep them coming to get me through a boring friday afternoon at work....

[Adrenaline Junkie]

Have to say this is the best mini story I've ever heard, posted a while ago by our own scrapy:

Boy oh boy did i have an eve in my car tonight. went to drop a dvd off at blockbuster with a mate in the next town over and ended up having quite a night out.
On my way over some bloke in a 4x4 was doing a u turn near a corner in the road, bit surprised to see him there so went round him without waiting boy was he unhappy, straight up my arse lights flashing like mad, and me being me, decided to stop in the road to bring him to a halt (not a good idea) if he was mad before NOW he was pissed. Full beam right up my arse and what lye ahead in wait, the dreaded traffic lights. now this guy was pissed so i did not want to find out what he had to say. took a side road to avoid the lights and again he was full beam up my arse he was so close we could feel the heat off the headlights. Now i new the mini had the advantage of handling so i flung it round the corner at the end of the road and carried on surely this guy would get fed up but no he kept on coming.

My mate asked about the petrol situation it was fine so he said keep driving, thought about flooring it but didn’t want to crash so steadily pressed on. $h*t what lye ahead another set of light couldn’t avoid them this time so had to go through them on a red light (stupid i know but what else was there to do) Now SURLY he wont come through a red light but no he kept on coming, this guy was out for blood.
i was heading into town now were i knew there would be traffic and red lights so i shot up into a residential area, but this guy kept coming, round all the bends deep into the houses i didn’t have a clue were i was going i kept a steady pace making sure not to hit anything he was so close i was sure he was going to ram me. Then when i saw a windy road i floored it, the mini shined through handling like a dream and pulling away, i was on a high that was until i saw the end of the road i was in a cul-de-sac trapped with no were to go i slammed on my brakes just stopping inches away from the parked car in front i knew this 4x4 would be round that corner any minute, i just managed to turn the mini around and bang there he was cornered me in, it was me my mate the mini the pavement & road and him lights full beam couldn’t see a thing. I pulled up on the pavement next to his door so he couldn’t get out the car and was about to wind the window down to try and reason with him, when i heard my mate say "the mini will fit" what was he on about we were cornered between him parked cars and the pavement..... THE PAVMENT he didn’t have to say it twice before i knew it i had thrown the car into first gear and we were hurtling down this pavement with parked cars to the right and a wall to the left 1, 2, 3, 4parked cars and there was a gap out shot the mini onto the road and off we went into the maze of houses, when the 4x4 was attempting to turn round. Pure poetry in motion.

That i have to say was one of the most exciting times i have ever had in a car, the mini rules and saved my bacon THE MINI RULES

he he just had to get it off my chest

Thats a brilliant story, does sound like something out of a high speed chase film, or a story book!

Well written too

Good stuff :cool:

[Tango1300]

Fantastic story,,

[minichick]

That's a great story. I would have been pooing myself I think!!!!

minichick :baaa:

[StevenClarkuk]

Excelent..

I remember someone did an illegal manouver and ended up skipping me and the guy behind me in queueing trafic. We were down to one lane out of 3 because of road works..
I had flashed and beeped my horn for about 20 seconds because of how stupid he had been. Before I new it he was making obsene gestures and threats and trying to make me pull over to have it out with him...
I saw a space beside us were some building material was lying and decided to gesture to him that we should pull over.. He confirmed and I moved my car as if I was going to pull over, but as soon as he pulled over, I jumped back in line and skipped him :grin:

His face was so sweet!! Luckily enough the traffic was moving enough that he couldn't stop his car and get out afterwards....

Steven