Most dumb thing / worst thing youve done to a car

[Dutton]

I knew the old owner (6 or 7 years ago), he was really good. But hit hard times and had to sell up. The new owner is not so good...

Yeah old neighbour worked for him I think. They were great - hence didn't think twice when I first turned up.

Took me about 15 minutes to explain to him my breaks didn't go and he had to fix them. He kept just saying 'no no it work now, all fix' or staring at me blankly. (Not very good english, made the encounter doubly worse )


Wow, we're way off topic now.

[thegreatestben]

Thats not moonshine is it, the place you are talking about?

[~SlideWays~]

Thats not moonshine is it, the place you are talking about?

If its the one Im thinking of it is or used to be AC automotive/motors/something. He used to own a place by the same name in Lower Hutt but "sold" it and got completely screwed over by the buyer.

[MikeMan]

Best one I have witnessed was my father and a mate who was a race driver working on said race drivers Ralt RT4 Formula Atlantic car. Pulling the BDA out as the previous owner had left it all winter with water in the cooling system, that is all no anti freeze or corosion inhibitor so we had a weeping issue around the valves on the #3 cylinder.

Dad was draining the fuel tank while the driver was disconnecting the starter, the battery was still connected but the isolation switch was open with the key removed so no power should have been heading anywhere. Should being the operative word

The cowboys had hot wired the isolation switch because of a miss last season and FORGOT to tell anyone. The main starter wire touched the pan and the fuel in the drain tray ignited. Two fire appliances, a visit to hospital for Dad and the owner, and about $25K of damage to the engine and tub later we were 3 months late in our prep for the season.

[ihavelift]

1) Bought the damn thing ...

2) Proceeded to think of it as a Touge Racer. The bank didn't think so.

[B1NZ]

Changing wheels once I arrived at a motorsport event and breaking 2 of 4 studs off on one wheel so I couldnt race and had to drive home 100km like that(apparently I don't know my own strength)

Oooh, also thought I had blown my rear diff on my TA61 Celica after doing an immature young person burnout so got a mate to try and figure out where the noise was coming from while I drove slowly along the drive only to have my mate fall over laughing as my loose wheel nearly fell off

[FXGTV]

Changing wheels once I arrived at a motorsport event and breaking 2 of 4 studs off on one wheel so I couldnt race and had to drive home 100km like that(apparently I don't know my own strength)

Oooh, also thought I had blown my rear diff on my TA61 Celica after doing an immature young person burnout so got a mate to try and figure out where the noise was coming from while I drove slowly along the drive only to have my mate fall over laughing as my loose wheel nearly fell off

I have a very similar story. After a bit of spirited driving in my ra60 celica i noticed a wobble .

Thinking nothing of it i keep driving it for a couple of days like this (it was an old car which had its 'quirks' so i didnt think it was serious).

The wobble got steadily worse and finally I thought i'd try to isolate the problem.

First thing i checked were wheels nuts...3/4 nuts on both rear tires were loose! Must be those old celicas

[americ_ian]

put a honda motor in it

[rollaholic]

mines still got a toyota engine if you want to swap !

[FLAWLES]

surprised with all the honestly here

its a laugh in a half


wired up a apexi rsm into my jzx100

hooked it all up, mint..............so i thought.............turns out that the speed wire on the ecu was for the auto box feed.....

which made the speedo on the dash go off the clock and wouldnt change into 2nd or third

lol
rsm recored 320km/h on the way home tho hahhaha, got home and changed it back to normal.................dont have that wire hooked up anymore

[FLAWLES]

thought of another one

gtz broke down.........many yrs ago.... no idea why so me and a few mates towed it out to old vvegas house in te awamutu

fixed the prob went for a massive fang back to hamilton.........went for a few touge missions and herd a loud banging nosie

turns out that we didnt do up the wheel nuts

cost me four new studs

[ihavelift]

surprised with all the honestly here

its a laugh in a half


wired up a apexi rsm into my jzx100

hooked it all up, mint..............so i thought.............turns out that the speed wire on the ecu was for the auto box feed.....

which made the speedo on the dash go off the clock and wouldnt change into 2nd or third

lol

rsm recored 320km/h on the way home tho hahhaha, got home and changed it back to normal.................dont have that wire hooked up anymore

You should've put a vid of that on youtube. "check out my mean as 14865206 hp ride, 0-100 on like negative 4 seconds"

[79rolla]

rememberd another one, i $&#$% my first 5speed due to lack of oil.. so replaced it with a mate back to the 4speed, drove round for a bit then a cuppla days latter i noticed it keept poping ou of 2nd, nd 4th nd had a werd movement in the stick, so wen i got to town i went to a mates place nd discoverd i hadent dun up the xmember, one bolt knowhere to be seen nd the other almost falling out

and then i went to put qa second 5 sped in it at a worksop in town, and ne of the micanis came and gave me a bit of a hand betwene jobs so i could get it off the hoist faster.. then took it for the test drive to find a loud knocking noise so went back and got my mate to give it a drive too, he knew strait away what it was.. terns out he had only sat the driveshaft in place with the nuts finger tight.. and i hadent cheaked the wrk lol


and when i did the clutch on my ute (thes gbox's are kints to get in nd out btw) and a week or two later noticed a grounching noise from starter, got extreemly bad wtithin a week to the point i had to be rool started, had pritty much orded a new starter at this time (was told wot the auto sparky thort so trusted that coz i was sick and on work experience) anyway i went to take it off to se what the problem was and fount the starter had almost fallen off!! went sweet after i tightend it up lol





(i have bad luck or sumthin with gboxes lol..)

[d1 mule]

iv had a wheel fall off, had big vibrations so took the 85 out at lunch to try figure out what it was and WHAM the left rear just dropped, luckily the wheel stayed under the guard.

similar vibrations for a few days, got uber bad so pulled into the repco carpark, as i was reversing into the park the D shaft fell out lol

[mr30%jr]

happens allllll the time on aw11s specially with buckled rims

[Lanius]

Stupidest thing I've done is gone to a "cheap mechanic" who I'm still convinced to this day, is responsible for the original engine/turbo in my old ST185 blowing up. I'm so paranoid about shitty mechanics these days, that I drive from Manurewa to Wairau Park to go to the one mechanic I trust

[FLAWLES]

good mate of mine loves holdnes to death

always goes and buys top of the line mobil oil

one day he drains the oil, changes teh filter and puts this rather $$$$ oil in
then he sees it starting to draw into a massive puddle on the ground

forgot to put the sump plug back in

hahah

funnyest day ever
still give him shit about that

[sleeektoy]

I went to pull a steering wheel off a mates honda civic,
didnt think to leave the nut just on the thread

proceeded to brace/pull/twist wheel

BANG....

Wheel came off with such force i ended up falling back so hard into the seat it snapped the front(fatigued) spot-welds on the rails, and stopped facing the roof of the car LMAO

[Santa'sBoostinSleigh]

tried to be an awesome 18 or 19 YO hero with my mrs of the time in the car, and slid my awesome Nissan Sentra into a gutter destroying one of my awesome steelies


left the petrol cap on top of the pump in Bulls on the way home from Palmy or Welly, realised when i went to fill up with gas again ~450kms/a week later


decided to 'modify' my integra bumper, resulting in me wasting countless hours/days/weeks and $$ on it and having no bumper on my car for about a year and ending up just buying a replacement one


buying a written off AE101 FXGT for too much money and attempting to part it out to make money


and last but not least, thinking i could build my racecar for a reasonable cost in a reasonable time

[Distrb]

One of those 'duh' moments where i got a wee bit excited and tried squashing a car with a bulldozer



not work so well, coz firewall too strong + bulldozer too small

then remember once excitement disappears and frustration sets in what bulldozer is made for. PUSHING!

so push it up against the cowshed wall instead




much more squished now, crisis averted!