Most dumb thing / worst thing youve done to a car

[ihavelift]

hahahahahahahaha the above post made me laugh so hard!

EDIT:

no longer the "above" post really is it

[CAMB01]

I never laughed so hard in my life when i saw that happening, i was the one holding the camera lol.
We spent the entire day stripping that car till a bare shell, then decided to crush it, unfortuantely it still sits up against that wall lol.

[B1NZ]

Im never talking to you again, there is photographic evidence of you driving a Mitsi on the net

[touge rolla]

Didn't replace the oil seals when changing gearbox, leaking ensues. And it was such a bastard doing it with the gear box in the car.

Just finished putting all my intercooler piping and strut brace back on the car, taking care to get it all perfect, look at the intercooler and think "that's funny I didn't have this clear a view at it before". Then spotted the fan on the bench...

[RedMist]

Rod Millen at Goodwood two years ago.
Launch control in the Celica is rather abusive and a particularly powerful backfire wrapped all four throttle plates completely around the throttle shafts.
After running the entire sprint at wide open throttle with no throttle control he shut it down. ( I could imagine it would be rather scary with 1000 odd hp) Without spares the only thing they could do was take to the existing throttle plates... with a hammer.

[Stott69]

AWSOME!^^

[NOLAW]

thinking it would be a matter of literally bolting a 4agte into my ke20, thinking i would have it going in a month max......nearly 3 years later its still in my shed in a project state

[Akane]

Just in today, almost finish with a cambelt swap on the corolla, was doing up the power steering pump (which acted as a tensioner), spending my sweet time doing it all nicely saying to myself that I'm going to get rid of my ranginess within me, gonna make it look like a meeleeeeon bucks, Chalkie will be proud of me

Just to find out the alternator belt sits behind the PS belt on the crack pulley, and there's no way I can put the alternator belt in until I undo what I spent an hour doing today.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

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Letting Gleye & Parlane in Takapuna to rebuild my 3S-GTE. $3k + 1000kms later I end up with a dead 3S-GTE again. Idiots didn't clean out the sand after sand blasting my block (god knows why they wanted to do that). And no, they got their buddy assessors and said I blew it up.

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Giving vvega cash and parts to build a 3S-GTE that didn't exist and just to have him vanish on me.

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Didn't make sure the oil drain plug on the gearbox is tighten before I take it out for a test drive on a Friday night, needless to say the gearbox locked up while I was just after the harbour bridge, doing a nice 180 spin spanning 3 lanes and JUST missed the left hand barrier, now facing the other way, cops turned up fined me $400 for no rego / WOF, Wildcard (ben) drove past and proceed to ROFL in my face and helped me call a towey. that's an expensive $650 + $400 + $200 lesson.




Images courtesy of Wildcard.

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Slotted in a 2nd hand (with 200,000kms+ IIRC according to matty) engine in the MR2, forgot to plumb some of the water lines up proper, drove it up the road. I didn't know 3S-GTE's heat up that quick! Blew the H/G on it, and the waterpump gave up straight away.

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Let A1 Turbos tune my PowerFC, $800 later, got a call "Yea your car's ready, but hmm, you should really look into your radiator, it's not capable of handling this new power". Got the car back engine is covered in coolant. Turns out to be another BHG, the guy tuned it too rough.


And heaps more ofcourse but that's enough for now.

[d1 mule]

holy shit man quit while your behind.....

[AE86less]

I bought a brand new timing light yesterday, got quite a nice one thinking that it's best to "do things right". 3 or 4 hours later after a few beers I pull the light out of it's packaging and decide that right then is the perfect time to tune the KE70 .

I hooked it up with the engine running because we'd just got home (mate was driving, not me!) and my battery is up the piss. Get it all jacked up, point the gun at the pulley... and drape the wires over the engine fan. The clamps and the gun disapear into a whirling vortex of wire and plastic which spits the gun out to whack my mate in the face before I can switch the engine off. We look at the huge tangle round the base of the fan and then collapse to the ground in epic self-mocking roffles.

Don't drink and tune.

[bluemaumau]

awesome bro

[Stott69]

lol any pics?

[AE86less]

awesome bro

Totally

No pics, but if you can imagine the gun shooting out from the fan, finding the positive clamp under the car and then not finding the negative clamp until I spotted it as we drove away, 20m down the road

Does anyone on the Shore have a timing light I could borrow?

[Santa'sBoostinSleigh]

No pics, but if you can imagine the gun shooting out from the fan, finding the positive clamp under the car and then not finding the negative clamp until I spotted it as we drove away, 20m down the road

Does anyone on the Shore have a timing light I could borrow?

you think someone will lend you one after admitting that?!?!?!

[FXGTV]

No pics, but if you can imagine the gun shooting out from the fan, finding the positive clamp under the car and then not finding the negative clamp until I spotted it as we drove away, 20m down the road

Does anyone on the Shore have a timing light I could borrow?

you think someone will lend you one after admitting that?!?!?!

hahaha, classic!

[AE86less]

After telling my mate the story he insisted on doing it for me. I wasn't arguing too hard

[FULLOC]

ive got a ton of good ones that i may update later but off the top of my head;

had a mate drain his auto tranny instead of his engine oil then fill his engine with fresh oil....to the top. then he rung me to ask why it was a different colour. hahaha 8 litres in an sr20de

snapped 2 studs off the ra60 by not checking wheel nuts were tight.

removed and refit the intake mani on my s5 rx7 in the dark in the carport then tried to drive all over the shore. was stumped cos it kept gettin real hot. when i finally found a gas station that had lights on i realised id left off a 12mm water hose and it was just pissin out when i started it up :rofl:

and many many more

[Leon]

Not me, but car ignorant friends.

Overheated Subaru Justy 4wd by taking it 4wding.

Red Rocks (Wellington). Around 1am or so.

They put water in, where the smoke was coming out.

Where the smoke was coming out of was the rocker cover.

They put lots of water, straight into the motor. Then they drove it around 5-10km to a 24 hour petrol station, then rung me.

I did oil changes on that Justy for about three hours on the petrol station forecourt, until the oil that came out looked like actual oil.

Then I told them that they had to go home, tell his mum *exactly* what they had just done to the Justy, and take it to a mechanic the next day for more flushing than I could manage on a forecourt in the middle of the night. Oh how they never heard the end of that.

[B1NZ]

I once was test driving one of the early RS Legacy's when I was at school, For some reason the yard let a 17y/o and his mate take it for a drive

Anyhows, it had those rear seats that split in the middle and folded down and that new fandangled ABS braking system, so I tried it out from 100km/h to 0km/h, worked really well,

I ended up with a head rush and winded myself because apparently there was a plastic container with snow chains in the boot which smashed through the fold down seat and into the back of the drivers seat in the process of brake testing

[neo]

MY old bobo's

Installed a 5star alarm into mates ex police VL? Commodore that had been totally messed with. It wouldn't start after the install. It wouldn't start that afternoon, it still wouldn't start the next day, it still wouldnt start after the alarm was totally removed.

Damn stupid coil-grounding old skool kill switches!


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Changed the head gasket in my old Mazda 323, strung the timing chain up to the bonnet, replaced the gasket.

Had to leaver back down the head with the chain on the sprockets, took a bit to get it going down, but once the first few bolts closest to the timing chain were going in - the rest got easiere, got it done eventually though.

Finally back together and I went for a drive. Sounded like it had a massive blower under the bonnet, made it for about 2km before the chain snapped. That took 2 days to figure out (The only ever timing chain Repco Wellington had sold in the 90's)