RichiesCorsa
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Registered: 15th Feb 04
Location: Rural Perthshire
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My car just fell on me!
Was fitting a new centre section and had 2 axle stands at the front and a jack at the back. Was nearly finished, just had to get the backbox sitting right then all of a sudden the car fell on me! I was on ma back holding the car up off my chest, wondering how to get help! I waited to see if anyone walked past so I could cry help but after 5 mins I got bored! So I managed to kick my wheel towards the back bumper and jam it under there and slide out!
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Meat-Pie-SRI
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Registered: 10th Apr 02
Location: Berkhamsted, Drives Mk4 R32
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 nice and safe then!!!
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Icy
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Registered: 31st Jan 01
Location: Edinburgh Drives: Mk3 Golf Gti
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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hang on...
axles stands holding the front & then a jack at the rear...
no bloody wonder it fell!!! either way ya lucky ya didnt get crushed & turn into a mushy puddle of pink/red goop 
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RichiesCorsa
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Registered: 15th Feb 04
Location: Rural Perthshire
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Axle stands were on chassis and jack was just to get rear wheel off. It's still funny though! Was thinking about a 999 reconstruction where the pensioner across the road would use his super human strength to lift the car off me!
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Jamie
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Registered: 1st Apr 02
Location: Aberdeen
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Two jack stands EVERY time I go under the car and normally the jack just under a mount to support it
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Siberia
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Registered: 9th Oct 03
Location: Leprechaun Land Drives : Zafira GSI
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ermmm the stands or the jack must stil have been holding the majority of the wieght cos there no way you'd be able to hold the wieght of the car
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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quote:
Originally posted by J-Me
Two jack stands EVERY time I go under the car and normally the jack just under a mount to support it
And then some old wheels under the sill just incase 
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leeshez
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Registered: 3rd May 01
Location: Great Harwood, Lancashire
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U was lucky
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MatthewR
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Registered: 21st Oct 02
Location: Rickmansworth
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shit!!
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Ditch
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Registered: 29th Nov 02
Location: St Albans Drives: JDM Celica GT4 WRC
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Friends dad owns a Haulage Company (MJ Parkes) and he was working under a lorry when the whole cabin fell forward ontop of him, but the bloke is HUGE! and managed to hold the weight of it whilst help was found to lift it again
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MatthewR
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Registered: 21st Oct 02
Location: Rickmansworth
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Thats chris' old man mate? kin hell!!!
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3CorsaMeal
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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bet he can't open milk cartons easily tho
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stubbsy
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Registered: 5th Jun 01
Location: stoke-on-trent
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my step dads van slipped off the jack with him underneath it, i was inside and heard a arrrrgggggggggg, ive never moved so quickly in all my life, luckily it sopped just as the fuel tank touched his chest, i absolutely shit myself, fuck knows how he must ave felt
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MatthewR
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Registered: 21st Oct 02
Location: Rickmansworth
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bet you wouldn't laugh if you were watching him though
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GED2.0CORSA
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Registered: 28th Apr 04
Location: Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire
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i was changing the anti roll bars on my dads BMW and the bolts were well rusty so we decided to heat em to get it off (wasnt workin ) so we decided to burn them off at the nut
soooo when it was off the anti roll bar lay on the ground when my dad turned to talk to me and pointed the burner away from me and a few seconds past and BBBBAAANNNGGG the ball in the anti roll bar came shooting out of the bar and hit the inside if the pit i was in
to say i shit myself was an understatment
would have been fcukin sore if it had hit me 
[Edited on 05-11-2004 by GED2.0CORSA]
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langey
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Registered: 7th Sep 03
Location: Wigan
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so the guy who originally posted this is almost sayin he can bench press a corsa??
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MatthewR
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Registered: 21st Oct 02
Location: Rickmansworth
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3CorsaMeal
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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quote:
Originally posted by langey
so the guy who originally posted this is almost sayin he can bench press a corsa??
lying down with one leg kicking a wheel into place
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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He wouldn't have held the weight of the whole car though, just a part and the rear of the car at that, with no fuel in two people could lift the rear of the car up pretty easily. If the front fell on him he would be hurt a little bit.
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langey
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Registered: 7th Sep 03
Location: Wigan
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quote:
Originally posted by 1800ed
He wouldn't have held the weight of the whole car though, just a part and the rear of the car at that, with no fuel in two people could lift the rear of the car up pretty easily. If the front fell on him he would be hurt a little bit.
yes two people, this is one person bench pressing it, also manovering a wheel under the car with his leg and smoking a cig with one hand and on the phone at the same time
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3CorsaMeal
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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and i thought superman had died
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langey
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Registered: 7th Sep 03
Location: Wigan
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Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
and i thought superman had died
he has, but the hulk is still here obviously
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kev_corsa
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Registered: 7th Nov 02
Location: Newport, Uni in Bristol
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Nutter
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corsa5dr
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Registered: 12th Jan 03
Location: Bath/Bristol - Evo 4 GSR
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Lifting the rear end of a car isnt actually that hard, front is obviously a different story
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