What is your worst car related story with one of your friends?

"Dsscats" (dsscats) 06/03/2014 at 13:13 • Filed to: None

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Mine would probably be when my friend didn't change her oil for 10k miles and then asked if an needed to replace the oil filter an if she could just add oil on top.

Manuél Ferrari > Dsscats 06/03/2014 at 13:16

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I was driving behind my friend's 1973 Chevy Nova back when we were in high school. We hit a dip and his car bottomed out. It knocked out the oil plug. Neither of us knew this though. I never saw the oil trailing from his car.

His engine seized and was toast. I always felt bad that I didn't see the oil on the road. It was a dark road though.

mazda616 > Dsscats 06/03/2014 at 13:17

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My wife's best friend used to drive a purple 1999 Plymouth Neon coupe. She got the car when she was sixteen, and she didn't change the oil until her twentieth birthday. She just happened to be driving in front of me and I saw blue smoke. I asked her when the last time the oil was changed, and she said "Never. Why?" We immediately changed it that night, and about two quarts came out. The car calls for four. It was chunky, the color of mud, and smelled like gas. I just knew that was the end for the car.

Wrong. After the oil change, it ran just like it did before. And the girl they later sold it to still drives it to this day.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Dsscats 06/03/2014 at 13:19

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I was helping my friend rotate his tires on his Cobalt. We were finished and he said something about how his car felt like it was down on power, so I asked him when was the last time he checked his air filter, he never had, but he said that the Valvoline that his parents took it to did all of the servicing. I opened the airbox and pulled out the filter just to show him how. I then noticed something at the bottom in the intake opening tube. So, I reached on down there and pulled out a large chunk of black bumper foam. I found his problem.

Racescort666 > mazda616 06/03/2014 at 13:20

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People can knock the Neon all they want, those things are kind of a beast.

mazda616 > Racescort666 06/03/2014 at 13:22

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I'll say. This one went four years and fifty thousand miles with no oil changes, and it still runs to this day.

Opposite Locksmith > Dsscats 06/03/2014 at 13:22

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Washing tar spots off with a Brillo pad.

You should have seen my face when I pulled up watching her do this, and hers when she washed off the foam

Maddox Kay > Dsscats 06/03/2014 at 13:25

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A girl I know recently told me her "abs" (she didn't say ABS or antilock brakes but "abs" like a six-pack) light had been on for a couple weeks and she was worried because her Range Rover was having trouble stopping.

Racescort666 > Dsscats 06/03/2014 at 13:27

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Interesting, 10k is the recommended change interval for my A4.

I'm not sure what kind of story you're looking for but I was running recce with Bill Caswell before NEFR running on maybe 45 minutes of sleep over 3 days. (Overnight packing and finishing the car at Caswell's place in Chicago, 20+ hour drive from Chicago to Maine, 45 minutes of sleep before recce started) We're in the middle of recce with the van still loaded with car parts and tools when I say to Bill "hey, do you hear something?" (not sure if I was hallucinating) He says no, we keep driving stage roads in the van. Finally I tell him to stop in the middle of recce. We jump out and there is a sharp rock protruding from the center of the tread in one of the rear tires in the van. It took us forever to change that flat meanwhile, all of the other competitors are driving past and we're missing recce. Somehow we managed to catch up to the rest of the group by the end of recce but we definitely missed a bunch of stages.

Sn210 > Dsscats 06/03/2014 at 13:35

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my inlaw's don't use their Jeep GC that often, so mice had started to make it their home. Naturally my mother-in-law wanted to use a humane trap to get them out. I borrowed the Jeep one time and noticed a horrible smell. I figured a mouse must had died in the trap they forget to check. I lifted the back seat and found there wasn't just one mouse in the trap, but there wasn't two mice either... one and a half mice. One and a Half. Most inhumane humane trap ever.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Dsscats 06/03/2014 at 13:46

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took a turn into a pool hall parking lot at ~45 mph with my Explorer full of friends. This was a month after getting my licence and I wasn't supposed to drive with minors for the first 6 months. My first reaction was to take the keys out of the ignition and throw them at the old kid old enough to have been driving all of us. I told him to say he was driving. He told me to fuck off. When my parents showed up to get me the cops were measuring my skid marks to calculate my speed. My truck only suffered a cracked headlight, bent bumper, and fender. The Intrepid I hit was totaled with damage on 3 sides. How did i manage to damage it on 3 sides!?!?! cuz i pushed it into 2 other cars.

Klaus Schmoll > Opposite Locksmith 06/03/2014 at 13:47

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Reminds me of this!

TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut > Dsscats 06/03/2014 at 13:54

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Mine's is simply travelling in my friend's cars back in Ireland when I was still in primary school. All the cars in and were in my family are spotless on the inside. Blemish free seats, rubber mats for easy cleaning and whenever I eat in the car, I make sure to take all the rubbish out and vacuum up any remains. Everything small is placed neatly in a cubbyhole for easy access and all surfaces are kept clean.

Not my friends. Their cars were hopeless. Sitting inside them was akin to sitting in a landfill. In their cars, there were sweet wrappers and crisp packets on the floor. Door handles were grimy and seats had odd colours embedded in them. What's that under my foot? Oh a biscuit and some Smarties. What's this stuck on my trousers? Oh, crumbs and dog hair. Something greasy on the seatbelt clasp? That's the crayon that's been stuck down there for months. Funny white powder? Don't even ask about that. Or the smell.

Worst moment was when I sat down in my friend's Nissan Patrol and immediately sprang up with a shout of pain. Turns out a CD that had been embedded into the gap between the seat and backrest was poking me straight up the ass.

RallyWrench > Dsscats 06/03/2014 at 13:59

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One of my best friends dropped the transmission out of his S14 240SX right onto my elbow under the car while we were doing an SR20 swap. I was supporting the bellhousing with 1 arm & he dropped the rear crossmember out without remembering that it holds the trans up, so my elbow found itself hard between the transmission & asphalt. Didn't break anything, but it swelled & hurt like hell for a week.

In another Nissan & friend related misadventure, with a car previously owned by the same guy as the 240, I was doing an axle on an '86 Maxima, and had just popped the inner joint out of its circlip, at which point the axle can be pulled from the trans. Instead of listening & waiting for me to move & put a pan under it before he pulled the axle out, he just pulled hard & dumped a quart of ATF on my head. It took several showers to get out of my hair, and my skin broke out like crazy for days afterwards. Not cool for a then single & college age dude.

They're both still my 2 best friends & we've all since been best men at one another's weddings, but I never got under a car for either of them outside the shop after that. Now we're spread around the country, and those are among the stories that we bullshit about when drinking way too many beers around the campfire.

Fed(oo=[][]=oo)uken > Dsscats 06/03/2014 at 14:39

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Might be a bad story, or a good story depending on your perspective.

This winter my buddy @embiggenedmini and I met at Harriman State Park for some hiking and driving shenanigans, and did they ever ensue.

Had a Code Brown moment in the e28 on a mostly deserted snowy, closed road where I lost traction and executed a perfect 36o, emerging shaken and ashamed of my asshattery, and praising the baby jeebus that we didn't bounce off the road into a lake!

Next year: Snow Tires.

Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish > Dsscats 06/03/2014 at 14:42

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The year was 2012 in Northern New Jersey, heavy rain, thunder, and lightning. My best friend and I were coming home from a late night Taco Bell trip in Oswald (Blue, 2001 Ford Focus ZX3) and we made the decision to take the unlit backroads home instead of the faster highway because people cannot drive in the rain up there. So we come to a turn, a turn which I had conquered numerous times before with no issues. I decide "Yeah, I can totally hit this going 50 mph" I take the hard right far too fast and for the first time I truly understood understeer because we went right off the damn road and into the woods. I was on the brakes and trying everything to stop and we managed to stop thanks to a friendly tree. We both just kind of sat there for a minute like "Fuck. My dad is going to kill me." and then we exchanged the "Shit dude, are you alright?". We got out to assess the damage and the only thing that happened was the imprint of the tree in my license plate and some mud got all up in Oswald's underside. We pushed off the tree and down the hill back to the road and drove off never to speak of it again.

RIP Oswald.

Rico > Maddox Kay 06/03/2014 at 14:50

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Lmao abs

thebigbossyboss > mazda616 06/03/2014 at 15:20

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Mother of god.

thebigbossyboss > RallyWrench 06/03/2014 at 15:22

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SR20 or it didn't happen.

thebigbossyboss > RallyWrench 06/03/2014 at 15:23

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My dad was telling me the story about how he was working on a car and got transmission fluid all over his head too.

Opposite Locksmith > Klaus Schmoll 06/03/2014 at 15:37

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It's also a Kia spectra with a turbo badge, so it was doomed

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > mazda616 06/03/2014 at 16:07

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Tell me it at least ate up a transmission at some point, lol.

JGrabowMSt > mazda616 06/03/2014 at 16:35

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Those stupid little things don't die.

My neon burns an exceptional amount of oil. Because I add nearly a 1qt a month to it, I went about 30k between changes, and guess what, no smoke. The car ran very well, and the oil was not black when it came out.

I'm not proud to do that to the Neon, but I'm not going to waste my money on it. I never let it get to dangerous levels, but I have that thing down to a science. I can hear the clatter just about when it needs 1qt. I've driven the car for nearly 70k, and it's never given a puff of blue smoke as long as I've driven it.

mazda616 > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 06/03/2014 at 16:40

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Nope, not that I know of. It was sold to a family friend of theirs. I still see it puttering around town occasionally.

Two Drink Minimum > Dsscats 06/03/2014 at 16:43

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Five years ago my old 2009 Honda Fit Sport and I entered The Season of the Deer. Three deer encounters in 2 months (I'd never had one before or since). The first was a near miss. Crazy fucker came diving at me out of the woods. I glimpsed it in the corner of my eye and jinked just wide. My son in the passenger seat said he could have touched the deer's nose, it was so close.

The second I was driving back from Montreal on a snowy Quebec road at night when I see a shape smack in the middle of my lane. Deer carcass. Rather than risk an evasive maneuver, I center the car on the mass and ski jump the thing. Caught a little air. I knocked a fog light around and bent a forward support bar, but otherwise the car was fine. Limped home with the interior of the car smelling like venison. The underside looked like a Quentin Tarantino movie. Just gore and blood everywhere. I think there is still some fur tucked in there.

A week after that, a deer dove in front of the left corner of my car. The Fit swept its legs and sent the animal flying off the edge of the road, where it promptly broke its fool neck. I haven't had a deer try to jump out at me since.

All told, I was really fortunate. I took about $250 of damage on three incidents—not even enough to bother with insurance. But I'm always very attentive when I drive at dusk or at night. I know those idiot beasts are out there, waiting to dive into my windshield.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Dsscats 06/04/2014 at 01:42

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I've probably go the most life-threatening story out of the ones so far, here goes nothing :P JTTW!!

Just keep the the fact that it was day 4 of me learning to drive stick when this happened,,

Basically here's what happened, was that my friend and his WRX were curious to see how the ST would pull against him from a roll(the answer was obvious but he wanted to know how obvious).

We get on the freeway and from 50mph I drop it in 3rd and overboost way past him; Before I know it, I'm in 6th gear and pulling 130mph! At that point, I'd never been that fast in any car, and I was driving it!

Unfortunately we weren't prepared(read as didn't know) that there was a slight corner/bend and incline, the WRX was taking it at 105 and I at 130mph. I, having no experience at such high speeds and the ST also being my first manual, I had only seconds before it hit. instinctively, I tried to lightly tap on the bakes, but being still new and very touchy, I almost locked them up as I began to swerve between two lanes, apparently coming pretty close to a semi-truck. I don't really remember what happened next, but I was back in my lane going about 45 and back in 4th gear as if nothing happened; somehow I put the clutch in and decently downshifted into 4th while swerving and both Charlotte and I were fine, though my heart was racing like I had a heart attack or something.

I was told by my friend in a car behind us that it was quite terrifying and epic.

Can you say "JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL"?

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Manuél Ferrari 06/04/2014 at 01:44

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The Darkness.....it's evil.

also, you'd love my story :P

Dsscats > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 06/04/2014 at 01:52

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Holy Jesus christ. That's terrifying and spectacular

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Dsscats 06/04/2014 at 02:02

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So spectacular. Next time it'll be on a track one day. :)