The Lemon Fool

You may want to mute the rather annoying commentary, but it’s an entertaining lesson in persistence paying off (or dumb stupidity if you prefer!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnsiyngUC4o

LOL, love it. Kudos to that driver!

Reminds me of a friend's hillside farm in France, where you had to be two kilometres down a perilous winding track before you found out that any car longer than eleven feet wouldn't be able to turn round at his house, because of the sheer rock face. And that a hungry 100 metre ravine awaited anyone who was stupid enough to try.

The alternative was to reverse the two kilometres up the crippling gradient, and that was what I did. That was also how I learned the reason why my friend had been blacklisted by all the local building supply companies.

BJ

so how did he turn his/her own vehicle(s) around? Or did (s)he reverse 2Km one way or another every time ?

or they were all < 11 feet long presumably ? TYhat's a SMALL vehicle - out renault clio isn't exactly huge - and thats over 13 feet long. A Picanto is 12 feet long.

didds wrote:so how did he turn his/her own vehicle(s) around? Or did (s)he reverse 2Km one way or another every time ?

He had a very short car. Which became shorter every time he reversed it into the rock face.

BJ

bungeejumper wrote:

didds wrote:so how did he turn his/her own vehicle(s) around? Or did (s)he reverse 2Km one way or another every time ?

He had a very short car. Which became shorter every time he reversed it into the rock face.

BJ

updated my original post now

didds wrote:

bungeejumper wrote:He had a very short car. Which became shorter every time he reversed it into the rock face.

updated my original post now

More short-arse cars at https://blog.cheapism.com/smallest-cars/. I've owned two of them.

BJ

bungeejumper wrote:LOL, love it. Kudos to that driver!

Reminds me of a friend's hillside farm in France, where you had to be two kilometres down a perilous winding track before you found out that any car longer than eleven feet wouldn't be able to turn round at his house, because of the sheer rock face. And that a hungry 100 metre ravine awaited anyone who was stupid enough to try.

The alternative was to reverse the two kilometres up the crippling gradient, and that was what I did. That was also how I learned the reason why my friend had been blacklisted by all the local building supply companies.

BJ

So, when did you last send your friend a parcel via DHL or other such deserving company?

Don't some of today's city-cars have four-wheel steering to help with tight manouevres?

Clitheroekid wrote:You may want to mute the rather annoying commentary, but it’s an entertaining lesson in persistence paying off (or dumb stupidity if you prefer!)

Weird!
Why did he not just reverse???

V8

UncleEbenezer wrote:So, when did you last send your friend a parcel via DHL or other such deserving company?

DHL? Ha, they don't even have piped water out there. Hard to imagine that courier companies deliver door to door.

Don't some of today's city-cars have four-wheel steering to help with tight manouevres?

I'm sure they do. I'm also sure that they wouldn't survive for 500 miles up in the hills. Remind me to tell you the story about how I half knocked the sump off a Clio while following satnav instructions through a quarry.

My sincere apologies to CK for the inadvertent hijack of his thread. I'm sure somebody must have something more apposite to say. What's the worst tight spot your car has ever got stuck in? Ever had to lift a car by the back wheels to get it round a corner?

BJ

bungeejumper wrote: Ever had to lift a car by the back wheels to get it round a corner?

BJ

No. But three of us once had to lift and hold a car up so the 4th could change the wheel as the car didn't have a jack!

And we were half way across the Nullabor Plain at the time.

I heard a tale from a generator delivery bloke, found a driver had moved the barriers to park their car where the genny was supposed to be set down, the site forklift driver picked the car up and slotted it in sideways up a narrow alley.

Reminds me of Ferry Lane, Guildford. It starts off fine with access to some houses but if you cannot find the house you want you can find yourself at the bottom of a steep lane, no chance to turn and the River Wey ahead. Reversing is the only option.

The guy in the clip should get a prize for persistence and nerve. Probably anew set of tyres as well.

Dod

kempiejon wrote:I heard a tale from a generator delivery bloke, found a driver had moved the barriers to park their car where the genny was supposed to be set down, the site forklift driver picked the car up and slotted it in sideways up a narrow alley.

Puts me in mind of this excellent garage door painting:




From pinterest
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/458945018289877419/

Clitheroekid wrote:You may want to mute the rather annoying commentary, but it’s an entertaining lesson in persistence paying off (or dumb stupidity if you prefer!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnsiyngUC4o

The puzzling thing about this is the obvious skill, sensitivity and care demonstrated by the driver in this turning around of the car in less than its length, seems at odds with him/her getting into that jam in the first place.

I'm calling a staged video!

Mike4 wrote:

Clitheroekid wrote:You may want to mute the rather annoying commentary, but it’s an entertaining lesson in persistence paying off (or dumb stupidity if you prefer!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnsiyngUC4o

The puzzling thing about this is the obvious skill, sensitivity and care demonstrated by the driver in this turning around of the car in less than its length, seems at odds with him/her getting into that jam in the first place.

I'm calling a staged video!

Obviously, whoever was holding the camera must've expected something to happen.

What I found odd was other cars in shot just up the road. On the road (they didn't look parked in any normal sense) yet not moving.

Mike4 wrote:

Clitheroekid wrote:You may want to mute the rather annoying commentary, but it’s an entertaining lesson in persistence paying off (or dumb stupidity if you prefer!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnsiyngUC4o

The puzzling thing about this is the obvious skill, sensitivity and care demonstrated by the driver in this turning around of the car in less than its length, seems at odds with him/her getting into that jam in the first place.

I'm calling a staged video!

It is staged. One of the comments on the video is

For people that don’t know:
This man has many videos on YouTube proving possible 3 point turns in the most improbable/ impossible situations. He does it just because he can, not because he doesn’t know how to reverse

Very clever but I'm not sure the underside of the car would appereciate all the scraping on the ground

--kiloran

kiloran wrote:Very clever but I'm not sure the underside of the car would appereciate all the scraping on the ground
--kiloran

Definitely not a second hand car dealer I would select.
And I wonder how he would cope with a rear drive car?

scotia wrote:And I wonder how he would cope with a rear drive car?

I seem to remember having to turn by jacking up the car and pushing it off the jack in a similar situation.

stockton wrote:I seem to remember having to turn by jacking up the car and pushing it off the jack in a similar situation.

We once had to shift an abandoned car that had been dumped down a private road with the steering lock on. (And all the windows smashed.) Four or five of us managed to turn the car by bouncing the rear end - an activity that comes with slightly more injury risk than you might suppose. From there, it was a straightforward matter to push it down to the public road where the council would pick it up. We were nearly there when the subframe collapsed.

BJ