Post your last "brown trouser" moment

lordrobs

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As you probably guessed this is spurred on by an incident tonight.

75 in the outside lane, get to within ia couple of feet of the back a low loader and he swerves out into the outside lane. He must have been doing 45 ish. Absolutly slammed on and smoked up the front tyres (my 224* mile old Falkens :mad: ) Yeah I know I should have threshold braked but it was a **** **** ******** moment. Gutted I didn't get his number :mad:

I had my window open and 2/3 mile later smoke was still wafting around my car :p I was fine at the time, did what I went out to do, drove home. It was only when I got home I felt a tiny bit shaky. Nothing really to concern me but it was a close one.

Its weird, I've gone years without a near miss then I have a couple in a few months.

So tell me yours.


*just checked odo and it was much less than the 500 I thought
 
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Being stopped by a so called plain clothed copper for doing 30 on a turn off from a 20 zone.

Got a grilling, but didn't get a producer or any paperwork so I guess im fine for now.

Evil ******* he was.
 
Driving at some considerable speed around a fairly tight-ish bend on the A13, as it merged from three lanes in to two, with a car in the inside lane and me having to corner and change lanes on a bit of a crappy surface. New underwear please!
 
Jez said:
I drive a leon making maybe 110-120bhp. Its impossible to have any brown trouser moments :(
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:D 75bph didn't stop a truck pulling out on me :p

Anyway self induced moments are more fun than jump on the breaks and pray moments :p

Next car WILL have ABS :o
 
Going back a while (middle of last winter)....

It was about 2am. I was in a foul mood (just finished a job that, due to idiocy on the part of the client, took four times longer than it should have), wanted to get home quick, and didn't particularly feel like sticking to sensible speeds. Came tanking down towards Princess Way roundabout heading towards Stretton, and managed to lock all four wheels up for a couple of seconds trying to shave off enough speed to get around without spinning or flipping the Fiat. Didn't seem to worry me at the time, until I parked up at home and thought "Ooo.....probably should have had an accident there if I'm being honest...."
 
Whilst moving into the insinde lane of a dual carridge way to allow an Ambulance to pass, the driver in front of me in the lane I was moving into decided to brake hard just as I moved over, for seemingly no reason.
 
Dogbreath said:
You can have a brown trouser moment on a push bike, bhp has little to with it!
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I drive it like a nutcase every day, yet it never fails to dissapoint. :(

Hate this car, its way too safe. Pretty good brakes and reasonable levels of grip, combined with what feels like zero power, means its utterly predictable 100% of the time, and nothing comes up too fast or as a shock.
 
when i riot van came from nowhere with its lights flashing in my rear view just because i went through an amber light :eek:
i'd been driving less than a year and was truly stunned...could hardly talk to the intimidating *******
 
On a public road? Last real brown-trouser moment I had was an 18-wheeler pulling into my path when I was doing 120mph.

On a semi-public road? Getting rather too close to the armco for comfort round the 'ring :)
 
dunno actually, i guess the back wobbling coming round a tight country road with a car on the other side..... that was kinda interesting :) Not had a seriously brown trowser moments since getting the mx-5 pretty much totally sideways on the testdrive :) the dealer wasn't all that please till i signed on the line, oh and the few times i've been certain i was going to claw the car back into line...
 
Erm, pulling into a turning (30mph zone) and a Ka being a fair distance away, had he not been doing 60mph+ he probably wouldnt have almost wrote me off, BIG brown trouser moment!
 
Winding STM off the clock (120+). Even if it's an optimistic speedo, anything faster than 80mph in that car is bloody terrifying. Especially as the steering wheel isn't connected to anything, the gearbox is likely to seize at any second and on quality "Aurora" tyres. :cool:

I guess it was a case of "faster, faster" - until the thrill of the speed overcame the fear of death.

Still. Eeesh. Will carry that memory of aural mechanical strain, vibration and momentum for a while.
 
a combination of a road recently resurfaced with loose gravel, my being late for work and a heavy right foot saw me take a corner almost sideways :eek: Entirely my fault cos i was driving like a plonker. The reason i was late? Posting on here :o
 
Earlier on, driving down a country road round here, doing about 50, going round a corner and being confronted by somebody in an MR2 sticking right out in to my side of the road (I think he was trying to pull out of a parking space at the side of the road, but what an idiotic place to stop!).

If something had been coming the other way, I'd have hit him, because I had to swerve to avoid him.

Total idiot!
 
Rounding a corner to find water running down the hill on an otherwise blazing day, with a land rover stopped in the middle of the road at the bottom and another car coming in the other direction, frantically trying to brake with the car sliding around underneath me and quickly having to choose between ditching in the hedge, the oncoming car or the back of the landrover, choosing the landrover and planting the car there (at a heavily decreased rate, but sadly not enough to stop beforehand).
 
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