Very curious to know what silly things people have done over the years, be it by accident on purpose or just plain stupidity.

For example:

 

Like last week while on the way to the tracking garage i tryed to show off doing a U turn but ended up hitting a kurb and bending a wishbone , i just fitted new inner hicas bushes which also bent. was literally right out side the garage so ended up just limping home. Wont be doing that again too soon. :mac1: :mac1:

 

So what you guys done? and come on i know you lot are far from angels :rofl: :rofl:

 

this should be interesting.

had se.....

 

um probably stalled whilst trying to 'show off' *ahem*

hmmmm well thats a start but too common.. bring on the big boys......

not made on yet, thank god :nelson:

hmmmm well thats a start but too common.. bring on the big boys......

 

thats coz im sensible :D

:o Boooooring... doesnt have to be in your zed could have been when you first past your test?

i flipped a car - in 2001! and survived :) after that crappy car i stuck to jap only!

I was hoofing along the banny over here and reached about 130mph when a stupid fooker decided to pull out infront of me. This caused me to go into slow lane to face a lorry. When hitting my brakes to stop my arse going through the windscreen there was nothing on my brakes because of the harsh driving i had been doing, posing against the local BMWs etc. I had to go onto the hard sholder and bypass everything that was in my now paniced vision. The look i got off various drivers at the time was one of ''look at that stupid Brit". Embarressed i limped off at the next exit to wipe up the mess on my seat. I class this as stupid. Next upgrade is brakes for me!!! :slap: :nono: :D

When I very first had my zed it had totally shot front shocks. I (somewhat stupidly) decided to drive it (with mate in the passenger seat) down to Thruxton for a karting event. Another mate was following in his car with his wife. It was very wet out.

 

Needless to say the first roundabout I came to I booted it on the exit and ended up facing about 70 degrees* off from where I was travelling . I managed to get it sorted out, but the non-existent shocks didn't help much. Must have been quite a show from the car following. Anyway, once we were pointing in the right direction again and back on our merry way I looked in the rear view mirror to see what my mate thought of it all. His opinion was pretty clear from his hand gestures. :xxx:

 

Chap in the seat next to me didn't say much and I was just glad I hadn't pitched the thing into the barrier. That was how I learnt about zeds in the wet.

 

(* rough estimate from the guy following)

hehehe, if its doesnt have to be Zed

 

i had that beloved 2.0 accord4gen once, really loved the car, but never mind, i was on my was to my friend, winter snow things like that, got carried away and pulled handbrake on 90 degrees turning, ended up on kerb demolishing half of my suspension wishbones bent, generally everything was bent... had to wait 2 weeks in a winter

( in poland its like proper, -10 snow up to your knees stuff like that...and not having your beloved ride)

to have it repaired, finally i got i back, took it straight to my freind, to change brakes, oil, filters, some other stuff, so finally my accord was comming back to life!!! i took it back from my friend's garage 3 days later...a than...

stupid fu...n idtiot decided to test if the suspension has been done properly, sped up on wet, and crashed it into a fence--- bad luck was that posts of the fence were made of rail tracks... tracks didnt move, but my accord ........

 

never speed when its wet...u never know....i do

Nothing yet - just a few close shaves. :)

okies.... i hit a goat once on my dads farm...... launched into the back of the pickup truck thing i was driving, went to the local village and sold it for $100 to the locals :D

 

Drinking money for the weekend...whoop whoop

 

(this was back in zimbabwe btw)

had se.....

 

Does that actually count as stupid? I don't know, but I'd have thought it'd be quite fun myself (never got to try that one out, though).. :rofl:

 

Hmm.. stupidest thing.. stuck a metro (no great loss ;)) into a ditch trying to get from Pocklington->Whitby->Bradford->Pocklington in a day (with jobs in between, obviously).

 

Seeing how I stacked it on the way to Whitby, I didn't exactly manage that little feat of time travel!

 

'course it turns out the front subframe was actually in two halves before I crashed it, so it wasn't entirely my fault.. but had I been driving sensibly I certainly wouldn't have ended up sideways in a ditch!

no its stupid when you are doing it and a bunch of Apostolic nuns walk past the car and see everything.......

i crashed my first car, properly, aged 4. Parents owned a house that had a drive snaking up to the front door in lynton lynmouth. Dad parked a woolsey outside and I decided to imitate dad driving, moved the gear shift out of park into drive and it rolled down the hill and crashed through a wall. Dad didnt put the handbreak on.

 

took rear wheels off to clean something or other, and forgot to tighten up lug nuts, fortunatly I realised just as the car was about to loose a wheel. mind you no one told me it was wobbing about.

 

had that happen in the zed as well, but tyre company was at fault.

no its stupid when you are doing it and a bunch of Apostolic nuns walk past the car and see everything.......

 

LOL - thanks for that.. proper chuckle :D :rofl:

I once onwned a pug 106 and managed to go sideways into a concrete lampost, the car bounced off and into a church graveyard, the lampost fell on the church fence. I had to be cut out of the car, road blocked off firebrigade, ambulance the lot, and this was during the firebrigade strike. Im so grateful to the fire men who saved me from the reckage that night even tho on strike. very thankful to you.

 

The church claimed through my insurance for a new gate, rose bush etc i have pics somewhere lemme have a look...........

i have pics somewhere lemme have a look...........

 

Get em posted!

bought a zed via autotrader while reading the advert in another zed :nelson: :mac1:

OK, stupid thing No.1. Upon passing my test and getting back in the car with my driving instructor for the drive home, he told me that most young men crash within the first 12 months. "That won't be me!" I thought (being cockey).

 

Well I lasted 11 months before I crashed my Peugeot at around 110mph on a dual carriageway, put it on it's roof and dented EVERY panel except the boot lid :D

 

 

Stupid moment No.2 Bought a 200sx S13 back in 1998 IIRC as a non runner. It had sparks but no fuel. I figured this out by tipping petrol down a spark plug hole and cranking the engine over. It fired up on the 1 cylinder that had the plug in.......

 

Now on a 2hundy, the coil packs are held in with a brace, screwed in with M6 bolts...... Ahem, while running (& sounding like a dumper truck :D) it sucked in a bolt :shock: and stopped DEAD!

 

I turned the key again... CLICKKKK CLICKKKK WTF? I thought.... Then it dawned on me! I got a torch down the plug holes and sure enough 1 had sucked in a bolt and was trying to compress it LOL!!!

So how do I get out of this mess then? Well, a brainwave came to me. Jack up a rear wheel, engage 5th gear and turn wheel backwards to pull piston off the bolt. Then get a magnet to pull said bolt up.

 

Worked a treat! Must be strong pistons in those S13 motors because the bolt was proper mashed LOL Never gave a minutes trouble after that either!

 

ATB

 

Rob :)

here we go. this was back in 2002. pics were taken at the salvage.

 

only had a sore back for a week very lucky. still get back pains now and again tho :(

 

Banana anyone??? :nana2: :dance:

 

 

ooo theres even a bit of blood on the dash if ya look close,, duno wherre it came from, i didnt have any cuts, maybe my nose?

here we go. this was back in 2002. pics were taken at the salvage.

 

only had a sore back for a week very lucky. still get back pains now and again tho :(

 

Banana anyone??? :nana2: :dance:

 

You were lucky that you din't smash your pelvis in that one mate or serious head injuries. And as to the fire boys coming out for you. It was sort of un written that if any life risk came in we would drive over the picket lines ;)

You were lucky that you din't smash your pelvis in that one mate or serious head injuries. And as to the fire boys coming out for you. It was sort of un written that if any life risk came in we would drive over the picket lines ;)

 

 

God bless them :)

OK, stupid thing No.1. Upon passing my test and getting back in the car with my driving instructor for the drive home, he told me that most young men crash within the first 12 months. "That won't be me!" I thought (being cockey).

 

Well I lasted 11 months before I crashed my Peugeot at around 110mph on a dual carriageway, put it on it's roof and dented EVERY panel except the boot lid :D

 

 

Stupid moment No.2 Bought a 200sx S13 back in 1998 IIRC as a non runner. It had sparks but no fuel. I figured this out by tipping petrol down a spark plug hole and cranking the engine over. It fired up on the 1 cylinder that had the plug in.......

 

Now on a 2hundy, the coil packs are held in with a brace, screwed in with M6 bolts...... Ahem, while running (& sounding like a dumper truck :D) it sucked in a bolt :shock: and stopped DEAD!

 

I turned the key again... CLICKKKK CLICKKKK WTF? I thought.... Then it dawned on me! I got a torch down the plug holes and sure enough 1 had sucked in a bolt and was trying to compress it LOL!!!

So how do I get out of this mess then? Well, a brainwave came to me. Jack up a rear wheel, engage 5th gear and turn wheel backwards to pull piston off the bolt. Then get a magnet to pull said bolt up.

 

Worked a treat! Must be strong pistons in those S13 motors because the bolt was proper mashed LOL Never gave a minutes trouble after that either!

 

ATB

 

Rob :)

 

 

haha thats lucky.

here we go. this was back in 2002. pics were taken at the salvage.

 

only had a sore back for a week very lucky. still get back pains now and again tho :(

 

Banana anyone??? :nana2: :dance:

 

 

ooo theres even a bit of blood on the dash if ya look close,, duno wherre it came from, i didnt have any cuts, maybe my nose?

 

FOOKIN HELL!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

 

You were Bloody lucky there!!!!!!

I know, and check out where the seat belt is.... lucky i WASNT wearing it id say.