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08-09-2011, 09:17 PM
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#1 | | Need to Seek Professional Help
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08-09-2011, 09:33 PM
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#2 | | Wanna have a threesome?
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Behind a snow bank at an ice hockey rink at 2am, I forgot to turn the headlights off when we moved to the back seat..
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08-09-2011, 09:45 PM
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#3 | | In RS I Trust
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08-09-2011, 09:49 PM
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#4 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
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I drive a Honda. Nuff said.
OK, how about the left lane at Mission Raceway Park? Blew the motor when I engaged the nitrous a little too early. First car of the night on one of the first Street Legal events ever at MRP. Delayed the event for about 45 minutes. When the track guys found out I had nitrous, they all freaked out. I guess noob crew for the street legals, 'cause the day crew would have been cool with it. Pretty memorable night, LOL. Cursing all the way home in the tow truck.
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08-09-2011, 09:57 PM
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#5 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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not broke down but tire blew on a highway in the rain grrrr....i always have nightmares of my car breaking down while im in the u.s or one of those ppl who's car breaks in the border LINEUP hahaha Posted via RS Mobile | |
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08-09-2011, 10:23 PM
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#6 | | not the mod you're looking for
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With my old 91' Corolla a few years ago, the tranny broke down during a Sikh festival around Fraser and 49th. Couldn't get a tow because of the parades rolling through, and was trapped  | |
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08-09-2011, 10:25 PM
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#7 | | Banned By Establishment
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08-09-2011, 10:33 PM
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#8 | | I bringith the lowerballerith
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coolant hose bursted downtown in stop & go traffic during fireworks night last week. lots of people walking on sidewalk, hood smoked up like crazy, people laughed at me
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08-09-2011, 10:43 PM
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#9 | | Need to Seek Professional Help
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08-09-2011, 10:44 PM
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#10 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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not weird but funny when my dads corolla had a flat in front of canadian tires in COQ at 8pm at night, so then we then walked in to buy a new tire but we can installed them cuz they closed so we were like "damn it" then we change to the spare
right after the change we popped another tire & we were like FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU  then had the car tow which cost use quite a bit
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08-09-2011, 10:47 PM
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#11 | | MoD
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The gf and I just came back from a road trip to San Diego.
On the way down, the plastic mud guard that covers the wheel well started to drag on the ground.
Had to get it fixed at a repair shop in Lost Hills. I can not even make this up. Lost Hill is name of the town. No one spoke English; only Spanish. Luckily a sanitation truck driver just happened to be there.
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08-09-2011, 10:47 PM
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#12 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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It wasn't my car but a jeep we rented broke down in Goa, India. We were on our way to Baga beach, I think.
The jeep broke down in the middle of nowhere. The streets were pitch black. We were sitting there for about 45 minutes when some dude walks out. He said he had a van he could drive us in to the place we were trying to get to and we agreed... there was 6 of us and we thought we could take him if he tried to rob us or some shit.
We embarked on one of my scariest rides ever. Pitch black streets. We thought we were gonna die.
But, the guy ended up being cool. He took us to a place called Curly's on the beach. One of the best experiences i've had in my life. Must have been like a 1000 people just partying like crazy... the kind of parties you see in movies.
The next day we told the owner of the place we rented the jeep from the place we were going to and to go and find the jeep himself.
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08-09-2011, 10:53 PM
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#13 | | "Entertainment" mod.
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Originally Posted by MG1 I drive a Honda. Nuff said.
OK, how about the left lane at Mission Raceway Park? Blew the motor when I engaged the nitrous a little too early. First car of the night on one of the first Street Legal events ever at MRP. Delayed the event for about 45 minutes. When the track guys found out I had nitrous, they all freaked out. I guess noob crew for the street legals, 'cause the day crew would have been cool with it. Pretty memorable night, LOL. Cursing all the way home in the tow truck. | Too soon, Junior!
Never broke down (knock on wood), but I was shitting my pants due to a leaking front main seal, and I had a two-hour drive from Seattle blowing blue smoke up I-5.
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08-09-2011, 10:57 PM
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#14 | | I subscribe to the Fight Club ONLY
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none are really weird...just inconvenient
on the highway and my alternator decides to pack it in, battery died shortly after....had to pull over on in the HOV lane and wait for a tow truck..
another time my car wouldn't start ( bad starter ) had to get my friends to pus my car down the street so i could bump start it
another time my upper rad hose split , noticed it when i get out of my car to go the gym...saw a huge pool of coolant on the floor and said fuck it and went to work out anyways
cooling fan clutch died and overheated in traffic in Abbotsford
ignition switch on my truck is iffy...was going to the USA and they made me shut off my car even when i asked if i could keep it on....couldn't start it and held up their line and that pissed them off ( later fixed it by hot wiring the bastard )
countless dead batteries and jump starts from random people in parking lots
exhaust rusted off and part of the exhaust pipe fell off and got lodged between road and rear axle...dragged that bastard for a few hundred meters before i had to get under my car in the pissing rain on the side of the highway to try to rip it off
had my exhaust fall off on the air care dyno - attendant was not amused
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08-09-2011, 11:07 PM
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#15 | | Banned (ABWS)
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Originally Posted by DiiCii coolant hose bursted downtown in stop & go traffic during fireworks night last week. lots of people walking on sidewalk, hood smoked up like crazy, people laughed at me | same thing but on entrance of knight bridge 
Not going to bother fixing it  did it leak inside your car? I almost died from carbon monoxide
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08-09-2011, 11:44 PM
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I've had a heater hose burst on a past car, just south of S. Lake Samish exit heading Northbound on the I-5. Waited for a tow-truck for 2 hours on the side of the highway.
If it was a rad hose, would've just duct-taped the sucker. Heater hose under the intake? No such luck. Made me glad I had the BCAA membership which includes tows up to 320km.
Got it towed back to my shop and fixed it the following Monday morning.
Aside from that breakdown, I've been lucky. I've had the pinion shaft of my rear differential blow through the differential cover on my old truck, blew up the side-gears on the differential when that happened. Happened in town, the day after I got back from a camping trip 35km down a FSR past Boston Bar. That would have been the suck if it had happened the day before.
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08-09-2011, 11:52 PM
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#17 | | YOU CANT CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS
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broke down next to a GT-R at the Oval just last week.
battery went dead
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08-10-2011, 12:02 AM
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#18 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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Not really breaking down, but fuel pump failure led to limp mode on my 335i.
Car was shaking vibrating so badly, had to shut down car and restart it literally every red light while on the way to BMW. Everyone was looking like wtf is wrong with that car shaking and turning on and off. | |
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08-10-2011, 12:08 AM
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#19 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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Spun a rod bearing on my way to Tofino for vacation. I broke down on Hwy 4 at Sproat Lake. Right in the middle of bum fuck no where with 0 cell phone reception.
We were lucky that we broke down by a road crew who were patching up the road and they had a satellite phone to call a tow truck
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08-10-2011, 12:23 AM
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#20 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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First time I broke down was in my first year of driving. I was parked at SFU and was leaving for day. Knew jack about cars back then, started the car and all the electronics had reset, it was weird and made note of it. Drove a friend home and went to get gas, car won't start after. Battery was dead.
Second time, funny enough, was also at school, just into my second year of driving. Car was bubbling coolant out fervently after I parked. Went into instant panic mode and called my mechanic. Nursed the car home, stopping for water every 10mins or so. Head gasket.
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08-10-2011, 05:44 AM
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#21 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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almost directly in front of an Adult toy store.. LMAO... waiting for the tow truck so i went inside...
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08-10-2011, 08:06 AM
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#22 | | I STILL don't get it
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Originally Posted by JoshuaWong Not really breaking down, but fuel pump failure led to limp mode on my 335i.
Car was shaking vibrating so badly, had to shut down car and restart it literally every red light while on the way to BMW. Everyone was looking like wtf is wrong with that car shaking and turning on and off. | I've had the fuel pump on my 335i die twice already. First time I was on Hastings by the PNE and I freaked out. Second time I was on the freeway and I said fuck it, gonna take this shaking as just a massage while driving lol.
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08-10-2011, 10:20 AM
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#23 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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bmw fuel pump died outside a bank. shitty part was that it was on valentines day while out with a date about to go for dinner.
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08-10-2011, 10:25 AM
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#24 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Hydrolocked my motor and blew a hole in the block 16k in the bush. That was a pain.
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08-10-2011, 10:46 AM
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#25 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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coolant hose burst twice around school.
Once at the parking lot, and the other at my friends house which is a minute away from school.
Both timers were after a spirited drive.
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