Tow Trucks and you

[nyy42]

How many times has your car taken a trip via the tow truck:mad

I've been there twice this year :rolleyes

[Presns3]

0

thx god...
pretty sure id lose a bumper if that happened

[nyy42]

I have to remove mine each time LOL

[Dr.AK]

Just once, 2 days after I bought it. Waterpump and thermostat failed, car overheated. Was replaced on dealer warranty... there's quite a funny story behind that.

I was on the way home from school, didn't pay attention to the temp gauges, suddenly when I looked in the mirror I was trailing a bit of white smoke. Looked at the water temp gauge and it was way into the red.
Stopped immediately, luckily I was just 500m away from a rest stop.

Called the dealer, described the problem. He said he'd be there in 30 minutes with a tow truck.

2 Minutes after my call my phone rings. I pick it up, it's the dealer. He must have accidentally pressed some buttons on his phone or something to call me back. He didn't notice the phone was on. I could hear very good how the 2 guys that ran the small used car lot had a real row, lol. Something like "Yeah, I told you we couldn't sell a car with that many kms! Now look at what happened! This is coming out of your share!" or something, lol.

[Ieatpeople]

my e30 (which had a blown head gasket when i bought it, i knew this) managed to get towed within an hour of purchase. the head gasket had been seeping slightly (confirmed by compression test by p.o.) but the car would run fine, just stumble slightly in the higher rpms. while going around the baltimore beltway with it, it managed to blow a hose, and then overheat so badly it started detonating. it got to the point where it was slowing down, while going downhill in 1st gear with the pedal on the floor. lucky for me my buddys house was at the bottom of that hill. left it there and called a tow truck to take it to my house.

i was planning on replacing the motor anyway, so i wasn't worried about killing it.

[frink84]

only been towed once this year, v-belt decided to explode itself and take out the other 2 belts.

[SeanDub]

I can't get on a tow truck

[JSanders]

So what do you do sean?


My cars been towed three or four times, but it was at stock ride height then so it was no biggie.

[SeanDub]

On location repairs.

[BADwayz]

I have to call in a flat bed and inch the bastid on there, always takes 30 min and scrapes the bottom of my front bumper. So be it.

[Travis C]

nevar

[mad325is]

nevar

x2... i would never even make it on a flatbed

[Tuck&Poke]

once last year, this year nothing (knock on wood). I popped an oilpan about 1 mile away from my old mans house. Needless to say he wasn't thrilled about having to pull my car to his house at 12am. My friends had to come over the next day with the coilover keys and a jack, spent about 1.5 hours raising it (fuck you KW and your perches), and low and behold they sent a wrecker instead of a flatbed, FML.

Raised it a little more and tried again, almost f'ed the intercooler but got it on and towed it to the shop. A new oilpan, motor mount, and 675 dollars later i was good to go.

It was pretty gnarly to bottom out hard enough to break a motor mount.

[southpaw]

E30: 8
e46: 0

[mpower5266]

0


I have a trailer.

[doug118]

a few years ago I got pulled over the day after I got my car and had no insurance so they towed my car. the guy put it onto the flatbed really nice, even used 2x4's so the bumper wouldn't scrape

go pick up my car at the impound lot and my bumper was on top of the car and bottom of my radiator support was bent with my radiator sitting on the ground. I flipped out and they pointed to a sign that basically said they aren't responsible for anything that happens to the cars

:mad

[Ficarra]

2 flatbeds. :(

[JSanders]

E30: 8
e46: 0

:rofl E46 FTW!!!

[dinanm3atl]

Never been on a tow truck with the e30, e28, e36 M3 or e36 328iC.

M3 has been on a trailer before...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2149/2525867139_415f76933c.jpg

[RedE46Bimmer]

I haven't had any with my old 140 but my E46 the alternator gave out in Warsaw a little town on the way back from Wilmington on I40. i was visiting my friends and it shitted out on the way home. I had to wait in a McDonalds parking lot for 3 1/2 hours for my dad to get there with a tow dolley. it was soo sketchy, it's one of those you have to back up on with just the two rear wheels and strap them down. This was the only time I'm thankfu; for not being low. the whole 3 1/2 hour car ride home i was like freakin out but it made it home safely thank goodness. and $350 dollars and a half hour later i put on the new alternator and tah-dah! But i still think i would have paid a shit load more for a flat bed or a tow truck to come get me. paying by the mile FTL. I think to rent that dolley from a local junk shop was like $20 or something.

And for those of you saying nevar you should def knock on wood or something it sucks lulz

[OSSHWA]

The Ho-balt has been on a flatbed once. 2 broken wheel studs, a bent wheel and a snapped SPC camber bolt. Fucking Richmond potholes.

[psiglx]

0 - only had 1 car in like 10 years on a truck and it was because i blew the head, not the gasket but the actual head

[Mscire2]

0 so far but id be fucked if i had to

[Byron]

I know the local AAA drivers by name; I've lost count of the times.