Your scary moments in the Sax..?

[DamesVTR]

Post any near misses, spins, or complete write-offs youve had in your Saxo!

Ill start off with one:

Going along the Dorset Way dual carriageway one morning, late for work, for some reason carriageway empty, so I was flying in the VTR doing 70..ish.. came round the bend and there at the roundabout there was stationary traffic.. I was expecting to do about 50 through the RA, but now I had to brake very hard. Ofcourse this is before I fixed my rear brake bias, so basically the rear wheels locked up, the car swerved to the left, I had to correct it, then countersteer back into it.. this happened bout 3 times before doing a complete 360 in between the two lanes! Luckily I had enough space to safe it and didnt hit anything, just a lot of burnt Toyo smoke!! To the front, was an old biddy in her micra who practically fainted when I casually cruised alongside her, after just spinning my car lol.
That was emotional though, all I was thinkin is 'I aint scuffing these black alloys on those fukin curves!'. Ofcourse I had the ex-misses in the car, and she was more along the lines of 'OMG we're gonna die'

:oops: so who else is gonna give some interesting stories ? :P

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[TU-Tuning]

I fought a landrover






I lost

[Mitchell]

i drove up a busy one way system the wrong way with a police car behind me

just because i can

[shooorn94]

Old saxo, flying over a bridge into a pillar.

New one... erm... When a bus didn't spot me and pulled straight out, bumped the car up the pavement and onto the grass just in time. The numpty drove off with the passengers swearing at him. I was alright as I steered round the bus just in time and got in front :y:

[Bailey1124]

Tarpaulling sheet over windscreen at 70mph. :y:

Hit a cement bag which fell off the lorry in front of me at 80mph, ripped off front of car.

Lost control at roundabout and lumped a kerb.

Blew the diff changing from 4th to 5th at 60 and it just locked up and fucked it royally :wall:

All in my little saxo!

[Bailey1124]

i drove up a busy one way system the wrong way with a police car behind me

just because i can

as you do.....

[DaxVTR]

hit two lamp-posts reasonaibly hard (45mph) one lamp-post about an inch behind my head - wrote my car off weeeee

damn black ice, should of been gritters :@

[Graham]

when i realised i didnt have any washer jet fluids left. couldn't wash the windscreen damnit!

[minxymears]

I was coming home from uni through some nat. speed limit lanes, I was behind a horse box and pulled out overtaking, i was past the trailer and just about to overtake the jeep pulling it when a car came booming the other way (but obviously i was on the wrong side of the road) and wasnt going to have enough time to overtake the jeep and pull back in in time with the speed that both of us were doing, so i decided to hit the brakes and steered in once i was again behind the horse box, but.... id hit the brakes hard cos id panicked, and being a phase 1, my VTR hasnt got ABS, so the wheels had already locked up as I was steering in, my car went virtually sideways with the tail kicking out to the right, and i saw a big hedge with a field, but by this point i was obviously attempting to counter, but over countered, and my car fishtailed completely the other way, im sure physics could dictate how far a car can go "sideways" at such a speed, but it was a fair decent old angle, at least 60 degrees id say, but it soon pulled straight, [with a lot of smoke and dust left behind!] That was pretty damn scary. That was the scariest moment... ive had a few other moments on roundabouts where ive had to swallow after though! Anyone alse got Avon ZZ1's on the back of their VT and think theyre.... temperamental?

[DamesVTR]

interesting stories ya'll, keep em coming!

minxymears- brilliant dit, but it might not be the tyres, possibly the rear brake problem I experienced, check my thread see if it applies to your mk1:

http://www.saxperience.com/forum/showthread.php?t=130067

[wallsy]

when i realised i didnt have any washer jet fluids left. couldn't wash the windscreen damnit!

Haha sounds like a scary moment!

[Spanky]

ive got 2 lol

had two new tyres fitted to my saxo a few days after i got it, hit the motorway straight after, got to err bout 90 SHHHH and heard a a noise like the valve had popd, then a loud bang under the car, then another, asif the wheel nuts had come off and went under the car, promtly hit the brakes and stopped and checked, 1 month later done it agen, still dont no what it was now!

and

was traveling down the motorway again and was in a fowl mood and in a big hurry so as you can imagine was doing a fair speed, terrible i no, and sum dosy cow, ahem, pulled out clean infront of me in her silly little smart car doing about 60mph, had to brake so hard the brakes locked and i skided into the other lane nearly rearedin a 18wheeleri pulled bk in behind her and blasted my horn and flashed my lights (btw she didnt indicate) then she pulled back in and i shot past only to see she give ME the V's!!! can you believe that!

i pulled off the motorwayu then thought NO stuff it! and in my fit of raidge pulled back on very very quick, to see her in the fast lane, shot infront of her and hit the brakes and slowed to 40mph had a good look back and seen her nie on scream and tire smoke and a big swerve! made me smile as i set off again!!

oh just thought of another

was going down the back roads, and there was a big invisable bump, i have had the front of my car lowerd but the back needs done, as u can imagine the back end actually lifted off the floor and i nearly lost control, but i didnt thank the lord of hell so im still saxing about :) :)

[minxymears]

interesting stories ya'll, keep em coming!

minxymears- brilliant dit, but it might not be the tyres, possibly the rear brake problem I experienced, check my thread see if it applies to your mk1:

http://www.saxperience.com/forum/showthread.php?t=130067

Well my VTR is'nt lowered and the back end is twitchy without touching the brakes, just steering in ... ill upload a video soon actually .... which is why im thinking tyres , rear suspension is knackerd, or both .... but MOT in april so that may show something up...

[AdamH]

going 70 on a motorway towards gatwick... was just starting to spit with rain as i went in... on the exit it hammered it down.. flipped the wipers on to find they didnt work.. and i couldnt see nothing... it was the kind of rain where even on lv 3 fast wipe you wouldnt been able to see.. had to pull over very carefully with my head out the window till it stopped...

gay

[DaxVTR]

ive got 2 lol

had two new tyres fitted to my saxo a few days after i got it, hit the motorway straight after, got to err bout 90 SHHHH and heard a a noise like the valve had popd, then a loud bang under the car, then another, asif the wheel nuts had come off and went under the car, promtly hit the brakes and stopped and checked, 1 month later done it agen, still dont no what it was now!

and

was traveling down the motorway again and was in a fowl mood and in a big hurry so as you can imagine was doing a fair speed, terrible i no, and sum dosy cow, ahem, pulled out clean infront of me in her silly little smart car doing about 60mph, had to brake so hard the brakes locked and i skided into the other lane nearly rearedin a 18wheeleri pulled bk in behind her and blasted my horn and flashed my lights (btw she didnt indicate) then she pulled back in and i shot past only to see she give ME the V's!!! can you believe that!

i pulled off the motorwayu then thought NO stuff it! and in my fit of raidge pulled back on very very quick, to see her in the fast lane, shot infront of her and hit the brakes and slowed to 40mph had a good look back and seen her nie on scream and tire smoke and a big swerve! made me smile as i set off again!!

oh just thought of another

was going down the back roads, and there was a big invisable bump, i have had the front of my car lowerd but the back needs done, as u can imagine the back end actually lifted off the floor and i nearly lost control, but i didnt thank the lord of hell so im still saxing about :) :)

i think if that woman did that to me i'd of flashed my lights and indicated her to pull of over and give her a good talking to how some cars on the motorway DO NOT have ABS and the fast lane is for overtakin and if u can see someone coming down at a more considerible speed then you, stay on your side of the carrage way for all she knew you could of been on the way to the hospital in a rush. Idiots like her, who dont know the basic's of driving on a motorway really frustrate me

[minxymears]

[QUOTE=Saxo_89;1898763]ive got 2 lol

was traveling down the motorway again and was in a fowl mood and in a big hurry so as you can imagine was doing a fair speed, terrible i no, and sum dosy cow, ahem, pulled out clean infront of me in her silly little smart car doing about 60mph, had to brake so hard the brakes locked and i skided into the other lane nearly rearedin a 18wheeleri pulled bk in behind her and blasted my horn and flashed my lights (btw she didnt indicate) then she pulled back in and i shot past only to see she give ME the V's!!! can you believe that!

i pulled off the motorwayu then thought NO stuff it! and in my fit of raidge pulled back on very very quick, to see her in the fast lane, shot infront of her and hit the brakes and slowed to 40mph had a good look back and seen her nie on scream and tire smoke and a big swerve! made me smile as i set off again!!

QUOTE]

SHIT you could have very easily have killed the bitch .... road rage or not, no matter what she did to you , that response was well out of order and a bit extreme, you could have caused a massive pile up

[DamesVTR]

saxo_89 - was she a middle aged women driver? i swear they have to be the worst lol

i got another:

I was travelling down the spur road in Bournemouth, took the slip road for hurn airport way. those who know it, there is two lanes on the slip, 1 left, and one right. I took the right correctly, and Im doing bout 50 (its a bend in the slip road) when this silly middleaged woman in a FORD KA sweeps straight infront of me, no indication nothing. I instinctively slammed 4 anchors out, backwheels locked up to a treacle and smoke all over... countersteering the overstear still in the bend! my mate was behind me in his C2 as we was in convoy, he saw the whole thing, said I was milimetres from her bumper!!!
so obviously I was blazin on the horn, headlights, and giving her sign-language as I went in an aggressive overtaking position so close behind her that she could see my nostrils in her rearview lol but she was completely oblivious and carried on as usual!!
My poor saxo is always got to be on guard from these unobservant drivers!!

[jonezy]

going down a back lane (60mph zone) oming up to the crest of a hill,
car coming the other way turns to his left into a turn off (slow turning).

the impatient bastard behind him overtakes him and misses me by about 6 inches.

i hit the brakes like never before and did o full 540 into a car park opposite the turn off

drove like a maniac for 10 miles following this bloke to his house and dragged him out of his car and onto his bonnet. all before giving him a peice of my mind.

kicked his mirror off before leaving,

dont ever piss me off whilst im driving.

[Spanky]

[QUOTE=jonezy;1898802]
kicked his mirror off before leaving, QUOTE]

nice touch lol

[DamesVTR]

Well my VTR is'nt lowered and the back end is twitchy without touching the brakes, just steering in ... ill upload a video soon actually .... which is why im thinking tyres , rear suspension is knackerd, or both .... but MOT in april so that may show something up...

oh right, well unless the tyres are legally bald, then I doubt that would cause major oversteer.. unless the pressures are really high at the back and low on the front lol? more likely to be a suspension setup though.

and yes, i agree, road rage is bad lol because it usually involves tailgaiting which is dangerous!
(ok im sorry sometimes I do it, but only where ive got an escape route.. ;) )

[Spanky]

and no DamesVTR she was a young girl early 20's i wud say, silly little bitch is all i can say ha

[smiith]

When i first started work again after the broken jaw, id only had the sax 3 months, and after rolling my last sax, dont want this one going the same way.

went round a sharp corner and slid on ice, thought for sure that the car was gona roll again, i actually shat a brick nearly

[frankie]

trying to drift roundabouts, twice

in ditches once.

and a number of spins

[saxo_bigbass]

crashed my car 3rd day i passed.nearly crashed as soon as i got insured.the moment i moved.luckily i stalled it.

[DamesVTR]

and no DamesVTR she was a young girl early 20's i wud say, silly little bitch is all i can say ha

lol the poor girl was probably traumatized and will neva drive again!?!

[Karl]

Crashed my 1.1 up a curb and royally fucked a wheel.

Nearly span my VTR @ 70mph.

Nothing in the VTS (mind I do drive like a grandad now.) :)

[smiith]

oh, also, rolling my saxo the day i payed nearly 4 grand for it :) i royaly shat myself then aswell

10AM
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12 Hours later..
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc203/5m17h/saxorollo.jpg

[Karl]

"BOSH!" sums those 2 pics up quite nicely.

[smiith]

"BOSH!" sums those 2 pics up quite nicely.

"OUCH" summed it up when the cd player smashed me in the face

[Barry123]

It was at 20mph, had grandmother in the car, at about 11:00 and the brakes stopped working,. No one was about tho

[Pat_Vts]

went round a roundabout too fast...back end came out and steered into the drift and DRIFTED.......! and managed not to hit the kerb, and a few near misses etc, but all are from driving like a dickhead.... and one near miss i had, the most recent was i was doing 100mph on a dualc and a family van ford galaxy moved over for me then decided to block me for some reason... i didnt slow down and i kept flooring it and went past about 5cm gap when he realised i was alongside him not behind him! complete prat!

[Elliott]

i once floored it up a hill and as soon as i got to the top it kinda jus veared right and i shat it!

[steve_335]

2 days after i got mine, with the 13' steelies, i was going a bit fast round a roundabout (50ish) and the back end kicked out and ended up in a lampost, luckily it was only a front wing that got dented. Nearly had the same thing on another roundabout, not going as fast, had alloys on but there was a load of surface water on it, managed to correct it before it got bad, i've learnt kumho ecstas don't handle in wet.

[Scattle]

Day after I passed, on my driveway, just straightening up, didnt realise it was in reverse, pushed accelarator, almost hit my dads supra parked behind, luckily the brakes worked.

[steve_335]

Day after I passed, on my driveway, just straightening up, didnt realise it was in reverse, pushed accelarator, almost hit my dads supra parked behind, luckily the brakes worked.

Not the type of car you want to hit.

[Scattle]

Not the type of car you want to hit.

Your right there:homme:

[laura_g]

was selling my saxo and somebody was coming to view it that night was on my way back to col then i heard a bang me bein a dumb ass i thought i stalled checked my rear view mirror and a car had bummed my lil saxo causin it to be a write off :(

[Peejous]

A HGV nearly pushed me into the centre barrier of the motorway LAST NIGHT, im guessing the driver was nodding off behind the wheel. I was in the middle lane about to overtake (completly empty motorway so couldn't be bothered tanking it thought i'd save my fuel and tootle around 60) came up along side the truck and he just started to drift into my lane, i had to move into outside lane and brake. Luckily im guessing he woke up and swerved back into the inside lane. The loud blast of the horn and finger he got out the window were expected I think.

[Richy25988]

Going through a small country lane at about 40, around a tight bend and stright into a massive toyota jeep :D
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/richardkeast/During_03.jpg

[joemcevoy]

I accidently reversed into my dad bmw. Mums falt for parking so far up my rear. Luckly didnt leave a mark.

Apart from that i had a slide on a greecy(sp?) dirty bit of road coming round a corner at only 15mph :O but didnt crash

[Modified]

was going down a dual carriage way........ just as i got to the end all the lights turned red and mine went green no1 else in front or behind me.
so went round the bend and spun the car 360 the road was so wide didnt touch a thing and i zoomed off but my word that was crazy!!!!!

[DamesVTR]

great stories everyone, keep em comin!
and any pictures you have, very interesting to see..

..smiith you have convinced me its best not to roll a saxo, doesnt look like they have a very good NCAP rating from that picture loool tin can ;)

[jacko18]

i did a similar thing, except i it a tipo instead of a toyota jeep.

was going about 40mph around a semi blind corner and a woman coming the other way in a fiat tipo was tanking round and caused some pain to the saxo, and to me for that matter!

i cried, well mainly due to my broken nose and burnt arms but nevermind! i lived to tell the tale!

before and after for you!!!


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[darkslag72]

i was driving to pick up my gf at the time, goin along a 60mph road doin bout 70. it comes to a lil hill wiv a junction in the middle then down hill again. u can see both ways for ages if u were to pull out the junction, randomly about
10 metres from the junction a car pulled out in front of me. i was like WTF! i had no time to brake, i instictivley swerved at 75 backend kickedout went sideways past the car felt like propa slow motion is was mental. looked inside the car to see a very old lady that could bearly see over the steering wheel, i dropped to 3rd to power out the slide, it straightened out like a beut n carried on. it wierd i remeber everything from the litlest detail, but i dont really no how i done it it just happend, my hands and feet moved by themself lol i was like i almost died

[stella2345]

i was racing my brother and could hardly see out of the windscreen so spayed to clean not a good idea when your doing 60 round a bend nearly lost it and totally s**t myself

[JBVTR]

Had one and it ended in it been wrote off. Was coming down a bank id never been down before and the corner tightened about 3/4 of the way down so ended up fishtailing on the wrong side of the road due to it oversteering with a piccaso coming towards me.
Wasnt going to get it undercontrol in time so i swung it up the curb onto a grass bank and put it into a road barrier.

Miss the saxo everytime i take a corner in the barge (vectra) but 5 more months and im getting my dream car a golf gti mk2 so its all good :clapping:

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still started and drove like that who sed saxos are unreliable eh!

Theres another one actualy about a month after i got it coming down a dual carriage way to a roundabout it was clear so went to turn and my steering completly locked.
Remember i just said to myself f**k slammed the breaks on skidded to a stop about an inch infront of the roundabout turned engine off started it up again and it was fine was more embarresing than anything else and got no idea why it did it to this day.

[Oli_K]

Wasnt in a saxo but was on my way to work, coming out of a 30 zone into a 60, its on a hill and i notice a broken down bus at the top of the hill with a couple of cars behind waiting to get past, there is also a lorry parked on the verge of the road with all wheels fully off the road. So i carry on up ready to wait behind this bus, i get litterally just behind this lorry and he pulls out with no signal or warning i swerve to avoid n then have to make the choice between head on collision or swerve back in and try avoid the cars waiting behind the bus, all brakes go on front wheels lock up n i slide perfectly straight between the oncoming cars and the cars waiting behind the bus. RESULT !! Saying that i wasnt too impressed with the lorry driver that carried on oblivious (sp?)

[Simkiss69]

Wasn't concentrating driving round a lake at around 50mph... back end went out round a corner.. over corrected it and went into the wall. Car bounced off the wall and was rolling towards the lake, my mate pulled the handbreak up at the last second as i was knocked out. lucky i didn't get wet lol.

[Saxo-Slag]

Had a few but these the best ones.

Was coming off a round about. Gave it some beans as you do and was greeted by a bin wagon that had come through the barrier and was upside infront off me. Had to lock up and help the driver.


Then this one.

On the way home going onto the m60 towards Stockport from Cheadle.

Sounded like i hit loads of gravel then went. Sound came back again so thought arche had come out into wheel. Hit the brakes which didnt work.

I shift down to stop on hard shoulder just of slip road. Jumped out spotted smoke from front. Grabbed fire extinguisher whilst gf popped the hood. Opened it up and flames everywhere in engine bay.

Rang the fire brigade and moved away from car.

The whole car is burnt to a crisp upto the dash.

All the money and time ive spent on it and its gone in a few mins. Was told if my manifold wasnt heatwrapped then me and my gf would be badly burnt or dead.

[DamesVTR]

Sounded like i hit loads of gravel then went. Sound came back again so thought arche had come out into wheel. Hit the brakes which didnt work.

I shift down to stop on hard shoulder just of slip road. Jumped out spotted smoke from front. Grabbed fire extinguisher whilst gf popped the hood. Opened it up and flames everywhere in engine bay.

Rang the fire brigade and moved away from car.

The whole car is burnt to a crisp upto the dash.

All the money and time ive spent on it and its gone in a few mins. Was told if my manifold wasnt heatwrapped then me and my gf would be badly burnt or dead.

shiiit, did you find out what caused the fire?
and i thought they recommended to keep the hood down (to starve it of oxygen?)

youre a lucky man!

[Saxo-Slag]

I only lifted it a little bit. The air was getting underneath due to wind. They never found out went went on

[DamesVTR]

They never found out went went on

..the intercooler from your secret 200bhp twin turbo setup maybe :p ? hehe

so what car you got now?

[notime2chill]

I was on my way home from work one afternoon, 4days after i started my new job. It was wet and greasy roads i came around the corner on a country lane and an astra was coming the other way, i was doing 30mph max slammed my brakes on slid up into the bank out the way he lost control and went stright into me taking out my o/s suspension :n:
Was all fixed tho by insurance for £2700 :y:

http://www.saxosportsclub.com/ForumsPro/download/id=555.html

http://www.saxosportsclub.com/ForumsPro/download/id=554.html

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[josh1989]

i went over a roundabout, someone was on my side of the road, i don't remember any more than that...woke up next day with a big gash in the back of my head, black eye, hardcore whiplash and a limp, and the prospect of getting the bus for the next few months :)

[dannyhall]

When I was younger in my Fiesta, I had abit of a passion for taking roundabouts at high speed, untill I spun it and fucked both nearside alloys, that had been refurbed Anthracite one week before!

Then I was late for a meeting, so I decided to take some 'back roads' or single track roads, was driving abit fast, and around a blind bend, with me giving it beans, a car just popped into view, to avoid a crash, I put it into a hedge, best thing was, it didnt damage my car in anyway!

In the VTS i've only managed to get the back end out round a roundabout once, and i was surpised at how well they handle!

[Zach]

I was travelling down the spur road in Bournemouth, took the slip road for hurn airport way. those who know it, there is two lanes on the slip, 1 left, and one right. I took the right correctly, and Im doing bout 50 (its a bend in the slip road) when this silly middleaged woman in a FORD KA sweeps straight infront of me, no indication nothing. I instinctively slammed 4 anchors out, backwheels locked up to a treacle and smoke all over... countersteering the overstear still in the bend! my mate was behind me in his C2 as we was in convoy, he saw the whole thing, said I was milimetres from her bumper!!!
so obviously I was blazin on the horn, headlights, and giving her sign-language as I went in an aggressive overtaking position so close behind her that she could see my nostrils in her rearview lol but she was completely oblivious and carried on as usual!!
My poor saxo is always got to be on guard from these unobservant drivers!!

I nearly got taken out there on my way to work. I was in the left lane of the slip road, jus about to turn to the right hand lane(INDICATING RIGHT, obvious what i'm about to do) through the bend to go up to hurn (where i work) and a brand new Maserati flys up behind me in the right hand lane doing about 60-70mph, he had only jus started braking!

If i'd carried on my manuever(which as you'll know is a pretty normal one) he'd have without a doubt slammed into me, and this was about 1/2 way down the sliproad.

So in conclusion.. I've been on both ends of this(i've also had someone pull out infront of me there without indication, i nearly hit them as well..) and tbh, it's generally a nasty sliproad!


I've had a taxi pull out of a sideroad when i was doing 40mph(in a 40mph zone), andi had to swerve(half skidding..) into the sideroad he came out of, as if it were a lay-by, and back out to avoid him, so very close to hitting him it was untrue! If i'd have locked up i'd be in his door.