My not so good day...

[Rmyers]

Yesterday wasn't a great day for me. It's a long story so i'll get through it as quickly as possible...

Was on my way to Ringwood in the EA and went to overtake a car on the freeway (a little spiritedly :P). Anyways when it down shifted all of a sudden my car starts backfiring, trans was going spastic as were my dash lights. Pulled to the side of the freeway and checked the car out. The negative terminal on my battery had come off (my battery wasn't secured in the spare wheel well : ) so i chucked it back on. Went to start the car and the battery was too weak to turn the motor, so i called a friend for a jump start. After a while my friend arrived and tried we tried to jump it, but the car wasn't firing. Tried priming the convertors, deflooding the engine, checking spark, checking relays, all seemed ok, but no go. Then finally decided to call RACV to come down and have a look at it for me, but they wont do road side assistance on a freeway and wanted to send a tow truck. Last time i had them send a tow truck there was no way of getting it on, so i had them refer me to another company. Got them to come out with planks of wood and as we were loading it on the front bar started scraping badly. He asked me whether i wanted him to keep going or to let her back down, so i decided after being stuck on the side of the freeway for 2 hours i would take my chances. Anyways, as the car was being pulled up the front bar cracked majorely in two places under the cooler. Needless to say i'm considering raising the front back up to a reasonable height...

Anyways that's my rant for the day, here's some pics of the damage....






PS. Anybody got any idea's on what the problem with my car could be???