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Always a reassuring sight to come home to:




Coming up the road in the van, had to get some tools out of the garage for work, and saw this ^^^
I immediately thought SH!T!!! someones tried to nick my motor! I didnt leave it like that!

Then my neighbour, who works for the RAC come over and said
'you are a lucky son of a bitch. Your car has been cranking itself down the road, and it took us 20 minutes to get into it'
I always leave my car in gear, as im on a slight slope, and lets face it, peugeot handbrakes arent the best... Not doing that again.
It was cranking for about half an hour apparently, and they were both amazed it started first time. They reckoned smoke was billowing out of the bonnet and wheel arches. There is a nice collection of metal filings around the engine bay. Haven't had a chance to look, but im guessing i can say hello to a new starter motor and flywheel in the near future.
This is how far it got, its normally parked infront of where my van is:


Just thankful they managed to get the battery off. They broke the door handle trying to get in, but a small price to pay against it catching fire or driving itself off IMO

And, not one wheel has been kerbed :pray: . It just mounted nicely on someones driveway.

So that situation could have been a hella lot worse.
Rep to the RAC man. Legend.

Now time to go and inspect my pikey wiring that probably caused this

wait, so it tried to start itself?? jesus dude! you are one lucky fecker!

WTF?? Lucky, but thats gotta be one hell of a short!! :o

And lucky you have an imobiliser lol.......if it'd got fuel through that would've been much worse! hock:

blooomin 'eck!

that is lucky!

Buy that bloke a drink immediately!

Or a 99 Ice cream given the weather outside....(I believe this is the mutual equivalent of a pint nowadays if you get one with a flake)

I am so NOT doing the Laguna button start mod now!!!!

Just leave it in 3rd or 4th in future lol

Fecking hell man! as per the title of your thread really! hock:

So as Ed says, in summary, push button start = bad idea

WTAF?! :eek:

As above, remembering that one... :?

Hahaha that's f*cking brilliant!











What? Someone had to say it! Bit of luck you have a rac man living opposite you! Seeing as you clearly have some luck today, want to take my car for its mot in a bit?

So you left it in reverse? :?:

Man you are lucky! Get that euromillions ticket on.... hock:

Wow! That's unreal, I have never heard of anything like that happening before. Would love to know how the hell it happened...

720puggti Wrote:Wow! That's unreal, I have never heard of anything like that happening before. Would love to know how the hell it happened...

The most likely reason has been mentioned a couple of times in this thread I would say......

mark_airey Wrote:

720puggti Wrote:Wow! That's unreal, I have never heard of anything like that happening before. Would love to know how the hell it happened...

The most likely reason has been mentioned a couple of times in this thread I would say......

Suspect #1:

Toby Wrote:Suspect #1:

Suspect number 2




More than likely the start button that did this.

I think because of the heat, some of my insulator tape warmed up and came loose, shorting the wires, causing it to crank.

With hindsight, i should have wired the crank button into switch live. But it was 1am when i wired it up.
Bit odd that it only did it now though. Anyway, ill rip it apart later and have a look see.


Just cant beleive it all ended up without disaster. Or too much disaster at least. Top bloke the RAC man for doing that.

New starter moter i thinks, at the least. You want to have seen the picture on his phone, with smoke pouring out of my wheel arches and grille. Looked like a bonfire under the bonnet. Ill try and get it off him later...

Should put a switch in so that when you lock it, it disables the switch. Also a bit more of a security feature.

6 and two 3's

Just put it on switch live. Would be easier. And sensible.
Should have done that first time round lol

If there was that much smoke I'd be worried there weren't other bits of wiring that could have been damaged...I'd be giving it a good check over! You're one lucky guy

Its boosted my confidence that ridiculous things like this don't just happen to me.

I just love the fact that it's billowing smoke out and he stops to take a photo. Lad.

Scott, i think the smoke was the starter motor getting its knickers in a knott, rather than electrical fire. Ill have a proper look later however, thanks.

And people have said to me i should charge him to replace the door handle (did i say he broke that, getting into the car to take the battery off?) but the way i look at it, I'm lucky i don't own the smoldering remains or a 306. Completely love him for what he did.

Niall Wrote:I just love the fact that it's billowing smoke out and he stops to take a photo. Lad.

It was probably hard for him to hold the camera still inbetween the laughing fits

Door handle is a minor price to pay for a neighbour doing you a favour and actually trying to help out. Asking for him to pay for it would make you a bit of a twat in my opinion! These people who suggested he pay for it...are they the same sorts of people that get hit from behind at 0.2mph and fall out of the car rubbing their necks asking for compensation? No offence intended by that, but it just seems a bit rude as it's not like he was trying to break in to steal something or to damage it. And in all fairness, Dum-dum will confirm how much they're made of cheese considering Tae managed to pull it off without trying!

Exactly Scott.

Nice to know people like that are out there, who genuinely want to help. He could have left it to go, and it would have been no skin off his nose.
Looks as if we are getting a door handle from the scrappers Sat too haha.

That some lucky shizzle right there, never heard of a car trying to start itself before!

Lucky man indeed! Sounds like a top bloke. Be worth giving all the wires to the starter a good once over too as they would have got reeeally hot doing that...

very lucky there grant! now another one to add to the list along with that wishbone

What wishbone?








I swear my car is trying to kill me, or itself...

fuckin mad that!

Your lucky mate, I once drove a car home on the starter motor when the engine wouldnt start so could of been alot worse