Embarrassing close calls

Post your most shameful mistakes
>whippin NA miata
>qt3.14 passenger
>pull up to stoplight, T-intersection
>turning right
>Red turns to green, cars to the left stopped
>FUCKING STALL IT
>FURIOUS
>look around the car like "what the fuck happened", play it cool
>re-start car, aggressive right turn commence
>F-250 swerves to avoid me and lays on the horn as I pull into the middle of the road
>short-ass light turned red while i was fumbling around, I pulled directly into the way of oncoming traffic and didn't bother to look fucking left before making the turn because i was so pissed at myself for stalling


I'm so fucking ashamed of myself Veeky Forums, would've been t-boned (i.e. completely fucked in a miat) had the truck driver not been attentive and swerved

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This is why miata owners are fucking douchebags who bought in to a literal meme car that offers none of the things they bought it for aside from no roof

>be new driver
>also qt3.14 passenger
>arrive at 4 way intersection with each road having a stop sign, all roads loaded with stopped cars
>wonder aloud "haha who even has the right of way here?"
>qt says "you!"
>fang it into the intersection

nearly mangled many cars. turns out she was just retarded and going to say 'you DON'T' but she decided to potato that sentence

nah it's fuckin great, i truly wish they were made in a coupe bodystyle tho

>driving sr swapped s13 with shit tires
>stopped on a slight uphill
>give it to much gas when starting and start doing a burn out
>almost rest end the car in front if me
>other cars looking at me like I'm a asshole

>tfw never stalled in front of a qt
I did stall at the gate of a marine base when I was a new driver though and all the guards laughed at me.

>shitposter who knows nothing about cars gets triggered: the post

I've been to a lot of norcal meets, and I've spun out almost three times, every time I go to one of the weekday ramen meets
>first time was a year ago, braked hard in a tight downhill corner, rear end slid out and I spun out
>second time was in January, same area of the route but instead of breaking hard I hit some water (it rained earlier that day) and spun again, had my gf at the time with me
>third time was at an unplanned meet, same area of the route, went into the corner too quickly and braked too late, started to spin but managed to straighten myself out and continue

what kind of car do you drive?

Saturn ion

>me 10 minutes ago
>unloading pallets from a truck with a wheelloader
>put down extremely expensive 1m3 container with acid, put it on ground for the moment as it's going to a special place
>load on an empty container
>reversing out of hall, trucker guy points behind me
>took me a couple seconds to get it, slam brakes
>roughly one millimeter away from running over the full container
>so much trouble and money saved

Thank you trucker-san!

>new driver
>have a Datsun 120Y shitbox
>used to mostly driving by myself or with occasional passenger
>couple of friends and a team mate need a lift to the footy
>we're pulling up to the ferry stop, couple cars already there waiting
>start braking like I normally would
>as we get closer I'm wondering why we aren't slowing down much at all
>start pushing on the brake with all my force
>metres away and not really slowing down
>slowly apply handbrake as well
>come to a stop about an inch from the car in front

Didn't realize having 3 extra people in such a small car would make a big difference, turns out the previous owner got rid of the back brakes to make it easier to rip skids.

whats the fucking point that shit?

had a kinda similar situation
>driving with gf
>absolutely fuckin mad
>literally shaking with rage
>stop to turn into a main road
>on a slight uphill
>start turning
>suddenly stall because I released clutch too early cause angry and trying to go fast
>car coming from the main road stops like half a meter away from my door

>in parking lot waiting for mum to buy bread or someshit
>qt asians keep staring at me when they think i'm not looking
>probably because i'm a grotesque freak
>but at the time i thought they wanted the d
>mum gets back
>start engine and begin reversing out
>stall
>stall on flat ground
>never stalled on flat ground before not even when i first drove manual

you can stall while reversing?

>be have gf
>she drives manual sentra
>not because she wanted to
>she learns i drive manual
>wow user how did you learn all by yourself
>"nobody wanted to teach me, etc"
>1.8 l engine, she has to downshift to get up hills
>she doesn't bother rev matching, lets the clutch take the load
>Cringing every time.

That poor fucking clutch

i can, apparently

Yeah what the fuck reverse gear is top easy mode, that's how i learned where my biting point was.

>just leave it in drive and go user stop revving the engine

MIDFplease

>being so ashamed of stalling that you drop spaghetti everywhere

Man up OP

at least you're somehow doing something right and not wrecking. get some better tires or something

b-but there was a girrrl

>he tries to be smooth

>he doesn't just dump the clutch at every stop

Fact: vibrations moisten the pussy

>spun out in a fwd shitbox

shitty driver.

>be me, have license and never driven a manual in my fuggin life
>the shitcar my dad left for me is a manual (im grateful however)
>dad drops car off at camp lejeune barracks where I live and we hang out all day
>he heads back, fug he didnt even teach me how to drive this thing
>grab token redneck marines who are always working on their trucks to help
>they run me through the basics but go back to working on their trucks
>gotta drive to work tommorow morning

what commenced after this was probably the most embarrassing couple of days of my entire life while I was mastering the manual

>completely dump the clutch and burnout in front of the PX in front of officers and shit
>get screamed at by gunnery sgts who thought I was showing off

>stall out literally 6-7 times at the front gate while the corporals on gate duty were absolutely DYING laughing inside the duty hut

>stall out in front of battalion commander and battalion sgt major a solid 9 times while they stopped walking and fucking STARED at me the entire time while giving half hearted pointers
>"ease off the acceleration dumbass" "I swear these millenials are the most useless fucking retards to ever exist" which out of pity eventually turned into "we believe in you man, just practice you'll get it"

looking back on it and how easy driving a stick is I cant believe it took me like 6 days to get good at it.

Whoever stops at the intersection first has the right of way.

If two cars stop at once, the car to the right has the right of way.

If two cars stop at once in opposite directions, the car(s) going straight have the right of way.

I have stalled reversing up a hill

I was 16 or 17 year old
Was leaving party with a irl at around 2am and she wanted to come to my house since "She'd be killed if she came home after midnight"
Was driving a IS300 and stopped at a light and a Subaru STI was by me. We(I) tried to race but he smoked me and promptly went into a turning lane
As I drove past him I stuck my arm out the car with a "That's it bitch?" kind of attitude
The wind caught my arm and I nearly side swiped the dude, I could feel my hand touch his car I was that close
Thankfully the girl was drunk and was really impressed, saying "that was awesome and took a lot of balls"

but did u dick her afterwards

We made out for a little bit then she passed out
Didn't have what it took to fuck her unconscious body.
Like. I didn't even really know who she was, we just met that night

Clutches can take it. Rematching is unnecessary, but may reduce wear by some tiny amount.

hhhhhnnggg like a baby rx7

Thats stupid m8. You are raping your clutch and syncros.

>Be me
>Couple years back
>Still on provisional license
>Buy an Impreza WRX
>Plan on getting an exemption because it's only "moderately powered"
>Decide to take it to servo to refuel weeks before exemption came through
>Need to do a U-turn at intersection
>I'm a couple cars back in turning lane
>Light goes green
>Stall it on slightest incline in world
>Fumble for ages to get shit working again.
>Miss light, gotta wait
>Watch a cop drive by me going the other way staring
>Would have lost my license if he decided to do anything