decided to test out how slippy it was on the winter roads by deliberatly trying to skid................yes, I did write off the car.....doh!!!):eek:

Yeah thats how i did in my first car too, now i just assume the roads are bad once it snows. More recently, i changed a wheel while under pressure to get going by the wife. I never tightened the nuts and about a mile down the road the wheel popped off :eek:

I decided to check why my brakes were grinding on my old Felicia - took the pads off - found the metal guard rubbing the disk and fixed it. Put it all back together (it was dark by then) - took it round the block to find it 10 times worse! Went to the garage the next day - the brake pad was on the wrong way round!!

A colleague borrowed my brand new '02 Primera complete with reversing camera and reversed it straight into a post doing the bumper and tailgate.

I tried to remove the interior light on my Octavia to fit a W8 type and forgot it was screwed in. Prised it out and smashed it to buggery

Way back in the past I thought it would be good to run my turbo diesel Astra with no air filter "cos it sounded cool, innit"

Helped the old man change his plugs and HTs when I was really young. In a moment of stupidity I decided to pull all 4 leads off at once. The old man came out to see me stood there with 4 leads in hand, he wasn't at all happy.

About two years ago my electric door mirror switch broke on my Octavia mk1. Went to my local skoda dealer and they wanted over£35 so went to my VW dealer and showed them the part and they only wanted £22. I bought and fitted the VW part, tried and tested perfectly and thought " bloody good saving over Skoda".

A few days later, I was driving the car for the first time during the night and realised the VW part illuminated RED and not the supposed GREEN:O

Sold the car 4 weeks ago in the daylight !

A couple of months ago, I bought a brand new Alpine stereo for my Jeep with a removable front. I went to the opening of the new leisure centre and spent an hour touring the facilities. Got back to the Jeep and realised the stereo front wasn't in my jacket pocket.

Spent another hour retracing my steps looking for it, and giving my details to the reception incase anyone handed it in. Then the next week was spent ringing the centre just incase....

I eventually gave in and ordered a new fascia from the shop I bought the stereo from which cost a quarter of the price of the stereo.

A couple of weeks later, I was cleaning out the Jeep and guess what I found under the drivers seat.....Doh!!

Fiddling under the bonnet of my old car then went to start it and let it idle to check for unusual noises, car was in gear so plouged forward into the corner of the garage wall.

result = new front bumper and crash bar

Working on a Mk2 16v GTE Astra

Cleaning out the throttle body with carb cleaner, then went under the car to clean out the idle speed control valve. Undid the clip securing it to the manifold, it then dropped off, touched the starter motor with earthed out, sparked and lit the half a can of carb cleaner in the manifold which then poured down onto me.

Result my overalls on fire and fire licking out of the inlet manifold on the Astra.

What fun!

i once very accurately measured out the cutout for a door speaker in a Mk1 Golf......

From the wrong end of the panel.

Drove out of our local rubbish dump with the hatch still open (Nissan Almera). the dump has a height restriction barrier, this shut the hatch rather firmly.

the radio one's reminded me.

First car, a D plate Polo Coupe S, fitting a new radio. Presented with lots of colours. So matched them to the wiring loom of the car. Driving along, radio smoking away. 12v up a speaker line. Thank heavens it was a pull out jobbie so I could discard in a layby just as the flames lapped out the casing.

Testing out some "Phat Neonz" on the interior light terminal, and shorting it out, blowing up the Body Control Unit that controlled everything from how hot the heated seats go to how long the headlight washers spray. £346 from Nissan, sir.

in the old ST220 - swerved in the road to avoid a cyclist that had walked out in front of me (he was having a slash in the bush) and ended up smashing 2 alloys and 2 tires to obliteration - oh and the front bumper went as well - was not impressed on a sunday morning. cyclist then proceeded to laugh at me, he recieved a thump for his trouble - never heard from him again.

Had the car slightly on the skew in the garage, backed out & scraped the wing on the garage door frame, that was about 1/4 second before I caught the opposite door on the other post, scrapes down both sides :mad:

While teaching SHMBO to drive in a minivan,she pulled away. I said 'change up to 3rd.' She said 'the gearlever won't move'. I said 'DON'T BE SILLY'. I try to move the stick myself, it's stuck firmly in 2nd.

After having to grovel an apology for shouting, I take over and get the thing back home in 2nd. gear.

The saga continues, can't find a problem with the linkage so engine and gearbox out, strip down gearbox and get it working. Re-assemble and it works fine on the bench. Put everything back in the van.

Start up and drive away, but no further than 2nd. gear, yes it's stuck.

Call a man who will take the ********** thing away and give me £50.

I suppose someone on here will now tell me what was wrong, but remember I am talking about around 1972 ish. and there were no forums or pc's then

I sort of wonder why you didn't just rev it a bit more in first, and skip shift into 3rd!

wanted to whilst move my car closer to the house and being too lazy to clamber across to the driver's seat (and somehow not thinking to just push the car), I managed to get myself into such a position that I couldn't actually operate the brakes...somehow the car wasn't damaged at all and my brother was happy cos he got to use a big rubber sledge to re-allign a section of the wall and door frame. we're moving soon.

I sort of wonder why you didn't just rev it a bit more in first, and skip shift into 3rd!

You don't find out it's stuck until you have shifted to second. it's then STUCK.

So how do you then go from 1st. to 3rd?

You don't find out it's stuck until you have shifted to second. it's then STUCK.

So how do you then go from 1st. to 3rd?

I'm having problems with the idea of a gear that so stuck that you can't get out of it engine off!

I'm having problems with the idea of a gear that so stuck that you can't get out of it engine off!

Believe me, I tried hitting the gearstick with a hammer all kinds of pushing, engine on/off. The gearstick was starting to bend from the force.

It only came out of gear when I had dismantled the gearbox. But there was a problem, I had never really diagnosed the cause. On reassembly as I stated, It worked.

Until it was back in the van.

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Just thought I google 'mini 850 gearbox stuck in gear' and one that came up made me smile, a recall by BMW about the (new) mini getting stuck in gear.

What goes around comes around.

I once tried to do a Dukes of Hazzard stylee slide across the bonnet and then jump in through the window. It would have worked except I did not have a Dodge charger with a massive bonnet, I had a Metro with a tiny bonnet and an ariel sticking out the top of the front wing. When I noticed said ariel, I changed course and fell off the front of the car snapping one of my spot lights off in the process. I then tried to temporarily reattach the light with a cable tie. I did this wrong so I tried to undo the cable tie by jabbing a pen in it. The pen slipped and I gashed my thumb open. The whole thing was closely watched by my two best mates who still laugh at me for it.

Hmmm...

Where to start?

1. Aged about 12yrs old helping uncle get a recently purchased Morris 1000 ready for the road. Radiator was off and I was tasked with cleaning all the dead flies out of the matrix. The soft brush he gave me was rubbish, the hard wire brush I found in his garage was much more effective :eek:. Really enjoyed the trip to the scrapper though.
   
2. I bought a Hillman Avenger.
   
3. MkIII Cortina 1600 - doing the service and found that a screw holding the vacuum advance/retard had gone astray. No problem, had the perfect replacement in my odds 'n' sods tin, right thread, no problem - except that it was about 4x too long. When I started it up the advance/retard bob-weights got completely mangled. Needed a new distributor.
   
4. Car parked outside house, in a rush, jumped into car, started it up, slammed it into reverse, didn't need to look 'cos next door didn't have a car, shot backwards, next door had a visitor :O
   
5. Oh! I think that's enough for now...
   

Well, last August I did this...

http://briskoda.net/general-car-chat/ouch/122278/

Check out the spare wheel poking out the back...the jack ended up about 30 yards away :eek:

Does the disappearing number plate lightbulb holder trick count?