Can't bring myself to watch the whole thing.

I blew a radiator hose in the R32 on the way home from work the other day, and it apparently takes a week to fashion the length of silicone to replace it. So in the meantime, I've borrowed my housemates car, a Jeep Wrangler. He never drives it. I know why: it's fucking scary to drive. I mean I've driven some terrible cars in my time. I've owned them. But this...

There is something loose or bent in the front drop arms. Or one of them is missing. I don't know. It's been lifted, so I think that pulls everything out of alignment to start with, and it must change the castor angles or something. Whatever it is, it messes with the steering. Accelerating it pulls one way. Braking it pulls the other. The same occurs whenever the weight shifts in any direction (ie starting to turn, driving up a hill, road camber changes, etc.).

The result is steering that is roughly as direct as the steering in a boat. A sail boat.

The worst part though, is that in just the right conditions the front wheels start to slap left and right. The best way to describe that is to imagine a old shopping trolley, and pushing it at speed. At some point the castors will vibrate, and then start to swing from side to side very quickly. And the trolley sounds like its about to rattle itself to pieces. The Jeep does that - almost exactly like that, in fact. Its like you'd just taken the wrong turn onto a railway. It's unnerving, because there's more than eggs to be broken. It's also, probably, horribly dangerous. And it happens when taking a tight, banked corner at about 70km/h. You know, when a lifted Jeep, on high-profile tyres, feels safest.

The best bit is it only has 42,000km on it. It's basically new. I pity the guy who buys it with 400,000km on it.