Last night whilst trying to solve the knocking problem from my fmic, i thought i would take a short cut, as i did not have much light left nor could get in the garage.

Jacked the car up on trolly jack without using axle stands(cause wifey has moved them and i cant find them!). Well 20 mins pass and all is well!

Just as i shin my body out from under the car my legs go under and the car drops off the Jack. Passenger side brackes land between my legs ner my you no whats. Undertray and bottom of wheel arch are sat on the bottom of my legs

****! ****! ****!. Scream for help from her in doors. Too busy yaking to her mum in room at far end of house (about 50m from where i am) whilst stripping wall paper. Knobby the neighbour walks past while i am trapped and i said can you help me(this was difficult). The **** ****ing ignored me!

By now i am begining to hurt. Managed to pull the wheel towards me and dig the ground away with my hands to be able to put wheel under the front of the car. Then dug ground away under my legs. Then, and dont ask me where i got the strength from, i managed to lift the car enough for me to get my legs out.phew!!

Went and gave the wife a bollocking, just had to. Then just managed to get the jack from the boot underneath enough to get the trolly jack out.

Well i have taken short cuts loads of times, as i am sure some of you have. This time it was one too far.

Amazingly i have no bruising and only i slight nick on my shins!

So DONT TAKE SHORT CUTS is the lesson i have now learnt.

Steven

 

Very scary Steven. As you say, we've all taken short cuts, and generally been lucky .... Glad to know you're OK and a little wiser

 

Glad you're okay. I could have been worse.

Darren

 

Glad you're fine m8. Sounds like a close call. I had an incident a few years back wiv my Nova. Came off it's jack (did it jump, or was it pushed?) and ended up putting a massive crater in the side of the car. Not too much of a problem, but the new owner was picking it up that weekend. Doh! I sorted it and he never knew a thing.
I now always use the OE jack and a trolley jack at the same time, just to be safe.

 

Blimey

Be careful using jacks, not that I need to tell you.

When I was ickle, well, about 10. Me and a mate were sat on the gate to his drive just chatting like you do. Up the road about 100 meters or so there was a bloke working under his car in the road, suddenly we heard him shout. Being kids we did not know what to do, but luckily some people came running from this house to help him out. We thought nothing of it and went off to play Tin Can Alley or Stop Boris or something

A couple of weeks later we saw the same man going up the pathway to his house . . . being pushed in a wheelchair

 

Sends a shiver down my spine reading that. Very relieved to hear you are OK.

 

I know it could of been worse, just thinking where the brake disc landed makes me cringe

Can laugh about it now in hindsight.

Lesson learned

 

glad you ok m8

thats one of the most common short cuts and probably the most dangerous....

 

Im going to fooking smack your neighbour when I see him... And thats a promise... Theres being ignorant and there is being just plain stupid.. Im going to get someone to show him how lucky he is to have you as a neighbour and not one of the lads...

As for pissing my self lauging... not a chance... as I know how little room there is under as scoob... Just be gratefull you werent in the garage... or you wouldnt have been digging with your hands.... Glad your ok..

Speak to you later..

David

 

LOL Cheers

 

OMG, that's scary. The worst thing is that it probably could have been a lot of other people on here. I don't even OWN axle stands, although I do have ramps, which aren't a deal of use when your car has a front lip. Have you "spoken" to your neighbour since???
Glad to hear you're OK, and your tackle is still in one piece.
Alcazar

 

What sort of fool climbs under a car thats only held up by a jack - and not even on solid ground?

I trust the lesson has been learned!

 

Glad you are OK P20. I once attended a fatality from a similar incident involving a van. Same goes for eye protectioon - the number of t**ts I used to see in the eye dept and picked bits of metal out their eyes with needles when they had been grinding. And then I find myself removing eye protection when it steams up. Very easy to lapse for a few seconds and end up injured or dead. So glad you are OK.

 

This sort of fool, as well as many others. Its called rushing, done it loads of times before, so why worry?

As said already, my lesson has been learnt!!

John, do exactly the same with grinder. Bizarre isnt it how the mind tells you you will be safe.

 

Too focussed on 350 bhp that is our trouble.

 

Indeed and getting rid of knocking sound, which i have done successfully.

HMMMMMMM 350bhp, come on!!

 

Steve glad to hear you are okay.

Yes your neighbour needs a good talking too.

I will say this only once.

USE AXLE STANDS AND USE THEM PROPERLY YOU DUMB CLUCKING IDIOT!

I don't think that was unfair.

Paul

 

Unfair!!!.....No

Take it on me chin.

Cant be arsed with neighbour anymore, cause i think all my karate experience and training (since i was 8, and fought for GB in Japan, european champ, national champ, etc) will go straight out the window.

Too grown up to retaliate, this is what he wants me to do, so he can then do me for assault.

 

Nice one!

Has your missus explained why she hid your axle stands yet? Sounds a bit suspicious to me....

 

Probably to stop me working on the car when i SHOULD be working in the house(major renovation work going on).

She did go straight to them of course

 

****! Glad you're OK. I've done this before, but won't be doing it again...

Oh, and good work for getting the knocking sorted

 

One tip I was told & always do following a fatality some years ago, whenever you take a wheel off the car, especially on the roadside always put the wheel that is not on the car under the cill close to the jack, that way if the car comes off the jack it wont go completely onto the ground Ok your wheel gets scratched & possibly the cill damaged but at least hopefully it wont be any bit of you thats getting squashed
A guy near us many years ogo was due to take his parents out, I believe the handbrake was stuck or something so he decided to quickly jack the car up, whip the wheel off & sort it. A car parking next to him misjudged it & tapped his car, car came off jack & he was killed outright while his parents watched. had the wheel been under the car he may have survived
Also the other moral is NEVER jack your car up in the road unless you have to for a puncture or similar but thats fairly obvious to most of us.

Also if you cant find axle stands large blocks of wood are better than nothing

 

Glad to hear you're ok

Was your car damaged at all?

Gavin G

 

I reckon your wife is knocking of your neighbour and thats why none of the b******ds helped you

 

Oh dear glad you`re OK though....
I did electrocute Peter a few years ago....he told me to switch all the fuses off and I did, but forgot the immersion one, yep the one he was working on and he went to unscrew something with the screwdriver and ended up across the hallway floor.

And he STILL married me

Joan.

 

Gavin...yeah slight crease in bumper[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Beatle....FO, he is 60 and she is 26 and hates his f'ing guts!

 

Fecking hell Steve, you twerp

Glad you got away with it!

Did the bast from next door leave the gate open as well?

 

Thankfully not, cause then i would have been mad[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Amazing how as you get older you mellow out. There was a time when i would have walked in his house and er....sorted the situation.

Age, it does have its benefits