Dumb things you've done while driving

>Battery dead so friend gives me a jumpstart
>Roll the from the parking space onto the middle of the street so the cables can reach
>Car starts
>Go out to thank him and remove the cables
>Doorlock system fucks up and locks the drivers door

>Engine on with only key in the ignition
>Handbrake on
>Radio on full blast
>Car in the middle of the street blocking the road
>Door completely locked

and that is the story of how my rear passenger window accidentally broke

What you described is literally what the title is you fucking mong

Every few years,for the rest of your life, you will randomly remember that and softly shudder.

Consider yourself lucky. Healthy 1.6 Corollas are rarer than a Jew giving away his money.

>modern cars
>ever

no thank

Happens in my Miata occassionally. 6th and reverse are pretty close together.

>automatic

I nearly did the same thing, but I couldn't find "park" on my H-shifter, so I just coasted to a stop with the clutch in.

i was looking at buying a obd1 325i in manual, would you recommend? budget is around 3k +/- 500$
am mechanically inclined and have tools so i should be ok right?

I once forgot I was in 5th and not 3rd, and tried to change up to 4th. Actually put the car into reverse while moving at 40MPH.
Luckily I realised that before lifting the clutch, but I have no idea how it let me do that.

not much, fortunately, closest thing to dumb was not paying attention literally the first time I got to drive my old mans car on my own

>waiting at a junction during rush hour
>finally cars calm down and I can jump in
>stall
>quickly turn everything back on
>start going
>lady in a car appears out of thin fucking air
>OHSHIT.jpg
>brakes screech
>every car in a 100 meter radius stops since we're now blocking the road
>old woman's eyes popped out, like they're about to go take a stroll round the block, looking at me
>I wave
>stall again

>18th birthday
>driving fast to school, not paying attention
>need to make left turn off of highway
>arrow turns green with 2 or 3 cars waiting
>speed up into turn lane to go through green arrow
>dumbfuck pickup does not go
>FUCK
>brake as fast as I can on balled tires
>losing traction, too late to dodge the pickup
>stop about 2 ft in front of bumper

>balled tires

>be me, age 19
>driving in the snow
>come to downhill turn
>low gears blah blah
>lightly braking through turn
>halfway around the bend
>RELEASE BRAKE DUNNO WHY LOL FUCK ME
>rotation engaged
>smack into curb, frame bent, tires torn
>no profits were had

>during holidays
>out with friends, in the middle of Copenhaguen
>first time taking the car out for a roadtrip
>i live in France btw
>friends are arguing, i'm distracted and have my licence for less than 6 months, barely drove more than 300 km by that point
>take a street that i should not have taken
>stuck in a one way road, there's a car going my cay and I have to do some weird reverse parkour
>by that point i'm sweating
>put the car in reverse, lift the clutch too fast, stall
>start the engine again
>sweating intensifies
>start backing up slowly, trying to not pay attention to the locals mocking me and the other car honking
>hit a first car on my left
>keep going, BAM second car on my right
>dumb friends are laughing to make it easy for me
>one open his door, BAM third car (blew up its right mirror)
>finally this is the end of the street, i'm praying I can just roll out onto the main street and GTFO
>first car that passes, cops
>sweating turns to gagging and almost vomiting (i don't handle pressure well)
>locals are going crazy
>car in front is going crazy
>my friends make me go crazy
>roll out onto the street, park and wait for the cops
>"its okay sir, it's a misleading area for newcomers, just be careful now"
>take a 10 minute break, not even going out to check my car
>starts the car so I can leave
>stall again
>turn the key so strongly I ripped the plastic from it
>leave as fast as I can
I still feel so much shame when I think about it... Plus I fucked up some Audis and Mercedes and never did anything about it, I do regret this and hate myself for it

I'm sorry about your spaghetti user, that sounds pretty brutal.

I trump all of you fags with my stupid shit mistake.

>visit grandparents
>get some furniture with mom and grandma while rest stays home
>drive dad's soulles modern car
>get back
>park
>car full of blindspots and rear visibility is wank
>ignore the loud chirping parking sensor and hit towbar of the car behind me
>towbar had no cap and was all rusty so it left a nasty spot on the cheap plastic bumper

Oh well, still a small dimple.

Going 90 in a 40 cause I just did 3 hard pulls in 1st 2nd and 3rd. I could get in so much trouble doing that shit but the speed gives me a huge rush, as well as the sound of a v8 screaming

yeah I fucked up, should have kept my cool (like I do now in any car-given situation), and do the textbook shit : wave, back up real slow and focus on nothing else.
I'm lukcy though, my car was totally unscathed

I got a strong spaghetti taste in my mouth after reading this. Good job user.

Hmm, I think I got one
>Do 120mph on the hwy
>it has a posted speed limit of 65mph
>get pulled over by CHP
>get a ticket for exceeding 100mph.

Court date is at the end of June, wish me luck.

ur gunna get yo license taken
you best get a lawyer

I did get a lawyer.

But did I mention I was illegally in the carpool lane?

I was just tired after work and wanted to go home, I generally have pretty good eyes for law enforcement. Then again I am getting old maybe I should just fucking slow down for once.

>you fucking mong
>t. the guy who drives an auto Corolla and shifts inyo park while driving
wew

How does that happen? No winter tyres? Speeding?

No winter tires was definitely mistake #1 (young and broke what u gonna do), but my specific derp was letting go of the brakes too early. My ageing car lurched forward slightly/the center of gravity changed and then all traction was lost.

You should not be driving.

>13 hour night at work
>fuck it I'll be good with a monster
>literally fall asleep on the wheel and go off road
>wake up with a dead car
scariest night of my life

there's a reason truckers do methamphetamine and not pussy energy drinks doofus

>TRAPLORD
i bet this bmw driver has no idea how gay he is

I'm just glad I didn't crash or die.

I guess I'm still retarded

the gearbox isn't made by toyota.
and it's just the parking pin clicking.

>Rush to find parking spot
>Try to park in a parking spot without room for anyone on driver's side to exit due to present of wall
>Realize this mid-way into spot
>Scratch up some shitbox's door with the right side of my rental car while trying to fit
>SCREEEEEEEEK
>Embarassed as fuck
>Reverse and leave quickly

Fuck.

The only thing I see wrong here is the NSW plates

I was a dumb teenager (18) with 6 of my friends and a new-to-me $800 minivan shitbox.

We went to Wendy's and stole some trays to do some sikk skiddz, then down a dirt road to an abandoned airfield to do some fwd drifts.
I tried to Scandi-flick it around a 140° corner at 35 mph and basically just understeered into and through a big haypile. Could've been a tree or something and killed us all.

Also did some sweet Wendy's tray drifts on government property and got chased off by MP's.
Other than that pretty much just mild speeding or coasting in neutral (illegal in my state).

Riding a motorcycle is pretty stupid I guess, so add that to the list.

>I panicked by putting it into park

American driving "education".

Happened at work when first started turning wrenches.

>Pulled my truck into shop to replace carb that was fucking up.
>Finished bolting up reman and go to start engine.
>Forgot the throttle return spring.
>Engine instantly red lines and I freak out releasing the clutch sending my truck, co-workers tool cart, and a work bench through the back wall of the shop.

Didn't even get fired. Boss just called me a dumn ass.

Alcohol. Blackout. Crash. Jail. 5 passengers injured. More jail. Fuck me.

Sorry stacy, rip.

jk, noone died. Thank god. Im stupid.

Lol that would've been funny to watch desu

Lol. I was like 10 years old when an older freind of mine decided to let me back her car out of the drive way. Due to sheer excitment i wasnt thinking straight and put the car in drive, looked behind me, released the break, and the car went forward heading straight into the closed garage door. I panicked and struggled to find the break as the car casually plowed its way through the door. Finally got the break. Car is halfway in the garage. Door is fucked. Lol.

Picking up friend from city for work
Work as a pizza deliveryman
Obviously not for the city shop because blacks
In upstate new york in december
Snowy and icy road conditions
I use the on highway exit for the city, its a one lane wide left turn with concrete arches and the road is twisted with the turn or whatever its called
In a 2002 2dr echo manual going 15 above recomended speed because fuck it
Start to break when approaching a harder part of the curve
Back end starts to slide, to the right
About a third of the turn left before it merges with another lane to its right
Drop a gear, rev it up and threw the wheel (no power steering) to the right
Overcorrect
Turn it to the left and managed to make it drift left, but i was still heading towards the barrier
The barrier was about to end
Scrape my plastic light cover on the last foot of the barrier, lightly enough to only cause scratching
Pulled over
Its good
Carried on
If this sounds retarded im retarded right now

sup /r/Veeky Forums

CHP=colorado highway patrol? I have to drive my brother to traffic court in denver tomorrow.

>try to get hektik after a solid Florida rain storm in my LS trim '99 Integra
>hit the handbrake a little too hard
>tunnelvision.exe has been launched
>over correct, fishtail and eventually end up turned around
>luckily no one saw it happen
>try to drive away
>weird scraping sound in passenger side rear wheel well
>get out to check it
>see this
>freakout.exe
>try to limp back home which was a good two miles away
>about one mile in tire blows out
>riding on solid rim for a good 10 minutes
>get that shit on jack stands
>almost everything (except brake system) is fucked

Don't get hektik around curbs anons, I learned that the hard way

Tell them that you urgently had to shit and that you were I'll on that day

We used to race deliverymen. Calculate the distance between two pizza places, give the farther one a head start, and tip the guy who go there first 50% (we took the money for the tip and the pizza off the top of bets place) It was a great way to get everyone to actually pay for the fucking pizza and not go "oh nah man I'm good bro, like one slice bro" then finish a pizza and a half. People also got to eat from whichever place they liked, it was loads of fun, and the delivery guy got a fat tip. I recommend every do this.

It's also funny to see two pizza delivery guys from two different pizza places pull up and go to the same door at the same time.

what

>learned to drive in a manual car
>everyone in my family owns a manual car
>drive whoever's car is available until i save up for my own
>buy my own manual car
>my friend lets me drive his auto maxima
>maxima has a foot operated ebrake
>turning at intersection, """change gears""" mid corner
>push what i thought was the clutch in
>accidentally rip an ebrake skid mid corner
>confused for a second, blocking traffic on both sides
>work out how to turn the brake off and get out of there

>had recently got my license and bought my first car
>automagic since i was still a nervous driver
>had just found out about engine braking
>started using it on a few downhill roads
>4 speed auto so i put it on 3rd
>going about 50mph downhill
>at some point forgot i'd put it in 3rd
>put it down again
>revs shoot up
>VREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

4-door 4A-GE Corollas were only available in Australia.

blame your dad for that one. why the fuck would you put the car in anything but drive when you're driving it? you use next to fuel at idle.

next to no*

>guy in front of me at roundabout pulls away
>look to my right to check dat right of way
>crunch
>turns out he pulled away and then stopped

And that's how i lost 2 years off my no claims bonus. Also the little faggot claimed whiplash when i hit him at sub-5mph

oh and the other stupid mistake i made with cars

>purchased a volkswagen

>capatcha - drive pavement

>300 km of experience
>driving in a big city of a foreign country

You deserved everything you got.

>be 18
>parked in front of a calisthenics parks in the countryside
>just finished my routine
>sunset in winter
>two qt just arrived and are stretching
>want to impress them by doing a J turn
>in my mind the parking is just plain dirt
>"crack"
>fullthrottle into the only fucking tree
>get out
>avoid eye contact
>put he bumper in
>get in
>neck hurt for 5 days
>shame still hurts to this day

Neutral is better for transmissions as in driver and park their still working but not able to transfer power
But in neutral nothing's happening

If you get a auto with a engine that bangs around heaps you really feel the difference between park and neutral when stopped

"If I pull this lever, all my girlfriends clothes will fall off!"

I had a similar incident, the lady I hit got out and was either drugged up or drunk, either way she didn't give a fuck.

thats way beyond dumb. Id call it full retard. You shouldve offed yourself for such shamefur dispray

>cruising one night
>speedingViolations.gif
>overtaking fuckers at 50 over the limit
>some fag in an old corolla (gx hatch or something, nothing cool) sees me coming
>floors it
>straightpipe.wav
>ground clearance delete mod
>chrome mags
>speed match with him
[EUROBEAT INTENSIFIES]
>both floor it
>autotragic maxima fucking destroys that peice of shit
>switching lanes to get around the cunts going 95 in the fastlane
>general bimmer shenanigans
>at one point I decided to find out how fast my car will (really) go
>hit 180km/h before I run out of road
>next week
>get a letter from the police infringement bureau
>so there's this new speeding camera on the on the highway now
>only nailed at 17 km/h over
>$120 fine
Could have been so much worse

taking a midengined car running on shitty almost-worn tyres and a troubled gearbox to time attack.

>from girls perspecitve
>chilling somewhere with a friend, calm countryside, nothing around
>suddenly, a car jumps out of nowhere and rams the tree
>guy comes out, fixes bumper, gets in, goes away
>the fuck happened
oh god my sides

For some odd reason i wanted to figure out if the brakes would work with the engine turned off.
At first it worked then it completely faded out. Had to pull the handbrake before i slammed into a car in front of me.

go for a walk you fat shit. i take my car down a 10km mountain range with the engine off and brake vacuum completely used up every couple of weeks.
>tfw you get to the bottom and restart the engine then the very next time you brake you almost go through the windscreen

>drive to work
>park next to light pole with concrete base
>it's in front of me on driver's side right behind the windshield support beam thing (blindspot)
>get off work
>tired
>forget all about it
>pull forward
*SSSSCCCCCRRRRUUUUUNNNNNCCHHHHH*
>Fuck.
>laugh at myself for being this retarded
>reverse then drive away

Dumbest shit ever.

props for you

it's very good drill especially if you are racing with a friend. works extremely well for motorcycles, no vacuum/electrical assist

>trying to diagnose a vibration in my 280k mile 245 a few months ago
>start going down hill, put it in neutral (auto) to drop RPM
>get to the bottom, rev match and put back in Drive
>2nd hill do the same thing
>get to the bottom
>instead of pulling the gear select back, depress the button and slot it forward into reverse
>rear wheels lock up at 50mph, back and kicks out at 45*, engine stalls
>counter steer, back to neutral and coast to the side of the road
>great, I just exploded my trans
>restart, put in drive goes forward, reverse works too
>continue the hour + drive home.

the only result was 2-3 slipping slightly, but its gotten better over time.

>Go into a thread titled "Dumb things you've done while driving".
>Complain about someone doing something dumb.

Jesus Christ...

>Usually don't park in gear on level surfaces due to electronic park brake being tighter than orions fist.
>do it when I'm driving the work hilux though
>drive home from site one swing, so I'm in the habit
>jump in my car when i get home
>Park at shops in gear
>go in, come out
>start up car
>take foot off clutch without thinking once engine is running
>JOLT
>stall
>embarrassed as fuck and cringing at the strain I just put everything under
>lie awake at night thinking about it

Drove drunk. Crashed. People got hurt. I did jail time. Stupid decision.

>pizza delivery
>snowy
>echo
Are you me? I'm in Canada and I delivered to a farm but the field was blinding white and I almost rolled my car, was scared for my life.

>teach myself to ride motorcycle
>watch videos about too much front brake = ur ded
>exclusively use rear brake at all times
>wear my rear tire flat in no time
>take MSF course a few months later
>forces to use front brake
>dont die

The stupis hurts to this day

My wife drives auto and I use it for long distance cause it's cheaper, I haven't stalled yet but I know it's coming.

You only do it once. I'm paranoid now. It's so easy to forget that these new ebrakes are still on.

THIS
SHIT
RIGHT
HERE
lost me my job running parts for napa. Some flighty soccer mom decided a *perfectly empty road* was too scary and stopped short. By the time I got to her window to ask if she was okay, she was literally in shock, crying as she said "I need to call someone."
Someone turned out to be 911.
Fire and police and ambulance and everything because my license plate tapped her trailer hitch. Fuck everything, especially terrified little weenies who flip shit at basic-bitch shit.

>coming to stoplight
>slow down and shift to neutral
>Light turns
> about 40mph
>lol shift into second
>drop the clutch
>literal tyres screech as i rev to 5500/8000
>shoot past cars in adjacent lanes
i guess that's why you heel toe

Hopefully a drunk driver T-bones her car and she gets covered in her families organs

>learning to drive with my mom
>stuck in front of left lane waiting to turn but some dipahits have blocked the intersection because they couldn't wait
>traffic means I can't move forward either
>fire truck with sirens blaring speeds a couple cats behind me and those who can slip over into other lanes
>mom tells me to get as far left as possible and listen cause new driver
>fire truck is one car behind me and both him and the guy behind me are smashing their horn.
>panic don't know what to do
>freak out for what feels like an eternity until I decide to turn right cutting off 3 other lanes
>now on tiny near 1 way street where people continue to honk cause wrong way
>still weighs on me if someone might've died cause I couldn't move fast enough

I went hooning in my Mustang a few months ago. We saw a crowd of people and just for kicks one of my m8s said I should try and crash into them. I was going to try and freak them out, but instead I freaked out both of us by getting way too close to them and almost actually hitting someone.

Hoon responsibly man

I took a turn too fast in my foxbody and slid around a corner. It's my first rwd car so I'm more used to understeer ingredients through corners fast but I've never oversteered like that before

Last week while taking the car out the garage with my dad i didnt check my right mirror and scratched and dented the right side while turning that way, with the bumper of a Ford galaxy, but not badly At least, you can see it if you look closely. I still cant stop feeling like shit and cringing about the fucking retarded thing i did, god fucking dammit

I just dont know what to do and am too afraid of actually lurking to see how much it would cost to repair

Pls console me Veeky Forums

I feel ya man

>doing 45
>car slowly pulls out on me
>brake hard
>clutch in
>rev engine to intimidate
>try to rev match back into gear
>burn clutch bad somehow
>acceleration response becomes garbage
>pull over for 10 seconds
>clutch seems to have cooled off
>everythings fine
>car smells like burnt clutch for 3 days
>fml

Similar story involved emergency services:
>learning to drive with my mom
>stopped at red light
>light turns green, begin turning right
>cop car comes around corner with lights on, stops
>his arm is out the window and his hand is pointed in my direction
>not sure if he's waving me forward or telling me to stop
>"user WHAT ARE YOU DOING"
>I'm just sitting here so I think that means I'm supposed to be moving to get out of the cop's way?
>start moving again
>cop starts yelling at me and making the "stop" gesture as he starts moving too
>mom freaks even harder
>"user STOP STOP STOP WHAT ARE YOU DOING"
>I don't know what to do and just sit there in the middle of the intersection until the cop is gone
>someone behind me honks at me

>mfw I remember this every time I'm at that intersection or see a cop car

not your fault. You were a learner, your instructor should have told you what to do.

>learning with mum
AHHHH REEEE WHAT ARE YOU DOING SCREAMING TRIGGERED REE WERE ALL GONNA DIE STOP SPEEDING YOURE GOING TO FAST WHY ARENT YOU BREAKING

>learning with dad
Just break to a stop son, let the police car go past then start going again once its safe.
Good job son.

hmm

>letting a women teach you how to drive

Instead of actually telling you what to do they expect you to already know and berate and criticize everything you do while flipping the fuck out.

My mom was the same way, told her to fuck off I'll learn myself, just drove my friends car on some back roads for a few hours and got everything down.

I wander what will happen if you had let the clutch out?