HOW A ROADSIDE BREAKDOWN NEARLY KILLED ME!
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I listened to your podcast yesterday in the car. I work in roadside assistance in Germany and I liked your breakdown stories. It was very likeable that Taylor was also a breakdown mechanic. I've been doing this for 12 years now. I also heard on the podcast that you read a lot of comments, so here's the thing: I love your channel, you're living every Patrolhead's dream. But I also miss the time when Alex squeezed a V6 into an MX5 in his driveway on jackstands. Please show more actual work on the cars again.
I think I can top you guys on this one... I broke down, near you guys just north of Stanborough park on the way to Harpenden. I'll never forget it, it was the day that helecopter crashed in London.
It was snowing and I was on my motorbike! The recovery guys said they'd be about an hour and after 20 min or so of waiting, I was freezing my danglies off! So I walked the mile or so to Tesco to warm up. About an hour later, I call the recovery guys to ask where they are, they said they'd "be there soon" and I should be with the bike.
Long story short, I walked back and repeated this process for 8...freaking... Hours!
And finally when they turned up, they'd sent a MASSIVE low loader. I asked why didn't they send a van? I literally could have walked to a van hire company and hired one for 30 min to do the job but they were insistent they would be there soon the whole time. I very nearly got hypothermia that day!
I’ve done several winters on a bike, no fun even if you don’t break down
I bet you were freezing your arse off but hypothermia? Pffft. Out here in Scandinavia we often face situations where we have to expose ourselves to less than -20c temperatures for extended periods in less than ideal clothing.
@@piuthemagicmanand you’re accustomed to those temperatures. As you literally said, “we often have to..”. Well we often have to expose ourselves to -2- -3°c and so that for us is just manageable but very cold. The same way somebody living in Florida is accustomed to never being colder than 5°c their bodies would struggle a lot more at 5° than mine and certainly yours. It’s all about genetics and where you spend all your time. Not everyone will become hypothermic at the same level of exposure. And this is assuming you’re exactly the same height and body fat percentage as your foreign comparison. Your comment makes no sense when you factor in the real reasons you’re able to handle that. I bet you’d get heat stroke if you stood in 40°c bare sun for hours. I guarantee you an African born and bread will be running rings around you and doing long distance runs in the 40° heat without breaking a sweat. They are accustomed to it. You are not.
Outside of work vehicles, I've actually never broken down. Ran out of petrol in my first car, but I was at the lights just up the hill from a petrol station, so I just rolled it into there as if nothing happened. I'm a stickler for servicing my own cars tho, so maybe that's helped.
Glad you wasn't killed Taylor
😂
*Weren’t
@@kingdongo4388 oh god one of them🤮
@@TommyCullen-VacuumConnisour one has to be able to receive constructive criticism 😂
Jesus loves you 💜
@@kingdongo4388 I was only joking mate lol.
My first car a MK4 Golf was king in breaking down one time it blew up the Radiator and the other time it was only running on 3 cylinders but only when my mate was in it as soon as he got out it ran fine again.
Taylor is awesome! I'd love to just spend a day with him, just doing whatever he does day to day, bet he's a bundle of knowledge and just an all round fun guy!
These podcasts are just getting better & better 👍 Who doesn’t love a real life story.. The three of you are most definitely the new TopGear 💯
Plus it was good to meet you in person at Knebworth house the other weekend.
Rob & Sabrina
Why does Rory say MINGE at 7mins 19secs!? lol
I was thinking the exact same thing 😂
It sounded like it was edited in? 😂
@@_Brendan__ maybe it's the editors last day on the job and going out in a blaze of glory
Isn’t that the name of Taylor’s Mini Cooper? Minge the mini
@@mcrdave27isn’t Rory the editor?
For anyone in future if you break down on a motorway or a fast road give the police a call they can send out traffic control to direct traffic around you.
I had a Westfield 1700 SEI with no spare wheel. That was okay(ish) hooning around the locality, but then I needed/wanted to do a 400 mile round trip so thought I better buy a spare wheel and tyre (minilte replicas they were) so I went to a specialist wheel place and they fixed me up (at a hefty price!) and stuck it into the rear wheel holder and I drove home, when I got home there was no wheel. It had hopped out somewhere along the way as it hadn't been tied down or fixed in. Dang! I went back the next day and got another (at the same hefty price!) and bungey corded it in place with no problems.
On the 400 mile round trip the front two mudguards came dangerously loose so I removed them and put them on my girlfriends lap. Then it rained and we had no roof and the car filled with rain because there were no drain holes, so we sat in the flood. Then we did actually get a puncture (on the M6 near Fort Dunlop) and I thought, 'Thank God I bought a spare wheel!' but when I went to put it on, it had a totally different stud pattern. There was some swearing, some very profound swearing.
Absolutely loving the podcasts lads. No wonder your the top automotive podcast. Just blokes talking shit and about cars.
I was in the cab of a wagon (passenger side) fast asleep. In my early 20s, I worked briefly picking up washing machines and tumble dryers that were removed when new ones were installed and recovering them to be reconditioned and sold. Anyway the driver fell asleep and I was woken by the passenger wing mirror hitting the wing mirror of a truck on the hard shoulder. Cm from being ploughed in to the back of the broken down lorry and being squished.
Just listened to this podcast today while on the road brilliant and you have made it to number 1 podcast in the UK
Wow Taylor that motorway puncture was a really dangerous job, glad you have a strong heart.
Atleast your alright. Keep the great content coming!
Love these wish there were longer
13th February 2012 - yep night b4 Valentines - got a puncture on the A1 outside Peterborough. In the dark - in a blizzard. Tyre ruined so the tyre "inflation" kit was useless. Six hours later the guy sent by the AA ( not AA ) piggy backed me a couple of miles to the next services where I was left for 3 hrs to be picked up by an AA recovery truck who had limited hours left on his tacho so couldn't take me home so I was left at Leeming Bar services on the A1 awaiting further recovery truck ( judging by the traffic going into the McDonalds car park it appeared that when closed it was popular with - ahem - dog walkers ) got picked up and got home at nearly 9am in the morning having left home at 7am the previous day !
To pick up on Rory's story me and my Dad saw a young mum on the hard shoulder with a puncture. We got her and the child behind the armco and set about putting the spare on. The Motorway Plod turns up - see's what we are doing and then berates ME for stopping on the hard shoulder without what they considered to be a good reason !!
Ive only suffered two "breakdowns."
First was on my CBR125. I had been riding for a total of 1 1/2 hours by this point (Just CBT and a small rideout with my Dad).
I'm having an absolute ball riding up the country roads, following the signs pointing me in roughly the right direction. I give it a blast down the straight and suddenly found myself back on the main road, with traffic coming down bothways.
I knife through without a worry, but quickly find myself crashing into Farmer's fence. I wake up on the ground a few meters from the bike, with some scared-shitless drivers coming over to check that I was okay.
Bike was shagged, but the Farmer who's fence i crashed into had a horse box with his Range Rover, and took me and the bike back home (about 3-4 miles).
I decided to do some driving lessons after that 😅
I used to do breakdowns on the M1 I was based at Watford Gap Services in the days before they invented health and safety. We did some really dangerous stuff like when a foreign artic run out of fuel which had fuel tanks on the motorway side and filled the hard shoulder so we had to stand IN the inside lane while emptying a 5 gal contain of fuel into the tank and the only protection was the truck drive at the rear of the artic franticly waving at the on coming traffic. It was an insanely dangerous job
Love these. Hope a daily upload is the new norm 🤞🏻
You guys have the presence and chemistry that made top gear 😮
Watching this made me laugh , you talked about breakdowns and funny police moments!
Hired a car august last Yr went to somerset minehead area , next day went to go to wookey hole got into Bridgwater to fill up with fuel next minute unmarked police volvo skids in front blocking me one behind Mrs swearing at the copper one opening my door! Turns out the hire company reported it stolen the week before we hired it! If we didn't stop they were ready to tpac us .... hour later various emails shown company contacted we were let go ! The coppers were armed too !! Buttons on the seat but it was funny going back thinking about it ..long story short hire ended up free for the week but still had the marker on it ! Yeah great hols so I put 1160 miles on it in a week 😂
Every time you say "tire streets", i think you're saying "tired streets" and this image of mike skinner waking up pops into my head!
Nothing beats a td5 discovery 💪🏻
Still waiting for the story how Rory lost 90k in cars
Would love if you did these more like the car throttle podcast. Loved the stories in it
i had an artic rip my drivers door off my renault traffic van in the 80s in reading on the kings road,i was getting in it but was left holding a handle and a door card,i think poo came out...
Tyrestreets need more stock lol. Is always sold out haha. Anyhow, great stories, feels like you have a meeting with your mates when you watch these videos, almost makes you start telling your story like a knob in front of the pc ahaha. Great time, could watch this all day.
I’m a breakdown roadside patrol, once had a hgv rip the hi-vis off my back whilst changing the wheel on the offside.
That was scary lol
My most recent breakdown was after having travelled from Northern Ireland to Essex to collect a pug 306 cabriolet won on ebay , I was driving to my inlaws in the Midlands and as I was passing Cambridge the rear passenger wheel came off in the fast lane.
Moral of the story , always check the wheel nuts on a car your not familiar with.
Went to see what Taylor had for sale: Rory needs to give him a hand with his web page! This is the welcome page:
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What a man.
Taylor I know that tunnel well, worked in one of the units just next to that bit of motorway for a few years, also have a couple of hairy m25 breakdowns but my worst was also doing a tyre change… think I was on the move again within 10 minutes! I was that scared and trying to get out before highways agency turned up as had no breakdown cover to get me!!!
Broke down once on my motorbike, the main fuse had blown and I didn't have a spare to hand.. it was about 9/10pm at night, middle of November and it was absolutely freezing cold by this point, I was on my way back from a friends house after going for a group bike ride, only safe spot I could push the bike to whilst I figured out what had happened was a police station carpark.. not ideal but kind of funny, multiple officers came out and to their credit did try to help me get the bike going and did check to see if they had any spare fuses from their police bikes parked up inside that would fit to get me home but nope, wrong size or wrong amps.. ended up just saying fuck it and opted to push the bike home as I was only 2 miles or so away, one of the officers gave me a hand with getting it back, totally not suspicious at all! looked a bit like I'd stolen it or something!
So in short, Taylor had a breakdown whilst attending a breakdown 🤣🤣
Alex mentioning Curborough made me laugh - i was there doing a sprint school day and a wheel bearing seized. It took 14 hours for RAC to get my car home ☹️☹️☹️
I work in emergency assistance and 8 hour wait time is unreal.
Ive been very lucky in a way ive never been stranded bar a puncture on my moped years ago. My cars like breaking on my driveway and luckily the garage i use i can see from my house. Ive been close to it with dieing alternator last Christmas boxing day and lights slowly getting dimmer and dimmer only just got the car home.
Thanks for these eps
Im on me army servise and it keeps me real
Where are the videos with Taylor who were supposed to be on V2? I cant wait any longer, i need more videos😂
He is not wrong about the AA terrible service to pay for. My dad had it for years paying for it just in case and finally happened when he needed it as his car was dead at work with the clutch pedal stuck to the floor rang up AA and had a wait time over 12 hours as there is only 1 AA van that works the whole of Lincoln were we live and he was busy and in a list of others waiting and they even said if the AA van was available and another call came in he would be pushed down as he was a male and a female would take priority over him if they called in so never get AA cover.
I grew up so close to Buntingford
We need the entire podcast on video!
I recently had a breakdown coming home from work. My serpentine belt was ripped off by a rodent being in the wrong place at the wrong time. When I stopped to cool the car off I found a little foot sitting on the tensioner pulley
I’m with Alex all my mates have recovery trucks so I never had a breakdown cover until I broke down in my sprinter van my mate laughed and said that ain’t going on my tuck not legally anyway so had the dreaded 6hr wait for aa
The worst ive had it was blowing a rear tire (probably due to age) while on a bridge and stretch of road with no shoulder to pull off, so i had to just keep driving for about 15 minutes on 3 tires until i reached a spot where i could do pop on the spare. Car was fwd so technically it was all g but the rumbling and shaking was a lil sus.
Had a clutch slave cyclinder fail on a mk1 mx5 80km away from home on the motorway with no breakdown recovery on the policy, made it to 10km from home i had to stop at a roundabout pumped the clutch pedal wouldnt work as all fluld had emptied itself so engine off and in first gear flick the key and had it going in 1st gear on the hard shoulder for 10km 😂 made it home in the end i now replace it on my mx5 every few services since its such a common failure
1st breakdown, hopefully last (probably won't be tho as i've only been driving 6 months)
end of august, just coming home from work, going down m62, just moved into 1st lane from 4th by j24, car lost power at 70, got to 30mph and died. rang my dad saying my car's broke down. bout 20 mins later he turns up, as i'm putting the towing eye in, a 208 decides it's a smart idea to drive in the hard shoulder, and very narrowly avoids my car as i just finish putting the towing eye in. legit he was probably around a metre off hitting my car.
fast forward a month, turns out the water pump seized up, threw the cambelt and bent a valve. had to have all cylinder head rebuilt (shoutout to oldham engine parts), and engine reassembled courtesy of my oldest brother.
i was genuinely debating scrapping my car and getting a 400 quid clio, after spending just shy of 1500 quid on my 1st car (a 2009 twingo). for that, i had the head rebuilt and the engine put back together by my brother. just shows that if you got brothers who work on cars, they'll never die XD
Last year I broke down in North of London herts on the hard shoulder of the m1. I bought this car and had been conned big time was a proper lemon. I called the rac and they got the car back going but it needed towing as the fix wouldn't last long. They escorted me off the m1 then proceeded to abandon me. They picked up the car but the contractor said he wasn't able to drive to Nottingham that night . RAC claimed they were sorting a taxi. this was at 8pm. Was in a McDonald's waiting as was freezing early December. At 11pm McDonald's closed so I got chucked out. Had no where to charge my phone so was worried the battery would die. At 1am a taxi turned up but drove right past me then I got a notification saying they the driver cancelled the ride. He obviously couldn't be bothered. I had to re book with the RAC each time it takes at least ten mins to speak to a human. At 3am the taxi arrived and I got home just before 6. Meanwhile I had waited nearly 8 hours in minus 2 cold.
I’ve broken down twice on a single roundabout 😂
I've never had breakdown cover and I'll never get it 🤣
Got a flat on the side of a very busy interstate here in the US, didnt want/couldnt change it cuz we had the tire but no jack iirc. The tow company refused to do it on the side of the road because they had someone killed before. AAA couldnt even find anyone else to do it, prob because they didnt want it towed (cost more) so i just said F it, we are like 10 min from a tow company, we wil lhave it towed there and bill them. Towed it to the company just for a tire, but for any other Americans it was I80 in Illinois, so very busy, very little visibility where I was, got the flat cuz it was split in the center of the lane etc. Couldnt blame the tow company for sure. Glad you were ok friend!
10 times better with a video.
A day in the life of owning a sh*tbox is never boring...
Worst breakdown for me was I was borrowing a mates car (it was a diesel) I'm used to driving a petrol so after I finished using it I thought I'd be a good friend and fill it up I drove off no issues until 10mins on these country back roads middle of nowhere it died I then realised I just put 50 quid of petrol in his diesel car so I had to call him and explain(that didn't go well) soo I got it home and had to spend 8 frigging hours manually pumping the petrol out into Jerry cans needless to say after all of that and some clean diesel in it it was still fucked that was a expensive time 😅
AYO have never been this early LESGOO
If they were local to me would try and help.
11:04 this story sounds like the GCSE maths problem that caused us not to get an A.
Alex were you tired filming this one too??
Sorry I missed your call baby but I’ve been quite busy doing electrical stuff which I’ll tell you about later. Just had my soup and stuff it was too die for and now I’m going to go sort out the dry washing upstairs I hung out the laundry earlier xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Why in "minge" edited in at 7.19?
Taylor you need a new friend! My pal rang me at 3am after snapping his suspension 3 weeks into lockdown!!! Luckily he had a parts car in his yard so we went and grabbed the bits he needed and go help him! Of course police were there when we got there 😮 but hey we got him on his way pretty quick and surprisingly police were sound about it
Hi Alex and team my shit box is so old tyre streets no longer stock my tyres
Notification Squad!🔥🔥🔥
Most lorries don’t move over for breakdowns, they’ll cry when you don’t move over though
I had a very similar incident on the same place as Taylor, not gonna lie sacared the living shit out of me.
Why does he say minge at 7:19
Taylor’s Mini Cooper is called minge
Great podcasts, but the lollipop mic's and big headphones are not so great! :)
Holy shit
Did Taylor survive then?
Nah mate he's been dead for years. Thats his ghost telling the stories
I do the same job Taylor did and no training in the world prepares you for it. Brraking down on dangerous roads isn't fun
Hi
Anyone noticed all their voices are bit off on Spotify podcast?
Hope you reported that as a near miss Taylor!
Autoaid £75 for any vehicle over 15 years. If you can't afford this get the bus!
Taylor probably s*** himself
How come your all waring big headphones? You're all sat next to each other! It cant be hard to hear each other from where your sat 😂