Celica Forums General Discussion General Stupidest thing you've ever done with a car

Just wanted to put this out there, post your stories of you doing something you can't believe you did later. Here's mine:

When I was 16 I got a new head unit for my car. Well I knew a thing or two about wiring from working construction with my friends dad. What I didn't know was cars have wire harnesses. So here's where I have my momentary lapse of common sense. I got the Scissors out of our junk drawer and cut all the wires from the car to the stock radio. Not only is this bad, but I never disconnected the battery, so I shorted out everything in my car. After a couple of weeks of reconnecting wires, and replacing fuses I finally got the new head unit working, but I don't think the car's computer was ever the same again. This is one of those days I wish I could go back to and just slap myself.

OK your turn...

i really haven't done anything stupid. I just turn on the car and put it in R or D

ooh ooh, stupidest thing i've done.

i was racing against my friend's b16 civic and my teammate on the I-5 south freeway.

my teammate's accord was last and our friend in the civic was a head of me by just a few feet.

so i tapped into 4th gear and took the mid-emergency lane. i saw something up ahead, it wasnt that big, but wasnt that small neither. it was wrapped in a white blanket, i think it was a dog or something, well i ran over it.

omg i was scared. when i got home i checked out the damage.
my stock front lip was broken and there was a lot of blood on it.

illegal street/hwy racing is bad

I love how you wern't worried at all about what you hit, just how it would hurt your car

put trays under my rear tires and played wannabe rwd boy!

1) Going 120 mph on snow covered road.
2) Run away from cops, they didn't catch me though.

Drove 8 hours to a car show in AZ, arrived at location, cleaned, prepped vehicle, took off my liscense plate, left car at location. After the show realized when I got home I had no liscense plate on. Got lucky but lesson learned never again!!!

Scary

whatever it was, was already dead. i just made sure that it stayed that way.

So-so on the stupid scale.

One day I was in a parking lot and I was only doing about 60km/h or so and it was a hot and dry day so I turned sharp and the wheels squealed loud.. no biggy, it was cool.

Tried the same thing again a few days later in the vening in a differant parking lot, but I didn't realize the lot was quite uneven and had bumps almost twice the size of a regular speed bump that were the same tone as the parking lot and while I was turning sharp I went over one of the big bumps and it felt like one of the wheels lifted up.. scared me, and I haven't done that since.

installing fender flares. Cost 600 to install and 1500 to remove, fix and fill in the holes

I give myself a big on the head every time I think about it

I wrapped my Toyota Tercel around a telephone pole. I ran my SR-5 into a ditch bending the frame and wrecking the transmission. I ran my Excel of the road into a ladies front yard puncturing all 4 tires and wrecking that suspension. I took a 180% turn at 80 MPH in the rain in my 88 VW Golf. I've gone one way roads just for shits an giggles and blowing red lights left and right. I had my 2000 Celica drifting sideways right and left to avoid dying. How's that for a start that I'm not proud of, but makes for a great stories that are all true. Ever hear how I raced a cop?

installing the cross-drilled, vented disk.

waste of money and effort. nothing but bad things about them that i have experienced.

as you can see i have stock back on again.

went canyon running and crashed into some bushes...

Went to the gas station, cleaned my rear window while pumping gas, and forgot to put down the wiper. Drove halfway across town like that on 2 occasions, and I still haven't learned...

Didnt close my carbon fiber hood completely and cracked my windshield

Got drunk & spun my Oldsmobile into a rock cut at 100MPH. Not a swift move. Luckily I lived to tell about it.

Oh god, were do I begin. I'll just go with getting drunk and driving back from a party, all the way through town, running over every stop sign i could find, and then doing hot laps around my house busting through 4 foot tall snow drifts until the car died. All in a 95 buick LaSabre. Smart, huh.

buying an auto was the stupidist