Anyone ever jump'd there mk1?

I know….i can be an idiot driver at some times  so dont bother with the negative replys… :mrgreen:

but…after talkin full advantage of the sun yesterday evening, i took a few wrong turns and found an abolute cracker of a road, Tight turns, long turns, straights and the climax at the end a small hill..

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so anyone ever done it?

not in the Mk1 but accidently found the sharpist bridge near wallingford! was only going about 30mph but it's so sharp I had about 4 seconds of air time! Scarey stuff as there was a car on the other side!

needless to say I go over bridges VERY slow now

jumping car's does no good to it though, engine mounts can break, alloy's can crack (easily!).. the list goes on

Phil was that the one to cholsey/morton from didcot........ thats a brilliant one..........

Yeah I think it was Mandy..  I was warned it was bad but didn't expect the road to completely disappear THAT much  

Won't try it in my Mk1 though, My welding would probably break!

I think I've had mine off the floor…

Accelerating out of a roundabout (High end of third gear!) the road was quite "yumpy". The enigne revs shot up and started bouncing off the limiter, there was quite a hard thud on re-entry with a bit of tyre screetch as the fronts came back into contact with the tarmac. Surprised I didn't do any damage to the car actually, it being quite low. Probably only a few inches, but I would have loved to have seen it from out side the car, or even better, got a picture of it!

i had a front shock explode on a f*rd ori*n once on landing after a small section of yumps down a country lane in norfolk.
All f*rds are meant to be driven like they've been stolen :wink:

Mr_GTI said

i had a front shock explode on a f*rd ori*n once on landing after a small section of yumps down a country lane in norfolk.
All f*rds are meant to be driven like they've been stolen :wink:

Your not wrong! I done a 360 on the other side of a ditch in my onion and ended up back where I should be when a tyre blew out going round a nice country bend! twisted the chassis badly and still sold it for more than I brought it  

Best thing I could have done with that car (although not intentional)… and got a lift back with a rather attractive police lady  :wink:

AL_Mk1 said

I think I've had mine off the floor…

Accelerating out of a roundabout (High end of third gear!) the road was quite "yumpy". The enigne revs shot up and started bouncing off the limiter, there was quite a hard thud on re-entry with a bit of tyre screetch as the fronts came back into contact with the tarmac. Surprised I didn't do any damage to the car actually, it being quite low. Probably only a few inches, but I would have loved to have seen it from out side the car, or even better, got a picture of it!

yep this is exaclty what happend to me, would of loved to get a picture of it airborn! There were a few people watching, bet it looked sweet…

Wont do it again thats for sure tho, it really did HIT the ground hard…and at the time i did think i've damaged one on the front wheels, but everythings ok…so it'l survive another day :mrgreen:

As I'm quite tall…. if I take a run up I reckon I could jump over my MK1

kins said

As I'm quite tall…. if I take a run up I reckon I could jump over my MK1

Ermmm i'll get your coat for ya….


..TAXI!!!

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Could have been worse……

Ambulance :roll:

Used to do it three times a day on my old suspension. There's some brilliant ones just coming into kelso. If you hit the last at about 80, you can get a good a good second or two of airtime. The others are just little raised revs ones.

Havent dared on the new suspension yet….

I grew up watching the A-Team and Knightrider, and given the damage you can see when they jump cars in those, I don't think I'd ever dare!

I think I'll leave it to the stunt drivers who have 30 or 40 cars per show to ruin!!!  

I would not recommend jumping a Mk1. As VW Motorsport found out themselves, the chassis legs and inner wings bend around the strut mounts. Hence they developed special Y-legs to weld across the inner wings for strengthening. You may see the part at Gaydon.  :wink:

Cheers
Rajan

I've not had 'air time' in my Mk1, but I did in the Mk2 I had previously.  I was making my way across Dartmoor on one of the B roads that goes across there, travelling along this long straight that, unbeknown to me, has a bridge crossing a stream with a small unobtusive hump on it.  This took me by surprise when I hit it but definately resulted in my Mk2 and the road parting company!   8O

Not a problem though as the road ahead continued dead straight and fortunately there was no damage done

Ian

there is a brilliant stretch of road nr Farnham, not a bridge but a whole road that is like the old fun fair switchback…….. used to go and play there when i first passed my test….. now i've moved back to that area i might just have to go see if i can find it…….. in my sisters peugot not my Mk1 lol

My old man used to have a Toyota Supra - the old 3.0l job (non Turbo).
We took that on a trip around the theme parks when I was young and while driving somewhere in yorkshire, we found a lovely quiet country road which was dead straight and slightly up hill. The old man floored it and the 6 cylinder beast leapt into action. What we didn't realise was that the slightly uphill road turned into a completely level road with no warning.
The car left the road, flew about a million yards (we were shifting at this point) at landed with a hard thump acompanied by a very mettalic "Tink" noise. We pulled in down the road to find a flattened rear silencer, full of scratches, courtesy of the tarmac!

Come to think of it, my old man was a bit nuts back then.

He also had a V8 range rover years ago, in which we took a very humped bridge a little too fast! All of the tools, lawn mower, ME etc. that was in the back, hit the roof! Bouncy landing in a big 4x4 too!

Jumping is fun but not good - very easy to lose control on landing!
my ex's cousin used to import intergrales from germany, he was ragging one up a hill that had a level cattle grid & then went back to hill, he took off and caught the front twisting the whole front - ouch!
when my mk2 polo got written off i took it for one last rag and aired of a humpback bridge - my mate was following me and he said the front whells were about a foot of the ground but the back only left the ground a couple of inches, and there was a shower of sparks as it landed!! i wish we'd got a picture of that!

Well i've spoke to soon, my car has started a knockin noise
  :evil:  dunno if its anything to do with that jump i did? but when i turn right(i think) it makes a click!?? Doesnt do it all the time…but i have noticed it a few times going round tight corners…at no particular speed…  :doh:

So take some advice…if you wanna do some jumpies…do it in a ford..or supra…or if your feeling lucky…4x4 styleeee