Place your hard luck story here :)

Drove a VL commodore into 1770 once. Turned engine off while i booked into a camp spot. Came back to car and couldn't start it. RACQ said repairer had to come from some town miles away and was going to cost me a fortune so I said "hold off on that and i will ring back"

Tried for ages and ages - just wouldn't fire over when i turned the key. Was so frustrated that one time i slammed my fist into the (non-airbag) steering wheel while i was trying to start the car and lo-and-behold it started!!

turned it off again (duh!) to make sure it was going to start again. But of course it wouldn't. Again, in frustration and a long time trying again, I hit the wheel and it started. Repeat and found the only way I could start the car was by turning the key and thumping the top of the steering wheel at the same time. That's how I got to Cairns over the next five days of travel - I was reluctant to have the car pulled apart in a smaller town.

Had a very sore hand by the time I got to the auto electrician to look at it. Turned out to be a cracked solder joint in the ignition lock. Cost $10 and 5 minutes for the sparky to fix!!

Gidday Footy

Had a missus once. Took all precautions but she got lost.

LOL

Regards

Kim

Comeon Footy!!!

It still happens regularly...I thought it was all part of the fun!

Hard luck story??? Hmmmm!!!! how about the stock market has $hit its pants at the moment, thats doing it pretty hard in my book :-)

Realised we had no food but a full esky on top of MT Terrible on a 4x4 club trip. Did not realise we had some good cooks in our club :). 8 years ago and I still get ribbed about it.

Broke a windscreen just south of Swansea early one morning on a trip up to Qld. Had to wait around till a repair place opened and had it replaced. Would'nt have been much longer than an hour later and that windscreen was broken just out of Bulahdelah. Great start to a holiday hahahahahaha

"Ever really hung out for a beer, only to find the remote pub closed early?"

yes. I don't want to talk about it.

I bought 200,000 View Resources about a month ago . The very next day they called in the receivers . Hard luck .
Willie .

Living In Sydney and not having any one that can fix a HF radio.

I know Sydney is not the outback but there must be someone who can check out a auto tune aerial and work out why it is not tuning.

Wayne

How about spending two months and thousands of dollars rigging up a 2002 Nissan Patrol for a three year trip around Oz and it being stolen THE DAY BEFORE a shake out trip to Fraser Island WITH ALL our equipment onboard (Boat on top as well)! Total losses $15,000-$20,000. Insurance covered vehicle but waiting (with baited breath) for Holt Marines insurance to cover all our upgrades and gear. To add to the bad luck story, we were just about to move our Daughter into her new share house and her clothes etc was also in the 4X4 : (...next!

Photo of rig before mods

On our way to Innaminka about five years ago, Day 1 - pulled up at Milparinka, busted springs on the trailer. Drove to Tibooburra got springs fixed, camped at Milparinka. Took off next morning and 15 kms out of Tibooburra springs on Toyota busted. Limped into Tibooburra,got fixed, took esky out to shout Sandy (mechanic) a beer, took off for Cameron's Corner and heard someone on the radio asking if anyone has lost an esky. Didn't worry and had a laugh as thought we had put eski back. Caught up with people at Cameron's Corner where we camped for the second night and got our esky back. 6 days at Innaminka and the couple we were travelling with fought constantly and made for a very uncomfortable week. Last day it blew like a b**tard and dust. On way home about 30 kms out of Tibooburra hit a big hole and yes you guessed it, busted springs on the trailer again. Limped into Tibooburra and Sandy once again got us out of trouble. Stayed at Tibooburra that night and had a few drinks with Sandy at the pub, got back to camp and other couple were having a huge barney. Next morning get up and both car batteries were flat. Once again radioed Sandy and he came and started cars and we were on our way. 20kms out of Broken Hill springs on trailer busted again. Fixed as best we could and limped home. Didn't learn our lesson as we went on a houseboat for a week with the same couple and it was a holiday from hell. Needless to say we don't have anything more to do with them. Sadly Sandy passed away a couple of years ago. RIP Sandy.

Got my brand new 4800 Patrol - one of the first in the country
and headed out up Melbourne's black spur to show it off at
club meeting and right at the top of the spur the timing gear
came off, the timing chain jammed and the 6 pistons and 24 valves had a fight and destroyed the engine.

About an hour later the flat bed truck arrived and collected
my car.

The driver said that Nissan warranty is the bottom
of the barrel in roadside care and unfortunately
your 85km out of town , if you had of been only 80km
we would have looked after you and the family too, bye bye!

The really bad (or is it good) part of this story that this is the
only recorded case of such a failure in this car.

Rigged up a 20L plastic jerry (In back of my old Pajero) for drinking water, with a garden host connected through the tap to dispense and fill with.
I forgot to loosen the cap when filling at Pilbara roadhouse. With jerry in situ i got the wife to check the level as it filled. The water level got to 90% when she said it's just not filling anymore. That was the second before the entire jerry exploded splashing 20L of water over her and the interior of the car.
Me, being the gent that I am, was more concerned about the HF radio bolted to the floor than her. Needless to say the next few kms went by in slience.

Hi All

A few years ago, we went to Fraser Island, plan was to stay their for
ten days, arrived at the camp site, set up the tents ect, sat down
to have a cold drink, and one of the kids broke an arm.

Cheers
Daza.

I once owned a Mitsubishi Magna.................say no more!

spent 36 hrs on the north side of the Daintree River Crossing becaues some dill drove up onto the ramps of the fairy ... 1984

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Did a front diff 3 weeks ago. Broke a CV, brakeline and the radiator last weekend. I think I'll stick to outback touring.