What is the stupidest thing you've even done in / to your car?

[Hanz]

I suppose mine has to be trying to pass a tractor about a year ago, had only just moved into the sticks here and didn't realise the lane was so narrow. I attempted to pass the tractor but ended up in the ditch/stream stuck. The poor farmer had to take his tractor home to get some chains to pull me out again... Guess how I felt? :-(

 

[SLinKyjoe]

discussed marriage with the girlfriend!

Stupid bint went and married me! Some people just dont know when you are joking do they?

It soon fell apart! By heck, next week, i would have been married 14years.

 

[Hanz]

Haven't experienced that one yet..

I have a few more silly stories of what I have reversed into, but I am slowly going to release them, I'm trying to keep up the "good female" driver appearence! (Is there such?)

 

[OmniCognateNeutronRangler]

just let us know which part of the UK you live in so we can avoid driving when you're about (especially tractors)

 

[angus falconer]

About 20 years ago I had an old wreck of an Alfa Spider. It had a limited slip diff and skinny tyres and so was great for power slides. I wheeled it out of the garage to show off to a mate, got half way through a power slide and changed my mind (narrow road) and decided to abort. Forgot there were no brakes and whacked it into a passing lamp-post.

Doh

 

[OmniCognateNeutronRangler]

Actually the most embarrasing was probably on a motor bike. I used to help out at the local RAC/ACU training course and we had a guy from the CID sent to us for a bit of re-training (he already had a license but hadn't ridden a bike in years). Myself, the chief instructor and the cop set off into Croydon and had been driving down one road for about 20 seconds when the chief instructor pulled us over (he was actually in the lead) and asked us if we noticed anything about the road we had been driving down. We both said know. He then pointed out the arrows showing that it was a one-way street and we had been driving down it the wrong way......D'oh.

Just goes to show really, one was a cop, one was a chief instructor and none of us noticed until it was too late.

 

[OmniCognateNeutronRangler]

Oh yes, I forgot. Handbreak-turned a rented Camero into a tree in California. Not my fault though, I was in the passanger seat and nearly got a tree in my ear. Forgot with Auto's you need to knock it into neutral.....D'oh.

 

[OmniCognateNeutronRangler]

Got a car stuck in an alley way.......oh the fun we had when I was younger (passanger for that one again)

 

[SLinKyjoe]

just let us know which part of the UK you live in so we can avoid driving when you're about (especially tractors)

if you look up over here a bit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^ it tells you.

 

[OmniCognateNeutronRangler]

oh hells bells, you're the second person that has pointed out that I'm missing the blindingly obvious today. I guess that's what happens when you're supposed to be fixing someones software at the same time (or possibly I'm just a bit thick).


Think I'll give up for today. Maybe it's just the pictures of Hanz that are distracting me...

 

[SLinKyjoe]

Think I'll give up for today. Maybe it's just the pictures of Hanz that are distracting me...

she has been changing them a bit too much for me too. i was getting quite dizzy at one point.

just kept my eyes closed since then

 

[Hanz]

Good typing skills with the eyes closed there SLinKy, I'm very impressed how you managed to navigate round this site without the eyesight...

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who has done something rather silly in the car...

I've also reversed my car (s) into things, including: Other cars, walls, bars....

The worst and most dumb thing I ever did was not fill up my car with oil and water... I had just passed my test and brought myself a Hyundai S coupe for £150 with tax and MOT. I didn't know what was what under the engine, and thought each day "I'll check the oil and water tomorrow"... Blew the head gasket 6 months later... The punishment? A 998cc Micra....

 

[Hanz]

Got a car stuck in an alley way.......oh the fun we had when I was younger (passanger for that one again)

Slight misjudgement?

 

[nialler]

ermmm siezed a VW Passat engine

reveresed a 2 month old Pontiac LeMans into a palm tree (well side swiped it so entire side of the car was in a ****) didn't have the sense to know what to do so drove forward again further damaging the side (first car, only 1 hours driving instruction and passed test).

Same car, ended up in the gully between highways in florida doing 70 hit sign that said you shouldn't be down there, sign hits window, big crack in window (lucky my head was still on my shoulders)

Finally.....

Letting my stressed out and crying wife do her test in the S320 - €600 worth of damage to the car she clattered (but the book said keep to the left)


edit: speaking of alleyways, had a close call last week down in kilkennny, to slightly bemused German tourists sat and watched me try to manouvre from a car park into this alleway, after 5 mins of back and forward, got her straight, drove down and alley narrowed to the end, every alarm was screaming in the car, stopped the traffic and thank feck for folding mirrors.

 

[blueboar]

Hello

I'm a newbie, just joined

Blew up a landrover 200tdi engine, in the process we disintigrated the barings in the turbo, which sucked the oil out of the engine and sent it out of the exhaust. And blocked the A12 to essex! thats a good claim to fame

 

[stumpy]

Back in my yoof, a mate, unbeknown to me, lit a banger as we were going along and threw it out of the car. Only to watch it blow back in and land between him and the seat. 5 seconds of hiss, and then quite the loudest bang I've ever heard. The car filled with smoke and somehow I managed to stop to survey the damage to the car, and him. First stop, not casualty, but the cashpoint, for a new seat. Oh how we laughed.

 

[television]

Went to a fate, met a nice girl, fell in love, drove off, forgot that I had parked on top of a 5ft high bank and ended up with the car vertical.

Malcolm

 

[Balal]

Well! my dad had this old 1969 Opel Record...It use to just stand in garage and no one was allowed to touch it...i was 13 and wasnt allowed to drive any car yet alone this car.... so once he was at work, mum was out shopping and i was getting bored...so I took the car for a test drive .... had accident that totally destroyed the right side of the car ....
Had to pay the guy whose horse cart i totally destroyed....so went to Dad's office, took money from his wallet (without him knowing)...payed the guy...took the car to body shop...unfortunately, the guy knew my dad so he asked me to bring the car the next day so he can work on it with full concentration .....alas! i had to drive home... reversed the car in garage so no one can see the damage....but by mistake i was so scared that i put car cover on it, which wasnt there when i took it out.... that gave it away and not only my dad but my mum got all nosy as to who covered the car.... one of the scariest day of my life!!! ...but hey! had to cry my way out of it!!

oo and second time again ... i was showing off my mechanical skills to my dad by showing him how i can change spark plugs .....did it on his brand new car that was delivered a week back... broke the tip of spark plug...don't know how till this day ...and apparently that broke the piston ( this is what we were told by garage) .... car had to go back to dealer for a week for engine repairs...

All this happened like 15 yrs back .... but even now when i am back home on holidays, my dad hides his car keys from me

o and yes! got my arse whipped (and that is literally....asian parents you know )

 

[davidsl500]

Not exactly in the car but car related...

When I was 20 ( and knew everything) I was in the motor trade -parts distribution and went for an interview as assistant shop manager in a national motor accessories chain. The interview was in a Birmingham Hotel, the Central Hotel I think it was. We all waited on floor 4 and the interview room was a typical bedroom suite on the 5th floor. So I got collected and took up to the 5th floor followed the guy and we were chatting away, sat down at the far end and then had the grilling of a life time - the old nice/nasty routine from the 2 of them. Interview over, I got up and headed for the door..........there are 2 doors, didnt notice that on the way in........picked the left hand door and walked straight into the en-suite bathroom...........5 seconds passed wondering how to get out of this predicament, I walked out, turned to the interviewers commented "nice bathroom" and walked out of the correct door. As I shut it I could hear the sniggering...............didnt wait to see if I got called back up. The only comfort I can take from the experience is that they went bust 9 months later - and I remember the name now - Motorist Discount Centres......

 

[littlebrooklyn]

When I was dating my now ex husband we used to like to find nice quiet country lanes to park in

One night I was driving us along this quiet country road when I noticed a side turning. I turned onto this very narrow road which just kept getting more and more narrow as I drove along it

When I looked out the side window and saw swans swimming past the window I realised I had driven off the road onto a public footpath by the side of the river

I couldn't turn the car around so I had to reverse the whole way back onto the road, which was no meant feat.