Darryl H
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Registered: 19th Nov 09
Location: Camberley Drives: Porsche 944
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Was doing the chuck up on one of those standing drills left the chuck key in by accident turned it on and the chuck flew into the window and cracked it  better than hitting me though!
Also have not tightened wheels properly.
And when I first converted the xe I hadn't put the passenger side drive shaft in properly so it kept falling out but I couldnt work out the problem for ages haha
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Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
Location: Rainham, Essex Drives: A3 2.0TDi Sport
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Ben, Very much so!
Also replaced a ball joint on a corsa then drove it round the block and it jumped out from where i hadn't pushed it in/done it up properly 
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daymoon
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Registered: 1st Aug 08
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire
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Pouring oil into the engine without the sump nut in place.
Not tightening wheel bolts
Forgot to put back the bolt that holds ball joint at front....
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Mike GSi
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Registered: 3rd Jan 07
Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Drives:Astra VXR
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Just the usual knuckle scrapes, and pinching the inside of the thumb in pliers 
Biggest fail was when i first started my LET with just a downpipe on, in turn setting fire to the mat i used for under car work.
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Mark.W
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Registered: 3rd Jan 07
Location: County Durham
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I seem to forget to tighten my wheel bolts up when iv had my wheels off
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midlandvauxhalls
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Registered: 23rd Jul 05
Location: Leicester
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spent 2 days trying to drill the head off a rounded headbolt that was already loose 
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Robo C20Let
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Registered: 22nd Feb 10
Location: Somewhere inside your mom !!!
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i had the gf helping my (but still my fault ish) i was changing the fuel filter on the old corsa with a walbro 255 in the tank.
when i changed it i was wiping a bit of dirt from around the pipe connector and said to her turn around as she was ignoring me nut she thought i said turn in on so the car cranked over, fuel pump kicked in and i got a face full of fuel.
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VegasPhil
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Registered: 16th Jan 05
Location: Fareham, Hants Drives: Octavia VRS
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Filling up the first engine conversion I did with gearbox oil. Thought it was using a lot. Driveshafts were out 
Over a litre of oil straight onto the garage floor...
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FlaFFy_91
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Registered: 30th Sep 08
Location: Formby, Merseyside
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Not jacking a car up high enough. Undid the bolts heard this mighty bang and couldnt move the wheel. Took me a while to figure out the spring had unloaded and sent the disc down into my wheel :/
[Edited on 28-10-2011 by FlaFFy_91]
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SamCorsaB
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Registered: 2nd Nov 09
Location: Ilkley, West Yorkshire
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Not me personally but we were sat in a carpark at night my mate goes can you hear that tapping under the bonnet, couldn't here it so we both got out shut the doors and popped the bonnet, he starts pulling the throttle cable, click doors lock at 3000 rpm all smoothed locks and no spare key.
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Scotty C
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Registered: 6th Nov 05
Location: Kidderminster Drives: 1.6 16v Sport
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quote:
Originally posted by SamCorsaB
Not me personally but we were sat in a carpark at night my mate goes can you hear that tapping under the bonnet, couldn't here it so we both got out shut the doors and popped the bonnet, he starts pulling the throttle cable, click doors lock at 3000 rpm all smoothed locks and no spare key.
Could have been worse..
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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quote:
Originally posted by Fro
Spinning a wheel with my finger on a spoke to try and hear a noise. Didnt remove finger and it got caught between the wheel and caliper.
Finger has healed with a scar and is slightly bent  chicks dig it
I have done that!! So painful!
Syphoning my mates fuel tank and it wouldn't come out, so gave the biggest suck I could do and got a mouth/faceful of fuel, took days to get rid of the taste :-(
Starting a car without the oil cap on and then getting a faceful of oil
various slipping off nuts and going flying
Working under cars and dropping tools on my face
Sneezing under the car and head butting the sump
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SamCorsaB
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Registered: 2nd Nov 09
Location: Ilkley, West Yorkshire
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quote:
Originally posted by Scotty C
quote:
Originally posted by SamCorsaB
Not me personally but we were sat in a carpark at night my mate goes can you hear that tapping under the bonnet, couldn't here it so we both got out shut the doors and popped the bonnet, he starts pulling the throttle cable, click doors lock at 3000 rpm all smoothed locks and no spare key.
Could have been worse..
Explain...
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johnhara1
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Registered: 19th Oct 06
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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I have left wheel bolts loose, seriously loose infant on too many occasions. Never had a wheel fall off yet.
I replaced all the brake lines on my mothers astra and managed to get pipes mixed up on the rear compensator so instead of feeding the rears, the fluid was just fighting each other so no rear brakes. had to go to the scrap yard with pen and paper to draw a diagram of how the lines went. I couldn't be chewed removing all the lines again so flared them in situ and got some nice brake fluid burns. It's like sunburn......
Twice, i've done a clutch on a punto 8v and managed to have the engine fall off of the jack because i was too lazy to get the hoist out. Second time i smashed the ecu wiring so almost put breaker bar through the windcreen in anger. I had a mint session in the gym that night.
I can't remember why i did this now but i had the car jacked up and engine running so a wheel was turning. I was looking underneath for some reason and burnt my forehead on the wheel leaving a nice square inch burn/scab on my head.
Replaced a wheel bearing and hub on my xe corsa. The hub had snapped inside the bearing so the shaft was a pig to remove but instead of putting a nut on the end of the shaft to protect it, i didn't think and just smashed it out with a hammer. I compressed about 3 threads so couldn't get the castle nut back on. I sat for an hour with a file and hacksaw sorting the threads out and it went straight on.
I've done loads of other silly stuff like use a 4l container to catch 5l of oil etc too. Every mistake i've made has been hurrying get stuff done or trying to save time but cutting corners. It never works, always takes 10x longer.
[Edited on 28-10-2011 by johnhara1]
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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there are some that say a wheel wont fall off even if the bolts come right off unsure about that tbh, thats if only going straight though
[Edited on 28-10-2011 by Steve]
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JM_16v
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Registered: 17th Oct 05
Location: Essex Drives: GLC63S
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building my engine i didnt realise inlet and exhaust shims were diffrent, when is tried to start it i had no comppression with brand new forged internals on a £2,000 parts only build.
soon sorted it thou when i figured it out and my friend laughed at me for a week
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Bonney
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Registered: 14th Nov 04
Location: St Helens
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Putting an exhaust on my astra, was swinging a large rubber mallet over my head to knock the centre section onto the cat, Just swung the hammer as someone shouted me only to smash it straight into the top of my head full pelt!
Tightening the wheel bolts up on the saxo after changing the brake pads only to snap a wheel bolt and throw myself down the drive.
After changing the drill bit in a pillar drill in a mates garage, forgot I left the chuck key in the chuck and fired it straight out of the door and straight through the front grill of my Astra.
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Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
Location: Rainham, Essex Drives: A3 2.0TDi Sport
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Think i did the chuck thing in school once
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thegsi
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Registered: 3rd Feb 07
Location: Kidderminster Drives: Evo (you can't afford one)
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When I put the 2L brakes on my Turbo, we couldnt for the life of us bleed the system. The pedel would firm up, then go soft then firm then soft. We were on it for a few hours until I spotted the bleed nipple on the bottom of the caliper. We had put the calipers on the wrong sides 
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sri_baby
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Registered: 17th Feb 08
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I was tightening a rear shock on a vectra c as i tightened it the socket slipped off and i hit myself in the face never felt so sick in my life but everyone else found it pretty funny lol
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kennySRi
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Registered: 12th Nov 10
Location: Lancashire
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
there are some that say a wheel wont fall off even if the bolts come right off unsure about that tbh, thats if only going straight though
[Edited on 28-10-2011 by Steve]
I can assure you that the wheel can come off
I sold my old nova to a local guy and a week later they were fixing something on it and one guy forgot to tighten the wheel bolts. One of them went to test drive and felt alot of vibrations so slowed down and then next thing he knew the wheel bounced along the road and the front end of the car went crashing into the ground Needed a new disc and smashed the bottom of the wing and blended in skirt
[Edited on 28-10-2011 by kennySRi]
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JM_16v
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Registered: 17th Oct 05
Location: Essex Drives: GLC63S
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Actually worse was a slipped with a air gun, hit myself in the face and knocked half of my front tooth off, nearly passed out and now have a fake half tooth
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taylorboosh
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Registered: 3rd Apr 07
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done loads...
in the dark put the battery on my mk4 1.8t golf on backwards and blew the altenator up... even twisted the terminal out to fit on the wrong way
tipped imps engine on side and spilt loads of oil everywhere through a breather
changing tappets on my first car 1.2 8v i turned it over with no rocker cover on lol had oil stripes under bonnet
used a single filament bulb in a twin hole on my mates lexus lights as thats all he had, his headlights flashed as he braked and people kept pulling out on him
used nylock nuts to atach a downpipe to a corsa manifold on my sri c.... didnt last long
on my first white b i was stressed and threw a spanner off the floor, bounced back of the kerb and hit the qaurter denting it
started the tt in gear and crashed into my garage
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taylorboosh
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Registered: 3rd Apr 07
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steve a mate of mine had 2 wheels fall of in one night... he had it jacked up with a certain north east organiser on here and they tightened the bolts with it in the air... his rear wheel fell off and he put it back on but didnt bother checking the front, this fell off on dual carriage way and we spent about four hours looking for it to find it wedged in a tree
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taylorboosh
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