Usually, and I'm a sod for it, if I am goign to do something, do it right....

Whenever I am doing work under the car, I always make sure that I have a jack, and back it up with stands etc...

Today, p****ng about with my CAI pipe, jacked the car up, and thought, balls to a stand, how I wish I did...

While under the front, head well under, same with the chest, the Jack gave way....

Car 1 my chest and head 0

Now have a two inch gash in my forehead and my chest is a wee bit sore, was luckily able to get myself out from under there....

SWMBO has thrown a paddy....

So, moral of the story, back up your Jacks... you never know....

ouch :eek:

At least you stopped the cars fall :P

ooo mate glad you ok,

you mist be a beast lol.

glad thats never happened to me lol or Id be very skinny now lol

If you were a cat, down to 8 lives I think!

What kind of jack did you use, as the scissors are lethal. I try to use a trolley jack where possible, and use my solitary axle stand.

ouch...how'd you get it back off...did you manage to slide out or was someone there

Usually use my trolley jack backed up with an axle stand, today, to my error thought ah, ill just use the sissor jack, its only a quick 2 minute job, rather than going round to in-laws and get my jack back from there...

I was on my own when it happened, so it was a kinda push car up and shuffle affair to get out....

SWMBO is proper ****y at me tho, cant say I blame her as I was being lazy by not going to get my trolley jack...

Glad I'm nails.....

I live by the philosophy "Expect the worst and you will never feel disappointment" which is why I use the axle stands all the time (plus my trolley jack has a **** seal on the piston and comes down ever so slowly)

Get yourself a set of ramps - much safer.

When you have to use stands, then use the ramps as a backup.

Ideal time to ask SWMBO!!!

Another SWMBO 1 me 0, I have the ramps, there at the back of the garage and I couldnt be arsed to get them out....

:(

Heyho, lesson learnt....

Could have been this in your sig.

Yellow Octy MK I VRS, CAI Kit and K&N Air Filter, DIY FMIC, Drilled and Grooved Discs, Mintex Pads, owner squished on to the sump

Rofl....

I think I may just do that....

what are you........Paper thin or summat, how the hell did you get out froom under the car ??

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Im nails, like i said.... :P

While I am not paper thin, I am reasonably strong, I have the armed forces and rugby to thank for that....

However, I wont be doing something that daft again.... well not anytime soon anyway....

Good job it wasn't your head !!!!!!!

Aye, however my head did take a squish from the front of the passengers wheel arch lining, nice 2 inch gash.....

very lucky man indeed could have been very bad..:eek:

glad all is well lesson learnt the hard way....

Sorry to hear this. Make sure you use your trolley and axle stands next time!

As old Fergus said -"My trousers will never fall down , I've got a belt , a pair of braces ,and if they fail - I've got a bit of string round the wastband ." - For belt ,read jack.For braces read axle stand.For bit of string read wheelchocks .And before strarting remember the old confucious tale "what can go wrong -WILL".

Then apply the principles of the old Bull,when the young one said "there's a field full of cows ,lets run down and have us one apiece ."Old bull replied "let's walk down and have the lot " ( In other words ,take yer time and PLAN the job safely)

Anyway glad to hear your OK- and to others - please take heed - don't want to see any other Briskodians become skodians through lack of safety planning .

So.. did you sort the CAI out in the end?

Youch - glad you're okay!

Glad your ok & here to tell the tale.....to go underneath a car with just a trolley jack is silly & dangerous but to go under one with the cars own crappy jack is very very silly!:thumbdwn: We had a near miss at work earlier this week,we had a 4T truck with a wheel that needed changing,young squaddie says ill do it,i told him to wait 10 mins & ill do it with him,i got called to my QM,s office & on my way back to workshop i see said truck sitting on a bottle jack,no stand under & young squaddie pulling at wheel to get it off! (truck rocking on jack!!:eek:) just as im *******ing him & tell him to get a 10T trolley jack a 6T axle stand & the wheel remover there is a bang & the truck falls off the jack & lands on the brake drum!! 10 mins later after lots of faffing about we get the truck back on its wheels! Grrrrrr:)

:eek:

You could have been nominated for the Darwin Awards there!!

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Hope the car is OK.... You're lucky chicks dig scars!

Learnt this lesson in 1954 when a REME wallah was working on a Daimler Armoured Car that was supported on a bottle jack, the car slipped off the jack and severed both his legs.

ALWAYS have a backup... not one but two wooden props:

This reminds me of some of the sights i saw in kenya earlier this year,they would do anything to any vehicle, anywhere! Heath & saftey.....whats that!