View Full Version : What's the stupidest thing you've done in your car? I'll go first.


scotchy
11-05-2007, 12:24 AM
I spent Sunday at an Audi Club drivers ed in Bremerton outside of Seattle.
Had a lot of fun, saw some friends, met a lot of nice people.

There was a guy there who I've seen at an event before that this time was driving his one month old 4dr black 335.....really nice car and a really nice guy.

2/3rds of the way thru the last session of the day they pulled everyone off for a minute because there was a car stuck on the track. When we went to go back out, the 335 was in front of me waiting for a wave to go out...While we're sitting there I suddenly remember that I want to turn my video camera back on to get some footage of me attempting to keep up with him. As I somewhat franticly try to turn around to press the record button my foot slips off the brake and I roll into the poor guy.

To hell with the fact that I looked like a total idiot to everyone that was watching...I left a nice little 10-12 inch long scuff on the bumper on his brand new car.(Fortunately I've got no front plate or it would have been much worse)
He couldn't have been any nicer about it...he thinks that he'll be able to buff it out.
I feel so bad for the guy.
And I feel like poop.
That is all.

jkwan
11-05-2007, 05:00 AM

formerly dennisA4
11-05-2007, 05:54 AM
with my MINI i drove it into my garage... with my bike still attached to the roof rack.

Craig3Q
11-05-2007, 05:55 AM
at least the guy was cool about it. Did you get any videos after that? Or was it all over for you at that point?

RyanA3 [C30 v2]
11-05-2007, 06:09 AM
dumbest thing I've done was pick up a hitch-hiker with an axe. But he DID have a case of bud light.

Craig3Q
11-05-2007, 06:56 AM
to the right to leave room for the wife's car. I just skimmed it and ended up with a bunch of white house paint on the car. My Mercedes service rep was good about it though, and had someone buff it out at no charge.

I did many more stupid things when I was a teenager though. 'nuff said about that for now.

April
11-05-2007, 07:16 AM
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scotchy
11-05-2007, 07:36 AM

scotchy
11-05-2007, 07:37 AM

scotchy
11-05-2007, 07:39 AM

scotchy
11-05-2007, 07:53 AM

Bezor
11-05-2007, 08:40 AM
the house to get something I had forgotten. My mind else where, and already remembering I had opened the garage door, I simply put the car in reverse and started to back out. Just and I turned to look over my shoulder, I saw the garage door.

BAM! ****! Pull the car foward. No scratches to my bumper, but the garage door has a cease in it on the inside, and from the outside you can see that it every so slightly bows out.

could have been much worser.

April
11-05-2007, 08:59 AM

absoluTT A3
11-05-2007, 09:47 AM
and scrrrrrrrrrrrrrrape--they gouged the passenger door rather nicely against the side of the garage opening. They had backed out too fast not to notice soon enough before the damage was done.

I almost did the same thing--only my mirror got whacked instead of my passenger door. Thankfully, the A3 mirrors fold back rather nicely. Only minor scuffing to the edges. ;-)

formerly dennisA4
11-05-2007, 10:39 AM
I expected the worse when i got out of the car.
But luckily no damage to the car at all. The bike was in a fork mount carrier which bent, and also broke the steel frame of the bike. So it was a good excuse to buy a new frame. :)
Oh yeah and I knocked some paint off the house above the garage door.

Gettysburg
11-05-2007, 11:25 AM
I dropped my motorcycle(600 lb. BMW R1200RT) onto the front end of my A3. I was about to set it down on the side-stand when the bike began leaning away from me. I tried keeping it upright, but I lost the tug o'war. I just sat there for a minute; afraid to lift the bike up to see what whas underneath.

To my surprise, there was no damge; to either the car or the bike.

raduga
11-05-2007, 02:21 PM
Left the handbrake only halfway-applied (stupid center armrest!) and parked it out of gear in my driveway.

Woke up the next morning to find my car *across the street*, in a small ravine, backed up against a tree.

D'oh.