Author Topic: She Came Home On The Back Of A Flatdeck... (Read 2212 times)

kirin · « **on:** April 10, 2006, 08:45:32 AM »

So on Saturday my bmw puked its waterpump all over Boundary. Due to school, work etc I don't have time to fix it yet. So the trusty(?) beetle was put into service. I took it for a spin out to Cloverhole yesterday it did great. The weird rubbing/ bearing noise came back... Anyways this morning waiting in traffic I put my foot to the floor to accelerate into traffic and I was greeted with a great SNAP!. Reach down and realize now the pedal is doing nothing. That it snapped off right at the accelator roller pedal. And it was splayed all over the hole preventing it from going back in... All the while I'm up against the left median and I need to get to the right shoulder. So with some interesting driving I managed to limp it at idle to the shoulder call BCAA and wait..... Flat deck showed up and then the fun of getting a slammed beetle onto it. A the end of it he asked me to please never call him again to pick up this car...
So now I'm vehicleless and I should be at school...

Chris · « **Reply #1 on:** April 10, 2006, 08:57:28 AM »

Its all about the Karma....

You really should have not pushed it with Matt, but hey its a VW and its gonna cost you $15 to replace your cable, so get on it.

kirin · « **Reply #2 on:** April 10, 2006, 09:09:11 AM »

I think your thinking Hi-top...
Anyways do you want those floor mats or am I going to have to get all weird and make a blog about how your the worst none customer ever?

egspot · « **Reply #3 on:** April 10, 2006, 11:18:55 AM »

I used a vice grip once as a gas pedal.

buddy boy · « **Reply #4 on:** April 10, 2006, 11:24:21 AM »

happenend to me once, i just turned the idle up and made it home , but there was no traffic .

Chris · « **Reply #5 on:** April 10, 2006, 01:29:22 PM »

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I think your thinking Hi-top...
Anyways do you want those floor mats or am I going to have to get all weird and make a blog about how your the worst none customer ever?

you dont want to go there

Are the mats over here now?

Matt · « **Reply #6 on:** April 10, 2006, 03:07:15 PM »

I try and stay away from Mr. whinesalotabouthisbmw's threads and you pull me back in......

kirin · « **Reply #7 on:** April 10, 2006, 06:36:33 PM »

OH brother not this again.
Anyways lets accept we have different views. That my nickname is Kiki and get the feck along. I really am not in the mood to take on anybody and flame war anybody. I have nothing against Matt.

Bruce · « **Reply #8 on:** April 10, 2006, 07:28:53 PM »

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The weird rubbing/ bearing noise came back.....

Were there any trains in the vicinity?

kirin · « **Reply #9 on:** April 10, 2006, 07:41:01 PM »

This one isn't a woo woo noise. Its more of a grinding/ rubbing. Either I've been collecting stones in my tires or something else.

Mowser · « **Reply #10 on:** April 10, 2006, 08:43:03 PM »

I had my cable snap in the exact same place back when I had my '67. FYI.... the cable is long enough at that point to run up out the decklid.... around the driver side of the bug..... and to the driverside window. My buddy and I rigged it up and sacrificed a couple socks to use as a wire chase on the corners. A pair of pliers and away we went....... 60mph all the way home...... We were about 75km from home when it happened in the middle of nowhere.

BTW... you get strange looks from passers by when adjusting throttle with your arm. It was sort of like a universal gym....

ScreamnStroker · « **Reply #11 on:** April 10, 2006, 08:55:24 PM »

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BTW... you get strange looks from passers by when adjusting throttle with your arm. It was sort of like a universal gym....

HAHA thats funny.

We snapped one on the dubebuggy once,

Dad's friend put on a glove, wrapped it around his hand and drove away, And i shifted from the passenger seat

Greg · « **Reply #12 on:** April 10, 2006, 09:10:46 PM »

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I think your thinking Hi-top...

OH SNAP!!!

Nicely done... still beats my day though....

68IIIbuggy · « **Reply #13 on:** April 10, 2006, 09:42:13 PM »

Done the hand throttle thing on my dunebuggy too!

kafer_kid86 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 11, 2006, 01:21:21 AM »

ya that happend to me once driving to work and i had an elastic band and i some how got it around the peddle and i had some needle nose pillars and bent it together with the elastic and i made it to work right on time

slugbug · « **Reply #15 on:** April 11, 2006, 05:16:54 PM »

Was driving with my father once (in his '78 Malibu) when the gas pedal cable snapped. We were out in the boonies miles away from anything. Dad cut a piece of wire from the top of a farmers fence and fed that through the cable sleeve. It worked so well that he left it like that until he scrapped the car a few years later. I bet the farmer was pissed when he found his fence collapsed

G-dog · « **Reply #16 on:** April 12, 2006, 03:36:51 PM »

Drove home from Bellingham to Van. one Sunday with no clutch cable in my 66 beetle.. lots of grinding &gnashing [that was just my teeth!]Trans was gone any way so I didn't even try to give er the MacGuyver treatment like ya'll...

KOOL-AID MAN · « **Reply #17 on:** April 12, 2006, 07:56:12 PM »

Ive had my accelerator cable snap many times, at least 6 times, i remember once i walked home from canadian tire ( to walnut grove that is), great walk.... haha. After that i drove around with spares just in case it happened again, id recommend a stronger cable if your gonna replace it anyways, saves u all the hassles, the one in the beetle i have now has never snapped luckily