What is the most valuable or most embarrassing item you have lost from the roof of your car?
Last night on the way out of the IKEA car park there was a box of wine glasses smashed in the road at the first roundabout. Obviously they had been left on the roof when the car drove off.
A friend left his hand-held walking sat-nav on the roof when leaving a car park and never saw it again.
I'm extra careful but worry about anything I put on the roof rack.
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one of my co-workers lost his laptop off the roof, me? the worse I have done is a Nokia mobile phone. Dropped another down the loo once too.
Last edited by: Zero on Sat 21 Apr 12 at 23:15
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I was pootling down the A4 when the car in front lost some doors from the roof. They split into planks, and bounced across all three lanes.
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>>What is the most embarrassing item you have lost from the roof of your car?
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A fully loaded roof rack.
Loads of stuff on it and off to the tip.
I "mis judged :-(( " the clearance under the goalposts at the entrance.
The loud bang was the roof bars and loaded tray punching a hole in the HRW.
After I had sorted things out I was left with a 60 mile journey home.
I collected a couple of IKEA Epedit units and ferried them home on the roof bars.
I decided to dismantle the top one in situe as it was too heavy for me to lift off.
All went well and I then started on the remaining one.
Suddenly it collapsed like a pack of cards, leaving scars on the cars rear door and removing lumps out of various bits of the unit.
I deduced that the two units were not the same orientation on the roof so the bottom one was not supported adequately ( B obvious after the event!) and hence its noisy disassembly.
The only consolation was that only one unit was wanted and they were free.
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Many years ago I was about to drive off when a passer by reminded me my camera was still on the roof, "only" a Contax TVS , phew!
Steve.
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Lost nothing off mine - yet - but some years ago I paused for breath while attaching the roof bars and box to my Volvo. I must have rested an elbow on a bit of roof that wasn't designed to take it, because the sheet metal popped in and wouldn't pop out. The dent - about 40mm across - is still there.
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I was driving my Hymer (Merc injun) down the A259 in Sussex when two sun loungers made a bid for freedom right in the path of following cars.
How they managed to miss em gawd only knows!
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The fuel cap of my Ford Escort.
Happily, the CC3's cap is attached to the filler neck by a bit of cable, so I still have it.
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Two large sheets of plywood imitation wood panelling. I was taking them to the tip for a friend but didn't have adequate rope. They came off on a dual carriageway and took off like kites.
I saw them land on the central reservation so just drove on and left them. After turning at the next roundabout I saw someone had already scavanged them.
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A large box of cornflakes. Never found it.
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A friend of mine left his wifes keys on the roof whilst loading a roof rack. They survived a set of traffic lights, a roundabout, an M25 slip road, until deciding to part company into lane 3 of the M25.
The police subsequently obliged by putting in place a rolling road block, allowing the shattered remnants to be collected in safety.
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A carton of two hundred cigarettes. Popped them on the roof while I put the rest of the shopping in the boot and after 0.5 seconds forgot all about them till I got home.
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The cup from a metal thermos flask.
Fairly difficult to drink the rest of the coffee that day...
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not strictly off the roof or even a car! but i once lost a fully-loaded slurry tanker off the back off the tractor when the pin snapped! - luckily the camber kept the nearside wheels up against the kerb, and it followed that till it stopped!
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Once thought I had lost a pushchair out of the boot. Driving back from Cardiff on the M4 having just cleared the Bridge by the toll booths there is a bit of a dip in the mororway. As we hit the dip the boot lid flew up......
It was very dark, and I had no idea what had been deposited on the road behind, so pulled over and called the Police. Very impressed that they could see me on the overhead cameras straight away, and within a few minutes blue lights behind bought my coat back which luckily had been the only thing to have left the boot. Was quite concerned as to what damage could have been caused by someone hitting a pushchair at 70
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About 60 years ago , an event I remember well.
We had visited my grandmother on the far side,( from London) of the Severn and were in one of the coaches on the way home on the old A40 going up a long drag when the rear luggage doors opened and a series of cases were ejected along the road.
None were lost but the poor old coach driver and collect and ferry the cases back up the hill and re stow them.
Mum was chuckling as at least one of our cases was in the road and she knew it was stuffed with free Victoria plums. The driver nearly bust a gut retrieving that one.
Happy days from childhood..
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>> boot. Was quite concerned as to what damage could have been caused by someone hitting
>> a pushchair at 70
Seem to recall a guy and his wife lost two v expensive bikes off the roof rack (well the roof rack as well as it happened), his insurance company were not happy, two 1k plus bikes, and several more grands for damage to cars behind, plus points and fine for unsecured load.
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Are you sure you lot are not closet lorry drivers? Maybe Pat could teach you a thing or two about securing loads, (or engaging brain before moving off). :-)
www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?f=2&t=10347
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I know you jocks are a strange bunch, but down here in civilisation, we don't buy baked beans by the pallet load and stuff them on the roof.
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>> I know you jocks are a strange bunch,
I was brought up in Surrey.
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Mid to late 80's, I left a police radio on the roof of a Rover SD1 in Park Lane, London when i'd stopped someone. Cabby picked it up and handed it in to Hyde Park Police Station.
Hyde Park ('AH') was a sub division of Gerald Road ('AL') whilst I was stationed at Rochester Row ('AR'). 'AL' had a different radio link to 'AR'.
The station officer at 'AH' took great pleasure in calling up on the 'AR' radio link (on my radio, which although scuffed, still worked) and telling everyone over the air that a cabby had just handed the radio in...
...so then it was beetle back there urgent to pick the damned thing up before anyone else, particularly the supervisors, know it was you (my operator had his radio working).
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It might be due to having a series of MPVs which by design are slightly higher but I have never, ever, been in the habit of putting things on the roof. Why would you???
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Petrol cap of my first Corsa on the day I got it.
Lost two mobiles phone and I wasn't sober in each case. I dropped one down the toilet (thankfully the insurance paid up) and the other simply some how lost. It was a nice Nokia N85 too, a good phone that.
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>>Why would you???
Easy, you've pulled over into a motorway services / lay-by / car park for a leg stretch and a breath of fresh air. You pour a cup of coffee, you spark one up, ( not any more of course ! ) you lean on the car to enjoy the sunshine, coffee and tab, the phone rings, you put the coffee on the roof while you answer the phone, you eventually finish the call and the stogie, you get back into the car forgetting about the coffee on the roof.
See, it's a doddle when you get the hang of it.
:-)
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It can't have fallen off the roof but certainly had fallen off the back of a lorry: a cardboard box containing half a hundredweight or so of frozen beef, one of several strewn across the road at Highbury Corner roundabout in the small hours of the morning. This was many years ago and we put one in the car boot and took it home.
There was purple dye on some of it, not much, and we thawed some out with the aid of our then child-minder's boy friend, an affable, slightly scary yobbo who sometimes worked as a butcher and had a long and very sharp knife. It wasn't very nice. Perhaps it was horse, or condemned stuff destined for Fray Bentos. You have to be French to make really poor-quality meat taste decent.
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>> A large box of cornflakes. Never found it.
I guess that makes you a cereal offender ...
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Electronic breath test kit. Didn't realise until a member of the public handed it in. :-O
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Lost off the roof - Zero
