What's your most embarrassing driving experience?
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One summers evening, just picked up my then GF and we were heading out somewhere, pulling up at the junction at the end of her road, with a pub on the corner full of people outside! And bang the clutch pedal yes the clutch pedal snapped under my foot!! Apparently a common problem on the mk4 Golf i had at the time, so i then had to switch off the car, put it in first and start it in gear and go kangarooing out of the junction infront of a beer garden full of half cut punters 
I drove out of a petrol station onto the wrong side of the road with a car coming towards me (not dangerous as it was a small side road that only serves the petrol station so no real traffic doing any speed). The other driver looked at me like WTF! I looked back at them, gave the arms in the air shrug and started shouting "you're on the wrong side of the road *****" I then realised I was wrong
Also stopped at a green light and took off when it went red on a test drive once. The salesman crapped himself
Also stopped at a green light and took off when it went red on a test drive once. The salesman crapped himself
In 1985 the wife and I moved to Japan from the US. Of course they as you do. Drive on the left. Went the whole 5 years there without a hitch. Got back to the good ole USA. And promptly made a left hand turn from the right and went to the left side of road. :bag: OPPS! Man I hate it when that happens. Fortunately no accident nor rozzers.
Another thing I did when young was terrible. The outcome of the actions of my friend and I could have been very bad. We knew a fella that owned an auto repair shop. He let us use it when he was closed to work on our hotrod project. It was Sunday when we went there to do some tuning. We noticed a neat little British car in the shop (Lotus Europa). When we looked in it we noticed the keys were in the ignition. So we (against our better judgement) took a joy ride :telloff: . As we were going around a curve we lost traction (it was raining) and did a full 360 spin. Never hit anything though. We did feel terrible and very much felt ashamed and embarrassed for having done such a thing.
Another thing I did when young was terrible. The outcome of the actions of my friend and I could have been very bad. We knew a fella that owned an auto repair shop. He let us use it when he was closed to work on our hotrod project. It was Sunday when we went there to do some tuning. We noticed a neat little British car in the shop (Lotus Europa). When we looked in it we noticed the keys were in the ignition. So we (against our better judgement) took a joy ride :telloff: . As we were going around a curve we lost traction (it was raining) and did a full 360 spin. Never hit anything though. We did feel terrible and very much felt ashamed and embarrassed for having done such a thing.
not for me... but for my ex.
In my car, driving along the M1 with the roof down... see a few cars look at us, just thought it was the usual "look at that poser with the roof down" stare.
Then stuck at slow moving traffic, van driver next to me shouts outs nice baps love
The gf was wearing a vest top, but the seat belt had gone between her cleavage, pulled her top down and exposed her! I found it amusing... which only angered her more :evil:
In my car, driving along the M1 with the roof down... see a few cars look at us, just thought it was the usual "look at that poser with the roof down" stare.
Then stuck at slow moving traffic, van driver next to me shouts outs nice baps love
The gf was wearing a vest top, but the seat belt had gone between her cleavage, pulled her top down and exposed her! I found it amusing... which only angered her more
:evil:When I was 18 and had a 1.2 Clio, went onto a roundabout a bit quick to get in front of the car coming from the right, and span right In front of him and stopped facing him. Felt a right idiot having to then do a 3 point turn right in front of him on the roundabout haha!
Some folk just don't have a sense of humor.aquazi said:not for me... but for my ex.
In my car, driving along the M1 with the roof down... see a few cars look at us, just thought it was the usual "look at that poser with the roof down" stare.
Then stuck at slow moving traffic, van driver next to me shouts outs nice baps love
The gf was wearing a vest top, but the seat belt had gone between her cleavage, pulled her top down and exposed her! I found it amusing... which only angered her more
Um...
Writing off my first car... I mean it wasn't really my 'fault' but the story of sliding on ice into a parked car still gets me some stick with friends. Few years back now mind but my brother seems to bring it up every few weeks.
Otherwise, earlier this year approaching a set of traffic lights, past all the parked cars to the front, at which point I realised they weren't parked cars lol. My girlfriend was in histerics, in my defence there are always parked cars down the length of that road, and the queue at the lights is never normally that long
Writing off my first car... I mean it wasn't really my 'fault' but the story of sliding on ice into a parked car still gets me some stick with friends. Few years back now mind but my brother seems to bring it up every few weeks.
Otherwise, earlier this year approaching a set of traffic lights, past all the parked cars to the front, at which point I realised they weren't parked cars lol. My girlfriend was in histerics, in my defence there are always parked cars down the length of that road, and the queue at the lights is never normally that long
Quite a few years ago - had a bit of a clandestine thingy going on with a young lady - one night we arranged to meet up on the "downs " surreptitiously in our separate cars - we parked side by side off the road in a field - she transferred herself to my car and we spent a pleasurable hour and a half " looking at the stars " . Around 10.30 we thought it about time to go our separate ways and no one would be the wiser ! Unfortunately it had been raining - and you've guessed it when I tried to move off in my car I was going nowhere ( wheels just turning but getting nowhere) and worse than than was gradually sliding towards a cliff edge ! Gave up and tried to get out the field in my young lady's car - same result - now both cars precariously close to a 100ft drop !! We then both had to walk to the nearest pub and order two taxis. To make it even worse besides having to explain how we came to lose our cars the next day ( we worked together ) we had to make up excuses to get out of work , meet up again at the crime scene and pay a local farmer to drag both our cars out with his tractor - he thought it was hilarious and was making a good sideline in doing this-despite all the care in hiding our liaison apparently everyone at work knew what we were up to !!!!!
Jumping in 'my' blue Ford Cortina MkII and driving off from the pub car park, bit further down the road I realised something wasn't right. I took it back and went home in my actual car, those old FS key ignitions could be started with anything! The new GF was well impressed :lol:
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Just after I had past my test I bought my first car. 1.3 Vauxhall Chevette in s**t brown, Leaving a small shopping center some nice young ladies were waiting to cross the road, I decided or should I say my testosteron decided this would be a good place to wheel spin the car out of the junction, which I duly did and lost control of the car and buried it in a hedge.
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its friday have 2 on me 
1) long day driving to south of france with 2 tired kids & grumpy wife we decided on one more breakstop after leaving the autoroute , spotted car park & headed for it , , shock as i ripped off the 3 bikes on roofbars & mangled the overhead barrier
2) son's first car we decided to fit new bigger wheels just before his grandad took him out for a lesson , , all going well until i took a phone call .
returned to the wheels & completed task but forgot to tighten the nuts on wheel i fitted before the call
off they went on lesson only for irate grandad to phone me 25mins later to say the wheel had come off & rolled luckily into someones garden
1) long day driving to south of france with 2 tired kids & grumpy wife we decided on one more breakstop after leaving the autoroute , spotted car park & headed for it , , shock as i ripped off the 3 bikes on roofbars & mangled the overhead barrier
2) son's first car we decided to fit new bigger wheels just before his grandad took him out for a lesson , , all going well until i took a phone call .
returned to the wheels & completed task but forgot to tighten the nuts on wheel i fitted before the call
off they went on lesson only for irate grandad to phone me 25mins later to say the wheel had come off & rolled luckily into someones garden
Driving to work in my MR2 with the gf next to me applying 'juicy look' lip gloss, she then asks "do my lips look juicy".. I turn to admire the so called 'juicy look'.. At this precise moment the lady driver in front slams on her brakes to get petrol, I panic and slam my foot to the ground unfortunately my foot was on the throttle!
On the plus side I got a new front bumper without stone chips!
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On the plus side I got a new front bumper without stone chips!
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I had a old Pontiac way back when. 4 barrel carb, big engine. I knew that the carbs were finiky and only worked when they wanted to. So, driving somewhere, a VW pulled up next to me and at the green light, we went for it and of course, he won the race because of my carb issue :roll: