The "O0ops" thread.

[Scoota G]

Ok here's an idea, we all make mistakes from time to time and it takes a big person to admit it. Or not.

So i was backing into Dalee's driveway today and .... missed 

[reverendzed]

SCOOT!!! did you end up with any damage? Mate, it's easy to do I forgot to put my handbrake on once and retrieved my car from across the road!

[Mr240z]

Mark you might need to got back to these.. 

 

[C.A.R.]

WOOOOOPS!

(it is a narrow driveway though).

[Scoota G]

SCOOT!!! did you end up with any damage? Mate, it's easy to do I forgot to put my handbrake on once and retrieved my car from across the road!

 

No damage... just my pride as three people seen me do it. :-\

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I used to deliver pizzas. I once reversed into a driveway. I was being really careful because the customer's car was parked there. Suddenly...."BANG!!!" Even after I hit I didn't know what. Once I got out I saw a pole that was 18 inches into their driveway, exactly in my blind spot. DOH! Luckily this was well before I owned a zed.

[Zedman240®]

My oops happened to my Z32 when I owned it.. Where I used to work, backing into a spot in the wee hours of the morning, everything dark, looking in one mirror as I'm reversing, didn't check the other one until "crunch!" Forgot about steel staircase pole in the other mirror just inside of line of car park space. The bright morning light later on when I checked it revealed the nice big dent and scrape on the side above the rear bumper on the quarter panel.....then the loudest profanities you have ever heard echoed the carpark.

[nizm0zed]

hehehee, whoops....

 

My whoops was the one and only time i left my car (R31 skyline) in gear.

i came out in the morning, opened the door and flicked the key to warm up the car while i scraped the ice off the window.

It started almost instantly and ran through my garage roller door and into the back of another car. That car had the handbrake off and the whole mess stopped after the skyline had pushed the other car into my workbench and stalled.

Seeing as i was almost late for work, i had to quickly jimmy the door shut, and stew on it all day till i could inspect the carnage.

lucky it was all minor.

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hehehee, whoops....

 

My whoops was the one and only time i left my car (R31 skyline) in gear.

i came out in the morning, opened the door and flicked the key to warm up the car while i scraped the ice off the window.

It started almost instantly and ran through my garage roller door and into the back of another car. That car had the handbrake off and the whole mess stopped after the skyline had pushed the other car into my workbench and stalled.

Seeing as i was almost late for work, i had to quickly jimmy the door shut, and stew on it all day till i could inspect the carnage.

lucky it was all minor.

 

Thats more like an oops oops ooops moment.

[zzzzed]

a week before last xmass i backed in to my bosses R32 gtr in a customers honda prelude 

[chris240]

reversing my ol 95 pajero many years ago in a tight multi storey carpark, reversed and slightly tapped a steel "I" beam...the flange of the I beam somehow wedged itself between the wheel flare and the panel...I couldnt roll forward or back, it had my car trapped ! My old man had to come & rescue me , put the trolley jack under the diff & swung the vehicle sideways to dislodge the post !! pride hurt + $2500 damage to crinkled panels.

another time I reversed my pride & joy V8 duunydore into some koppers logs railings while chatting up the girls at soccer training (arm out the window, 80's new-wave music blaring loudly  ) 

[lightmaster240z]

I pack my car in next door garden After a quite night out with the boy and then went to ring the police to tell that my car was stolen over night.

OOOOOPs thank dad for pointing out first.  

[S30Mike]

hehehee, whoops....

 

My whoops was the one and only time i left my car (R31 skyline) in gear.

i came out in the morning, opened the door and flicked the key to warm up the car while i scraped the ice off the window.

It started almost instantly and ran through my garage roller door and into the back of another car. That car had the handbrake off and the whole mess stopped after the skyline had pushed the other car into my workbench and stalled.

Seeing as i was almost late for work, i had to quickly jimmy the door shut, and stew on it all day till i could inspect the carnage.

lucky it was all minor.

 

hahahaha, similair thing happened to us, we had just finished working on an integra, my mate got all excited and turned the key while she was in gear. The car jumped through the giprock wall into the next room where his father was watching TV. Was awful thing to happen, but one of the funniest things ive ever seen as well

[gav240z]

hehehee, whoops....

 

My whoops was the one and only time i left my car (R31 skyline) in gear.

i came out in the morning, opened the door and flicked the key to warm up the car while i scraped the ice off the window.

It started almost instantly and ran through my garage roller door and into the back of another car. That car had the handbrake off and the whole mess stopped after the skyline had pushed the other car into my workbench and stalled.

Seeing as i was almost late for work, i had to quickly jimmy the door shut, and stew on it all day till i could inspect the carnage.

lucky it was all minor.

hahahaha, similair thing happened to us, we had just finished working on an integra, my mate got all excited and turned the key while she was in gear. The car jumped through the giprock wall into the next room where his father was watching TV. Was awful thing to happen, but one of the funniest things ive ever seen as well

 

Bit like this?

 

[sco_aus]

That one's always a good laugh.  I managed to reverse jack knife my Pajero with a small box trailer.  The Paj mounted the A frame of the trailer and I had to get my high lift jack to take the weight off the trailer, then slide the trailer around with the wheels skidding along the ground making it bloody difficult.  Put a small dent in the quater panel with some paint scratchings, but could have been worse.

[dalee]

Opps.  At least there was no damage.. I havnt missed that driveway (touch wood), but I did miss a very similar one in a previous house in a 240z in exactly the same way as you did.

 

Thats when you need an lsd.

 

 

 

[chartoo]

He he I once came back from a long driving trip and left my car at the top of the driveway on the hill and wasnt really paying attention. Unfortuanetly the hangbrake failed and it wasnt in gear so it rolled down the driveway and under the house into the basement garage. It was a steep hill and the garage was also converted to my bedroom so....... that crapy mazda 929 with the crappy handbrake got up some real speed and went through the grage door and demolished my entire room. :'( but the insurance check was good being a uni student at the time

[1600dave]

Here's my brand new trailer, just arrived home from picking it up in sydney. I'm so pleased with it, I'll take a few phone pics of it coming home for the first time.

 

 

 

Finally got it up the steep driveway and almost into position. I'll just unhook it off the trailer.

 

 

 

 

 

Ooops - half hour later, this is where it lives now. Wedged in the neighbours fence. Luckily the fence stopped it, cause its a steep run down to their house  Had to get a tow truck to rescue it - was almost worth the cost of the tow truck just hearing the driver's stories about all the other "rescues" he'd done (mostly worse outcomes than mine)

 

[sco_aus]

Imagine if you had a car on the trailer?  Food for thought?

[C.A.R.]

Hahaha... I remember that one Dave!

The shifter one on the carravan roof is a pissa too...!

[1600dave]

I suppose I should own up to that one as well - I've got one of those "pop-up" caravan things ( a Jayco Eagle). Drove up to South West Rocks (about 3 hours from home), started setting up the van by using the 15" shifter to attach the jockey wheel, put the shifter down in the closest handy spot (on the roof of the van), wound the van roof up and finished setting it up.

 

A week later, holiday's over and it's time to fold the van down. Hmm, where's the shifter so I can remove the jockey wheel ?? Dunno, I'll borrow one off someone else and get a new shifter when I get home .

 

Drive the 3 hours home and while unhooking the van, I discover the shifter sitting on the roof  . I still don't know how it didn't come off and go thru either my rear window or the window of someone following me 

 

Maybe I should give up towing stuff altogether

 

 

[Toecutter]

That drive way of Dale's has always scared me!

 

Sulio

[Scoota G]

Another time with a mate's work ute (which had only just been repaired) he got out to open the gate so i jumped in the drivers seat to move it in the backyard. Being a bit of a prankster i revved it up and popped the clutch, spinning the wheels. I missed the brake pedal (i had no shoes on) and ploughed straight into the single garage door which moulded over the bonnet like a piece of licorice. Only damage was a tiny chip in the bonnet and i couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

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My brother in law was visiting from the USA. I loaned him my trailer so he could take a heap of stuff camping.....my stuff of course.....including my two man kyak. I was at work the day he left so I didn't see him set it up. a couple of weeks later I get a call one night. The trailer had come lose and luckily went off the side of the road (rather than across into oncoming traffic). I could understand on the phone how it cam lose but I gave up and decided I would see for myself. I drove the 90 minutes north to where they were. Somehow the trailer and contents were almost untouched. He had attached the socket over the ball but then just wrapped the safety chain around the ball. Somehow the nut on the ball went missing allowing the ball and safety chain to pop straight out. Luckily his vehicle was only capable of 80KMPH. The funniest bit is I hooked it on to my car to bring it home and started driving for about 15 minutes before I thought to myself I let him connect the safety chain.... I immediatly stopped and checked to find he had done exactly the same thing again. 

[S30Mike]

My brother in law was visiting from the USA. I loaned him my trailer so he could take a heap of stuff camping.....my stuff of course.....including my two man kyak. I was at work the day he left so I didn't see him set it up. a couple of weeks later I get a call one night. The trailer had come lose and luckily went off the side of the road (rather than across into oncoming traffic). I could understand on the phone how it cam lose but I gave up and decided I would see for myself. I drove the 90 minutes north to where they were. Somehow the trailer and contents were almost untouched. He had attached the socket over the ball but then just wrapped the safety chain around the ball. Somehow the nut on the ball went missing allowing the ball and safety chain to pop straight out. Luckily his vehicle was only capable of 80KMPH. The funniest bit is I hooked it on to my car to bring it home and started driving for about 15 minutes before I thought to myself I let him connect the safety chain.... I immediatly stopped and checked to find he had done exactly the same thing again. 

 

Jeez talk about dangerous!

 

I had a similar incident regarding trailers, my boss had a huge trailer load of garbage furniture we had to remove from one of our properties. The guy he had loaned the trailer to prior, failed to inform him that he had done some damage to the ball mount which made it unable to stay on properly.

 

We were driving along darling harbour and all of a sudden i look out the passenger window - to see the trailer overtaking us!

 

It ended up launching up the concrete barrier, we quickly got out and managed to pull it back off the road and wait for our colleagues for back up haha.

 

Biggest noise when that thing launched!