Stupidiest thing you've done behind the wheel

keithsfleet

For me it would have to be buying a 200bhp car as my first rear wheel drive car...... in winter...... with no traction control.

Spun out on my first roundabout that I took a bit to enthusiasticly and knackered the rear OS wheel.


I also got into the back of a car that I suspected the driver had a few drinks. He later, after dropping me of, wrote that car off. Thankfully no one else was injured.

Before anyone tongue lashes me, I was young and impressionable.

Chris_Heilong

keithsfleet wrote: »

For me it would have to be buying a 200bhp car as my first rear wheel drive car...... in winter...... with no traction control.

Spun out on my first roundabout that I took a bit to enthusiasticly and knackered the rear OS wheel.


I also got into the back of a car that I suspected the driver had a few drinks. He later, after dropping me of, wrote that car off. Thankfully no one else was injured.

Before anyone tongue lashes me, I was young and impressionable.

what car was it?

The Royal Scam

got into my car after having a huge row with herself and sped off through a red light junction with a blind merge on it, with Rage against the Machine at full blast and missed a family in another car by cm's

166man

Go around a roundabout in the rain with a bootful of concrete slabs.... Stupid but slightly funny all the less...:D

mikemac1

Watching the Formula 1 and they were going on and on about left foot braking.

I'll try this!

Going down the hill in the local village I went to brake a little with my left foot and not sure what I was playing at but the brakes were slapped on hard. Two huge skidmarks on the road behind me and people turning to look.


I was also driving several years before I knew you could flick a tab/switch in your rear view mirror if the driver behind was dazzling you at night.
Was treated like a right fool for not knowing

downonthefarm

When I used to take e'su would drop them in ballyfermot and try and get home before I came up

serious3

whilst throwing lit fireworks at my mates car behind, my passenger dropped a lit rocket into the passenger footwell...... resulted in my mini ending up upside down in the middle of the road and coloured sparks going everywhere, the two lads following couldn't help for the fits of laughing!

Chris_Heilong

went up a one way road the wrong way on the Collins ave(i hate all the one ways systems around there), I turned onto a road and saw that it had two lanes so decided to do a u turn and head the other way which it turned out traffic was moving against me, lucky there was nothing coming the other way.

downonthefarm

when I used to drop my son to playschool we would play a game called blind mans trust. I would close my eyes and he would tell me where to steer brake ect

BMJD

this thread :eek:

arleitiss

1) Gone 120 mph
2) Cut in front of taxi's on bus lane when clock hit 19:00 (multiple times, not really stupid, just a bit dangerous, some of them deserve it though)
3) Came from my country, sat into car went on the right hand side of the road (for about 20 metres until I realized it's wrong side)
4) Went in one way lane in Bray (didn't know it was one way, was Learner back then)
5) And finally cut out out a road of lesser importance in front of car (it was a while back but it had to brake) and turned out to be undercover.

Rightwing

A few pints.

keithsfleet

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

what car was it?

E36 2.5 great car, much better than the equivalent e46 imo

Just thinking. With the same car, I came back from a nightclub one night and hopped into the car with a friend and a bottle of vodka. We had no intention of moving the car but we had the engine running and music on.
Fast forward several hours and my neighbour finds us ko'd outside my house with the engine still running and the doors wide open.
Really didn't look good.

YouTookMyName

Feel asleep on the way home after 10 hours, to be woken by a 7.5 lorry beeping at me while i veered into the other lane. Was only 20 at the time.

Shát meself, never ever again.

12gauge dave

Roofed a corolla turning down the bass on cd player

Fell asleep drunk driving an ek9 civic crashed into a ditch

Going 135mph in the rain with a full car is also stupid behaviour

Theres so many i cant even think i was a stupid boyracer and i realise lately im lucky to be alive

fullstop

keithsfleet wrote: »

E36 2.5 great car, much better than the equivalent e46 imo

Just thinking. With the same car, I came back from a nightclub one night and hopped into the car with a friend and a bottle of vodka. We had no intention of moving the car but we had the engine running and music on.
Fast forward several hours and my neighbour finds us ko'd outside my house with the engine still running and the doors wide open.
Really didn't look good.

Hope I don't live near you...

Bruthal

fullstop wrote: »

Hope I don't live near you...

Yes an estate full of perfect people would be better alright.

wonski

mikemac1 wrote: »

I was also driving several years before I knew you could flick a tab/switch in your rear view mirror if the driver behind was dazzling you at night.
Was treated like a right fool for not knowing

You would be surprised how many people don't know this. Every time I am passenger at night I have a chance to flick it (when some idiot drives with full beams on behind us) and the driver looks at me as I am some kind of magician.

SeaFields

Driving the morning after knowing that even while feeling grand I'd be still over the limit.

kaimera

Phone/sat-nav distracting me in the car.

When I had the bike, aggressive filtering and lane swapping.

fullstop

Bruthal wrote: »

Yes an estate full of perfect people would be better alright.

Or maybe just an estate full of people who don't drive after a bottle of vodka. Not much to ask really.

Supergurrier

Drove the work lorry slightly too far to the left of a narrow road wing mirror clipped a hedge and flew in through the passanger window, brown trouser moment (the phone call to the boss after wasn't fun either) he was sound about it though.

GalwayKiefer

fullstop wrote: »

Or maybe just an estate full of people who don't drive after a bottle of vodka. Not much to ask really.

I read that as he was drinking in his car outside his house and fell asleep? Not that he actually drove home after the vodka.

Mint Sauce

Not even getting behind the wheel was mine.

On a trip to England, a gang of us hired two cars. I was suggested to be one of the drivers, as being from England, grown up there, I would be more used to the roads, motorways, signs, etc, dispite never have driven on them.

Was only a year after passing my test, so ruled my self out for that reason.

Went out to the cars, expecting to see two Ford Focus', and seen two brand new Alfa Romeo Giuliettas. Kicked my self straight away.

fullstop

GalwayKiefer wrote: »

I read that as he was drinking in his car outside his house and fell asleep? Not that he actually drove home after the vodka.

Seemed like he got in the car to drink the vodka without intending to drive home, then drank the vodka and drove. That's the way it looked to me.

Professey Chin

fullstop wrote: »

Seemed like he got in the car to drink the vodka without intending to drive home, then drank the vodka and drove. That's the way it looked to me.

Reads to me as got home, got vodka, got into car listening to music, fell asleep

ButtersSuki

Not me per se but I was kinda involved:

Was queuing at a roundabout off ramp to join the motorway in the UK one misty day after work when guy pulls up beside in yellow Porsche 911. We made eye contact, me slightly jealous of the beautiful machine beside me and him slightly scornful of my not exactly the worst car in the world Audi S4. We both knew what was coming next, but i knew i would lose if I dared to compete. I knew he was going to take off like a twat so rather than embarrass myself I just left him go for it.

And go for it he did....sending the car into several spins smashing front, rear and side into the crash barriers on both sides of the ramp taking a huge chunk clean off the front of the car and onto the road with the car eventually coming to a stop turned back facing both lanes of traffic and with the debris blocking the entire ramp and causing a bit of a blockage for about an hour. I got out and asked him was he ok.....i was being sincere but he wasn't too impressed! My lasting memory of the incident was him sitting at the side if the road with his head in his hands as it lashed rain around him as I drove off after the police cleared the ramp of the various parts of his car.......

Bruthal

fullstop wrote: »

Or maybe just an estate full of people who don't drive after a bottle of vodka. Not much to ask really.

Yea, but its still a bit pointless hoping he does not live near you, since its likely someone who has drove over the limit sometime, does. And did he actually drive the car?

Conmaicne Mara

Nothing I want to admit to officer.

dh0011

drove limerick to cork picked up a package (stopped for five mins). Drove past dundalk (10 mins) and had a ten minute break. Was nearly at portrush, which was my final destination. I was knackered. I was about to take a break but saw a sign saying i was 2 miles away. I said i would stay going. Next roundabout i pulled out in front of a lorry.

Jesus.

mikemac1 wrote: »

I was also driving several years before I knew you could flick a tab/switch in your rear view mirror if the driver behind was dazzling you at night.
Was treated like a right fool for not knowing

That's what that switch is for!

Dr Turk Turkelton

[ quote="fullstop;85714359"]Seemed like he got in the car to drink the vodka without intending to drive home, then drank the vodka and drove. That's the way it looked to me.[/quote]

See that's the problem with speeding while on a high horse-you don't get time to read the post while rushing in to type about someone on the internet being wrong.

keithsfleet

Chinpool wrote: »

Reads to me as got home, got vodka, got into car listening to music, fell asleep

You would be correct.
We never drove the car, just fell asleep after necking back the vodka. To the neighbour though it would of looked like we were driving and were sober enough to open the doors but to drunk to get out of the car


My apologies for the confusion.

dgt

Turned into a rally driver in the snow.....

downonthefarm

there is always some joe-dogooder on these boards. it sickens my arse

bud1970

me and a few friends on a saturday night when i was young, dumb and full of cum.... touring the town past the nightclubs at chucking out time... armed with an air pistol, an air rifle and several tins of pellets, doing "drive by shootings"...... oh, the squeals we heard when ye hit someones legs......

Renegade Mechanic

Trying to "drift" in a Frontera. Looked like a house doing a powerslide.

keithsfleet

dgt wrote: »

Turned into a rally driver in the snow.....

Come on now. That's like putting a star burst in you're mouth and not chewing.

mad muffin

keithsfleet wrote: »

For me it would have to be buying a 200bhp car as my first rear wheel drive car...... in winter...... with no traction control.

Spun out on my first roundabout that I took a bit to enthusiasticly and knackered the rear OS wheel.


I also got into the back of a car that I suspected the driver had a few drinks. He later, after dropping me of, wrote that car off. Thankfully no one else was injured.

Before anyone tongue lashes me, I was young and impressionable.

I did something pretty much the same many years ago in my 1993 Mitsubishi Lancer GSR.

The roundabout was too tight and the opposite curb was too high. Cracked one allow and blown two tires. Then later blew the engine cause I didn't change the timing belt on time

sunnysoutheast

Jesus. wrote: »

That's what that switch is for!

You should buy a proper car like mine, one's mirror is anti-dazzled automatically leaving one free to adjust one's monocle with one's free hand.

When driving to the Fishguard ferry in the middle of the night I idly wondered whether one could negotiate a roundabout using only the cruise control, i.e. not touching the pedals. Answer: a very panicky yes, although I would never do it again!

I think I posted here before about how we used to turn the engine off when going down a particularly long hill to save fuel, once a friend turned the key too far resulting in the steering lock being engaged. I can still remember laughing at the imminent death. Oh to be young again.

My other contribution was actually before I got behind the wheel - simply buying a Nissan 200SX. That car was lethal.

toastedpickles

Took a corner on a road of loose chippings at around 100kph, turned into Sebastian Loeb, frightened the life out of me but came out unscathed

dgt

keithsfleet wrote: »

Come on now. That's like putting a star burst in you're mouth and not chewing.

One such example so: one afternoon in the winter of 2009, I needed to exchange a headlight in a nearby scrapyard. So I took the headlight out of the car and drove it in heavy snow, at slightly faster speeds than everyone else, sideways round every corner. I actually worried a van infront of me and he pulled in to let me by.....

So thats the silver Bravo with one headlight being driven hard in thick snow...... Yeah.....

And that's the tame example I'm giving

Dartz

Too many to count.

Somehow managing to go from 70 to 170kph in thick fog might be the worst. I spent the whole time peering out looking for headlights ahead while hoping nobody ran into the back of me going 120 I never even realised the car was accelerating gently the whole time.

Didn't realise until I passed a 'moron' that was crawling in the outside lane and actually thought to look at my speedometer.

Jesus.

downonthefarm wrote: »

there is always some joe-dogooder on these boards. it sickens my arse

But don't you know, they've never broken any laws in their life?

Their sh*t doesn't stink either apparently.............

carzony

Went to handbrake my almera on a very tight corner and hit the back tyre off the path, ended up with a bent back axle:o.

Victor Meldrew

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

Trying to "drift" in a Frontera. Looked like a house doing a powerslide.

That is not stupid. If you managed it, you looked like a god...

Victor Meldrew

Second worst ?

Being passenger in snow drive up Dublin mountains years ago. Dumbest? Passenger in Leyland Mini showing 70mph on military road.

Personally, in terms of "Dangerous" stupid, just speeding in my youth. And once driving seriously hungover. And, on two occasions, driving seriously tired.

Popoutman

o Having 19 people in my old Land Rover 109; my having too much drink onboard so I let my teetotal friend drive the people to their house.
o Getting the same vehicle properly airborne offroad..
o Speeding coming up to the Portlaoise bypass when the Hanging Judge was active in the area, getting caught by the gardai - who let me off as my dash lights had failed that evening. I couldn't see the speedometer..

I have more things that I recognise as having been dangerous, all of which I've learned lessons from, none of which caused any harm, and none of which I'll admit to on a public forum..

oldyouth

I was 18. Changed a wheel before driving to Wexford for the weekend. Hit 100+ on the N11 past Jack Whites (before it became a motorway). I wasn't too happy with the handling, so I checked the wheels when I got to my destination. It turns out that I had put the wheel nuts the wrong way around when changing the Wheel and one had come off and another was loose and on it's way off.

Nearly puked

Al Capwned

Speeding to 'see what it'll do'.
Drove after a couple of pints on a couple of occasions.

Till one day my mate's dad rang me to tell me he was in hospital.
Him and a mate were at derby festival in Kildare Town about 10 or 12 years ago. My mate was not long after getting his first car - a peugeot 106, two of them were pissed. My mate too drunk to drive, and his buddy volunteered to drive.

Their car went off the road on the way to newbridge to get food. My mate was in hospital for weeks, but his friend was killed. It was 3 or 4 hours before the car was even noticed. They had to be cut out of the car. My mate was in and out of consciousness with his friend dead beside him. Someone passing copped the lights in the ditch.

It sickens me now to see people taking the chance.

JimmyTee

about 15 years ago I had A Mint 405 MI16.
On a back road that I didn't really know I approached humped back bridge doing about 60mph, did I brake for it "In me hole" I dropped a cog and floored it.

Yip I went airborne (just like I had seen Colin McRae or bertie fisher do it) My MI16 could fly too, BUT she sure as **** couldn't land the same as theirs, with a BANG a plume of smoke and a dashboard full of red lights as my Alloy sump connected with the road.

It's Amazing, how fast what seemed like a good idea can become a bad Idea, what was even more amazing was the price of a new sump.