The Most Stupid Things You've Done With A Car
1. Petrol in the eye and mouth...
“This week - when I was feeling a little bit ‘fragile’ - I spent 10 minutes loosening the bolt on my rear shock absorber, only to realise that I was tightening the hell out of it to the point of shearing!
“2 hours later - still feeling ‘fragile’ - I swapped out the fuel filter, and in the process poured petrol into my eye and mouth. Don’t do it - hurts like a mopho!”
- Alex Kersten
2. Gas all over the floor!
“I changed the fuel pump in my car, with a full tank of gas, in my friends garage. Three gallons of gas all over the floor”.
- Ben Van Deventer
3. Cleaning dad's car...with a rock
“I was 3 years old and decided to ‘wash’ my dad’s car…with a rock…all the way to the bare metal…”
- Edvin G
4. Tried to jump a car...
“I tried to jump a car over a steep hill. Turns out no one was smart enough to disconnect the airbags….”
- BMarmis
5. Locked myself in the boot
“Closed myself in my car’s boot…had to punch the rear shelf and jump over the seats to get out”.
- Aaron Dawson
6. Slammed the door...on myself
“I was getting into my mum’s car after having an argument with her and went to slam the door shut. Stupidly I hadn’t put my leg inside the car and slammed it onto my shin and broke it in 2 places”.
- Matt Thompson
7. Forgot I was in an auto...
“Forgot I was in an automatic, used my left foot on the brake thinking it was the clutch, I don’t have to say more, do I?”
- Boosted Doge
8. I washed my mom's car seats
“When I was a kid I had heard that my dad ‘washed his car seats’ so I decided to give a nice surprise to my mom and do the same thing to her car. Except I didn’t know how to do it so I used a garden hose and a LOT of water. She wasn’t that happy but a salesman at insurance company was impressed with my skills”.
- Konsta Laitinen
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Comments
I’ve definitely done the left foot braking in an auto. Took me a few stops to figure out why the brakes were so touchy. Fuel in the eye many times. Also took a shot of freon once.
You never know how heavy your clutch goes until you try to left foot brake
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Suomessa autonistuimet pestään vähän eritavalla.. 😂
Since I’ve never really drove a car yet i guess i don’t have much, i do work on cars a lot but i still went into doing that with some knowledge. Here’s my closet to car related fail:
So back when i was dumb (literally like last year) my friend haf this thing we called the beast, it was a golf cart with atv drivetraun and suspension on it. It had a clutchless 5 speed, i being the moron i am thought “oh its a manual so you can put your foot down and nothing will happen” well i was wrong, worst part is the brakes were non existent. YEAH, i think i understand i suck at driving now.
i was ‘’cleaning’’ the carb on my golf with an air compressor. i put the nozzle in the hose that supplys fuel to the carb to ‘’blow out any dirt that collected there for the past 5 years of sitting’’. i did that and a huge amount of fuel splashed into my eyes. it burned harder than the roasts on the ‘’roast my car’’ community after like 10 mins of standing by the sink and pouring cold water in my eyes i was ok. this happened like 2 months ago. i still can see so i guess its a win.
I broke a BMW 316i that wasn’t mine…
6 years ago, when I was still in school, graduating… I got into a friend’s BMW 316i and she, me and other people decided to drive about and shout that we are graduating (common thing in Bulgaria).
I drove like an absolute arse. Wheelspin every time, snap gear changes, burnouts, drifts… That tired old BMW took a lot of abuse that day. The girl’s father who’s BMW that was had to do some gearbox repairs and some suspension work. She never told him I did it. No clue what she said, or what she did. I got off the hook and learned the hard way not to abuse a car.
as a kid i stuffed my dads exhaust full of “chestnuts” and revved the car, this resulted in shooting the nuts faar lol
When I was very young, I was left by myself in my dad’s Mercedes. I took the keys. Locked all the doors, the proceeded to just sit there and play with them until my dad broke the window and I taken out. Those keys now sit somewhere in my room.
My friend and I were offroading in separate cars and I locked my keys in my car. We had to drive 45 minutes back home in his car to get a spare key.
I will admit to number 7 on one occasion. Problem is… My easily frightened mother was in the passenger seat.