wrxmania

OK all,

Spill the beans - what is the scariest moment( I mean shi*ting yourself, thought I was going to die etc.) moment you have had since owning your Scoob.

Preferably on road things - I don't mean necessarily someone nearly crashed into me fast - I mean when you were in control.

Details please,

Thank-you,

Brian.

jpmason33

pulling up at the lights and this fat ugly chick coming up asking for a ride! (honest)

FrenchBoy

Apart from seeing blue lights behind me on the M25 when i was going a bit quicker than i should have been (there's nothing like that icy goodbye license feeling in the pit of your stomach) - the scoob has been the least scary car i've ever driven.

thanks to its amazing levels of grip (thankfully) i've yet to discover the limits of the car on a public road. but then, despite what surrey police may think, i do drive it a bit like an old lady (except in a straight line on an empty motorway late at night).

my last car was a fwd hot hatch so i still cant really beleive just how far i can push the scoob on fast sweeping corners.

wrxmania

Thanks French Boy,

Any more?

SiPie

Hearing piston number 3 going bang only 3 months after 3rd gear spat it's teeth out <guess your lucky number here>

Other than that..... one October evening when ice shouldn't of formed where it was

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Oversteer whilst braking for a corner on an off camber road, and tank slapping when I came off the brakes with a truck heading towards me

lesson learnt: slow in - slide out

wrxmania

Good on you - never keep a good man down!!

Fidd

This made me think of a m8 I used to work with. He borrowed his missus car, went out in it, it was foggy, overtaking large lorry, sees headlights cominig straight at him in the fog so he goes hard over into lorry and accelarates down the side of it to get in front of it. He got through, he just did'nt know how, and just kept going but when he stopped the car was absolutely blitzed down the passenger side, all rubber and wheel marks etc., the lot ... LOL

It was such a close one, he just could'nt get back in a car at all for a few days afterwards, and he's not usually like that at all, I knew it must have been a really near thing for him to be that bad .... LOL

It was'nt in a scoob, so if anyone wants to delete this please do so, but I just thought I'd share it .... LOL

jbryant

...being given the trade in price when I went for my new car

Buy in scooby shortage time. Sell in scooby glut time. Not good.
Joolz

wrxmania

Any more comments?

Jerome

5 minutes after picking up my Scoob I was doing a Simon de Banke on a large roundabout. Gathered it up and carried on as if I'd meant to do it all along.

All I could think about during this unintentional sideways moment were the words of the salesman - "Please take it easy until you get used to the car" and my reply "Yeah, yeah, of course I will".

Also, it's weird how suddenly there are loads of cars around when you do something silly...

Richard Askew

Thames Valley Police Helicopter and a 5 police car rolling road block

Fidd

Any Scooby write off peeps looking at this then ????

wrxmania

Spill the beans - sound interesting?

Fidd

What happened ???? !!!!

Aztec Performance Ltd

iTrader: (234)

...being held up at gunpoint by car-jacking gang...really thought I was going to be shot

Bob

Richard Askew

I'll see if I can find the thread but it was autumn 2001 so not sure if it still exists

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

*waits for P20SPD*

astraboy

Rich, its a cracking story, please retell!
astraboy.

Richard Askew

Cant find it

eddie h

Stupid woman pulling straight off the hard shoulder with me in the inside lane about to exit on the next junction (400 yards away)

Don't know how the hell i missed her... so sh1tted up i didn't even hand out the usual abuse.

Eddie

new boy

ok...you want honest
first day of scooby ownership....driving back from harogate to hull.
after about an hour i decided like an idiot to overtake about 47 thousand cars stuck behind slow lorry.....after passing about the 46950'ith car..saw oncoming traffic..

no probs i thought!
then bang...
"Hello, i'm mister rev limiter"
My ******* has only recently started functioning properly!!
ads...

ozzy

Only had four sphincter-tightening moments in my 5 years of ownership and thankfully no accidents.

First was about 3 weeks into Scooby ownership, heading over to Donegal. Me and my m8 in the car late for the ferry and tearing down the west coast of Scotland. Try to pass two lorries on a right-hander (don't worry could see miles ahead), but of course nice Mr Truck driver sees the same and thinks he can cut all the corners. I had a calm exterior although my m8 Kevin in the passenger seat was a little more vocal. We did laugh over a few pints on the ferry mind

Second time was mis-judging a right-hand bend (common theme starting here). To be fair it was a bend over a little hump-back bridge in the Scottish highlands, but it did see me up on a grass verge wrestling with some big tank slappers. Thankfully I manafed to miss everything on both sides of the single-track road

Third time was going through a series of left/right bends only to find the last corner with a **** load muck all over the road. Slid straight across both lanes before ending on the grass verge. The worst experience was hoping no oncoming traffic would appear

Fourth time was heading back from a day on the hills last January. Snowing all day and going far too fast down a single track road with dry stone walls on both sides. Some stupid feckin Sheep decides to hop the fence and land right in front of me Jumped on the anchors, pulled as far over to the right as I could and closed my eyes waiting for the bang. Opened them to find the sheep lookin at me in the rearview mirror. I'm sure it was shaking it's head at me

Stefan

sg72

A Hee Hee! Excellent Stefan

Think I met that sheep .'cept it was behind the wheel of a Mini.
Just on the crest of a rise to Plockton from Kyle.
I meet oncoming said Mini.
Driver hands over eyes . As apposed to steering
Took to verge (Boulderstrewnwasteland).
Mighty bang. But thankful for STI suspension arms no damage (Was more concerned about Wife and Bairn and 200 miles from home. AWE!

Scoob99

iTrader: (1)

6 of us were going to a Cambridge meet a couple of years back, we came off a lovely A road onto a single track B road and poor old Pbone, went into a bend to deep too fast, I came round the bend just as the nose of his Scoob dug into a ditch and sent him vertically into the air he came crashing down onto his roof, good job he is only a little chap otherwise it would have been goodnight vienna, to say I shat myself is an understatement, and he had just filled it to the brim with petrol, thankfully only a cut hand and his pride were hurting.
Cheers
Colin

scooby808

Following (quickly) a Volvo S40 on a twisty A road at night, when he hit a fox and destroyed his bumper front valence etc and thought he was going to wipe me out at the same time.

Adrenalin is brown!

Drove the remainder of the journey home at a more sedate pace

Melina

In your categories you need to account for write-off did not buy scooby
and "despite write-off and insurance bought another scooby"

ChrisB

There's pub on the A34 here in Staffs called The Darlaston - it's in the middle of a roundabout.

Was heading off to a meet and had Little Miss WRX pax'ing with me. Came onto the roundabout and could see my exit was clear (which passed the entrance & exit roads to the pub car park). Spotted a Volvo waiting to leave the pub.

So (big mistake!) I hit the loud pedal to boot it off the roundabout. Unfortunately, my Volvo 440 had in fact decided to pull out.



It's a two lane roundabout so with a quick mirror check I headed for the outside lane (inside being the middle of the roundabout). Thought I'd made it only to find Mr Volvo now coming across in front of me again.



Hit the anchors and swung right to miss him. At this point in time I had a very graphic introduction to lift off oversteer.



I'm now taking the roundabout a very de-Banke-esq angle of attack and the only option is to miss my exit whilst proceeding very much sideways. Managed to gather things up and did another lap at a much more sedate pace!

Lesson learnt that day!

MJW

While hammering up one of my favourite bits of NSL dual carriageway in the outside overtaking lane going past a queue of traffic, a doddering flat-capped pensioner in a Perodua Nippa decided to : not look, not indicate, but just saunter over into the lane right in front me - he was doing about 35-40 mph. Never pressed a brake pedal so hard I thought I was gonna snap the f**ker off. The ABS kicked in and I managed to pull up within millimetres of his back bumper. The old git was totally unaware of anything untoward happening despite my vociferous obscene gestures. I think I used more of my brake pads in this one instance than I had done all year !!
Other than this and the odd back-end twitch the Scoob has been safe as houses.