Video " Sunfire stuck in the icy Mud?"
 

So I was Cruising through the woods the other day with a Friend drinking a couple wobbly pops when we came across this kid and his buddies who were defiantly under the influence . How they managed to get this car into the woods this far is beyond me . They begged for me to pull them out and offered to share some grass with us . I told him that he should throw it in the mud cause that is the reason he is stuck . I pulled him quite a but further than the video shows only because my friend thought i was done.....but just for fun I pulled him another 100' . Enjoy .

http://s844.photobucket.com/albums/a...t=SANY0414.mp4

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wobbly pops / my new found slogan (; love it ,way to thrash on the car lol

You have an odd sense of fun. :D

it's a sunfire so it does'nt matter :icon_laugh:

Eh, it was a disposable car when it left the factory, so WTF. :icon_laugh:

That had the making of one of them vids where the guy yanks and it rips the bumper off or the axle from under the car.

Great video!

lol awesome....i use to have a sunfire, but never got stuck with it....sunfires are a good car i got rid of mine with 198K and still ran strong.

About ten years ago I was out plowing snow, and ran across a geo metro that was beached on a snow drift, front wheels off the ground. I felt sorry for the girl that was driving (probably about 18 years old). Backed up, and got the log chain out. I didn't have a shovel, so I dug under the car with my hand, and tried to find something solid, and finally found the frame (so I thought). Told her to put it in neutral, and just let me do the pulling until we got to a clear road. I took off, and soon I see her gaining on me! Finally get to clear roads, and stop, and I get out. She had driven over the log chain, and wrapped it around the front tire/axle. Got that unwrapped, and went to unhook, and realized I had hooked around the exhaust pipe. Nothing seemed to be broke fortunately.

ROFLMAO!!!!

The exhaust is probably the strongest part of the car..... If you scrape some paint off the body, you will find the budweiser logo underneath.

Did a similar thing about 20 years ago in the mountains, late at night. The approach to a mountaintop camp had me at a tight Y in the road, where the left-hand side that went to the camp was very narrow and quite steep -- and some drunk 18 year old idiot in a 2WD Nissan pickup coming down had tried to make a J-turn off of it. His truck was hung up and blocking the camp road, and he flagged me down as if I had any choice but to stop anyway.

I took a good look at it while his drunk city girlfriend alternated between whining and bitching. The driver's side frame, which looked unsubstantial to me, was hung on solid rock and the rear wheel on that side was in the air. The only way to get out without tearing the truck up would be to jack and fill on both sides, and we'd have to be careful to avoid hanging the rear bumper on the rock after the rear wheel cleared it.

The other driver found that plan unacceptable because he was already late for returning his daddy's new truck clean and undamaged, and he didn't want to risk bending the bumper because his daddy had told him that he was not to take the truck off-pavement. The kid's idea was to pull the thing off of the stick, and I tried to talk him out of it because the only way to get at it would leave us doing a side pull that would surely bend the truck.

I deliberated on my options, which were to choose another camp and just leave them there; drive them down the mountain to call a very expensive off-highway wrecker; or do as the increasingly belligerent drunken idiot demanded and make the side pull that would teach him a lesson he clearly was in need of. He refused to be driven down the mountain, and then made me angry enough to teach him any lesson he was foolish enough to set in motion. I got set up and handed him the stupid end of the recovery strap.

Long story short: I tried a couple more times to talk him out of it, but in the end the Nissan got badly bent. The body was bent and torn on the driver side where it passed over the rock, and the rear axle was shifted toward the passenger side so that the wheels were nearly rubbing the fenders. And boy oh boy was the drunken idiot mad about that state of affairs.

After yelling at me that he was probably going to be kicked out of his parents' house, had no job and no place to go, and what was he supposed to do now, he untied the recovery strap from where he'd tied it on the Nissan's rear axle, loaded his drunk girlfriend into his daddy's bent new truck, and then had the audacity to ask me to follow them down the mountain because he didn't think the truck would make it. I refused, of course.

I'll bet that I slept much more soundly that night than he did.

I've got some good stories from plowing. People turn to idiots when there is snow on the ground I swear. Same day as previous story, stopped to pull a guy out, and somebody else came up alongside, and I told him to wait, and I'd go ahead of him cause the road was drifted shut. Started to hook up, and next thing I know he drives past me, goes about fifty feet and buries it in the drift. Would have left him, except he was right in the middle of the road, and I couldn't plow around him.

Yeah I see nothing wrong with how you pulled the sunfire out you were slipping quite a bit anyways, and if worse came to worse the car was gonna break before the truck, and I too am surprised he made it that far through the mud on the side, dumbas$ should learn to keep it on the paved road

[QUOTEYeah I see nothing wrong with how you pulled the sunfire out you were slipping quite a bit anyways, and if worse came to worse the car was gonna break before the truck, and I too am surprised he made it that far through the mud on the side, dumbas$ should learn to keep it on the paved road
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I told him i would only pull him if we used my strap with no hooks on it and if he wrapped it around the axle . Before I pulled him I double checked to make sure it was completely wrapped around the axle . The only thing that could have made the video any better was for the axle to come completely off. I wasn't worried about the short running start because traction was at a minimum because of the ice . Gave a pretty good pull despite the Ice and only in 2wd .

Pacman, I watched the video first and thought "man that was a hard tug to get it moving" then I read the post and realized that you didn't care about the car because the owner was an idiot.

Snow is rare around here. Ice, not so much. The only time I've ever stopped to help a stranger with my truck was a guy on the side of the road just a spinning the tires in a neon and going nowhere in the packed snow/ice. So I stopped on the solid ice on the road and offered to help and he thanked me and told me that his house was just at the top of the hill from where he was stuck at. I was thinking that he just slid off the road when I stopped and didn't know that his house was right there but I helped anyway. So as I was hooking up his 4 or 5 year old was rambling like they tend to do and he said, "He's got a Dodge and it'll pull us anywhere we need to go". Anyway, I hooked up and started to pull him up the hill (about 21º grade) and saw in the mirror that he had the brakes on and just smiled as I putted up the hill pulling about 1500 rpms. It didn't even feel like there was anything behind me.

One morning on my way to work, (35 mile commute on secondary roads) we had gotten almost a foot of snow, followed by freezing rain.... (in all reality, I should have stayed home...... but, I was dedicated. :D) One stretch of road, bout a quarter of a mile long, runs thru the upper corner of one county, and they do not maintain it, at all..... as I came around a corner on approach to that stretch, I suddenly felt as if I was in some giant kids back yard, and he had just scattered his toys about randomly. There were at least two dozen cars of various descriptions, assorted distances off the roadway. I had to stop, and recover myself I was laughing so hard. Being the nice guy that I am........ I had a 4x4 at the time, (not my dodge though) and recovery equipment..... So, I spent the next five hours pulling cars of snow banks. What was pretty funny was, I would pull a couple out, look back to area I had "cleared", only to find another victim or two to pull out..... The gift that kept on giving.

In the end, I never did get to work. I did, however, make almost a grand pulling folks out...... more than I would make in a week at work. :D

i would have had him give me $20 bucks then i would have pulled the same way.

i had my buddy get stuck in his 94 Nissan 4x4 last winter, i hooked to his bumper (had no hooks and frame was cracked lol) backed right up to him, and gunned it.....well the bumper looks like a pretzel now......

way i see it is, if you need my help, then im going to yank you out the way i see fit, since im taking my time to get you out.....just my OPINION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO1jsO9MrnM I think I woulda liked to have seen this

Brilliant!!!! I know, lets pull the stuck car DEEPER into the snow!!!!

There's a couple thousand dollars worth of damage........ wonder if he has good insurance......

^Little sh1t box ain't worth it.
Its like, a Geo or something.
I wanna know what he attached the strap to.

Well, yer still stuck in the snow but we got the trunk open for ya!

with all those people there, your telling me they couldnt push that little car out? wow....

Or pick it up and carry it over.......

lmao^

Another Video for those interested .

http://s844.photobucket.com/albums/a...NG2010Comp.mp4

COOL! I think the jeep needs a bit more ground clearance. :D

LMAO MY KINDA PPL RIGHT THERE! LOOKS LIKE A GOOD TIME (it was a good thread pac before it gets locked atleast lol)

Pacman, great video. i like they way your dodge sounds.

^ LMAO seriously, thats a good one

good one. looks like fun.
the big jacked up truck ALMOST went over on its side.
the little dakota or whatever it was impressive. he stayed with the big boys.

Yeah the jacked up one was a homemade job that we came across in the ditch and he begged me to pull him out , he had taken the ditch when he broke his front driveshaft because the slip yoke was too short from all the lift . The Dakota is a good buddy of mine and that truck just keeps on going and going.....it is an unbelievable truck, has 31"s and a 3 " body lift other than that it is bone stock .

Posts edited, some deleted. Play nice guys (you know who you are), or you won't be playing at all.

no offense, but if i ever buy a Sunfire and get it stuck, i think i'll call someone else to pull me out. i'm afraid you might hurt my neck. lol.

lol. if i was to buy a sunfire your could shoot me with air-soft gun.