[Polo6n1600i]

I'm quite an active member of ClubPolo (as I have been with the forum since it start & one of the 3 founders!) and we normally have a get to gether once a month to have some food and a good laugh. My Polo currently has no exhaust - and is slowly killing me every time I take it out! So for this meet I thought I take the VRS to the meet.

So arranged a babysitter as my wife was working and heading out about 2.30 to take the car to the jetwash to give it a quick blast with the plain cold water to get rid of the dirt before taking it to my parents for a good bucket of Meguiars. While I was at the jet wash I found a stone chip on one of my new Alloy wheels - A STONE CHIP! Raging!

If that was enough to pi55 in my coffee - finally met up with everyone. Got to where we were going for pictures to find that someone has stolen 3 out of 4 of my dustcaps.

And now the best bit - near Cumbernauld there is a 40mph limit on the dual carriage way due to an upgrade of the carriageway. I was following a truck that decided to flick up a stone about the size of my fist, bounced off the road just in front of me and then land gracefully right in the middle of my windscreen - breaking it!

Anyone else have one of them kinds of days or is it just me?????????

[RobClubley]

Sorry to hear that :(

I had a day of fail the other week where I kerbed one of my alloys (which I've just finished paying for), and scraped the front bumper on a rock reversing out of my garage!.

At least you have others to blame for your car damage :(

[Conshine]

Yup, I had an epic fail day last week, my car was scraped on the bumper by an anonymous car, I now need a new windscreen and to top it all off, I went to check the oil and as I let the bonnet back down the pull thingy to release it fell out of the grill onto the floor, split off by the bonnet catch. http://briskoda.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/emoticon-0112-wondering.gif

Not good.....not good

Ben

[martinch]

Ouch! :( At least it wasn't your fault, and you weren't harmed! :)

It is a horrible feeling, though. The third day I drove my car to work, I found some eejit in a Daewoo Matiz had clipped the rear bumper reversing in behind me, taking a line of 3 small chunks of paint off, all right down to the plastic. God knows how they managed it - the marks were between the rear wheel and the rear bumper bump-strip, and the space behind me was about 30 feet long!

[Jigger72]

Polo6n1600i, on 21 March 2010 - 23:25, said:

I'm quite an active member of ClubPolo (as I have been with the forum since it start & one of the 3 founders!) and we normally have a get to gether once a month to have some food and a good laugh. My Polo currently has no exhaust - and is slowly killing me every time I take it out! So for this meet I thought I take the VRS to the meet.

So arranged a babysitter as my wife was working and heading out about 2.30 to take the car to the jetwash to give it a quick blast with the plain cold water to get rid of the dirt before taking it to my parents for a good bucket of Meguiars. While I was at the jet wash I found a stone chip on one of my new Alloy wheels - A STONE CHIP! Raging!

If that was enough to pi55 in my coffee - finally met up with everyone. Got to where we were going for pictures to find that someone has stolen 3 out of 4 of my dustcaps.

And now the best bit - near Cumbernauld there is a 40mph limit on the dual carriage way due to an upgrade of the carriageway. I was following a truck that decided to flick up a stone about the size of my fist, bounced off the road just in front of me and then land gracefully right in the middle of my windscreen - breaking it!

Anyone else have one of them kinds of days or is it just me?????????

Maybe it was a sign to say you should have stayed at home and looked after the bairn instead of selfishly satisfying your own craven Polo urges? Maybe the baby would have liked to spend some quality time with his dad? :wonder:

[Big Mikey]

Hahaha!

Dude, this is disgraceful news... 3 missing dust caps kinda pales in comparison to a fist (ooh err) sized rock landing on your windscreen... Hope you get it sorted quickly.

[Hannibal]

A few weeks after I got the car I had a golf ball size piece of rock bounce down the carriageway at me. So annoying as I could see it coming but there was nothing I could do to stop it chipping the windscreen. I was pretty impressed it didn't break TBH.

Hope you get yours sorted soon.

[PeteVRS]

Oh dear, makes you wonder why you bothered going out!

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Anyone else have one of them kinds of days or is it just me?????????

Yes - last night smashed into something at 70mph in the dark, couldn't avoid it as on dual carriageway with traffic, looked and felt like a small fridge, almighty bang, got home and found no sign of damage though. But then managed to drive into a large metal security gate while I was parking, turned into it on the drivers side :giggle: Again cannot see any damage despite a loud clank.

I expect something will fall off in the next few days though.

This post has been edited by PeteVRS: 23 March 2010 - 21:08

[Leodhasach]

Damn, that's a shame mate :doh:

[TDi Vrs]

all bad things happen in 3's

[Polo6n1600i]

Jigger72, on 22 March 2010 - 15:10, said:

Maybe it was a sign to say you should have stayed at home and looked after the bairn instead of selfishly satisfying your own craven Polo urges? Maybe the baby would have liked to spend some quality time with his dad? :wonder:

I dont drink or smoke, I have never taken drug - all i spend my spare money on is my kids and my car. Whats wrong with having one afternoon to myself! :p

[Confused_Cheese]

I cleaned my windscreen the other day, its almost frosted with the amount of surface chips lol had 3 repairs and a new windscreen done in about 12 months I think it is... sucks

Hopefully you're fully comp and you'll just have to pay a small excess if its new screen time?

I went to my gf's parents house in london with my previous car with nice metal dust caps and valve stems... one night, GONE! frickin annoying. I bought some locking ones after that, although my fabia rolls with just plastic ones

[E11HES]

i had a similar day, but instead of having 3 things, mine was just one big one. I was heading home down a back road, with literally no curbs, except for the bit of bend that i had taken slightly too tight due to the C**K who had full beam on in my face. The result of this corner taking was a loud bang followed by me straddling the white line in the middle of the road, and also me crying when i got home and realise it had ripped all the paint apart from 6" off my newly painted black wheels. impressed i was not! :(

[NFox]

Sorry to hear that mate, touch wood I havent really had any bad luck with the VRS yet!

[Johnny50]

Jigger72, on 22 March 2010 - 15:10, said:

Maybe it was a sign to say you should have stayed at home and looked after the bairn instead of selfishly satisfying your own craven Polo urges? Maybe the baby would have liked to spend some quality time with his dad? :wonder:

I didn't realise parents weren't allowed time to themselves !! :thumbdown:



Anyhow, makes a change from you hitting deer i guess :p

And fingers crossed thats your bad luck for the year. Are you able to touch up the wheel ?

[Jigger72]

Polo6n1600i, on 23 March 2010 - 21:30, said:

I dont drink or smoke, I have never taken drug - all i spend my spare money on is my kids and my car. Whats wrong with having one afternoon to myself! :p

Nothing at all. I'm only jealous 'cause i'd never get a weekend day off ;)

LittleJohnny, on 24 March 2010 - 14:49, said:

I didn't realise parents weren't allowed time to themselves !! :thumbdown:

They are. See above :'(

[Johnny50]

Jigger72, on 24 March 2010 - 15:31, said:

Nothing at all. I'm only jealous 'cause i'd never get a weekend day off ;)




They are. See above :'(

:thumbup:

If it makes you feel better, i'd be hard pushed to get time off these days too. :D

[Polo6n1600i]

yes - got a paint code - its a peugeot paint color!!!!!!!!!!

And now to cap things of I got stuck on a speedbump at wotk and shattered my cat choking my exhaust in the polo and making it stall as soon as the revs go above tickover - and so follows the recovery driver swearing about youngsters with lowered cars!

[rum4mo]

Well at least you still have one valve cap, I 've never been to Cumbernauld - wife will not let me - hope they don't flatten it before I get there as its the subject of many jokes it must be seen!

Valve caps, my daughter is a primary school teacher and she parks her Ibiza near the school. She bought a new set of tyres from Costco and they do the good old "fill them with nitrogen" thing, and just to prove it fit green valve caps - that is not good as naughty little boys do tend to need them more than you as they are very trade-able for swops, her ones only lasted a few days - then the penny dropped "what have you got there boys?" they had some strange local name for them - but they were valve caps - she gave them a bit of firm education! I gave her a set of crappy black ones - they stayed on - that was her previous car. Now the boys are so admiring of her new Ibiza SC in Candy white with 17" alloys that they show respect by not touching her valve caps - so buying a new car was well worth it!

My daughter's set of three troubles last week were, chipped section of paint at edge of bonnet caused by lifting the wipers to clear snow and ice - a poor Seat design on the new Ibiza "always select service position before lifting the wipers" - that seems to include when they are frozen onto the glass?!? - next was washer bottle top jumps off and lets crap into the strainer section - next was discovered by me, rear O/S tyre flat - if you can describe a 215/40 tyre as being like that - nice shiny screw on edge of wall - Goodyear Excellance 215/40 X 17 87V XL - this is not a tyre that is currently stocked and most tyre chain places could not even order in a new one, good old "Mytyres" to the rescue - hopefully.

One other single bad story, a numpty at work claims that he was in his front garden when a spitful crow picked up a stone and dropped it on the roof of his new Civic from a "good" height = dented roof and bare metal showing - lovely, but does this really happen to some people? He was last seen heading for a "chip remover" place and expecting a miracle for pennies!

[Polo6n1600i]

chip & dent remover places dont do roofs or bonnets!

Update on crappy week:-

New CAT for the Polo £196 at trade from my mate that works at a motorfactors! Oh and the stone chip is now a 6 inch long question mark shaped crack in the centre of my screen - so no longer a repair, but a complete replacement inc a charge of £75 excess

Oh and my washing machine exploded & my wife just got turned down for a job!

Could anything else possibly go wrong this week?