Most embarrasing driving moment :(

[4Hero]

Not sure if this is a good idea to start a thread, but I'll start with mine.

Almost three years ago, in my previous Impreza Turbo, driving from Deer Park petrol station about 2 miles from my home. Get to roundabout and this little white car was beginning to noise me up. "Just a standard little white car" I though, hmmm...

Well, going round the roundabout, he was being a real pain in the ass, so I go to overtake him on the straight. red-lining, 3rd gear, doing ***mph (not very fast officer), I'm flying, well so I thought.

I'm quite enjoying myself, good tunes on (pretty loud) Well, thats when my fun stops.

Stick my car into 4th gear, get side by side with him and all I can hear is this noise, like thunder, coming from his puny little white car (bearing in mind that my car was not very quite flat out, and with the music pretty loud, I was thinking WTF? )

All of a sudden, he begins to disappear from my sight, to be honest , I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

I quitely and calmly pull in from trying to overtake, and decide to slow down a bit and try and hide my shame.

"How can this be? I spend a fortune on a pretty fast car, my wheels were probably worth more than his car", I though..

I found out later from someone who knows this guy, that the Vauxhall Corsa this dude was driving (very basic looking, didn't even have alloy wheels or even a spoiler) had a 2ltr Vauxhall Calibra Turbo engine in it, with lots and lots and lots of mods done to the engine, he is a specialist tuner or something...

It was embarrasing, but always brings a smile to my mates faces, and mine, when I mention it.

Whats yours? Don't say you don't have one, everyone must have at least one (unless you cant drive ofcourse )

[ScoobyAndy]

LOL nice story m8

Never trust a corsa i think's the morral of that story.

Cant say ive really had any moments like that. If i have ive done my best to forget about them

The only thing i wont try and smoke too often are scoobs (not to say i havent though )

[G.T.]

how about this for an embarrasing driving moment After recently passing my driving test i i was behind my driving instructor in my mk1 xr2 , I thought it would be cool to oyertake her wich i duly did only to end up in a field at the very next bend . she never even stopped , im quite glad as id never have lived that one down.

[4Hero]

lol

[ScoobyAndy]

<< how about this for an embarrasing driving moment After recently passing my driving test i i was behind my driving instructor in my mk1 xr2 , I thought it would be cool to oyertake her wich i duly did only to end up in a field at the very next bend . she never even stopped , im quite glad as id never have lived that one down. >>

LOL ooops

[G.T.]

dont think that will get beaten on this thread my wife still reminds me of it pretty funny after it though

[st3ph3n]

Driving away with the handbrake on and wondering WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG!?!?!? Took me about 30 seconds to work out what it was. I was driving a FWD car at the time so it just felt like it was dragging its heels.

I was only 17 at the time.

[RA Dunk]

<< how about this for an embarrasing driving moment After recently passing my driving test i i was behind my driving instructor in my mk1 xr2 , I thought it would be cool to oyertake her wich i duly did only to end up in a field at the very next bend . she never even stopped , im quite glad as id never have lived that one down. >>

lol that is a cracker!!

[paul_honthy]

not so much driving but pulled up 2 fill my s2 rst turbo and saw a rather atractive lady sitting in the car next 2 mine.trying 2 be a cool i shoved the nozzle in and started filling.next thing i know the guy coming back 2 his motor sitting the other side of mine says "u know thats diesel mate?".i felt like a proper tit.

[col666]

Where do I start!

1. I overtook an old fart one night years ago in my Mk2 Golf Gti,flew into the next bend and backwards through a hedge spinning 360 then back into middle of road! old boy came round the bend swerved round the debris and just carried on!

2. My Dad got a new company car, a Cavalier Gsi 4x4, I had only passed my test about 2 months and he gave me a shot on my own, picked up a mate and went for a speed test on the A9(as you do !) we were flying down the a9 with the stereo on full blast, got to about 100 and something and it wouldnt go any faster, kept it hard to the floor for another few seconds then I looked down and noticed the rev counter bouncing about, I was only in 4th gear! car only had a handfull of miles on it, nicely run in!

Plenty of others, that i wont share!

Col.

[ian_finlayson]

Just passed my test a few weeks, driving through town as you do with a few mates, waved to my cousin failing to see the car in front had stopped and tapped his bumper quite nicely. Then on another day a few weeks later going through town centre chatting away to mates and only noticed red light coming on at the last minute, cue transit not having as good brakes and hit me. Loudest non damaging bang I have ever heard, the whole town centre turned to see what happened.

[Triggerdf]

How Long Have you got.....

Just passed test and took dads audi out , picked up a mate and went for a spin , we drove passed a field that was deserted and the gate was open so i decided to show my mate my hardbrake turning and drifting skills, after about 5 mins heard shotguns going off followed by my dads 3 month old audi having shot bouncing of the bonnet and roof, by this time my mate was in the footwell having some sort of breakdown. Turned out there were two Gamekeepers shooting in the woods about 100yrds from us, well i bolted out of that field with some driving that would colin McRae to shame , and a big Izuzu tore of after us , he got to within 20ft of me as i turned out the field and as he went to turn out he clipped the dry stone dyke and mangled the front of his 4x4 , probably would have shot us and buried us in the woods if they had caught us.

Decided to "borrow" dads car one night at about 2 in the morning to go to a beach party and made the schoolboy error of forgeting to shut the drivers door as i reversed out of the garage , crash as the wall of the garage poped out , the car door buckled back on its-self and the garage roof dropped onto the roof of the car.

theres more but they are bad enough i think

[4Hero]

ouch, some good stories here.

I have had a think about my original and have decided that might not be my most embarrasing

My most embarrasing update

14 years ago, got a Ford Escort XR3i from my Dad for my birthday 5 weeks later ...

Driving to meet a girlfriend along a windy country road, it's getting dark, I'm running late, so put the foot down a bit. I drive this road lots, so know the corners etc, but get to one, kinda mis-judge the grass verge at the side and clip it with my front passenger side wheel. I rolled the car two and a half times, knocked a farmers wall down, and hit an oncoming car (which i never realised, until I landed on my roof).

I (and the oncoming driver) were a bit shaken and stirred, a few bruises and bumps here and there, but no serious injuries, phew. When the police came, they said I had to find my own way to my girlfriends, but offered me a lift to the local public telephone.

My girlfriend worked in the local taxi office, so I called her, and said, "Hi, it's me.. Can I have a taxi please?, she was like, WTF?", lol, explaining to her was pretty embarrasing...

here's some photos of my crashed car, and the gf smiling, so it was all good in the end..

Wrecked XR3i piccy 1

Wrecked XR3i piccy 2

[Gumball]

my most embarresing moment was in 1998.

i had just bought an E plate 206GTI 1.9 from a friend of mine in the army. I was just back from a few days with the horrid recruits in the field and had a face complete with cam cream and it was dark.

I jumped into the car for which i had no license and proceeded to reverse/shoot backwards at a rapid rate of knots into what appeared to be a vast openess of nothingness only to find........................i had hit full on some kind of brand new mazda and totally trashed the back of it bigtime.

mine needed a new light cluster which i got at the scrapyard.

I was about to drive away and deny i was ever there until some trainspotter knobber sergeant asked me what i had done. i then went round all the doors in the mess asking who belonged to the no totalled mazda in the carpark? eventually i found the guy as i woke him up at midnihgt standing at his door like John J Rambo to give him the excellent news.

He was just selling it in the morning before going to Germany.wwwoooooooooooooppps

£1500 cash was the end of the story and the commanding officer ordered me to attend a driving course to get my license and refrain from being a menace before he removed my shevrons and returned me to my unit in shame.

moral of the story> DONT GET CAUGHT

[ally-b]

I was 15 .

My mate 'Jammy' Robertson ,

aquired a Honda C90 stepthru ,

I ,sat on it, marvelled for a moment , and gave it a rev .......automatic-clutch

propelled me at a vast rate of knots into the garage-door which folded IN

2hrs of sweaty spanner-work had it (kinda)sorted before his Da got home from work

Al.

[oobster]

My mum had a wee silver mini, with blue velour interior.

Me and my mate Dave came home from schhol @ lunchtime and "happened" to find the keys lying around in the house (how careless of my mum to leave them right at the back of the cupboard under a big pile of tins!).

We thought it would be a good idea to go out & have a shot, so i jumped in the drivers seat first and rolled the window down a bit. Dave stuck his head thru the gap and was directing me on what to do.

We got it started, and dave said to push the clutch in, put it into reverse, then let the clutch back out slowly. (His head was still thru the window at this point).

Well, unfortunately i did not follow his instructions, as i somehow managed to drop the clutch violently which resulted in the car flying across the road and into a neighbours fence! Dave came pretty close to be decapitated that day too!

We pushed the car back into the space it had occupied and made ourseleves scarce.

My mum went off her head, but as luck would have it she was sitting at a junction on her way to work the next night when some daft git in a capri ploughed right into the back of her, so the damage I caused was fixed by the capri driver's insurance! Wahey!

Oh how we laughed.

BUT my experiences with mini's was not quite finished. I passed my test when i was 17 and my auld granny bought me an A-reg 1-litre chocolate brown mini, which i was left to insure (fully-comp) myself. I did this by paying it up every month out my bank account.

I had the car for 3 months, and then aqua-plained through a big puddle coming out of Bathgate toward Armadale at about 2am on a Sunday morning. Car crossed the road, halved a speed-limit sign in two before forward-rolling into the ditch. Fortunately I was on my own, coz if i had someone in the front passengers seat they would have been about a foot smaller. Of course, it was a write-off, but once the insurance had paid me out I cancelled the direct-debit on my account. Thus, i had only paid about 4 months insurance but they'd paid me out the purchase price of the car so I thought i'd got out of that one well!

West Lothian Council sent me an invoice for "street furniture" (£700 for a new speed-limit sign) which i forwarded off to my insurance company, who also paid this for me.

I dont think i'll ever buy a mini again

[McGoo]

Ach OK here goes .......

It's February 1989 and I am the proud owner of a MkII Escort 1600 Sport in RS Signal Yellow. The day of the "Big Storms" and I can see the big waves out in the Clyde from my house. So I decide to go for a wee spin down the beach en route to the shops for the Sunday Papers.

I am driving along the beach road and go through a puddle and the car cuts out. No amount of trying gets the Escy back ticking over succeeds then all of a sudden a monster wave comes right up and over the wall and slams into the car. Followed by another, and another. Now the wall does not have a run off and the puddle is starting to get deeper and deeper. I make the call to get out and run home for help. My old boy is none too pleased as his car was off the road. After a few phone calls eventually we get the help of one of my neighbours who had a VW diesel van.

By the time we get back to the car, the waterline of the puddle is such that when I get into the car and sit in the drivers seat, the water is around my waist. Trying to find the tow loop under freezing cold water, being pounded by rain and big waves, under a Mexico front spoiler was not working so I eventually just had to wrap the tow rope round the front of the car.

Eventually we got it moved to drier ground then towed home.

Unknown to me at the time, a few mates were out and about videoing stuff and decided rather to wade in and help, they'd continue filming my plight. Kevin Costner I believe was inspired after that to make waterworld !!

Oh how the jibes of "racing the Waverley" , "the amphibious banana" and "yellow submarine" still get cast up when the opportunity arrives ...

[ANC Steve]

Lovely stories! Noticed most of them are all embarrasing moments in non-scoobies - what about people making asses of themselves in those? Steve did not long after he bought ours but as he's not home to defend himself I don't know if I should tell.

[G.T.]

go on spill the beans you cant keep it to yourself

[ANC Steve]

OK you twisted my arm. Turning into our street we have to turn right at a T junction and our old car used to spin wicked by there and then take off like a rocket so Steve being new to the subaru tried to do the same forgetting it was 4 wheel drive - and it had been raining. He put his boot down and the car just shot off towards our neighbours front wall with Steve battling the steering wheel, the kids in the back going "yeah dad do it again" , me swearing blue murder at him. He curbed it, mounted the pavement and stopped about an inch short of crunching the front of the car on the lamp-post in front of the neighbours house. We had a quick peek out of the window - don't think anyone saw us.

[G.T.]

pmsl no wonder he kept that quiet brilliant bet he felt a right plonker

[ANC Steve]

He hasn't done it again!

[nicholas_frame]

This one may take a while to read, but bear with me. Many many years ago I owned a mk2 xr2, which had a sticky starter motor. Being a resourceful little boy scout I knew to put the car in gear and rock it back and forwards to loosen things off. I tried this a few times without success - then ureka - i'll hook up the tow rope from my father's car and give it a gentle tug down the drive. All was well as i trundled down the driveway until i realised that the fiesta wasn't stopping!? In a panic, I drove into the road with the fiesta following. As I turned right the fiesta shot straight across the road and hammered into the side of my neighbour's car, writing it off!

It doesn't end there though - the neighbour was a cop, who didn't like my loud exhaust etc. Well, he went mental - understandably of course. After my dad calmed down the irate copper we discovered my fatal mistake - I'd left the key in the ignition to prevent the steering lock coming on. However, I'd clicked it to the next stage. This meant that the car jump started and with the automatic choke kicking in, the fiesta was now a ghost car.

After much tinkling of broken glass etc I sat down in the house to nurse the bruises I now had from kicking myself. I was almost coming to terms with my stupidity when the doorbell rang. Here were two uniformed cops who came in to charge me with dangerous driving, even though I wasn't technically driving the vehicle that crashed. They were actually really decent about it and had trouble keeping straight faces when I gave my statement. They left saying that they would be taking the charge under advisement from the traffic division.

Later that evening, they called back to say that the traffic boys had also had a good laugh and that they would not be pursuing the charge - hurrah! It gets better though, I had to fill in the insurance forms and agreed with my dad that we'd claim on his insurance (company car). In the end his company insurance coughed up for both cars and I didn't lose my no claims!!!!

Needless to say I will never ever be repeating this stunt and was reluctant to share, but I guess we all make mistakes and there have been some good ones for comparison in this thread - well done all - glad i'm not the only numpty out there, even if this is near the top of the charts!

Looking forward to hearing if anyone can improve on this for dumbness.