History Main / VehicularSabotage

* ''ACruelGodReigns'': Jeremy does this to [[spoiler: kill his step-father Greg]].

* Jeremy does this to [[spoiler: kill his step-father Greg]].

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->--'''Batman''', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''

->--'''Marge''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

* In the ''MissionImpossible'' episode "The Missile", a psychotic mechanic tampers with the brakes in Dana's car.

* One episode of ''MacGyver'' featured the tampering with brakes version as an excuse for the title character to repair a moving vehicle.

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->''He trashed my car, Alfred. Between a couple of guys that's '''real''' personal.''
->--'''Batman''', ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''

->''Oh, no -- the "Brakes Cut" light!''
->--'''Marge''', ''TheSimpsons''

* ''TheProfessionals''. Doyle is being stalked by someone from his past who takes pleasure in making Doyle sweat before he kills him. In one scene his car is rigged to fail in stages -- first the brakes, then the steering, then after the car crashes a delayed-action bomb gives Doyle enough time to exit the vehicle before it blows up.

* ''StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'': Scotty "performing surgery" on the USS ''Excelsior'' transwarp drive.

* At one point in ''BatmanReturns'', The Penguin manages to install a [[HollywoodHacking remote control]] in the batmobile.

* Roger cut Stan's brake lines on ''AmericanDad''

* This has become something of a tradition on ''{{Top Gear}}'''s international specials. Started on the US trip where Hammond and Clarkson, who were a) boiling in Florida's heat and humidity and b) sick of James may being smug about being the only one with working air-conditioning, so they sabotaged James's air-con. More recently in the Middle East special Hammond's radio was re-wired to a hidden one that came on when the car started and was lock on playing {{Genesis}}, a band Hammond ''hates'' rather loudly.

* ''TheSimpsons'': In order to smoke out a person trying to kill Homer, he is made the King of the Mardi Gras parade. The person trying to kill him as tampered with the brakes of his float so he can't stop.

* Roger cut Stan's brake lines on ''AmericanDad!''

* In one of TheBabySittersClub mysteries, a young actor's limo is [[VehicularSabotage sabotaged]] by a crazy fan of his co-star who had been trying to discredit the kid throughout the whole book with increasingly dangerous stunts. Tragedy was only averted by Kristy figuring it out and just barely managing to get the driver to stop before driving off. NightmareFuel anyone?

* Roger cut Stan's brake lines on AmericanDad!

* In the play ''Theater/BlitheSpirit'' Charles' first wife (who is a ghost) tampers with his brakes so he'll die and join her in the afterlife. But unfortunately for all, it is Charles's second wife Ruth who drives the car and gets killed, turning her into a ghost too.

* One episode of ''{{Macgyver}}'' featured the tampering with brakes version as an excuse for the title character to repair a moving vehicle.

* This has become something of a tradition on {{Top Gear}}'s international specials. Started on the US trip where Hammond and Clarkson, who were a) boiling in Florida's heat and humidity and b) sick of James may being smug about being the only one with working air-conditioning, so they sabotaged James's air-con. More recently in the Middle East special Hammond's radio was re-wired to a hidden one that came on when the car started and was lock on playing {{Genesis}}, a band Hammond ''hates'' rather loudly.

In one of TheBabySittersClub mysteries, a young actor's limo is [[VehicularSabotage sabotaged]] by a crazy fan of his co-star who had been trying to discredit the kid throughout the whole book with increasingly dangerous stunts. Tragedy was only averted by Kristy figuring it out and just barely managing to get the driver to stop before driving off. NightmareFuel anyone?

In one of TheBabySitterClub mysteries, a young actor's limo is [[VehicularSabotage sabotaged]] by a crazy fan of his co-star who had been trying to discredit the kid throughout the whole book with increasingly dangerous stunts. Tragedy was only averted by Kristy figuring it out and just barely managing to get the driver to stop before driving off. NightmareFuel anyone?