How NOT to jack your car up....

[RVF500]

cool.....got some good ones that are relevant to this thread.

[SilentDeath]

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[RVF500]

Picked 3 pics from while I was working in India. One is of some locals working under a truck. Check to see what is stopping the truck rolling downhill. Next up, count the number of passengers on the scooter. Finally a common sight by the sid eof roads out there. Some seriously bad parking.

Thanks to MgH0 for hosting these for me

http://www.mgh0.modded.me.uk/images/RVF/

[megah0]

[Shogun]

Wtf at the last pic?

[Stoo]

A very overloaded truck being badly jacked up and someone sitting under it

[RVF500]

Saw it on an almost daily basis whilst working there. One of my workmates had a pic of one that had collapsed with the mechanics underneath it. The truck was loaded with 2 massive reels of steel

Note the rock under the back wheel. What you can't see clearly from the pic is that the truck is on a hill

I tried to get a better pic of the scooter but we couldn't keep up with it through the traffic

[Honoop]

Its madness isnt it how careless people can be when it comes to things like this??!

To be honest I read the title of the thread and it bought back a nightmare which happened to one of my best friends a couple of months back....
He ended up stuck in London, missed the last train so decided to get a cab - but not just any cab one of those dodgy ones where the driver doesnt actually speak English! So they are halfway from London to Luton when the car gets a flat tyre. My mate, being the helpful kind of guy that he is, decides to help the cabbie out - gets out and starts jacking the car up. Meanwhile the cabbie is getting the spare out of the boot, but drops it by accident and it drops back into the boot causing the car to bounce off of the jack catching my mates hand between the sill of the car and the scissor jack!!
OUCH!!! Lots and lots!!
You can imagine the pain - I cant remember how the hell he managed to get his hand out but he did and he was DAMN lucky coz now his hand is pretty much back to normal. He cant straighten one of his fingers properly - but thats nothing compared to how bad it could have been!!

[Rave]

Meanwhile the cabbie is getting the spare out of the boot, but drops it by accident and it drops back into the boot causing the car to bounce off of the jack catching my mates hand between the sill of the car and the scissor jack!!
OUCH!!! Lots and lots!!
You can imagine the pain - I cant remember how the hell he managed to get his hand out but he did and he was DAMN lucky coz now his hand is pretty much back to normal. He cant straighten one of his fingers properly - but thats nothing compared to how bad it could have been!!

First rule of jacking up a car= handbrake ON.
2nd rule of jacking up a car = as soon as it rocks get out FAST. Glad to hear he still has his fingers though, that could have been so much worse.

Rich :¬)