auto disaster stories

[Initial D]

Anybody got any good stories?
Car wrecks, silly girlfriend or boyfriend auto catastrophy related stories?
I work at an auto parts store and a guy came in saying he couldnt start his girlfriends car after doing her oil, when we asked how he did her oil he said he filled it until he could see it at the top of the valve covers so he knew he had enough

[olds88]

this is enbarising but in my berreta i managed to lose control on some gravle on a service drive exit procide to slide sideways on some grass hit a one way sign and flip the car. when the car started to roll it went up a 4 ft hill and land on a chain link fence. im lucky to be alive thank god for seat belts

the most enbasising thing is that i was sober at the time

[deftonez24]

ok, i got two. I dont know if the first one can count as an auto accident but here goes.

One day i decided to skip school, so i got bored and i went out to ride by bike, it was 7th grade i think, so im riding on the road and i see this red truck with its turn signal on, looks like my brother so dont think much about it, so i turn to go into my drive way well, the truck didnt slow down like i thought it would and WHAM! smashes the front of my my bicycle, i go spinning up in the air and hit the pavement and go sliding, i scrapped up my hands, legs and stomach. and later at the hospital i find out i had one of the bolts near the wheels got jabbed into my left leg, no broken bones just some scrapes bruises and a broken pride.
morale of the story: i never skipped school again, unless you count those 20 or so times in high school.:finger:

second accident:

I'm driving to school, minding my business decide to light up my morning smoke,:smoker2: well i couldnt light it so i needed both hands. let go of the wheel and light my smoke, i feel my car kind of wobbling around, i look up and im like "oh shit!" i had swerved off a curve, just in time as i looked up I run into a sign run it over get control and get back on the road, i thought i'd be in a lot of shit so i just went on to school, i hid it from the parents for about a month.
morale of the story: Dont light your smoke while driving through some curves.

well thats it for me no other wrecks after that. hehe im a kickass driver.

[olds88]

well this isnt a wreck but i managed to blow the autotrans in my old plymouth were i had only reverse, so given the fact that the tow bill would exied the cars value i drive home 2.5 miles in reverse. man did i get a lot of wierd looks going down those side streets

[deftonez24]

:silly2: ROTFLMAO! now that'd be something to see....

[primera man]

Me and my girlfriend at the time had been to this beach party.
We got into this huge argument and we left.
We are driving down this back country dirt road yelling and screaming at each other when she lost the plot and ripped on the handbrake.
We are doing about 60-65km....the car does a 360 then goes down a ditch and rolls.
Lucky for me it was her car !!!
We were both OK....no cuts etc.

It was then i thought she was a loose cannon and i pissed off and left her there...never saw her again for months

STUPID BITCH !!!!

[Darkwing]

ok, I got a few good ones

we will start with my only wreck, a small one, but, well, just listen.

It is one week after I got my license. I'm at work, and my boss says "I need you to drive me downtown" and I'm like, sorry but I don't know how to drive down town yet, and he's like, oh I'll show you , besides you need practice. I didn't want to but he made me anyway. So I'm driving down the road and the man's telling me all kinds of stories and at the last second tells me where to turn each time, I'm now on the center lane down I 630 and suddenly this car in front of me stops. Due to my lack of brake-slamming experience, lack of ABS, and lack of my boss to tell me he saw the car stopped in the middle of the dam interstate, I brake, slide, and bump, I nudge the stopped Galant. Crap I think, I get out and holy **** the front of my car looks like Goliath used it as a chair! The Galant had little more that some redpaint on the back bumper, so I ask him, why are you stopped?(etc.) and he says "some motorcade came through, and stopped traffic in our lane." come to find out $2,700 later that our very own AL GORE was coming through town and needed to change lanes. The Vice-pres caused my only wreck! needless to say, I voted for Bush.

ok second story:

my dad was driving down a mountain in california (he told me this BTW) when suddenly his rear tire blew. he's going like 70mph and thinking oh sh*t if I hit brakes I'm a goner. he's got a rock wall to his left, and a sheer cliff to his right. so what's he do, get this, he rides all the way down the mountain over 20 miles, on a windy road with the flat tires throwing him back and forth the whole way down. and he made it. nerves of steel man nerves of steel.

alright here's one that's funny:

neighbor across the street had a babysitter over to watch her kids. She has this really steep driveway that curves downward. the babysitter drives up to the top of the driveway and parks. a few hours later she desides to take them to the pool, so they get in the car and (I'm watching the whole thing) she backs STRAIGHT down, right onto a raised sewercap! so now the car is somehow perched up on this sewercap, wheels spinning, feul leaking and all the car is doing is rock back and forth! I laughed my arse off!!

alright here's one about my cousin:

first off, the guy takes all his college money and goes out and buys a mustang GT. few moths later he gets the front end sheered off by a semi that ran a red light. after a few months in therapy, he goes out and BUYS ANOTHER MUSTANG! guess what? some guy runs him off the side of the road and he runs it up a telephone guidewire and totals it. then he gets married and now drives a bronco! ha ha. moral: goto college, then get a nice car! and all this before he turns 21.

last little funny:

we only have a 2car garage, so b/c my dad leaves early, he parks his in the driveway behind my mom's CRV. well, one day she just backs right up into it, wham! there goes $500. now he parks behind me

hope you enjoyed 'em!

[olds88]

[CamaroGirl86]

This one happened to my dad's friend...
She was driving her 93 Caddy down Rt 46, and a huge@ss SUV pulls out in front of her in the middle lane. No big whoop. Then the lady in the SUV slams on her brakes and the woman in the Caddy drove right into the back of it. The SUV driver got out and my dad's friend started yelling asking why she stopped in the middle of the road. The SUV owner's reponse: "I dropped my cell phone so I leaned over to get it." She told the same story to the cops too. Needless to say the Caddy owner got fuk'd in that one.

A funny non-auto-wreck story...hmmm. Well one was when some lady came in with her 94 Buick Regal and couldnt figure out why her windshield wipers would only work if the left turn signal was on. No matter who she took it to, either they didnt believe her or couldnt figure it out.
(Eventually, I found out what it was for my dad by reading Nutz&Boltz. They had a thing on 94 Regal's and that glitch. I read it to him trying not to laugh too hard (and I didnt even know about the lady going there since she came a few days before I started my summer job working for him))

[Spec2 Girl]

Yep, I've got a bimbo story (and yes, that bimbo was me!!).

Had a hard day at work, can't wait to get home, but I need to fill up as my tank is just about empty. I pull into the closest petrol station and pull up to the nearest tank. Reach for the closest pump. I'm leaning against my car and can hear the tank filling up and then I just freeze. I honestly couldn't remember exactly what nozzle I'd reached for and therefore what I was filling my car up with. Sure enough, I turn around and see that I've put 30L of diesel in my petrol car! Talk about mortified!! I had absolutely no idea what to do, I was in total panic! :help:

I went inside the petrol station and explained what I'd done and the lovely guy from the carwash next door came out and pushed my car around to the back of the petrol station and proceeded to drain my entire tank. The poor guy was covered in diesel by the time that he'd finished.

I was soooo embarrassed and needless to say have never done anything like that EVER again (I have also never been game to go back to that particular petrol station!!!). I did give the guy $50 for his trouble, so hopefully that made up for the mess I'd made of his day!

Yes, I still cringe at my total stupidity!!

[Heep]

Ooo...that would be embarrassing...worse even then filling up and then realizing you have no money (done that one before....)! Here in Canada at least, the diesel nozzle will not fit into a gasoline car's filler

[dejoux]

Only thing thats ever happend to me auto disaster wise:

Been driving around aimlessly of ages and lucky was just above my house. On my mini Ive got twin SU's, they were set up in a hurry when the motor was rebuilt and as it turns out wernt quite right, there was slightly to big a gap between two the two carbs than what the linkages were set up to, so over time the linkage between the two carbs disconnected it self, so with no throttle control over one carb the butterfly goes fully open, so suddenly it decides to pull quite a few revs. Ive been told later that with only one carb doing this itll still only go to about 5000 but i didnt look at the rev counter, I just turned it straight off. Luckily was downhill about 1k to my house so just coastesd back, at this point I had no idea what was wrong with it, just thankful that i was where I was because Id been along way away from home at times.

[AzAzeL]

ive accidently put leaded fuel, into my car, which now runs unleaded, there is ment to be a thing in the filler, to stop the larger leaded pump goin in, but my car, since it was converted from leaded to unleaded, when i hcanged the motor, dont have the thing, i also thought id fill it up, coz it was soo ocheap LOL.
i got to0 about 30 liters, and thought, fuck that the wrong fucken one, so i swapped the nozzel, and put unleaded...

the guiy inside goes, what happened, im like, forget it, here is the money, im off

but the car did run auite well....

[3.5litermoose]

i live in a residential area that has construction all over the neighborhood. My friends brother is driving their VW Jetta diesel up his street and there is a trailer that carries lawn equipment, with the metal ramps in the down position. He looks down to turn on the air conditioning and runs up the left side of the ramp with his right wheel. He was going slow enough that the car became perched, front wheels in the air with absolutely no way of getting down. It took 4 men hanging on a long 2 by 4 to get the car off of its perch and roll back down onto the road. The only damage casualty was the bumper/air dam, which was ripped off in the process of getting the car off the trailer.
This guy is a truely bad driver, with 3 accidents in the 1st 6 months of drving, one in which he pulled out in front of a loaded tractor trailor carring flamable material.

[hakka]

well...back when I was in high school, I let my girlfriend take my '68 vette for a drive. When we got back to my house, she parked it at the top of the driveway. We got out and went inside...15 minutes later a man comes to the door and asks me if that my car in the street..it was it was blocking one lane, with a huge dent in the bumper and some cracks in the fiberglass where it hit my mailbox. turns out my girlfriend had forgot to put the hand brake on we broke up and I eventually fixed it