Most embarrasing car related moments

[bexd]

Im bored so thought i would see if anyone has any embarassing car related stories that they would like to share.

No examples myself but on a similar note when go karting in dorset once one of my friends (girl) was trying desperatly to impress the guy who worked there. So in true loreal "because your worth it" style she flipped her hair and put on her helmet at which point she started screaming and running around flapping so much I thought she was going to take off. When she eventually got her helmet off and we had managed to regain our composure from the laughing we discovered that she had a bee inside her helmet. Not surpisingly it didnt go anywhere with the bloke but will always be remembered by everyone in attendence.

[Alfa_75_Steve]

Not a car, but a bike.

Someone comes around to have a test ride on an ancient Honda CBX750 I was selling.

Stood there, trying to start it up - it kept spinning and just wouldn't 'catch'.

Cue me making all kinds of apologies - 'never done this before' etc, before thinking saying, 'oh, I must have left the lights on and run the battery down'.....

Then I noticed the kill-switch was set to 'off'.

Oh, how we laughed.

[mattsayle]

I currently have a hole in my exhaust so every journey is embarrising at the moment. I dont know how chavs do it!!

Today at Oulton Park, I drove down the back of the crowd and every single person stood there (For people who know Oulton it was on the outside of kickerbrook so about 100 people) all turn around at the same time and watch me go past. My god, the shame. I wanted a paper bag for my head

[5 wh]

When I first got my 911 I opened the rear compartment to put my jacket in forgetting the engine was in there.

[Alfa_75_Steve]

5 wh said:

When I first got my 911 I opened the rear compartment to put my jacket in forgetting the engine was in there.

On a similar note, when I had a cack-hander Fiat Spider, I often got into the wrong side of the car.

[disco!!!!]

whilst out in my old volvo 340 at silly o'clock in the morning with my very drunk mate in the car telling his mate and his bird how her bmw was rubbish and getting a few laughs out of it my volvo decided to start billowing so much steam from the radiator it would put a james bond smoke screen to shame

we left quickly to try and get rid of the steam before the whole village though the scotch mist was upon them

[Nobody You Know]

When selling my first track car some guys came round for a look, the car had never missed a beat and always started imediately.

Anyway the bloody thing just cranked and cranked and cranked.... so we all pushed it out of the garage and put some petrol in.... Still it wouldnn't start.... The guys were getting bored by this point and thinking I was a liar no doubt.... After more cranking and head scratching I realised that I had picked up the key without the immobiliser transponder in it.

What a spacker I looked.

[onemorelap]

Alfa_75_Steve said:

5 wh said:

When I first got my 911 I opened the rear compartment to put my jacket in forgetting the engine was in there.

On a similar note, when I had a cack-hander Fiat Spider, I often got into the wrong side of the car.

On a similar note my Auntie was bought a new car by my Uncle which was a rarity in itself so my Auntie was quite excited to see what the new car was. 1st let down was the barn door being pulled back to reveal a brand new Skoda rapide. Second let down was the 1st shopping trip to Sainsbury's. Offloading the shopping from the trolley into the "boot" only for some wags to shout "feeding it won't make it go faster love!!"

[911motorsport]

Fiat Multipla. I went out in it last night to get milk. On the way I passed through a well known local hooker spot. Suddenly a cat shoots out from under a car and I anchor on............and stall the engine.

A hooker takes this as the green light and tries getting into the car. I hit the panic locks and she's looking in like WTF!?

I had to endure 3 minutes of verbal abuse whilst I waited for the imobiliser to reset

[///M3]

[stockver]

911motorsport said:

Fiat Multipla. I went out in it last night to get milk. On the way I passed through a well known local hooker spot. Suddenly a cat shoots out from under a car and I anchor on............and stall the engine.

A hooker takes this as the green light and tries getting into the car. I hit the panic locks and she's looking in like WTF!?

I had to endure 3 minutes of verbal abuse whilst I waited for the imobiliser to reset

Winner so far, like a sketch comedy

[Not-All-Here]

When i first started to reverse park when i went back to the car after my shift I'd walk round to the passenger side rear door, open it, and then wonder why it opened the wrong way.

And then today I went to the petrol station and for some reason I opened the back driverside door, and then the filler cap.

Got some weird looks and I didnt even realise I had done it until I'd finished filling up!

[Steameh]

911motorsport said:

Fiat Multipla. I went out in it last night to get milk. On the way I passed through a well known local hooker spot. Suddenly a cat shoots out from under a car and I anchor on............and stall the engine.

A hooker takes this as the green light and tries getting into the car. I hit the panic locks and she's looking in like WTF!?

I had to endure 3 minutes of verbal abuse whilst I waited for the imobiliser to reset

I had a similar encounter in Hull except far from stalling it, I was sat waiting at some traffic lights that had just turned red, from a small rough looking street I had pulled a wrong turn down.

She waltzed over and asked if I was looking for business as it were. Those lights couldn't change quick enough, although I felt it very apt that it was the red light area of Hull.

[Airbag]

A panicked call to my father as a teenagers, petrified about not being able to turn the key in the ignition, etc.

Then, I learned what steering lock (well, that kind) was.

[xrv]

Steameh said:

911motorsport said:

Fiat Multipla. I went out in it last night to get milk. On the way I passed through a well known local hooker spot. Suddenly a cat shoots out from under a car and I anchor on............and stall the engine.

A hooker takes this as the green light and tries getting into the car. I hit the panic locks and she's looking in like WTF!?

I had to endure 3 minutes of verbal abuse whilst I waited for the imobiliser to reset

I had a similar encounter in Hull except far from stalling it, I was sat waiting at some traffic lights that had just turned red, from a small rough looking street I had pulled a wrong turn down.

She waltzed over and asked if I was looking for business as it were. Those lights couldn't change quick enough, although I felt it very apt that it was the red light area of Hull.

This must happen more than you'd think. I had the same thing happen to me at traffic lights in Aberdeen.
I know someone who had a worse experiance like this. He was stopped at the same set of lights when a lady of the night opened his passenger door and got in the car. When he made it clear he wasn't interested she told him to drive her home. He told her to get out of the car to which she replied if he didn't do it she would just piss herself in the seat. From the description of her she was the scariest crack we you could imagine and probably would carry out her threat so he agreed.
I always lock my doors driving through that part of town now.

[rockinatmidnight]

xrv said:

Steameh said:

911motorsport said:

Fiat Multipla. I went out in it last night to get milk. On the way I passed through a well known local hooker spot. Suddenly a cat shoots out from under a car and I anchor on............and stall the engine.

A hooker takes this as the green light and tries getting into the car. I hit the panic locks and she's looking in like WTF!?

I had to endure 3 minutes of verbal abuse whilst I waited for the imobiliser to reset

I had a similar encounter in Hull except far from stalling it, I was sat waiting at some traffic lights that had just turned red, from a small rough looking street I had pulled a wrong turn down.

She waltzed over and asked if I was looking for business as it were. Those lights couldn't change quick enough, although I felt it very apt that it was the red light area of Hull.

This must happen more than you'd think. I had the same thing happen to me at traffic lights in Aberdeen.
I know someone who had a worse experiance like this. He was stopped at the same set of lights when a lady of the night opened his passenger door and got in the car. When he made it clear he wasn't interested she told him to drive her home. He told her to get out of the car to which she replied if he didn't do it she would just piss herself in the seat. From the description of her she was the scariest crack we you could imagine and probably would carry out her threat so he agreed.
I always lock my doors driving through that part of town now.

Heading towards the harbour I'm guessing?
Hello fellow aberdonian btw!!

[scumbagjag]

Going to watch Top Gear get filmed I overshot the entrance of the car park of the inn where I was staying. Rather than turn around I decided to drive up the curb into the car park.
This would have been fine except I failed to notice that the four inch curb was actually 18" deep on the other side and I ended up beaching my motor.

Three cheers to the two locals that helped my bounce the car to dry land.

[...Mole...]

rockinatmidnight said:

xrv said:

Steameh said:

911motorsport said:

Fiat Multipla. I went out in it last night to get milk. On the way I passed through a well known local hooker spot. Suddenly a cat shoots out from under a car and I anchor on............and stall the engine.

A hooker takes this as the green light and tries getting into the car. I hit the panic locks and she's looking in like WTF!?

I had to endure 3 minutes of verbal abuse whilst I waited for the imobiliser to reset

I had a similar encounter in Hull except far from stalling it, I was sat waiting at some traffic lights that had just turned red, from a small rough looking street I had pulled a wrong turn down.

She waltzed over and asked if I was looking for business as it were. Those lights couldn't change quick enough, although I felt it very apt that it was the red light area of Hull.

This must happen more than you'd think. I had the same thing happen to me at traffic lights in Aberdeen.
I know someone who had a worse experiance like this. He was stopped at the same set of lights when a lady of the night opened his passenger door and got in the car. When he made it clear he wasn't interested she told him to drive her home. He told her to get out of the car to which she replied if he didn't do it she would just piss herself in the seat. From the description of her she was the scariest crack we you could imagine and probably would carry out her threat so he agreed.
I always lock my doors driving through that part of town now.

Heading towards the harbour I'm guessing?
Hello fellow aberdonian btw!!

I will keep my door's locked driving through there now .

[Los Palmas 7]

I'm sure I've shared this one before, but what the hell.

I always used to go into town (Watford) on a Saturday to have a mooch around, so the first week I had my first car I did just that. Parked up in the multi-story and went for a wander.

When I'd had enough, I did what I always did and caught the bus home.

Walked into the kitchen and Mum said "Oh, Dad's on nights tonight, so you can put your car in the garage if you like."

It was then I remembered I had a car. Had to get the bus back into town and collect the car from the car-park.

Took a while to live that one down.

[Mobile Chicane]

I'd had the drivers door lock replaced on one of my old Golfs (the car had been broken into in an attempt to steal it). The new lock was a bit stiff, and would often take some fiddling to get it open.

One day I parked up at the station, got the car park ticket for the car, went back to stick it in the window and found that I just could not get the door open. Late for an appointment, I somewhat lost my temper. After 5 minutes of yanking at the door handle and swearing...


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I realised it wasn't my car...