Stupid Mistakes in cars

[cole86]

Right, well I am new here and pretty un-known but anyway I am at work and this is one of the only forums I can browse!

So what stupid mistakes have you made in your car???

I will start off!

When I was younger and (alot) dumber I had just got my first car with a decent amount of power, and RWD so what does a 18yr old do? SKIDS.

So after a few months of owning my Silvia and nana'ing it for fear of damaging it I took it out the back roads of clevdon / whitford to do some skids with a couple of mates. Started off great smoke, squeels the whole sha-bang! and then after awhile I found when I would drop the clutch the wheels wouldnt spin, I could drop it at 5-6k and it still wouldnt skid!!! but there was smoke?! Hmmmm!!

So what do you do? Try it some more *stupid*
after another 2min or so I noticed right away that my clutch was $&#$%
And that smoke was my clutch, and there was spinning, just not the wheels under the car....

I managed to get back to howick from where I was and parked up for the night, the next couple of days I got a new clutch, and went to install it and found my old clutch practically split 50/50 down the middle.

Yeah, was a really dumb mistake to make, but I am sure there are plenty worse out there

So share

[bbq1988]

Restricted license + Passenger and did handbrake slide in a gravelpit at night without seeing the marked police car right next to where i ended up

Kicked the passenger out as the car came closer,

Officer - "what do you call that?"
Me - "A Bad move?"
Officer - "Was that your passenger hiding in the bushes?"
Me - "What passenger?"
Officer - "I'll let you off this time, don't do it again"

[the fallen303]

driving round one night bout 2am 1999, stop at a set of lights, no one around, mates jump out and run round the car (chinese fire drill). as mates jump back in, one says "cops just pulled up behind us!" drive through the lights, and he pulls us up, pull into a side street as it's a busy road, and he packs next to us, not getting out of the car.

officer "so, um, what do you call that?"
me "err, chinese fire drill?"
officer "do you see any fires?"
me "no, hence it just being a drill"
officer "......"
officer "you know it's up to the driver to keep their passengers in the vehicle at all times?"
me "yeah"
officer "leave the fires to the new zealand fire brigade. have a good night"

[ihavelift]

hahaha! ^ had the same thing happen (thought it was a mongolian fire drill? oh well..), wasn't quite as good with the comebacks though was more of a:

Cop: Think your funny?
Me: Not any more
Cop: It's your responsibility to keep occupants in side your vehicle, you know that don't you?
Me: Yeah my bad
Cop: Have you been drinking?
Me; (stupidly) just a few
proceeds to go through the breath tester motions
Cop: your all clear, have a good night and don't be an idiot
Drunk mate in back: $&#$% baby cop, go blow on a pie
Cop: You're lucky i just got laid otherwise i'd kick your arse
Me: laters scramskies

[wishihadaTE27]

A "mate" of mine ...

Driving over the Harbour bridge at about 11pm - disqualified at the time.. heading in to Gods Kitchen ( haha ) - jumped off at Shelly beach road offramp, come round the corner to see an RBT blockade about 150mtrs up the road.

He drove the car up onto the footpath, turned it off, told my mate to get the fvck out and ran under the bridge and up into the park above - looked back to see the cops checking out the car.

Walked from there into the St james - went to GK and went home around 10am the next day.

Rang the coppers to report the car stolen - had to go into taka cop shop as car had been involved in "an incident" .. long story short .....cost my "mate" $55 to get it out of impound.

[Alex B]

Just got the MR2, was pissing down with rain on a Saturday night, droped the clutch did a massive slide out of a T intersection. Next thing blue and red's flashing behind me. (Was basically the middle of town)

Pulled me up and asked what the hell I was doing etc,

Looked at the tires, one of the fronts was pretty much balled and on backwards (thanks previous owner)

Basicly told me to go home and if he saw me out again that night he would $&#$% me up.

Why the hell he didn't pink sticker the car and do me ill never know. Possibly the look of terror on my face.

Arrh to be young and stupid.

[postfach]

How come everyone always gets away? I got angry one day after being screwed around for an hour at repco trying to get a distributor cap it turned out they didn't stock, some tosser in front of me was revving his ITR at the lights and I decided to chase after him down some residential streets. Ended up doing excessive (I won't say how fast) speeds and losing control of the car, destroying a small tree and hitting a roadside transformer on the passenger side. Luckily both myself and my passenger were uninjured. Tried to drive the car away but the front passenger wheel was tucked under the chassis due to all the bent suspension components. Angry mob of residents came out and abused both of us until the police came. I was charged and convicted of dangerous driving, lost my licence for 6 months (first ever offence of any type) and paid $800 fine and $130 court costs. Had to get a limited licence to keep my job, which cost me somewhere around $1000.

Stupid idiot choice, deserved result, just lucky it wasn't much much worse. Lesson learned.

[Guss]

moving a un warrantable mini to a friends farm had already pulled the good bits off and replaced with stock stuff including steering wheel.

Was traveling in convoy with me in the middle and going up on of the steeper hills poor little engine is struggling to maintain 40 so I'm bouncing up n down in seat going 'comon you little %^&'
steering wheel comes off in my hand and car slowly drifts onto other side of road ! what can ya do? keep going till im onto the road verge by which time mate behind has come up alongside "WTF" show him steering wheel obviously not attached to column LOL, and lucky no oncoming

[B1NZ]

Lots of lol's on here so far, I have done lots of stupid shit in cars when I was younger, try to keep my stupid shit at organized events these-days.

Only thing that springs to mind is doing a stationary burnout in my old TA61 celica in town one day then hearing a bang, limping home with the car making lots of clunking noises, getting my mate and my dad to help me diagnose the problem, basically look under the car when i was driving slow to find out where said noise was coming from then watching them both fall over laughing in hysterics and telling me my rear wheel was loose

[Toby]

Mitsi mirage hatch, gravel pit with a 6 foot drop on one side down to the beach, managed to jump the car off the side and land on a rock.

So was perched between edge of cliff and a rock, luckily the rock stopped any major carnage and a local with a 4wd towed our arse back out while we all thought we were going to die pushing it up.

[loudstealthGT-Four]

When I was 16 I was driving home after 10 on my restricted in my first car (1990 Honda civic 1500 sohc) car didn't hav reg or wof, was doing 130ish and cop was coming the opposite way seen him indicate to turn round to pull me over so I gunned it (not that my car had any go, but hey) got up to 180 and then the cop caught up so I stopped, pusuit lasted like 14km. Funny thing is that no one reakoned my car could go that fast.

Yea that's the stupidest thing I've ever done

[Guss]

lol just thought of my best
@14 yrs old I 'borrowed' my nana's car and drove down around the river in lowerhutt Here and hooned up and down the gravel Then for some godforsaken reason I drove down the walkway which leads to the trees. there happens to be a culvert and no place to turn around so i attempt my 1st ever three point turn. . works well until i misjudge the distance and end up with one front wheel hanging over the edge, open front diff so no drive whatsoever

got out and assessed the situation not great, push back nothing , push forward and lift, IT MOVES push some more and then watch the car roll down the hill and crash into one of those metal beams they put in to stop people driving down there F$%^..
Jump back in start up reverse back the way i'd come, straight home and think .... ... . hmm lawnmower accident plausable??
Letter to parents with 'semi-truth' and hide in my room 'studying'

[cole86]

hahah some lol's in here allright

Not my dumb story, but I was a passanger in the dumb story! so will post on behalf of a mate


Te Irangi drive about 3 years ago down at the BK heading back out towards manukau. Was in my mates BZG levin and a R33-25t was revvin it up at the lights, my mate decides to give him a go. We take off from the lights there, he boost's off at first but dosent get TO far ahead, then hits the speed cut and we slowly start pulling abit closer. We are at Stancombe road now (if you are heading back to manukau there is a doctor / A&E on right) That is the point where the story turns to custard

The skyline is about 5 or so car lengths ahead in the right lane and we are in the left. There is another car not to far ahead of the skyline. He swerves into our lane to dodge the car and a HUGE cloud of smoke just flys up from the tyres. My mate SLAMS the breaks and we fly through this cloud of smoke and the red car is DEAD infront of us, we slam into that and send it flying (literally) off to the side of the road landing the the flax bush (off the road upside down) the skyline ends up at the very back behind all of us, and we are still dead smack in the middle of our lane (which is the right one now)


Was by far the _scariest_ crash I have ever been in, 180K+ at moment of breaking, 90M long skid marks from where we slamed on the breaks till where we stoped...

Skyline driver got 6mnths inside, my mate lost BZG which was about 8K's worth, dangerous driving causing injury, 200hours community service a shit ton of fines and lost his license for 2 years all up

Was terrible, had to pull people out of the red car, nothing to serious but alot of blood / cuts

[Dell'Orto]

One of many I guess...but driving around Wellington one night in my S4 RX-7, had a car load of friends. Went out Makara beach and did some skids, a local chap came out yelling and cursing so we took off out toward j'ville way. Mate in the front needed to take a piss, so we stopped in the middle of the road in pretty much the middle of nowhere. While he was standing there taking a leak I decided to do a big smokey standstill to provide some entertainment...just as I stopped a cop car came round the corner
They were pretty good actually, only got a ticket for no front rego plate

[Brick]

Back when i was 16 on restricted driving home after 10 with passenger, Pull over in country for toilet stop, mate decides to fire off paintball gun off at house. Guy comes out swearing and cursing ringing the cops.
Both jump back in the car..... FLAT BATTERY!
I yelled jump out and push! Pushed started, lights off and drove off
We had a police scanner which we heard us mentioned, thankfully they didnt have our license plate



Another time out hunting one night. got a puncture and when we went to change the tire found we had no jack.
We were in the middle of no where and a 2 1/2 drive from CHCH, only light was from the moon and no cell phone reception!

Yet we managed to change the tire

[Mr. Mainstream]

Now brick lets not forgot that incident with your GTZ in the wet

[petrolhead]

Driving home from movie with my GF in the car. About 11 at night, Heading from palmy to Dannevirke. Was keeping at speed limit all the way until after i went through woodville (back in hundred k area). I looked in mirror and saw headlights slowly catching me from about a k back, so i thought " You aren't going to catch up to me" and sped up to 120, lights still starting to catch so go faster, and so carried on. Was sitting on an average of about 160/170ish finally got closer to Dannevirke, S bend over railway lines and thought F it and nailed it. Blew him away then got on to straight and thought to myself "I wonder who that was" and sat on speed limit. i got about half way down the straight and only just saw his lights come into view, and by the time i got to end of straight he was right behind me (straight was about 2 ks long , he must have been doing well over 200). And then i think those are funny looking headlights, then on come the blue and reds, O...bugger. Pulls me up in my drive way and asks if i know how fast i was going. ' um no officer i was just watching the road '. I recognised him as a cop i had met once before at a cop mates house (cop is known to be a REAL wanker). But i couldn't believe it he said i don't want to see you again and drove away!!

[Brick]

Now brick lets not forgot that incident with your GTZ in the wet

and that

wish i had one to say back but only one i can think of was u[p that hill that time when your gearbox blew

[Brick]

Driving home from movie with my GF in the car. About 11 at night, Heading from palmy to Dannevirke. Was keeping at speed limit all the way until after i went through woodville (back in hundred k area). I looked in mirror and saw headlights slowly catching me from about a k back, so i thought " You aren't going to catch up to me" and sped up to 120, lights still starting to catch so go faster, and so carried on. Was sitting on an average of about 160/170ish finally got closer to Dannevirke, S bend over railway lines and thought F it and nailed it. Blew him away then got on to straight and thought to myself "I wonder who that was" and sat on speed limit. i got about half way down the straight and only just saw his lights come into view, and by the time i got to end of straight he was right behind me (straight was about 2 ks long , he must have been doing well over 200). And then i think those are funny looking headlights, then on come the blue and reds, O...bugger. Pulls me up in my drive way and asks if i know how fast i was going. ' um no officer i was just watching the road '. I recognised him as a cop i had met once before at a cop mates house (cop is known to be a REAL wanker). But i couldn't believe it he said i don't want to see you again and drove away!!

Thats not the first time i've heard that happening

mate of mine did a nonstop dunedin-chch-dunedin trip and on his way back (middle of the night) saw headlights come up behind him real fast. So he took off 180+, then at the next petrol station when he had to stop for gas the cop drives past and gave him a wave

[duddley]

one of my mates dads is a cop in south auckland and they play the moro bar game where you race each other in cop cars to a dairy and first to buy a moro bar wins

Driving home from movie with my GF in the car. About 11 at night, Heading from palmy to Dannevirke. Was keeping at speed limit all the way until after i went through woodville (back in hundred k area). I looked in mirror and saw headlights slowly catching me from about a k back, so i thought " You aren't going to catch up to me" and sped up to 120, lights still starting to catch so go faster, and so carried on. Was sitting on an average of about 160/170ish finally got closer to Dannevirke, S bend over railway lines and thought F it and nailed it. Blew him away then got on to straight and thought to myself "I wonder who that was" and sat on speed limit. i got about half way down the straight and only just saw his lights come into view, and by the time i got to end of straight he was right behind me (straight was about 2 ks long , he must have been doing well over 200). And then i think those are funny looking headlights, then on come the blue and reds, O...bugger. Pulls me up in my drive way and asks if i know how fast i was going. ' um no officer i was just watching the road '. I recognised him as a cop i had met once before at a cop mates house (cop is known to be a REAL wanker). But i couldn't believe it he said i don't want to see you again and drove away!!

Thats not the first time i've heard that happening

mate of mine did a nonstop dunedin-chch-dunedin trip and on his way back (middle of the night) saw headlights come up behind him real fast. So he took off 180+, then at the next petrol station when he had to stop for gas the cop drives past and gave him a wave