[s-cars] Extracting your car off a parking curb

[Tom Green]

It was certainly not the intent of the list to ease your embarrassment, 
Marc.  For all those listers dumb enough to run the car over a 
permanently installed fixture, tear it up getting off or drawing a 
crowd to their plight, and then confessing to the electronic world, 
deserves a Darwin Award for such a DS.   Even a lame attempt to blame 
it on the "better half" would have fared better.  :-)
For Lee, I vote no award, just wish we were there to watch-- not help, 
just watch. :-) .   And I add a tip--get the metal pin, the plastic pin 
is designed to hold the wheel up and will not maintain alignment of the 
bolt holes sufficient to insert the lug bolts.

Tom '95 S6

On Oct 9, 2004, at 2:25 PM Marc Gorelick wrote:

>
> All I can say is that this list is well worth the time, even if it's 
> only
> to ease my feelings of stupidity after I did this to my car. :-D
>
> Marc

> At 01:31 PM 10/9/2004 -0400, Lee Levitt wrote:
>> Dave writes:
>>
>>> Lee:  I resent the "Darwin Award" shot.  The incline was
>>> barely there and the "surfing the bumper"  technique worked
>>> great - just as if I had done it a hundred times (that was
>>> the one and only time).
>>
>> Judgement call. You won this one. :)
>>
>>
>>> If you want to give out awards, give
>>> one to yourself for waiting 3 hrs for AAA because you didn't
>>> try to spin the rotor back into alignment with the bolt
>>> holes.  (I know - it was a rear wheel and you had the ebrake
>>> on and the sun was in your eyes).
>>
>> I tried everything I could think of to realign the holes.
>>
>> It *was* a rear wheel. And the ebrake *was* on.
>>
>> The sun, on the other hand, was over my shoulder.
>>
>> :)
>>
>> Lee