Dumbest thing you've done, car-related Options

[dustin15brown]

Ok mine is when I bought the car it was a stick and up till then I didn't even know the difference... Well I got the car.. friends came over and wanted me to start it up..... thought it was messed up... I FORGOT TO ENGAGE THE CLUTCH!!!!! lol There's mine.... Here's a better one....
A girl I actually know got in her car started it started to back outta her driveway.. the car died... her dad came out and looked and everything couldn't figure it out.... They called and had the car towed in town and looked over.... After a few hours the shop called back and said it was only... OUT OF GAS!!!!! They said they saw that.. put some gas in started it laughed then left it alone..... lol DUMBASSSSSS

[Coomer]

I once remote started my car into the cement wall of my garage...that was fun.

[ILuvMyCelica95]

ok now i dont feel so stupid :-D

but yeah i drove my car for over 2 years with a leaky sunroof and i JUST figured out today that it was only the drain pipe.

[dustin15brown]

Now u don't feel so dumb???? That was a brain fart..... this was 2 yrs.. brains don't fart that long!!!!! lol I'm jk kiddo

[ILuvMyCelica95]

well it wasnt really bad untill this year, when it first started to happen it only leaked when it was raining really really hard.

[C3L1CA]

My dumbest thing was trying to drift around a turn in the snow with my summer rims. I took a big chunk out if it

[Cutrara]

I was crusing down my street in 2nd and go to downshift to 1st to get up my driveway and I didn't notice I hit between 1st and 2nd and the shifter popped back into neutral. I slowly let out the clutch and gave it gas and it was revving real high while I was like WTF WHY AM I GOING BACKWARDS.

[Dr_Tweak]

Hmmm... I recall popping an axle out of a tranny once, the fluid was still hot and I had forgotten to drain it, and a 1/2 second later I had burning hot tranny fluid all over my face, head, and neck...

This post has been edited by Dr_Tweak: Aug 15, 2005 - 1:23 AM

[Yota]

when I got my rims, I was so excited, I drove off without tightening them down.

[JDM321]

drunk+driving=dumbest thing....

[CheesyLobster]

While driving my mom's toyota sequoia, i tryed to park in a spot that was too small and scraped the side of one of the cars...

[presure2]

hmm, lets see....lmao
off the top of my head, first thing that comes to mind is leaving the oil filler cap off..hehe
theres been TONS of dumb stuff ive done to cars over the years..lol i only just over the past few years actually started FIXING them, im usually MUCH better at breaking things

[Zasper]

drove drunk and wrecked my car

[97sccelica]

saw a tool i left in the engine bay and reached down to get it

in the process, my wrist came into contact with the exhaust housing of a T3 turbo

it left quite a burn

i also got my hand stuck in the dash of a mustang. had to cut the dashboard to get my hand out.

[Kadett]

Drivin into a stopped car . Happened 5 days ago!!

[bojangles_8686]

Tried to take my aluminum oil cap off after driving for about 3 hours.... that did not feel good.

[Cutrara]

Oh, I also forgot, when I was cleaning my engine bay I accidently left a can of degreaser under the hood. I drove 5 miles and when I was idling in a parking lot, I heard this clanking sound. The nozzle of the can was touching the serpentine belt, melting the nozzle.

[playr158]

sorry but to everyone who drove drunk in wrecked....

glad you did you desirved it

[Bigmeanbulldog55]

sorry but to everyone who drove drunk in wrecked....

glad you did you desirved it
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I'll second that.

The dumbest thing I did has most of you beat I think. I drove my car for 6-9 months thinking the passenger side door was broke, so I made people crawl in out and the window to get in. Turns out, the lock was just disconnected from the lever on the inside. One day I decided to try and unlock it from the out side, and it opened right up. I felt pretty dumb. I thought it was funny though. (This was not the Celica)

[Coomer]

when I got my rims, I was so excited, I drove off without tightening them down.
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Ooh I did that too, resulting in tons of damage.

[tomazws]

The dumbest **** I've done was I drove my girl friend's car to drop her off at Cal Poly Pomona. Parked her car, pulled the e-brake and took an hour nap. Woke up and wanted to drive to a fast food place to get something to eat, but the damn car wouldn't start. When I turn the key, the engine didn't cough, starter didn't click. So I called the Cal Poly security guards to help jump the car thinking it might be bad battery. They came over, hooked the battery up, but the car still wouldn't start. At the end, the security looked inside the car and stared at me.... DUDE YOU DIDNT PUT IT ON PARK!


Fcuking automatics.

[dustin15brown]

lol I did the same thing.... I figured it out after a few moments. The suckiest part was it was at one of my best friends g-ma's funeral.... Dumb Durango.. Atleast that was my only smile of the day

[Digndoug]

drunk+driving=dumbest thing....
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finda the same, but drinking and tierd as ****.. hit the curb, just needed a new tire, and still needs an alignment..

[Andason]

i accidently inhaled nitrous.. oh wait that wasnt an accident

[Valo666]

2nd day i had my supra i was learnin to drift..drifted in a parking lot for a few hours with my friend and his AE86..Got the basic technique and when i was trying 2 do it on the street i ended up in a ditch. I hadda call my buddy with his jimmy and get him 2 pull me out..no dmg cuz there was snow in it. about half a week l8er on my b-day i tryed goin around a corner and ended up in a snowbank..whole front end was about2 feet off the ground cuz it got stuck half way up..so i hadda get 2 guys 2 push and i hadda keep rocking it..that was fun..-25 C. That was pretty stupid/not 2 much fun. That has 2 b the stupidest thing ive done besides duin a 40 foot drop on my skis in Qubec, or smokin weed laced with LSD.

[TheStreetzKing]

dumbest thing i did..

bought an automatic

[saleeka]

taking the key out of the ignition in my parents van while it was running to get the cd changer to reload... peace out power steering and brakes...

[Valo666]

dumbest thing i did..

bought an automatic
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hahahaha..

[Phat_99CeliGT]

about 5 years ago, when i had my 93 probe, i was cruising around town. i had my friend Bryson with me. we would turn around at the McDs and b4 i would pull out on the street i would pull the Ebrake and do a burnout to 2nd gear. did that about 4 times. on my way from McDs a kid yelled at me at a red light. i was prolly 8 cars back. He said "Turn'em over!".
i chirped them and took off.
sitting at a light on my way back to McDs i noticed a cop pass me and stare right at me. i watched him in my mirror and noticed he did a u-turn about 4 cars behind me. when the light turned green i took off and turned down the 1st alley i saw, turned my lights off and sat there. I asked Bryson if the cop passed and he said "yeaa. oh, ****!"
the cop saw me and turned in the alley.
by the time he got out of his car there were 3 sheriffs cars, 4 city cops, 2 highway patrols and 1 K-9 unit surrounding me.
they searched me, Bryson and my car.
told me the reason he went after me was because the Mayor was sitting at McDs eating dinner and watched me burnout, plus a V6 with no cats and 2.5" exhaust gets loud.

the dumb part:
After he gave me my warning he told me that next time i try and hide from the cops i should turn my red neon underbody lights off.

[dustin15brown]

"the dumb part:
After he gave me my warning he told me that next time i try and hide from the cops i should turn my red neon underbody lights off."
That is right up there with the funniest.. Goood job

[Phat_99CeliGT]

tee hee

[doGGy]

3 times run away from Cops.....

1 Time with my celica..........

2 times with my Rolla 1.3l..........

both times succsesfully........

...................but, they know where i live, and all 3 times they waited for me at my house, talking with my parents about how bad i am.......

[97sccelica]

even if you can outrun the cops, you cant outrun Motorola

my friends and i also tried to wheelie my friend's mustang in the middle of the street

the sheriffs patroled that street every night for almost a whole month after that

[97lestyousay]

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[CelicaBuddy]

The time my dad parked too close to my parking spot in the car port...

I thought I could make it around just barely... But I was wrong and backed into my dad's truck putting a slight dent in my side fender... Sucky thing was, it was the night I got my subwoofers installed and it was the day before my birthday... So, not only did I have brand spankin new subs, but I had a nice dent to go along with that for my Bday....

[Valo666]

wow drying to drift a supra on the street...not smart
i deem you an idiot for hurting a decent good supra
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its not a decent supra..lol. Its an 87 Non turbo, automatic that i picked up for $500 for my first car. Both fenders were rusted out, passanger side turn signal was busted, rear 1/4s are rusted, hole in the rear drivers side rear wheel well, diff was leaking, trans was on its way out, motor had 235xxxkm on it, hatch leaked, when i bought it the exhaust was rusted out, no breaks in the rear and the fuel lines leaked. Only good things about it was the inteior(even though the radio didnt work), the seats were mint. i ended up throwing about $1000 into it to get it into semi good condition. Replaced the fenders, passangerside turn signal, made a plate to mount to the MAP to fit a cone filter on it, replaced exhaust. It was far from decent.

[Valo666]

Dude we need to go skiing.

Oh the stupidest,... this may take a while,... I'm thinking... ok I'll repost later.
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lol..i usually ski at this crappy club north of toronto, nothin big but i coach there. This year im plannin on headin out west to Alberta or BC and goin bigger. My friend who lives in Calgary told me to come out and she said she will show me some big powder bowls so i can learn backflips

[jojobombiest]

I was in my brother's mr2 and it has a turbo timer. he gets out and i say "wait give me the keys i need to get the cd out" so i put the keys in the ignition, take the cd out and totally forget to take the keys out. then we went for a loooooong drive in my friend's car right after. when we came back the car was on because since the keys were in the ignition, it kept the turbo timer on so the car stayed on for about 4-5 hours with the doors unlocked and the t-tops were off too lol got pretty lucky that nobody stole the car... so i gave him 10 bucks for the gas i wasted.

[CelicaBuddy]

I was in my brother's mr2 and it has a turbo timer. he gets out and i say "wait give me the keys i need to get the cd out" so i put the keys in the ignition, take the cd out and totally forget to take the keys out. then we went for a loooooong drive in my friend's car right after. when we came back the car was on because since the keys were in the ignition, it kept the turbo timer on so the car stayed on for about 4-5 hours with the doors unlocked and the t-tops were off too lol    got pretty lucky that nobody stole the car... so i gave him 10 bucks for the gas i wasted.
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I've done something similar to that... LOL

This is what I did... I went out to get gas, I came home, I got outa the car, saw that the headlights were still on, whch they shoulda turned off when I gotta outa the car, so I reach in car confused about the headligts, turn em off, and then i walkd back inside... Like a 15 minutes later, we ere gonna go somewhere and take my car, Im looking evey where for my keys, then my dad broght up the fact that they couldstill be in my car, cuz sometimes by accident Ive left them in there...

I go outside to the car and realize... that the car was still running and that I never turned off the car when I got home... I was so embarassed... I felt real smart that day... I still dont see how I couldnt hear the engine idleing, even after I checked a second time... Oh well...

This post has been edited by CelicaBuddy: Aug 19, 2005 - 12:44 PM