A work colleague was welding a car, a lump of red hot metal dropped down into his boot. Me being the conscientious and caring person that I am, left him hopping around for about a minute before getting a watering can and filling his boot with water.

Some years earlier he had a little accident, where he bumped my Cortina with a Pajero, smashing the rear light and denting the wing, that's my justification.

Left a spanner under the windscreen wiper linkages once and wondered why they weren't wiping...

I think the worst one with my Octavia was when I tried to do a fuel filter change, the following happened:

- Tried to forcibly pull the fuel hose off the engine end of the old filter, not realising it had a quick-lock clip on it

- Bit of the fuel filter then snapped off in the end of the hose

- Then had to cut the hose and (stupidly) tried to join the bit I'd cut off with the clip on it to the rest of the hose with a hose joiner and clips so I could plug it onto the new filter

- Friend of mine pointed out having a fuel hose under pressure held together with a joiner and clips was not a great idea and I was driving around in a timebomb waiting to go off...

- I took it to the garage, admitted defeat and had to pay £120 for a pair of fuel feed and return pipes to be supplied and fitted

Doh!!!

Upgraded my canbus to stop battery drain when I get my Columbus unfortunatly as SWMBO is on a training course I have the boys and due to lack of sleep (working nights last night) I'm not 100% and forgot to turn off Headlights & Aircon whilst doing the work and keeping the boys entertained.

I now have a flat battery and the car wont start & to make matters worse I parked on the lawn today to allow SWMBO out and I'm watching the car sink into the lawn now

Matthew

Upgraded my canbus to stop battery drain when I get my Columbus unfortunatly as SWMBO is on a training course I have the boys and due to lack of sleep (working nights last night) I'm not 100% and forgot to turn off Headlights & Aircon whilst doing the work and keeping the boys entertained.

I now have a flat battery and the car wont start & to make matters worse I parked on the lawn today to allow SWMBO out and I'm watching the car sink into the lawn now

Matthew

I thought this topic was about previous (old) Doh situations.....not current "oh ficking carp!" situations

Mind you good luck sorting it!

I was jacking my car recently and it wasn't going up.

The floor pan was though, I just stamped it back down :S

I did this too! Clever hey!

I've left a spanner in the scuttle panel on a Renault 19 once, went to slam the bonnet, it bent t he trailing edge of the bonnet and cracked the windscreen too.. Epic fail

Was changing the front wiper blades......arm in upright position...remove blade....accidently knock arm......arm (with bare metal end now) impacts windscreen.........watch as nice 4" long crack now spreads up windscreen from impact point...... :doh: ........now i put a thick old curtain (folded up) on the windscreen to protect the glass!!!

I once owned a Fiat Uno and when driving it on the motorway in torrential rain itbegan to misfire. Being a practical lass I whipped open my boot, dug around in my ‘special crate’ of bits and bobs and found a tin of WD40. I then clipped off the Dizzy cap and sprayed it’s dampened interior. Fantastic!! Car ran faultlessly for 50 miles or so………..then cough cough splutter :( So I once again got my WD and force fed my damp dizzy with WD goodness……hey presto! It was spot on again. Until another 50 miles later, I seemed to have lost some cylinders on the motorway :( Having taken shelter under a motorway bridge it was out with the WD and I proceeded to fill the Distributor cap (see told you I was practical) until I noticed a large amount of frothy foam pouring back out, a bit like some demented school chemistry experiment. It turns out I had filled my Distributer with….... FOAM??? I had picked up a tin of ‘Mr Sheen’ and filled my distributor with furniture polish! I scooped as much foam out as I could and tried to start the car and…. it ran faultlessly all the way home. A friend told me it was probably because the Polish has silicon in it, but did worry when he asked if it was inflammable and I didn’t know.

I was de-icing my windscreen one winter morning, thinking how crap the de-icer spray was.

It was only later I realised I was using WD40.

It stopped the wipers squeaking, though.

I was de-icing my windscreen one winter morning, thinking how crap the de-icer spray was.

It was only later I realised I was using WD40.

It stopped the wipers squeaking, though.

I have cured, on a couple of occasions, squeaky doors.............................with Pizz Buen Sun Tan spray (factor 30). The door didn't squeak and it smelt all coconutty