what is your most embarrisng moment in your car

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Ok we all like to show off lets admit it but while we are showing have you ever had a time when it went wrong and all you wanted to do was run and hide with embarresment


I will give you a classis that happened to me

I had just brought the Jag picked it up on a Thursday the first Saturday morning out goes the Jag on the the front lawn for everybody to see ... I washed .. I vacuumed it ..I polished it .. I took all the Photos that I have posted on here I spent about 3 hours out there cleaning showing off the the Neibours felling on top of the world .. I'vegot a jag look at me.
the wife comes out we need to go to the shops to do some shopping No Problem lets show it off at the shops everybody get into the car turn the key nothing :eek: absoulaly nothing after trying for about 10 mins still nothing Call the road patol to came out i need a new battery

how would you have felt in the same case

I bet you all have had some funny things happen please tell all
 
Getting in a little shunt while wearing my "Speed Racer" T-shirt. It was 1993, and I luckily had only dented the hood of my Accord.

My pride was somewhat more hurt...I had to get out of the car and face the music (and the other car with its passengers). To top it off, I was wearing my open-toed sandals, and had stepped in a red-ant pile.

Shîtty day, you bet.
 
Just got my license (this was in 1989) and was taking my Mom's 1987 Pontiac Grand Am out for a spin. The car was still pretty new...

Anyhoo to make a long story short, I was not paying attention, (looking out the side window) and the pickup truck in front of me had stopped.

SMACK! right into his rear bumper (which was steel, and had *zero* damage.

Mom & Dad, however...let's just say that they were a *little* upset. Over $3K damage to the hood and front end :eek:
 
street racing... period. that was about 5 years ago, just when i received my license. I lost a friend in the process... His car hit a tree at 90mph... died instantly. :( That's why i think streetracing is dumb...
 
Originally posted by PunkRock
street racing... period. that was about 5 years ago, just when i received my license. I lost a friend in the process... His car hit a tree at 90mph... died instantly. :( That's why i think streetracing is dumb...
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That's also why you're right.

~LoudMusic
 
Well, the classic one I suppose. I was at a four-way stop, lots of cars waiting to go, somehow I was in 3rd gear ... rolled into the middle of the intersection making a left turn and killed the engine. There were probably 25 to 30 people looking at me, including the two friends I had in the car.

~LoudMusic
 
Good thread man! Well before i grew up and had a place of my own, me and a girl were in the backseat at night in a empty parking lot and in rolls a police car. lol i got caught with my pants down, so to speak. The cop was cool though, just told us to leave. :embarrassed:
 
He was very cool, diden't make us get out of the car or nuthin. He said something along the lines of "umm i suggest ya move along." As soon as he realized what was going on he just kind of chuckled. As soon as i heard the swoosh of radials i popped my head up and got a spotlight in the eyes. :eek:
 
Most embarassing moment?:confused:


It would have to be last night when me and a friend were in my car, and I accidentally slammed the shifter into 2nd, instead of 4th at 84mph...:nervous:


It was quite embarassing, but I was more scared than embarassed...:(
 
Originally posted by Josh
Most embarassing moment?:confused:


It would have to be last night when me and a friend were in my car, and I accidentally slammed the shifter into 2nd, instead of 4th at 84mph...:nervous:


It was quite embarassing, but I was more scared than embarassed...:(
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:eek: ouch
 
Originally posted by Josh
Most embarassing moment?:confused:


It would have to be last night when me and a friend were in my car, and I accidentally slammed the shifter into 2nd, instead of 4th at 84mph...:nervous:


It was quite embarassing, but I was more scared than embarassed...:(
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S2K trannies are quite pricey!

...and they are a Pain in the ass to change... :mad:
 
Originally posted by Josh
Most embarassing moment?:confused:


It would have to be last night when me and a friend were in my car, and I accidentally slammed the shifter into 2nd, instead of 4th at 84mph...:nervous:


It was quite embarassing, but I was more scared than embarassed...:(
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That happened to the girl who was taking driving lessons with me. She was driving, and deceided that the gear that comes after 4th, was reverse instead of 5th. The tranny started the grinding, but the drving instructor caught it before it went any further. This was all happening on a busy road moving at about 110 kph. Scared the living 🤬 out of me!
 
Well, not in a car but on my bike:

I was on the sidewalk of a main road here, traffic backed up, so this guy starts revving his engine, and I start showing off too. I sart poping wheelies, rear wheelies, all of it. The traffic starts moving and I'm racing this guy in his car while I'm on the sidewalk. I pedal as hard as humanly possible, and bam! My foot slipped off the pedal and hit the ground at about 20 MPH(I have a speedo)and kicked up and hit me in the butt and I stopped, I was humiliated and pissed at myself, the whole thing was soo stupid. :D
 
talking about gear changes reminds me

I dont know how many of you guys have driven a truck but the gears are located a little different

car 1 2 3 4 5 R Truck R 1 2 3 4 5


So here i am moving house I have the truck all load in the drive way which as a bit of a slop up puts it into gear vroom backwards straight to the house.. mmm perhaps it needs a bit more revs try again vroom into the house again double mmm try again samething 🤬 you dumb idiot look where 1st is that hurt the ego and the wallet with the repair costs to the house
 
Originally posted by too cold
Good thread man! Well before i grew up and had a place of my own, me and a girl were in the backseat at night in a empty parking lot and in rolls a police car. lol i got caught with my pants down, so to speak. The cop was cool though, just told us to leave. :embarrassed:
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Im been in the other postion catching people with there pants down its hard to keep a straight face
 
Well this is going to be short cause Im a bit ill.
This one-day my cousin and I were driving down the highway and we pull up besides this car full of girls. We look over and find them waving at us and pointing and such. We were thing “cool man chicks” anyways after I pulled up to my cousins house to drop him off he got out of the my car and said: “hey man your tire is flat” I was WHAT? And than I realized that probably those girls were trying to tell us that my tire was flat. LOL
 
heres another funny one
you know those remote alarm pads on your key ring that are also connected to you central locking they are great and till the battery goes flat you cant get it your car :(
 
Originally posted by jag_man_v12
heres another funny one
you know those remote alarm pads on your key ring that are also connected to you central locking they are great and till the battery goes flat you cant get it your car :(
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Been there, done that...:lol:


Just use the key. Sure, it sets the alarm off, but you can still get in your car. I had to do it once...:D I drove off while the alarm was still going off(I hurried off cause I thought people were going to think I was stealing my own car...:lol::))
 
Most embarrassing moment? I vote for cruising alon the high way at about 140-170 kp/h, having the rear wheels slide out from underneath me and to add insult to injury I was on a corner at the time!! Even worse, this corner had a flamin' GUARDRAIL!! My wheels slid out from under me, so I was facing the way I came, I hit the guardrail, bounced off, spun and hit the guardrail again! This carried on in much the same fashion (hit guardrail, because tyres flat I can't get control, swerve into guardrail again) until it ended and I went off the road and came to a stop. The cops showed up, only to tell me that my tyres were BALD!!!! Very embarrassing, I'm sure you'll agree.
 
But my most memorable moment would HAVE to be being tagged in the right-rear quater-panel by another motorist, being sent into a spin, spinning about 720-1080 degrees, correcting, tagging him in the left-front quarter-panel, sending HIM into a headlong spin, he goes straight through the guardrail, lands on the other side of the motorway, gets tagged by another car, and ends up somewhere and somehow on the proper side of the motorway again, car VERY badly bent, but he is intact. I had the inclination to yell, HAHA, but it didn't seem very appropriate. Keep in mind all this was at about 130-150 kp/h, in the built up area near the Perth, Western Australia river, so it was very scary. The guy survived, but he had to pay compo for my mental trauma :lol: and he was not a happy chappy after the courts (and me, of course) finished dealing with him. Very memorable, indeed.
 
Originally posted by Jazza
But my most memorable moment would HAVE to be being tagged in the right-rear quater-panel by another motorist, being sent into a spin, spinning about 720-1080 degrees, correcting, tagging him in the left-front quarter-panel, sending HIM into a headlong spin, he goes straight through the guardrail, lands on the other side of the motorway, gets tagged by another car, and ends up somewhere and somehow on the proper side of the motorway again, car VERY badly bent, but he is intact. I had the inclination to yell, HAHA, but it didn't seem very appropriate. Keep in mind all this was at about 130-150 kp/h, in the built up area near the Perth, Western Australia river, so it was very scary. The guy survived, but he had to pay compo for my mental trauma :lol: and he was not a happy chappy after the courts (and me, of course) finished dealing with him. Very memorable, indeed.
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getting of the subject a moment I see your a fellow western australian :cool:
 
most embarrising moment in my car...
there have been many of them.
Tailgating a cop in an unmarked car. (got a ticket for that one :)
Getting clipped when crossing traffic into my school with everyone watching. (I was actually too pissed off at the moron woman driving to care)

Doing donuts in a rock quarry with my mom's 91 subaru legacy wagon, bent the front driverside a-arm way out of whack.

Trying to make a 90degree turn with 6 people in my mo's subaru (same as above) going 45mph and only one month of road experience. Needless to say the car didn't turn but slammed into the curb pushing the front driverside wheel back into the wheel well.

Exactly one month after I got my '89 saab 900 I was going 65mph on the merit parkway in connecticut. This highway is old as sin and the exit ramps are instant 180 turns, no room to slow down. I had never been on this road before so I was unaware of it. when I tried to get off the high way I could feel that the front wheels were just sliding and I was headed for a grassy patch and a couple of huge turn signs. I hit two signs and ripped up my front driverside suspension (I know, same place every time :) The tire was shredded and the rim was bent. I went into the trunk to get out a spare and the jack only to find it empty, I had taken them out to try some 1/4mi times and never put them back :( So, I got back in the car with my friend and we drove off. The car was barely handling so we had too hug the curb on the 4 lane road going 15mph. I was three towns and a highway bridge away from home so I drove till the bridge, then called AAA to tow me across the bridge. From the far side I drove the remaining 15mi back to my house. right near my house the tire hopped off the rim making turning impossible. That was an embarassing trip.

One night over thanksgiving break I took my car, a 1989 saab 900 beater, down a road notoriuos for its jump at the end. It is possible to get air going 35mph off of it. Because I was going to get rid of my car in a week I decided to have a little fun with it. I pulled up to the light before the road and while I was waiting another, newer, saab pulled up behind me. I revved my 2.0 na engine at him and he responded (I had to strain to hear him though). When the light went green I gunned it (gunning it in this car yeilds a 10sec 0-60mph ;) He kept right up behind me until we approached the jump. I wasn't watching him when I hit but I saw my speedo was reading 65mph. I took flight. It was awesome. My car flew for almost 50ft until it slammed down, I could here the entirety of the undercarriage crash onto the pavement as my suspension compressed fully. I expected the car to be dead but no, it was still going. I down shifted and took off. (I know, not embarassing, but cool)

I have more stories but I can't remember them all right now.
 
This isn't embarassing, but i'll tell it anyway.

I am still on my learners licence, and one day, a while ago, when i was out driving in the nearby city, i stopped at a stop sign on a hill (as you do).
Then a driving instuctor car pulled up beside me (teaching someone to drive).

When the road was clear i took off a little too fast and the wheels lost traction on the painted lines and i did a little skid.

I wonder what the driving instructor said to his student? :D
 
Originally posted by Mustang man
This isn't embarassing, but i'll tell it anyway.

I am still on my learners licence, and one day, a while ago, when i was out driving in the nearby city, i stopped at a stop sign on a hill (as you do).
Then a driving instuctor car pulled up beside me (teaching someone to drive).

When the road was clear i took off a little too fast and the wheels lost traction on the painted lines and i did a little skid.

I wonder what the driving instructor said to his student? :D
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It would have been embarasing had it been your driving instructor teaching somebody else and know you had a leason with him say next week wondering what he was going to say to you
 

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