What your most embarassing automotive experience ?

SON240sx Automotive
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Ok I know alot of us did stupid and embrassing shit at one point of life or another when trying to show off behind the wheel, dont hide it, EVERYONE has done something stupid at one point or another, anything from hitting the curb when pulling out of a parking spot to understeering when trying to drift in front of your friends…

I know a few people on here who have done some real bad stuff they should really spill they know who they are lol, as for me, when i first got my 240sx the first day i tried to drift a little bit in front of my gf and almsot hit a curb, thankfully i made the car sideways and caught grip and just rolled onto to it lol without damaging much lol…

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I bought a 240.

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prob most embarassing was spinning out my dads jag into a ditch infront of my friends and cracking hte bumper

although they were amazed that i didnt give a shit and just had the damaged fixed. they were like how is tihs kid not spooked that he just crashed a 100,000$ car? bahahaha

im fuc ked

i was just like, damn. i threw it too hard.

second most embarrassing was prob drifting mr2 in the rain at 80km/h first day of work. got a bit oto sideways and did the one thing you’re never supposed to do when you’re in too deep in an MR car. yep. So i spun to the inside again. Smashed the curb and bent my hub so bad i had about 20 degrees of toe in. Put the spare wheel on and drove to work, was only 20min late :stuck_out_tongue:

third most embarrassing has gotta be sliding the s13 around in winter and losing it on ice into a ditch right by this dudes house from hs. they helped me push it out then i sway drifted all the way down the street back to school. in englihs class they all told me how much of a retard i was. i laughed, then almost wrote the car off the next day sliding on ice some more.

fourth more embarrassing is prob sliding the gs and getting booked by cops and given careless driving RIGHT outside of prokart and neetronics. everyone was laughing at me while hte cop was yelling at me and telling me how im an asshole and whatnot.

fifth most embarrasing was prob sliding the gs with my buddies on tape and smashing a curb and grazing afence. good thing the gs is a tank, she took it no probs and the minor scratches all buffed out. phew

actually no

most embarrasing experiance EVER

lining up my 240 running on the alternator only (no battery) at the drag strip, driving around the water box and then trying to do a burnout, only to stomp the brakes and stall the car. then have james run over with the battery while every hick witin a 50 mile radius was laughing their asses off at me. THEN not being able to start the car because she was so scared from all the fat ugly men laughing at her. pushing it off, finally getting it started. But it was ok because they were all silent as fuck after i started pulling off 118mph traps, faster than pretty much any other car that was there.

like what are you asking embarrasing or stupid?

anyways. i made this post so you can all see how retarded i am, and maybe it will make you not feel so bad about the little mistake you may have made. we all fuck up. its all about learning from your mistakes. see, i dont learn. thats why i was arrested. and then put on house arrest. and now have a criminal record. please, dont be like me. and if you are, lets go out drifting sometime :lol:

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lol… i got tangled in a fence on the 2nd day i got my drivers license lol but it wasnt ebarassing really lol, thank god it wasnt my 240 lol

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  1. Bought my car
  2. Came home
  3. Next day, tried to roll windows down and they didn’t go down
  4. Called dealer and told them of the problem
  5. Dealer informed me of a “Passenger Window Lock” button
  6. ???
  7. Pwned

:dunno:

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my most imbarrasing is when try to show off with my old KA24DE the road being a little wet and waiting for the light to change to turn left i decided i wanted to hang it out a “little” well we all know rain is the worst for predicability and i spun her around twice right in the middle of traffic with everyone watching and luckly i was the only one turning left lol now that makes you feel like an idiot when you try to feel tough

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#1—Could it be the day I put bald tires over my 30mm Z32 front brakes cause my winter wheels wouldn’t clear, only to understeer on the way to the tire shop the next morning, directly into a ford ranger, totalling my pretty S13. Then because I was blocking 1 lane Lucky and I were stopping traffic on way and alternating traffic through the one open lane, well, a blazer wasn’t looking high enough through the turn and smoked an Echo waiting for me to wave her through. The Blazer then richoceted in to a Montana that was driven my his Father (matching Rangers {OHL} jackets with matching #'s), the dads van then ricocheted into my tow truck. 2 car accident into 6 cars. The officer was talking to the Ford ranger people when this happened…

#2—AE92 Carolla SR5, I was driving back to highschool from lunch in the girlfriends car. I was thinking take the highway or take residential streets. I choose residential, I hit a pothole so large that a wheel stud broke. which altogether is bad but it only had 3 to start with, now 2. About 3 blocks later the car drops on one corner, bang, scrape, stop. I get out and an old guy washing his RV says your wheel is over there. I collect my wheel and he’s already got the pylons out and hands me a phone. I was on contract so I tell a classmate walking by to tell the english teacher I’ll be late. the tow truck arrives and takes the car… I get him to write on the receipt, wheel fell off. The english teacher laughed in front of the class then corrected his grammer. That exact wheel had a CV shaft replaced 4 days earlier, so the shop paid $5400 on account that in may have been they’re fault.

theres more but I should get to work

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Werd. Me too.

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Sorry guys - don’t wanna take up the thread - I’ll just shoot a few this way… Life’s never boring especially if it takes long time to learn how to avoid doing stupid s8. :twisted:

  1. Following the squealing tires of my bro who also drove a corolla gts in one of those country roads off highway 6…
    After straight which says 60, over a hill, a 20 km sign appears with sharp turn and I am doing about 130 cuz I wanna catch up to my brother who’s having fun zipping through the corners - about 50 meters away - a house off to the side and a few tall ditches. I try to slow down but don’t want to pump/lock brakes too much or I’ll end up flying off the cliff behind the house - eventually get the rear to slide out and hugging the curb somehow (?).

I see trees pass by, a couple of bushes, then this farmer standing with bunch of friggin steel wires with jaw wide open wondering wtf is going on probably… It felt so long - like time slowed down… weird… I look to the side and my bro barely got through the bridge after hopping off a dirt path - I’ll slam him with my side if this keeps going… I avoided a clash by doing a 270 degree spin ending up about 4 feet from the side of another house up with 1 wheel on the curb… stupid more than embarassing… that farmer looked frozen - I guess he saw my bro flying through in his gts…

  1. Going with friends to a deserted parking lot for some snow fun… During taping, exhaust falls and gives it that “performance” sound out of a an almost stock 1.6L 4age. This is in front of couple of turboed celica awd’s, a CLK, suby’s - about 30 people… I hear cheering that’s louder than my exhaust…

  2. Bringing my brother car keys since he locked his car not far from our home - got him his keys, locked mine in doh… His boss takes 30 seconds to open the corolla with a wire - I ask him where he picked up the “skillz”. :wink:

  3. Trying to rock my sailing 87 olds calais through an intersection on red light as it died and coolant is leaking. People smiling - no I was not head banging…

4B. Getting my olds pushed to the side of the road by a police cruiser with the push-ram cuz it stalled on an offramp.

  1. Having a powder extinguisher come loose and go off (ummm where did the pin go?) in the trunk at 2 am - after the choking stench, me pulling into gas station and taking out bunch of powdery crap while people pull up to gas station.

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  1. Practising my smooth double clutching then coasting to a gas station with one of these - http://www.makemilk.com/wtb/clutched.JPG
    Then getting a tow pull from my dad with his van.

  2. This one just popped in but it’s from when I was much younger - kramer-style: getting my hand stuck in a bus door and going for a jog…

** Got a gut-feeling someone’s gonna do the dad s8-talk in this thread to show their “superior maturity” :lol:

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LOL omg, that reminds of the time I took my mom’s car to meet up with someone to buy me alcohol last summer I think. On the way back I was cruising on the lakeshore then I just hear a bottle smash, i was like OH SHIT, then I could smell it so strongly the whole way home, I drove right by a cop too I was scared he was gonna pull me over. I ended up washing the fuck out of the trunk for like 2 hours, and it still didn’t get the smell out. My mom gets in the car with me later on… “Does it smell like alcohol to you??” “Nope… you must be imagining things…uhh, let’s open the windows instead of using the AC today…”

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One day some buddies of mine and I were at Tim Hortons, where this fucking hot ass girl was studying with her boyfriend or something. After a while my friends and I left. We only had 2 cars with us, both of them being s13’s, so my friend pulls a drift out of the parking lot, so I try to pull a bigger one…

i was on brand new tires so i was pissed at how hard of a time it had kicking out, so i stomped on it, spun out in the middle of the entrance, blocked off traffic in both directions, i look behind me to see the hot girl staring at me like i’m an idiot while walking out of Timmies, so i peal in reverse, throw it in 1st, peal some more, almost hit a toyota matrix with my back end, swing the car the other way and fly onto the street sideways trying to get the hell away from there as fast as possible.

I didn’t return to that Timmie’s for 3 months.

P.S. s1495 you got pwned pretty bad on many occasions :lol:

the fire extinguisher thing happened to my friend too, but he couldn’t hear it 'cause he has bad hearing, so like 2 weeks later he pops open his trunk to see all that shit corroded the metal inside. lmfao.

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Drove my 240 a little while after getting it, with this “strange ticking noise” that I couldn’t diagnose. Thought it was timing chain rattle at first but then it got REALLY bad. Never thought to check the oil cuz I’d just topped it up a few days before. As it turns out that motor liked to swallow a LOT of oil when taken beyond 6000rpm and was almost completely dry; so the lifters weren’t operating and I had some pretty nasty valve tick. Filled it up and the mysterious sound went away. That was pretty embarassing.

Did a little powerslide leaving the highschool parking lot in the 240, hit some snow, overdid it and jumped the inside curb with the front passenger side wheel, right infront of about 30 people at smoker’s corner. Drove off. Heard about that one for a while.

A few months later my exhaust rusted out and FELL OFF in the highschool parking lot going over a speedbump. I proceeded to tie it up with an electrical cord and drive out with it wobbling inches from the ground.

This one’s legend… some people here have brought it up since… Got into the gold Rx7 at Dr. Ink’s. Started it, and it stalled (had a leaky injector at the time). Started it again, let it warm up, went to do a burnout as I left, with Bob and Pavel and a bunch of guys all watching, without realizing my HANDBRAKE WAS STILL ON! :pat: Bogged down, almost stalled and drove away. Became known as “the guy who couldn’t burn out”.

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alright the frist thing with my mazda i was learning how to drive standard all by my self so i was practising in my schools parking lot and i was reversing in between a wall and a car i was so scareed that i was going to hit the car so i forgot about the wall and WAMP!!! there goes the entire passenger side scraped along the wall.

second my crx had no breaks at all no ebrek no nothing. i had to drive it to my garage that was liek a five mintue drive away from my house. i took small streets the entire way until the one light i had to stop for i tried using my clutch to slow down but it wasnt slowing dwon fast enough so i get my frined to jump out the car while its rolling and stop it lol we ended in the middle of the road while everyone is laughin at us and the kids at the day car are allll pointing and lauging.

then my integra im driving in the rain by lansdown and st.clair theres a huge ass turn there on lansdowne towards bloor and i have three guys in my car saying yeha MIKEY GO GO GO GO and we have hte music blasting. so im flooring it doing about 120 and the turn comes im liike OH FUCK THATS A BUS i jam on the breaks avoiding hte huge ass turn by the bus and hit a pot hole and jump hte curve into the hydro pole the plastic ones and poped boht my tires. put my spare on and called my buddie to birng me another spare. and all of htis happened right infornt of my ex-girlfriend house. i call her and tell her make sure ur parents dont look out hte window or come out lol.

so far nothing too bad wiht my two fourty actually nevermind. like a day after i got the car i was showing it off at yorkdale the roads were a little wet so i was at a stop sign making a left, in first gear then secound my friend told me what clutch kicking was so i did it and i couldnt counter steerfast enough i just dogge the neon thats looking at my and my freinds liek wtf are u gusy doing and i DIPPPPP out of there.

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Haha I remember that…

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locked my keys in my car… 6 times now i think?

like i said… its them kitchener folk who jinx me lol

GT

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the day i bought my car… i tried to drive it home with a leaking waterpump… then to find out that my rad has a hole… i was near yorkdale mall… so i pulled over at the parking lot… to let my engine cool… 15 mins. later… i continued onto the highway, thinking i can make it home… with a leaking waterpump and blown rad.i was soon stuck in traffic and i had white smoke comming out from my hood… and everyone is looking at me…i then sunk down into my seat… so no one can see me… and continued driving…so after driving for sum time in the highway… i start feeling power lose so i park on the shoulder of the highway… and luckily a towtruck came to my rescue…

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Did that too. Broke into my own car, in front of a bunch of cops at a Tim Horton’s. They were laughing at me. It was amusing.

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Slid the MPV sideways, in the snow, into a curb, with Bing on the roof and Sasha hanging out the side door. Was more amusing than embarassing but I bent some stuff pretty nicely which I had to replace/repair.

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I joined SON.

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it was when I was taped smooching a goat