It was embarrassing because of the amount of people around (even though nobody probably realized what was going on)

Another one - 3 chicks in the car and me and we're cruising down this super busy blvd. This was near when I first got the car keep in mind. Cruising in second and I let the clutch out a bit too fast. The car starts bucking forwards and back and the girls had no idea what was going on (none drove stick) Later one tried to learn (not on my 8 of course) and I had a blast ;-)

 

....holy ****?

 

Another finding reverse story....

Three days after getting my 8 I had this problem. My previous two cars were both stick...so I know how to drive manual. However, I've never had a 6-speed with reverse setup this way. The dealer failed to show me reverse...and up until this day, I had not gotten myself into a situation needing to go in reverse, yeah surprising. So I'm sitting in the parking lot with my friend in the car at the grocery store we both used to work at. So all the employees know us, and we are right by the store entrance. I sat there for 15 minutes figuring out where reverse was. My friend was of no help since he had never driven a stick. Fun stuff. The next day I went to the dealer yelling at them about not giving me a full walk-over of the car...and recommended that in the future they do so for other buyers of the 8.

 

Most embarrassing moment in my 8...

...about 2 weeks after I got it, I went to the "ghetto mall" in Vegas to meet one of my friends who I hadn't seen in awhile. I pull up to the front of the mall in my 8, and get out to show off my system in the trunk (2 JL 10 W3's, Plexi, neon, all that lol)...

...when I go to park, I forget I left my trunk open and drove all around the parking lot with it up. When we got out I noticed it, closed it, and walked up to the mall entrance. When i got up there, three girls said "**cking show off, rich lil white girl"

...I walked in that entrance and out the Macy's exit and moved my car to a new spot on the opposite side of the building lol...

 

A buddy of mine asked me for a ride to the airport - no small favor when u are talking fri afternoon traffic and getting in and out of the ATL airport. But I had my nice new 8 to show off and maybe traffic wouldn't be too bad.....
After showing it off a bit, pop the trunk with the key fob, load his suitcase and off we go.

Pull right up in front of the Delta terminal with about a ka-billion people walking around and across the drop off lanes, TONS of security eyeballing you, and cars all over the place doing the pull-up drop-off move-away dance. Get right in the middle of it, and he jumps out and I realize I only have a vague idea of where the trunk-pop is under the dash.
Buddy is just kind of staring at me like "what are u doing", people are honking, and now security is getting interested - so take a stab at it - and pop the hood.........

Onlookers where amused, Security was NOT.

 

^ive had my 8 for a year and everytime I go to park at the Bellagio (they check your trunk before u can park), it never fails...I ALWAYS pop my hood first lol

 

Alright, I'll flaunt my ignorance. What are they checking your trunk for?

 

Took a girl to Sonic on your first date...now that is embarrasing! lol just playing

My most embarrasing 8 moment...4 fugly girls pull up next to me at 2 in morning and start waving and yelling nice car...i want nothing to do with them. I let off the clutch, spin the tires as the light goes green and out of there...then i see those lovely blue and red lights! girls drove by laughing and pointing at me as i was on the side of the road.

 

My most embarrasing 8 momentt... hmm. Well would have to be the first day I got it. I went to a party with friends etc. I decided to be DD for the night. (not normal) but I wasn't going to let anyone drive my 8 for a while.

As its time to leave the party I drive up to the house to get my friends because its pooring rain. This house is on a hill and small drive way. I have barely enough room to turn around and get out. But some how I managed to do so, just not so easy.. lol.

As my friends all hop in, everyone at the party was like damn nice car etc.. etc.. once everyone gets in they wouldnt stfu. I haven't figured out how to use the defroster yet. So I sat there in the driveway for a good 5 min. As the windows were slowly defogging I decided to go ahead and try my 6 point turn... Yea it was VERY tight.. I shoulda just made them walk to the bottom of the hill but it was all muddy and i didnt want that crap in my car.

So as I try to turn around stall out a good 5-6 times. First day with the 8 and first time really driving a manual car. Then finally I get to the point where its a clear shot. Take it out of reverse go into 1st and who show's up??? The cops to bust the party they were down the road full sirens and lighs about 4 cop cars. I was like F this were leaving. My friends drunk yelling etc in the car so I give it too much gas and end up fish tailing out almost hitting another car but I made with no scratches on the car and no injuries.

But I was pretty embarrased of squealing tires/ fish tailing out infront of the cops as they were pulling up the drive way. I wave to them as they go by.

We left at a good time. My friends ended up in jail for the night running from the cops. Even though their 21 and over they just decided to be dumb I guess..

 

My most embarrassing was when I was pulling out onto a very busy road, and I thought I found the perfect place. I pull out and start driving and threw it into 3rd going about 30. Still slowly accelerating, I notice the traffic is coming up rather quick...quicker than I anticipated. Not wanting to be a dick that slows everybody down, I push the pedal down. A little too lazy to downshift . Well, I Get up to speed and throw it down to 4th....wait that was second! Let out clutch high revs are hit and I see crap fly out from behind me from the poor clutch.

Surprised it's still alive to this day.

 

holy thread resurrections

 

I like to bring back the dead =P

 

hmm i think mine is me trying to give a hang loose sign to a fellow 8 driving by. but my fingers didnt cooperate with me, so it ended up me giving a middle finger to the the fellow 8 driver.

or when i was driving my mazda 3 for a month straight. then one day i had the urge to drive the 8. i thought my RPM needle was my speed needle (due to being use to the mazda 3), even though i was going 70mph, my rpm needle was like 4-5, which made me think i was going 40mph-50. so i thought i was loosing power etc. then i reliazed that the digital number is my MPH lol

 

You Necromancer, you.

 

Glad its staying strong for you!

 

I bet you felt like you had a major "FAIL" tattooed to your head after realizing you were reading the RPM tac as your speed..

 

lol yep, i was like WTF i just changed out sparks, coils and cleaned oout the carbon, due to lost of power month prior. but when i threw the car into neutral when i finally realized lol along witht that big White DIgital number telling me how fast i am going lol

 

resurect the evil....a mean dead!!!

 

My most embarrassing story was when i first got my 8 and i got into an argument with my parents about going to this party, they said no dont go but then eventually after alot of yelling they just wanted me out of the house. So i go out and get in the 8 and start it up. Not knowing i had to push down the shifter to get in reverse, so in 6th gear i roll down the drive way (my drive way is steep enough to just roll back but once i hit the pavement of the street i need to give it gas, it makes a valley from my drive way to the street.) So thinking im in reverse i get half way onto the street and realize im not really moving.... so after 10 unsuccessful tries i re-park the car and ask my dad to reverse it out for me.

for the record ive been driving a stick for 3+ years and since then ive learned to reverse it hahaha.

 

so you went backwards the entire length of your driveway in 6th gear? psst... there's a problem here... you should have stalled, not kept rolling. might want to get your tranny checked bud.

 

I just did something similar today. I jumped on the highway liesurely doing doing about 60 in 6th, and I wanted to do a quick bolt around this minivan in front of me. So I dropped her down into 4th to take off, but of course I caught 2nd because 4th is so close to 6th as it is. Luckily I didn't drop the clutch, but it grabbed hard enough to dip the nose and blip the rpm's up a fair bit. Don't know if anyone noticed, but I felt like a major D-bag.

 

my tranny is fine. i held the clutch in, like i said in my post my drive way is steep enough to roll back until the driveway meets the street... then i stalled from being in 6th.

 

try this one, stalled and flooded the engine in the middle of the road between the off ramp for the highway and infront of the stop light, thankful wasnt the intersection ^_^


...bastard wouldnt restart either and i had paper new plates at the time, problem was the battery wasnt fully charged from being dead for a long time

 

Done that 3 times, twice in public sadly.. yea..