What your most embarassing automotive experience ?

…and liked it.

back in the day when i souped up my grandmas accord(exhaust, intake and more rice stuff) Racing another accord with a darknights sticker on the window down thomas, killed him by atleast 5 lenghts then i was just coasting towards the railroad tracks start slowing down because sum1s crossing the road takes a step into my lane then steps out of it as the person relizes hey this cars flying towards me. I get closer…Omfg…its Grandma! I panic and let off the brakes flyy over the tracks at atleast 110 kmh. buddys like turn around she saw! u gota kill her know she knows! I was shitting my pants for a good 2 hours wondering what she was going to say when i turned my phone back on. i didnt even kno this lady could walk!! its like once a year she’ll walk anywhere…almost smoked her…my own grandma…in her own car :roll: i have a good 5 more stories but their too long.

  1. In my old van I blew up the tranny in the school parking lot, at the end of school, with everyone in the parking lot.
    2)Threw a rod in my old van, On a busy busy 2 road street, at rush hour, on a friday, of a long weekend. I walked to the other side of the street untell the truck came.
  2. the first winter meet, getting the 240 stuck in a large snowbank in east end area 240, signaled twochaz to help me out inturn also getting him stuck
  3. same day, sliding to wide and jumping the curb
  4. Slid out on some rain into an extra large curb, my tierod looked like a C after i was done
  5. Backed My parents Brand New Lincoln LT into my neighbours car.
  6. Just about threw my dads jag into a ditch after i “borrowed it”
  7. AND THE kicker, First winter I ever drove, first snow storm Of the year. Out driving trying to get the hang of winter driving, go to make a left and BOOM into the side of a car, no biggy right? Nope It was Whitbys Top cop, in his off duty car.

i stalled and 2 girls lookin at me laughed.

old school story i was racing a cavalier and mishifted grinding the gear,ouch. Then the cavelier blew by me. most embrassing moment

I was going to Guvernment. I’m one block away from it, when some stupid bitch makes an illegal left turn in front of me, and I clip her rear quarter panel, my entire front bumper and some other stuff is toast. Since I figure I had to get the car off the road, I drove past Guv going about 20 km/h, past the whole line to The Drink, with all the posh clubbers looking at me. I wanted to die. Pulled into the LCBO parking lot, meeting some more very surprised clubbers on the way.

took my parents maxima out for a spin dropped the clutch only to realize my wheel was turned tryed to correct myself so i didnt hit a parked car (of course a bunch of my friends were watching) so i missed the parked car with wheels still spinning then SMACK i hit the curb bent the shit out of everything f’n up the wheels hubs , tirerod etc. 2700 worth of damage. no i didnt stop once i hit the curb i just threw it into 2nd and took off down the street …

and through all of that my friend actually called my cell to tell me how sick my burnout was i was pratically having a heart attack looking at the damage

…this is the most stupid thing i have ever done in my life :oops:

god damn you fwd cars with high horsepower and your torque steer!!! :roll:

god damn you fwd cars with high horsepower and your torque steer!!!

no you just suck

GT

Peeling tires != Burnout

:nono:

One time I was out racing around in my old NX1600. I decided to see how fast I could shift into 3rd. I then proceeded to grind it so bad that it stalled.

this just happened the other day. im taking a customers car for a test drive after doing a rear main seal with the master tech. guy infront of me is going slow and i need to merge into the other lane so i punch it, just as the light infront starts turning red. i let off the throttle but the throttle is stuck wide open. i panick for a second then throw it into neutral and screech to a halt right in the middle of the intersection, bouncing off the limiter. i turn off the key and everyone and their mothers is honking at me as i jump out of the car in my uniform and start looking under the hood. takes me a few seconds before i realize the cable from the tranny isnt hooked up. by this time people are yelling out the windows at me. i hook the cable back up and jump in. give the car a couple revs to make sure then make my turn into the dealership. i felt like a retard for the rest of the day

Lol I’ve done that with my ex-gf once but my line was “we just passed by a dead skunk” - I don’t think she bought it… :bball:

Yeah I had to wash and dry out all the stuff including the trunk lining and vacuum the rest.

Ok I got another one - you know how people reuse windshield fluid containers but don’t label them (i.e. for coolant :evil:) - yeah - bad idea esp if your car is white #-o i learned to take time whiffing before i pour it anywhere near my cars…

Long story, this happened way back in like ’99…

I was working on a saurday (huge 8 bay shop in a little town), taking a console out of an ’83 monte carlo 3.8l junker that the local wrecker brought in. This thing was a POS, it had been sitting for a while and the doors were tied shut by the seatbelts cause the latches didn’t work. The apprentice bodyman came by and noticed the car, since it was similar to his ’85 cutlass lowrider.

After I was done, he wants to see if it runs… both of our bosses are MIA, so he hotwires it and gets it running after boosting it. He tries to drive it but only does a brakestand… the front brakes are sticking. He decides to torch the caliper pin on the pass side of the car, and drive off thinking the other side would unstuck… he left a black strip from the frozen drivers wheel. He comes back, walking, and asks me for help… he tried turning it around a couple hundred feet down the road, and one rear wheel went into the gravel shoulder and spun, leaving him stranded. We hop into his ’78 buick electra (huge boat, with a 403 wheezy v8), and the plan was to boost the monte, and push it off the shoulder with the buick. I was in the monte, and things went kinda to plan until the monte stalled in gear in the middle of my 3 pt turn, right in the middle of the road… cars are stopping, then honking, so my buddy tries to push from behind to get the car on the other shoulder… the back end of the buick swings out into the shallow ditch, digging up grass, but I’m still stuck. Cars are really piling up now, and lots of people are getting impatient, so he panics… drives the buick to the front of the monte, and rams it back onto the shoulder and then into the ditch. He hit a bit hard, cause my head was hitting the roof of the car, and the hood and fender buckle on the monte.

Back to the shop we go, get the torches and the jack, drag them down the road, and right when we start putting it back together, we see the wrecker’s towtruck turning into the shop, pause just for a minute, back out, and come towards us. He wasn’t happy, and we got to hear the whole ‘dangerous driving’ speech, and how he could have got in shit if we hit something. Funny part was, he was aiming his speech at me, thinking I did it… I didn’t correct him, since my buddy was feeling embarrassed enough as it was

For the next few months, everyone in the shop called us Bo and Luke Duke http://www.thenewrl.com/phpbb/images/smiles/mullet.gif

I’ve only been driving for a couple years, and I dont have my own car yet, but my fascination with driving sideways always seems to get me in trouble…

First “Incident”: My old highschool has a nice, huge, empty parkinglot. Perfect for 17 year olds on a cold winter night to practise their “emergency car control” as my father would call it :stuck_out_tongue: Anyway, after a couple e-brake turns in my mom’s fwd corolla, i decide to go for a nice big spin, see how many rotations i could get… Come flying outta the back lot, crank it left then right, and blasting into the main lot I musta got it through three full rotations. Feeling good, I go home. Next day, I get called into the principal’s office. Little did i know that the “security cameras” actually had film in them. He looks at me, looks at his monitor and points to the nice, white, snowspray covered corolla and asks “Was that you?” Got harassed about that from all my teachers. “Irresponsible” they said. Bah

My real worst moment was sliding my ex’s 99 jetta TDI, old boxy bodystyle. Loved that car. Anyway. I was driving into my dorm parking lot after a light snowfall, swinging it left, right, then left as usual, and just as i’m apexing with the left front, it hits a patch of ice. Fk, whatever, i correct and catch the now understeering jetta. Back hits an ice patch. FK AGAIN! try to catch the thing, but we’re sliding slowly (and i mean slowly…you know what i mean) towards the curb. I barely bump it, car rocks a bit, and i keep going into the lot. Both right side wheels have nice little dents in them. Turns out later both right side wheel bearings were screwed. andit ended up being a $250 job. I do the right thing and give her the cash, but her dad starts asking too many questions (“Where’s this money coming from? And How in hell did you do it?”) so my first, last and so far only time meeting the guy was telling him how I f**ked his daughter’s car.

Go Me…

-Adam

lol dont wory i use to lvoe getting in trouble at school, i would burn out of the lot like theres no tomorow when i just go my license :lol:

Most jackassness for me is when i got a free 1984 tercel hatch. It was Hulk green and painted with house paint. It had an amzing 65hp at the crank so we decide to get more power. We took the airbox and modded it some how and moved the radiator. Kinked the line. So to do this amazing intake we had to get rid of the coolant bottle. For some retarded reason we decided to use a mcdonalds cup. Coolant gets very hot. Especially when the last guy who owned the car filled it completely with water. Long story short we are waiting at a light. Quick glance at my temp meter its all the way at red. Shit in the engine is literally melting to shit. The mcdonalds cup is melted and theres smoke and coolant leaking everywhere. We left because we thought people called the cops cause we were drifting (attempting) in the court of a friends house. So we’re freaking out cause at the time none of us had our license and we had plates from another car and a fake sticker of some sort. So this light wont change and when it finally does we get like 15 feet to the other side when we see 2 cop cars pull into the street we were just on. Scared the shit outa all of us. One of my luckier nights avoiding the police. We heard sirens and shit the whole night because so many people called in a stolen/abandoned car. Ive only had my g2 for like a month and a half so thats one of the crazier things i’ve done
BTW: Sasha you fuked up ur dads car and you didnt care?! You are crazy man. I would be shitting myself. Also what color was ur mr2 and it was mk2? You let off the gas didnt you to make you spin out

and the catwalk story but ill prob get flamed and someone else on the board will tell you guys probably

LOLOLLL!!

this is actually a more funny story then embarassing

haha well being bored to shit… with nothing to do, we watch vehicular lunitics one day. seeing the stupid shit they do, made my friends wanting to do it! stupid but fun! haha we took a maxima, drove it through all the catwalks we see, then one cat walk led to the school, we decided to drive round the baseball field and shit and then through anotha park! hahahahaa it was funn!

movies give a bad influence on people… :fruit:

This thread isn’t about being embarrassed. It’s about acting like jackasses.

lol thats so awsome, i did that too when i had my mazda 323, me, my buddy in a camry, an old benz, and another camry, we drove through entire richmond green park catwalks at one time hahaha, urban offroading :lol:

great experience! probably wanna try racing in a high school track next! thinking bout it seems fun… but most likely wont do it in reality! LOL

:roll: like i said…