help. i've just pranged my car!

hubert_cumberdale

i always reverse into the wall on my drive way so i know im all the way up

but......

i have a tow bar thats my reversing sensor

clever_username

Just stop when you hear the bang.

hubert_cumberdale

tow bars are helpful when people drive into the back of you

you get out and it looks like they have been hit by a train and i jus say "mines alright"
bit annoying when the tow ball gets stuck inside there bumper theres only one way to get that bad boy out and thats to tell them to sit in there car with the brake on and it wont hurt a bit as i drive forward

mikey72

Hammyman wrote: »

Yep. Difference was I was in a vehicle that was 53ft long, 8ft wide, 15ft high, which bent in the middle, weighed 44 tonnes and only had side mirrors and no rear window and it was pitch black. I misjudged it by two inches.

I wasn't in a car with good all round visibility and probably in good lighting conditions.

If you can't drive in the dark, send your licence back.

Hammyman

mikey72 wrote: »

If you can't drive in the dark, send your licence back.

I have no problem driving in the dark and at one point was doing in excess of 100,000 miles per year driving in the dark.

Hammyman

Flyboy152 wrote: »

So, you have never, ever, hit anything whilst reversing in a car?

Nope, never hit anything whilst reversing in a car.

mikey72

Hammyman wrote: »

I have no problem driving in the dark and at one point was doing in excess of 100,000 miles per year driving in the dark.

Well to be fair it was you that said you hit things, not me.
With that mileage I'd have thought you would of got the hang of it by now.

Rolandtheroadie

Strider590 wrote: »

^^ Well... if it was a small car i'd be telling OP to rip up their driving licence

It's just one of those things that's been getting on my nerves lately......... (Nothing aimed at the OP)
People driving about in stupidly big cars and particularly down country lanes, they can't reverse the damn things so it ends up with 5 or 6 cars all having to reverse out of the way for mommy in the huge 4x4 doing the school run........

Large car to mothers on the school run in a 4x4 again.
Build a bridge big man, get over it.
Life will be so much better when you let go.;)

mikey72

scotsman4th wrote: »

Large car to mothers on the school run in a 4x4 again.
Build a bridge big man, get over it.
Life will be so much better when you let go.;)

A lot of things get on his nerves.
He's a very stressed driver.

Gene_Hunt_2

Hammyman wrote: »

Yep. Difference was I was in a vehicle that was 53ft long, 8ft wide, 15ft high, which bent in the middle, weighed 44 tonnes and only had side mirrors and no rear window and it was pitch black. I misjudged it by two inches.

Should have got someone to watch you back if you couldn't manage it.;)