jrdn7
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Registered: 14th Feb 11
Location: Ireland
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Bored out of my head waiting for my mate to return my jack so decided to start this thread.
As title suggests, whats your biggest car related cockup? Can be anything from mechanical to an embarrassing driving mistake.
Seeing as it's my thread I guess I'll start. Fitted my home designed and build flash exhaust one night before taking it out to show the lads. Got about 100 yards up the road, hit a minor bump and the whole system came down & hit the tar with a bang. Forgot to tighten up 2 mounts properly. 
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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car fell off the axle stands.
melted my jump leads.
[Edited on 06-05-2012 by Ben G]
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Kippers
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Registered: 27th Dec 10
Location: By the sea, Kent Drives: A nee naw
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Timed an engine 180 degrees out before.
Also did a redtop into nova conversion and when started it was misfiring badly... checked everything possible, missus laughed and said about leads around the right way, we dismissed her quietly.
Mate said the distributors are common and he had one at home in Oxford (we were in Basildon) Drove all the way there and back, fitted it and no different.
Then realised leads were on wrong way round!
[Edited on 06-05-2012 by Kippers]
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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thats lies. girls don't know about cars.
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JamesMc
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Registered: 15th Aug 10
Location: Rainham, Kent
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Positive onto minus and vice versa on the battery jump cables.. lots of smoke and burnt my hand on the rubber handles that were melting 
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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Buying a Disco with a gearbox problem....or buying an x type jag that I didn't really want nor like just because it was a good deal
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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dropped down from 5th to 3rd to overtake someone who had pulled out on me and caused me to slam the anchors on, all whilst driving with a dodgy gearbox = gearbox went bang and looked like a complete muppet 
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1999corsa b
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Registered: 22nd Feb 09
Location: Sheffield
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quote:
Originally posted by JamesMc
Positive onto minus and vice versa on the battery jump cables.. lots of smoke and burnt my hand on the rubber handles that were melting
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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quote:
Originally posted by 1999corsa b
quote:
Originally posted by JamesMc
Positive onto minus and vice versa on the battery jump cables.. lots of smoke and burnt my hand on the rubber handles that were melting
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=634558
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Edd
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Registered: 8th Nov 04
Location: Glasgow
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Not really major as i realised but i was servicing the car and had it jacked up on one side and whilst under the bonnet i clocked the brake fluid looked low so proceed to top it up and then remembered i had it jacked up lol. With a red face i had to drain it with the GF asking why i was doing that after just filling it up. Explained that it needed changed 
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Anty
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Registered: 19th Mar 08
Location: droitwich
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Twiggy and his vectra ..lol Jack fail..
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Nic Barnes
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
Location: nowhere near ginger people
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carbon wrapped a bonnet vent thinking it was cool.
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SetH
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Registered: 15th Jul 01
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Jesus wept I have got loads
My first car when I was 17 was a 1989 Seat Ibiza Sxi and I sprayed a pair of fiesta RS Turbo bonnet vents and stuck them on
An ex's 12 volt corsa, was fitting some GSi wheels and it fucked off the shitty jack I was using
S1 106 rallye - serious lift off oversteer on a wet roundabout at 3am in the morning, engine flooded (i think) as would not start for about 20 seconds and I sat in the middle of the road like a mong.
S2 106 rallye - Having not learnt my lesson from the first one had another lift off oversteer moment although managed to stop the car about 2 ft from a deep ditch 
Phase 1 Vectra GSi - Paying Courtenay Sport stupid amounts of money to tune it and only ending up with 210 bhp and telling AK that hopefully it would get into the 14's
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Ben J
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Registered: 31st Jan 05
Location: Cheshire
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Using ChipsAway.
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Jamie-C
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Registered: 3rd Jun 08
Location: Ballycastle
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Fitted a set of brakes to an Almera last week while pissed, lad phoned me to say there still grinding so told him to bring it down to me to check it out. Turned out I put one of the brake pads in back to front
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
Location: Maidenhead, Drives: VXR Arctic
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Buying a wonky Z3M at the precise moment the Lehman thing went south.
Purchased for £10k 3months later I couldn't give it away.
[Edited on 06-05-2012 by Jambo]
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
Location: Maidenhead, Drives: VXR Arctic
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SetH bonnet vents
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Sunz
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: SE England
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quote:
Originally posted by Kippers
Timed an engine 180 degrees out before.
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SetH
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Registered: 15th Jul 01
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
SetH bonnet vents
They were not functional.
I painted them in a different white to the body.
I did not lacquer them. How people must have pointed and laughed 
[Edited on 06-05-2012 by SetH]
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Sean
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Registered: 14th Sep 10
Location: Eastbourne, BN23 7AZ
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Taking my corsa off the road and buying a fiesta as a daily hack... 
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Stuart H
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Registered: 17th Jul 09
Location: lanark , scotland
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Changing gearbox on a vts , up on axle stands on red stones lol , was under car tightening up something seen the car tipping over lol got out but the disc / full strut grazed my chest on the way out thought I broke my collar bone lol
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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There's already a massive thread about this done not that long ago
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Chris x
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Registered: 11th Sep 08
Location: Bexhill
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
There's already a massive thread about this done not that long ago
you deleted it lolz
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Jamie-C
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Registered: 3rd Jun 08
Location: Ballycastle
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quote:
Originally posted by Stuart H
Changing gearbox on a vts , up on axle stands on red stones lol , was under car tightening up something seen the car tipping over lol got out but the disc / full strut grazed my chest on the way out thought I broke my collar bone lol
Red stones? Is that them paving slabs?
I seen some one lower a car onto an axle stand on paving slabs before and the slab just cracked. Scary.
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Chris x
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Registered: 11th Sep 08
Location: Bexhill
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Snapped my Green Land Rover off roading
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