Most stupid thing you've done in a car...

[cobra427]

well I reversed my Merc into my Cobra (LR Roadsters) which was sitting innocently enough in the middle of my drive... cracked the front wing on the cobby and messed up the bumper and rear light cluster on the Merc...

not a good day that...

 

[guydewdney]

try:- towed a vauxhall nova at 70mph with no engine,no brakes, bald tyres, an engine in the boot, and equivilant weight in the passenger footwell. no lights. no drivers seat.. down to the local scrap yard at least 2 miles i reckon on a sunday....

 

[SLinKyjoe]

Passed my driving test only to then find out i knew everything about driving and that nobody else in the world can drive as well as me, then bought a brand new car and promptly parked it in the side in another parked car (Cavalier MK1) which was legally parked on the opposite side of the road...after i had passed through the wall of the field i had seemingly driven thru.... and then got told off by my parents for smashing up my new car...as though i wasnt mortified enough :-( .....i had spent a whole years wage on the damn thing and at 18 was well chuffed i could charge about in what is now the most chavtastic Vauxhall Nova....a 1.3 sr with proper checked seating! E 189 UWT if anyone comes accross it. The insurance company insisted it was fixed as it was a new for old so the repair cost had to be 60% or more of the new car price....even with my fingers and toes crossed it was 45% the price. bummer.

I then bought an Astra, new, and smashed that into a Nova wating to turn out of a junction......then got a Cavalier(2nd hand hoping it was a new car jinx) what the wife managed to drive over a kerb and dint the underside sill at the rear of the drivers door....how? then i changed that for a Corsa GSI(Back to new again) and drove straight into a parked Cavalier in the snow with the wife in tears.....so they both went...the wife and my life with vauxhalls. I am not superstitious but coincidences like that are far too much even for me....my only daliance with a dagenham Dustbin (ford) a few years later that had total brake failure told me they were not the cars for me either. Had 2 Mercs and not smashed any up....yet! Managed to put the scooby thru sainsburys car park retainer fence once over....luckily the car withstood the force and knocked the fence into KFC's car park...i sheepishly moved the car and went shopping...

Mind you i was cutting the hedge and the trimmer made contact with the merc just behind the fuel flap....hmmmm......the old one not the new.....

Got the cherokee stuck in mud showing off. Spun the Ibiza GTi on the slip road to the a19 at Yarm...at 65mph. Bounced the LEON over a rough bit of road and required new tyre and tracking adjustment....in fact the only car i ever had i havent done anything wrong to besides the latest slinkymobile, was my firstest ever car. the mini1000. and that didnt have any rear brakes as it leaked....altho i did lock the keys in so i had to break into it to get them....
last week a guy at work wondered why i was happy for him the drive the van to the shops.....


And i once drove a tractor...it was for recovery of Glilders at London Gliding club, Dunstable. They let you drive them under the shadow of the north downs....were upon my first drive of a tractor and the 3 brake pedals resulted in the surgical removal of the fence separating the field from the public right of way....I thundered thru it thinking a wood fence ought to stop me.....oh well.....one discreet replacing of fence and some serious whistling whilst driving back at half speed hoping nobody would notice...

 

[Chazchuzzlewitt]

Put my old Pug 405 arse-down in a ditch at about 45 degrees narrowly avoiding a river whilst trying to reverse into a non-existant road in the middle of the night.
Needless to say I felt a right tit.
Tow truck got it out thankfully, soft verge meant no damage- just pulling clumps of grass and mud out.

 

[TheJim]

well, I wasn't driving. But my mate Ian who has a Marcos took a corner rather too fast and was met by an old dear coming down the middle of the road. He spun out and put the car in a ditch. At which point the bodyshell flexed and the windscreen popped out at some rate of knots. He found it in the next field!
I have only been driving three years, but given time I am sure I will do something cretinous.

 

[pascal]

Faulty Key?

Spent a half an hour trying to get in my Beige Cherry 100A in a carpark of a Ballybunnion Hotel. One of the waiters coming off duty went back to the hotel to get me a clothes hanger.

When he returned, I told him it was okay, as I was trying to get into the wrong car. The look he gave me as I proceeded towards my car in the next row:roll:

PS: My then Girlfriend was with me whilst trying the wrong car, so spose I didn't feel too big an idiot.:grin:

 

[OlafMaxwell]

Early years, a Fiat 128, parked in town, went out for the night, about 3am come back, get into car.....**** someones nicked the stereo,...... damn, they buggered up the ignition too................hey what happened the seat..........ooops wrong car. Sheepishly exit......find right car a little further up street.....

 

[stwat]

I was out with my mate tanking it about in my capri 2.0 laser, it had just started to rain a little when i came to some bends i knew very well and could could take them very fast(in the dry!!) I took the first two corners spot on and my mate turned to me and said, "who said capri's handle bad in the wet cos this goes round corners as if it was on rails" It was at this exact point that the rear end decided it wanted to be first to exit the corner :???: I over corrected and sent the car rearwards into the armco, turning my sleek long capri into a compact hatchback with no rear side windows and a rear hatch that was almost touching the rear seats :???:

Stu

 

[davidsl500]

Back in the late seventies my mate bought a Trojan Bubblecar and drove it home after purchase, parking it right in front of his garage door - his driveway slopes down to the door. Of course on bubble cars the door swings open forwards and that is when he discovered - there is no reverse gear !! 4 hours later a neighbour finally rescued a very red faced friend.....

 

[sooper coop]

I got my trusty cherokee stuck in a lane towing my dirtbikes to an event. up a steep and gooey entrance.

I was chatting at the check in later and some bloke says

"Did you see that bloke stuck in the lane towing two YZ250's up the hill. What a Tosser, everyone else rode their bikes up the hill."

I just smiled sweetly and later lapped him.


;-)

 

[classicsl]

did you hear about a poor woman who was killed by her own car??! apparently she parked it up as there was a problem with her starter motor, so she put on the faulty handbrake, turned the ignition off, but left it in gear. when she went under the bonnet to give the starter motor a good whack, somehow there was still power in the ignition and the car lurched forward, knocking her back, panicing she reached out, grabbing hold of the throttle cable and accelerating the car over herself

tragic accident and an unbelievable chain of events!

 

[jberks]

Where to start.....

I was doing doughnuts in Sansbury's car park in my trusty Viva one winter night and thought it would be fun to slide it into a snowbank sideways. Didn't notice the curb, hidden in the snowbank though. Cost most of my savings for the new front suspension.

Came flying up my drive at home, screached to a halt as is the way of the teenager, jumped out and realised I'd manage to park tight against a drainpipe. There was no damage yet but if I moved forward, I would lose my wheelarch and back the doorhandle. After much head scratching I got a trolley jack under the diff and pulled it out sideways.

Bought a caravan many years ago (quite daft in its own right). Was towing it home when I misread the daftest designed junction I've ever seen and wrote the ****** car off (With hindsight, should have sued Humberside council). Came home with a lovely caravan,.... but no car!

Closed the M1 once - but that's another story!

 

[Myros]

when a student some years ago, I decided to impress one of the young ladies by giving her a lift to the station in my beetle. Made great headway into the essential representational paradigm issues, looked like a might get a date, until I pulled up in the car park and the bug burst into sheets of flame from the engine bay. The young lady caught her train okay, but it took me ages to find a fire extinguisher. The two railway policemen who watched the entire episode gave me 5.9s for effort. I had apparently been trailing a sheet of flame all the way from the hall of residence, but couldn't see it as it was flat out behind me and not showing up in the mirrors. Only cost £19 to fix though.

 

[marshie001]

sitting in the back of a friends mazda 626,we'd just collected a puppy from the blue cross and it decided to sh*t on the back seat! finding some newspaper i scooped it up and threw it out of what i thought to be an open window....made a lovely mess!

 

[shaggy]

having an argument with my wife over useing the mobile (not hands free) told her its completely safe and what a load of crap it distracts you blah blah
us men can multitask you women can't ..... and so on
5 mins later looking at a text message slamed into the back of a brand new impreza at 30 mph the poor guy had only had it 3 days :evil:

 

[GrahamC230K]

Overtaking a marked Traffic Police car at 96 mph. Yes we had a chat on the hard shoulder afterwards. I think he liked my car, he had taken a video of it and everything! He let me watch it too!

 

[Spike]

In nearly 20 years of driving, I've never even scuffed a bumper :grin:

However, the insurance company still think I'm a liability because of the 3 points on my license. :neutral:

 

[42864]

dave 42864

Had an evening of passion in the back seat as (usual lads) a few weeks later got the news, pregnant! of course married the girl straight away, 2days before the wedding, miscarige, of course could not back out, still with the bitch,-- never pregnant in the first place.