Oops.

Tesco today, a woman was trying to get her car to reverse and it wouldn't. Loads of revs and another go. A horrible grating sound, I thought she had driven over a shopping basket. I did the cut the engine gesture (the hand across the throat thing) and I went to investigate. I'm no expert but I took a punt that the nearside half shaft and CV joint should be attached to the car! She got out of the car and said "Oh not again." and went on to relate her previous car had suffered the same fate. Either a remarkable co-incidence or she has clobbered a lot of kerbs. Lucky it happened in the car park and not in the fast lane of the M9.