What Un-Jalop thing have you done?

"WhiskeyGolf" (whiskeygolf) 11/27/2013 at 17:11 • Filed to: None

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Oppo, help me feel better. After backing over a curb with my Golf, the plastic underbody protector broke off. While the repair isn't Phaeton-level expensive, it's a rather embarrassing mark on my otherwise clean driving record.

So what have you done? Think of it like therapy...

YSI-what can brown do for you > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 17:12

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Let my dad drive my car. Bad idea, he scraped it. Not a big deal though, you can't see it and it isn't too bad to repair either.

Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 17:15

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Within three months of buying a 328i, I pulled up too far on to a concrete parking space block, and scraped the shit out of the underside of my bumper.

Worst sound I've ever heard in my life.

Ilike_cougars > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 17:17

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I curbed my back right wheel, twice on the same spot on the same curb. (damn you NYC) what are the odds of that happening? and more over it is a BMW which is out of warranty so you know what the repair cost will be like..

Ian Duer (320b) > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 17:18

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Went to first instead of third when downshifting. Actually let the clutch out far enough to break traction on the drive wheels but managed to get it back in before the engine could handgrenade.

WhiskeyGolf > Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark 11/27/2013 at 17:21

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Sound is what does it for me. The curbage reminded me of running my family's boat into a rock... that was the most sickening mechanical sound I've ever heard.

MountainCommand > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 17:21

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I was letting my bosses dogs out, her driveway is a super steep downslant from the road. I approached it via the 'stance' maneuver, yet i still scrapped. I dont know what i scraped but it sounded horrible. And im not even lowered! (she apparently has no problems in her camaro....sureeee...)

Also, i parked on an end spot next to a curb on the passenger side. I forgot i parked next to the curb before driving away. My rear tire mounted the curb and quickly dismounted. The gas attendants came over and i, quite embarrassingly had to explain to them what i did...

Nighthawkwill7, Hoon Depot Manager > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 17:24

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Backed up my grandmother's Focus into a wall. Busted the right rear brake light and the bottom of the fender.

I've never felt so stupid at the helm of an automobile before.

area man > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 17:24

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My first car popped out of gear on a hill and I didn't set the handbrake... you can guess what happened. I'm not even a careless person, especially when it comes to cars.

lepie > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 17:27

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I clipped a curb in a right hander on a one day old BMW 1 series hatch and ruined both rims on the passenger side instantly.

I also parked an M5 wagon on top of a roundabout.

Don't feel bad Whiskeyman.

RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 17:28

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Turned too early into a parking space and scraped another car. Still haven't fixed the scrape.

Removed aftermarket mods (supercharger, engine mounts, clutch, flywheel) because the car became too loud and started eating tires and gas.

Oh, and I like the current Honda Accord.

StoneCold > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 17:30

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http://goo.gl/maps/NwVQn

This might not look like it, but the wide angle lens betrays the actually massive decline heading west on this street past the tracks. Forgot about it once and flew going about 35-40 MPH. Bottomed out my 740iL, but luckily 60% of it was plastic cladding.

trynthink > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 17:36

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I don't know what's gotten into me, but recently I feel like I've been making all kinds of driving errors. All of them seem to involve left turns, for some reason. Maybe I'm not getting enough sleep.

WhiskeyGolf > StoneCold 11/27/2013 at 17:40

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Oh man, I've hit a couple tracks going to fast before. I now approach with extreme caution every time.

WhiskeyGolf > lepie 11/27/2013 at 17:43

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Thanks, I don't now! So far it sounds like an embarrassing miscue is a prerequisite for the Jalop merit badge. It depends on the situation, but I think a mistake is only a mistake if you don't learn from it, so let's hope that's the case.

lepie > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 17:46

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You make a mistake, and then you learn. You'll fix your car and have something to laugh about later.

Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 17:56

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It's like having knives shoved into your spine.

"SCCRRRAAAAAAAAAPPPEEEEEE"

Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark > lepie 11/27/2013 at 17:57

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I'm... crying on the inside. :-O

JR1 > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 17:58

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My trucks automatic transmission has a digital lay out (Chevy S10) and when go into drive VERY occasionally the digital readout will be wrong and it's actually reverse. So one day this happened in a parking lot and I back into onto the hood of another car. The best part is the hooks I have underneath (usually for chains) pulled off the front bumper of the poor car behind me, needless to say it was a great day

lepie > Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark 11/27/2013 at 17:59

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Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark > lepie 11/27/2013 at 18:01

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lepie > Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark 11/27/2013 at 18:01

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Total loss. Ripped the oil pan right off the engine.

Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark > lepie 11/27/2013 at 18:04

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Oh God, that sent shivers up my spine.

lepie > Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark 11/27/2013 at 18:05

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It was a bad day.

Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark > lepie 11/27/2013 at 18:07

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I can imagine. And here I thought I was the worst person in the world for scraping my bumper.

If I'm ever in whatever part of the world you're in, a beer on me just for this ever happening to you.

lepie > Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark 11/27/2013 at 18:10

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I'm glad i made you feel better about yourself! ha!

That roundabout has caused many of these kinds of accidents. At least that's what i was told by the people that stopped to help. It certainly seemed like it since the concrete was full of marks, gashes and cracks at that very spot.

It actually sits at a highway exit after a blind corner. Low sun, i held my hand up under the visor because i was being blinded. Took my hand away and oh shit. Smack bang. Goodbye sweet wagon.

Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark > lepie 11/27/2013 at 18:11

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Did insurance at least cover any of it? Or all of it?

:-(

lepie > Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark 11/27/2013 at 18:13

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All of it. Car resale value was 25-30K or so at that time but insured value was over 70K. Not a bad deal, yet so sad. They are rare and i murdered it in cold blood. I felt really bad about destroying a rare car.

I've also owned an E60 M5 sedan (until it got stolen and carbq'd) but the wagon was more fun.

Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark > lepie 11/27/2013 at 18:15

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Jesus, you're like bad luck for Ms.

;-)

thebigbossyboss > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 18:16

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Got the low score of 2% on the jalop quiz earlier.

In terms of accidents, I backed without looking out of a car wash into an Audi once. Great way to spend $400.

lepie > Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark 11/27/2013 at 18:16

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Did you see my post on the one that got stolen?

Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark > lepie 11/27/2013 at 18:17

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I have not. I only know of the 1 and the M5 wagon.

lepie > Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark 11/27/2013 at 18:18

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Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark > lepie 11/27/2013 at 18:25

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OH GOD. My hand just involuntarily made this weird motion like... twitching and I reacted like one of those shock videos.

I'm so, so, SO sorry that this happened to you. I lived in NY for god's sake and never had this bad of luck. You get TWO beers now if I'm ever in Belgium and meet you.

lepie > Ari Schwartz: Dark Lord of the Snark 11/27/2013 at 18:28

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Hehe, no worries man. Shit happens ... well shit certainly did happen several times over in large quantities ... I was so very sad to see it burned like this. I mean ... this might sound really twisted, but i would've been happier if the people who stole it were still driving it. At least then the car would still be alive. A car like this doesn't deserve to die like that. NOTHING was salvageable on it. Just a couple hundred bucks worth of scrap metal.

I'm currently building a supercharged opel speedster/vx220. Gotta keep going.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 19:00

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Knowingly parked a good foot away from a high kerb and then promptly opened the door into it.

Also on same car, used an angle grinder about a metre away from the front passenger window. It got pock marked with hot steel :( paint was fine though!

fhrblig > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 19:15

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This happened a couple of years ago, but it was pretty dumb of me. I was pulling out of my condo complex after it had been snowing, and it was very cold and icy. I wasn't paying close attention to what I was doing and I completely missed seeing the Taurus coming around the corner. I couldn't stop because of the ice, and I t-boned it going about 5 mph or so. I could have stopped if it weren't icy, but it wasn't the ice's fault. I never saw it. I never saw the BLACK Taurus on a background of pure WHITE.

Dingers Ghost, Champion Jockey > WhiskeyGolf 11/27/2013 at 21:23

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1. Failed my driving test. Twice.

2. Don't own my car (not yet anyways)

3. Automatic

4. Not care for the miata

5. NASCAR fan

6. Somewhat bro-truck fan

Take a pick.

911e46z06 > WhiskeyGolf 11/28/2013 at 02:29

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I just lifted my truck.

Simplify, then add beer > Dingers Ghost, Champion Jockey 11/28/2013 at 02:32

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j/k

Outie5000 > WhiskeyGolf 11/28/2013 at 09:07

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I bought a golf with a DSG. Apparently not owning a single clutch manual gearbox is unacceptable in jaloptopia,

Skif6996 > WhiskeyGolf 11/28/2013 at 09:11

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I once pulled through the parking space in front of me instead of backing out. The problem with that was the parking-space-wide island in front of me. I promply jumped my front wheels up onto a curb-height island that was invisible from inside the car. Must have st there for five minutes trying to decide if backing up was going to rip my front bumper off. In the end, i got out just fine.

WhiskeyGolf > Outie5000 11/28/2013 at 09:13

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To each their own. Most people say the manual makes you feel more connected, but you can feel connected without a clutch pedal. I think in some cases it lets you enjoy the drive even more because you don't have to focus on shifting yourself.

xen0blade > WhiskeyGolf 11/28/2013 at 20:11

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When I was younger, I put blue neons on my Scion xB. Yup. I still maintain I'm counterbalancing that with prepping the E36 euro-swap for a supercharger (wheeeee!).

RyanFrew > Skif6996 11/29/2013 at 00:43

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Ha! I was about to post the exact same story. Unfortunately, I chose to back up and didn't get out "just fine". Scraped the living hell out of the front end and collected a putting green on the underbody. In my defense, it was early in the morning after pulling an all-nighter on a business trip. Unfamiliar hotel parking lot. And lastly, to brag, it was a rental car haha. Returned it 30 minutes later without a problem at all.

Dingers Ghost, Champion Jockey > Simplify, then add beer 11/29/2013 at 09:19

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lololololololol

Skif6996 > RyanFrew 11/29/2013 at 10:49

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If it was a rental, it never happened. :-)

brakesnow > WhiskeyGolf 11/29/2013 at 10:56

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When I was in high school I managed to back my mom's new (at the time) Outback into my dad's civic in our driveway. This abruptly acquainted me with the ridiculous prices of auto body work...

Wonk Unit > WhiskeyGolf 12/02/2013 at 17:11

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I left the hand brake off in my Miata at the grocery store, came out to find it had rolled to the end of the parking lot and was high centered on a curb. That was not a proud day...

GreenN_Gold > trynthink 12/02/2013 at 17:39

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Quit using the Q-Tip so deep.

McLarry > WhiskeyGolf 12/02/2013 at 20:49

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Was driving in some very sparse snow (I love driving in snow), and since it was so sparse I was changing course for the singular purpose of driving through snowy patches. Long story short, I was overconfident and busted a tie-rod and most of the plastic crap on the front of my car on a tree...which happened to be behind a fence...which happened to be set upon a rather tall curb.

Thisnewformatisrubbish > 911e46z06 12/03/2013 at 11:15

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I lifted my xterra. but it is a manual, so it's ok.

Thisnewformatisrubbish > McLarry 12/03/2013 at 11:17

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I hit black ice going 35 and totaled my QX4. I didn't have AWD selected. Should have, woulda never happened.

Thisnewformatisrubbish > MountainCommand 12/03/2013 at 11:18

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Do you have tires that don't fit the rim? I LOL at stance.

MountainCommand > Thisnewformatisrubbish 12/03/2013 at 12:25

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Im all stock. bro.

trynthink > GreenN_Gold 12/04/2013 at 14:32

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When I saw this comment, I thought "what on earth is this replying to?" Yeah, I'll have to keep my eye on that.

syaieya > WhiskeyGolf 12/06/2013 at 22:39

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I had a chance to buy a manual transmission for my W201 and I hesitated. Now that chance has passed me by and I have to wait another blue moon for a second one.

Aloha Milkyway > WhiskeyGolf 01/31/2014 at 19:03

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Managed to back into something in my car.
My 3 day old car.
With backup sensors.
Reliance on technology will never replace your eyes haha

thebigbossyboss > WhiskeyGolf 02/02/2014 at 11:37

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Dude what body shop you going to? I ask because my friend crashed my Cavalier into a snow bank. He apparently cannot into manual, but can into snowbank.

thebigbossyboss > Wonk Unit 02/02/2014 at 11:46

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Ha! That sounds terrible.

WhiskeyGolf > thebigbossyboss 02/02/2014 at 13:43

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The only damage, from what I could tell, was the plastic plate so I had my dealer order a replacement (~$200). I was ready to have it replaced, but unfortunately before the part came in, this happened . So the problem took care of itself.

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Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > thebigbossyboss 02/03/2014 at 19:26

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If you're still looking for a body shop, I know of one that we go to every time someone decides to scrape with one of our cars, this shop does a good job usually. We've sent our Jetta, Odyssey, and BMW to get repainted here, They even fixed a Civic that was involved with the front end and rear getting smashed, it hit a car in front as well as getting rear ended. I'll leave their site here: http://grandtechauto.com/1.html

chilango > WhiskeyGolf 02/03/2014 at 20:17

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I cannot recommend this enough.

thebigbossyboss > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 02/03/2014 at 20:57

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Thanks. I may try it out for painting. I got a new bumper put on today. Probably will paint it in spring time. For now my car is a mish mash of colours. Black bumper, blue grill, gray paint. Oh well.

bob and john > WhiskeyGolf 02/03/2014 at 23:00

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oh man. where do i start?
Went drifting in my moms 2009 is250 (we got it used. car was less then 3 months on our possesion) smacked a curb with the left-rear wheel. broke the wheel and suspension. 1250$
leaving school one day with the IS (this was 4-5 months later) some how i didnt turn the wheel far enoguh and smacked the curb. again. front right. 3000$
also backed up against a parking agarge once. didnt leave any marks on it, but...ugh.

also, what her previous car:
was backing up in our drive, and it comes up against the house on one side. i ghad left the door open and because i was just rolling it back after changing the oil. door got jammed up against the wall and bent the door frame a bit. they didnt notice until the day after, and blamed it on someone trying to break into the car.

GESoutperform > WhiskeyGolf 02/04/2014 at 12:58

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I mistakenly had my SVT Focus in 1st gear instead of Reverse and tried to pull out quickly to impress a lady, tricky Getrag. It would have been a reasonable mistake if I hadn't owned the car for nearly 4 years at the time.

xen0blade > thebigbossyboss 03/13/2014 at 08:13

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Weird. I did that a couple of years ago. '99 Cavalier. Also, into a ditch. Same car. On the bright side I didn't hit the deer (ditch > deer).

xen0blade > WhiskeyGolf 03/13/2014 at 08:16

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Drove a Maserati Trihawk and tried to straddle a pothole. Remembered about the "three wheeled car" part as I was passing over it. Knocked a big dent into one of the exhausts. Felt like an asshole, and my dad was PISSED.