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Stupid Mistakes You Have Done To Your Car?


JulzC

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Did an oil/filter change in my old NC at a mates place, backed it off the ramps with the door open and collected the brick pier of his carport.. The door handle was practically touching the front panel!!

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Put a Kaaz diff into my VZ and had to drive in figure 8's for half an hour to break it in. Silly me being a P-Plater at the time thought the only way to drive in figure 8's was with smoke coming off the back tyres. Two sets of 15" tyres later and a few mates having a laugh at me who thought it would be better not to correct me and let me do a very long smoke show.

Diff worked sweet.

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nearly got ran over by my own car lol. pulled it out of the garage so I didnt wake the neighbours got, rolling too fast backwards. tripped over while trying to jump in and got dragged under the door. ute crossed the road and up onto "over the roads" front lawn. done it sooo many times b4 with success. could have been worse boys will be boys lol.

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Dropping 4-5 litres of oil into an empty oil container then pouring it into the grass clippings from the lawn mover there was a sh$$ load of cut grass there then covering it over with alil more grass so mum didn't see it but kinda stepped on it to compact all the grass yea all the oil didn't go through the grass my new white shoes turned brown lol

Lesson learned dispose of oil a different way

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  • Member For: 12y 11m 27d
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Fitting oil sender unit to my XR6 Turbo using a T-piece... didn't put spanner on the turbo oil line filter... turned the car on, oil leaked, turned it straight back off... realised that I'd pulled the line to the turbo right back around in a loop with kinks/cracks, up further I had pulled it tight against the block and it had rubbed a strip in the belt too..... Probably saved my turbo in the long run as it forced me to invest in an Earl's braided line and filter.... However when fitting that, the T-piece for the sender (Calibre brand) snapped before getting tight... so we had to drill the snapped bit out, chisels a flat head screwdriver bit onto it... refitted original sender with Earl's kit.... now I've spent another $60 on an Earl's oil filter sandwich plate, should have done so in the first place!

Not really my fail but when I bought my last car (EL Falcon), me and my brother drove it 6 hours to home (hard to find factory manual), before realising that all 10 of the front wheel nuts were easily removed by hand...

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  • Member For: 12y 6m 4d
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When I got my first car (a ford laser), I was still learning all the things about taking care of your car. My car ate oil like we drink water so I had to check it quite often. One day I checked my oil and noticed it needed filling, so I got the oil out, and proceeded to fill it up. checked the dip stick and it was up at the correct level so all should be good right? nope...I parked my car on a sloped driveway...so all the oil had sunken back. It looked like it was just full...when in reality it was over full...by quite a lot... Lets just say you knew where I was because of the blue trail following me... I fail

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