Aircooled VW South Africa

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This was so hilarious to me, I had an absolute trouser accident when I saw this.

This pic was taken this morning from the window of my wife's office at work. As it turns out, the commuter omnibus (taxi in SA speak) had stopped to pick up passengers. Upon sliding the door open; the door, well, carried on sliding... Right off its hinges! ROTFKMWL!!!

So what you see are the driver and his tout trying to fit the door back on the vehicle.

Moer funny when it happens to a yotota taxi,

NOT funny when it happened to my bus's door

Had a white wall tire and rim race past me last year at an intersection!
Then about two seconds later a three wheeled taxi came past with a grinding sparks fountain out of one of the wheel arches!
I almost forgot to pull off when the traffic light turned green!
But then again I could hardly see I was laughing so much!

Mentioning a lost tire, years ago in my Beetle days. I came from the tire shop, just had some aftermarket wheels and tires fitted to the Bug, about half a mile from the shop the Bug got a vibration and then a wheel parted ways with the Bug. Lucky not much traffic and I could gain control of the car and stopped on the shoulder of the road. I was very embarissing to walk about a mile down hill to fetch the wheel. It was a loooong walk back, especially when you got friends driving by honking horns and making fun of you. Had a few words with the shop, I don't know what tire school the kid that fitted the wheels gone too, but he sure as hell was sick on lug nut day.

Maybe the wheel was loose because he was tight......



Herman

Watercool wrote:Mentioning a lost tire, years ago in my Beetle days. I came from the tire shop, just had some aftermarket wheels and tires fitted to the Bug, about half a mile from the shop the Bug got a vibration and then a wheel parted ways with the Bug. Lucky not much traffic and I could gain control of the car and stopped on the shoulder of the road. I was very embarissing to walk about a mile down hill to fetch the wheel. It was a loooong walk back, especially when you got friends driving by honking horns and making fun of you. Had a few words with the shop, I don't know what tire school the kid that fitted the wheels gone too, but he sure as hell was sick on lug nut day.

Same here, just got my Beetle back from the panelbeater, and on it's first trip I lost the left front wheel on a five lane highway past the busiest airport in Africa (Jan Smuts / OR Tambo International ) in 1998. All the other nuts were loose too

The left rear wheel on my Baywindow came loose in the main road through Ramsgate in Kwazulu Natal when the big castle'd nut worked itself loose, destroying the thread and splines on the hub! Ramsgate is not a big town, but it was holiday season and there you sit and do repairs while everybody is enjoying themselves!

I did the brakes on my Kestrel one time, long long ago... Went for a test drive, after a few k's the rear wheels started feeling wobbly, stopped, got out, and there it was, one wheel nut. The other four were lying within 10m of the buggy, they must've literally all fallen out at the same time.

I read a story once about a dude observing a taxi in rush hour traffic in JHB. So Mr Taxi was weaving and performing and gesticulating and generally gaan-ing-aan, but not getting any further than anyone else. Which is normal in rush hour traffic. And he's lane changing and pushing in and hanging out the side window, you know it already.

So the author reports Mr Taxi gleefully blowing his horn and flipping the law abiding folks a bird, looking at them out the side window, grinning triumphantly as he overtook them on the inside driving along a long row of unoccupied parking spaces. Unforunately, and unseen by him (because of his gaan-ing-aan) the row of vacant parking spaces came to an abrupt end. This end presented itself as a set of obstinate sandstone pavement blocks, put there by stone masons at the turn of last century, when they still took pride in their workmanship and did these things properly, and rainfall was expected to be much higher than these days.

Imagine the author's delight as he saw Mr Taxi's smile evaporate, anywhere from 28 to 36 bumps appear in the Hi-Ace's roof and the rear wheels running over the now detached front wheels. The inconsiderate sandstone pavement blocks remained unmoved.

awesome story. I need sandstone blocks in my car which I can jettison 007 style!

Ron&Gill wrote:I did the brakes on my Kestrel one time, long long ago... Went for a test drive, after a few k's the rear wheels started feeling wobbly, stopped, got out, and there it was, one wheel nut. The other four were lying within 10m of the buggy, they must've literally all fallen out at the same time.

I read a story once about a dude observing a taxi in rush hour traffic in JHB. So Mr Taxi was weaving and performing and gesticulating and generally gaan-ing-aan, but not getting any further than anyone else. Which is normal in rush hour traffic. And he's lane changing and pushing in and hanging out the side window, you know it already.

So the author reports Mr Taxi gleefully blowing his horn and flipping the law abiding folks a bird, looking at them out the side window, grinning triumphantly as he overtook them on the inside driving along a long row of unoccupied parking spaces. Unforunately, and unseen by him (because of his gaan-ing-aan) the row of vacant parking spaces came to an abrupt end. This end presented itself as a set of obstinate sandstone pavement blocks, put there by stone masons at the turn of last century, when they still took pride in their workmanship and did these things properly, and rainfall was expected to be much higher than these days.

Imagine the author's delight as he saw Mr Taxi's smile evaporate, anywhere from 28 to 36 bumps appear in the Hi-Ace's roof and the rear wheels running over the now detached front wheels. The inconsiderate sandstone pavement blocks remained unmoved.

CLASSIC!!!!!!!

Some time ago I was on my way home from an deployment, on one of the back two lane roads I must not have moved fast enough for some road hog, he was riding my rear bumper honking his horn. So I flipped him off, well that pissed Mr Hog even further off and he pulls level with my divers window and yell some obsanities at me, so I flipped him off again. Thats when he pulls a gun and started waiving it around, thinking he was going to scare me, well my M16 rifle was on the passenger seat , so I one upped him on fire arms out a window. I thought he was going to bust through his windshield so hard he braked. Strange he kept his distance and not once tried to overtake again.

Watercool wrote:Some time ago I was on my way home from an deployment, on one of the back two lane roads I must not have moved fast enough for some road hog, he was riding my rear bumper honking his horn. So I flipped him off, well that pissed Mr Hog even further off and he pulls level with my divers window and yell some obsanities at me, so I flipped him off again. Thats when he pulls a gun and started waiving it around, thinking he was going to scare me, well my M16 rifle was on the passenger seat , so I one upped him on fire arms out a window. I thought he was going to bust through his windshield so hard he braked. Strange he kept his distance and not once tried to overtake again.

Awesome!

awesome!!