Slightly off topic but hopefully fits in re cars "taken apart".
For a number of years I worked at an aviation bookshop on the A4 Great West Road that was located by a junction that had its fair share of serious accidents. For anyone who might have known the area it was by the Master Robert Motel.
One year we had two fatals at the junction, both caused by someone jumping the traffic lights.
Shortly after the second accident the Met Police Accident Prevention Unit came for a weeks visit posting motorcycles units at several lights. They would give words of advice to anyone who stopped with any part over the white line or jumped the light. Their used our junction as a base because of a large concrete area suitable for parking a few vans etc so we got chatting to them at them.
Along comes a London taxi, couple of pax in the back and stops with the front well over the white line. Officer indicates him to pull over, which he does. From the shop we can see he's quite annoyed, oh dear, big mistake.
Officer stops another taxi and pax are "transferred". About 45 mins later a black van appears and a few lads jumped out and start to take a good look at the offending black cab, panels get taken off with a bit of poking and prodding. Even light bulbs are taken out and looked at. Finally the taxi is handed back to the driver for his garage to collect as he has not the means to put some of the bits back correctly.
He had clearly forgotten a simple point, the Mets are the controlling authority for the licencing of the cabs and so they had called up the relevant lads. He walked away with a large bill as they found quite a few faults with the cab including, we were told, having too high a wattage on the headlight bulbs.
And all because he didn't want to hear a 30 sec piece of advise.