BIG disasters

[hellblue]

Ok who has had what happen, you know things like starting a fire on your pride & joy when welding it or not doing a bleed nipple up befor going for a drive!! I know people that have done the above

[ZetecVan 2.0]

After one of the many times I had to take the engine out of the van, I forgot to tighten up the N/S/F wheelnuts. I realised when I was halfway down the road. I didn't have a wheel brace in the back, so did a U turn. And the wheel fell off. It damaged the front wing a little bit.

[lee_capri]

i set a 5 yr old jag on fire and it wer'nt mine i was working on it and it went up like toilet paper

[X-pack-Glyn]

Yeah, all the time, had a goodun tonight as it happens, not car related though...

 

We've brought a huge box of fireworks for nov 5th, but me being me i cant wait, so i grabbed the biggest rocket i could find to set it off in the back yard.

didnt have anything to launch it out of so i used one af my flowerpots (a 1600 x flo block), i lit the thing and it shot out the block straight up between the nieghbours coving for there extension a few feet above, then exploded, several times...the panic has now set in and im trying to grab the garden hose whilst this things still "emiting showers of sparks and bangs", the nieghbours dog is now going balistic and there extension has now filled with smoke, doused the coving with the hose and cowardly went to see the nieghbours...got a bit of making up to do tomorrow

[mk1mexico]

PMSL

[antz]

put some rs dash clocks in my car and forgot to re-wire it and when i turned the ignition on the thign set alight

[Noodles]

Me and Nettles thought it would be good to set light to a plastic bucket of old petrol

[sab6024]

I know someone who serviced a car at work, all he had to do was put the oil in and the car was ready to go. Someone called him away from the car before he finished and when he came back he just started the car and sent it on it's way with no oil in the engine. He wasn't very popular at work for a while.

 

I'm naming no names though.....he'll kill me

[flyingbanana]

I know someone who serviced a car at work, all he had to do was put the oil in and the car was ready to go. Someone called him away from the car before he finished and when he came back he just started the car and sent it on it's way with no oil in the engine. He wasn't very popular at work for a while.

 

I'm naming no names though.....he'll kill me

 

dont think u need to name....hellblue by any chance

 

 

nearly had my wheels fall off when i put new wheels on...the bolts wernt the correct ones.....i just left the car in the middle of the road then ran home to get the jack and other wheels

[sab6024]

He He no it wasn't hellblue but it was my brother Pudge....oooops

 

Talking of wheels dropping off. I've almost lost three wheels after I've had them changed or work done. All by the same person. I now have a torque bar and socket in the boot so I can check them myself

[harris horse power]

i changed the gear box in my fiesta , then took it down my uncles for him to drive and he got down the road then rang me to tell me to bring a wheel brace as i didnt tighten the wheels

[Guest gone]

I remember year's back when i was 17 my father had a anglia with a xflow in it with twin 40s on it and my capri had run out of petrol so there i was with a metal can petrol pump on then a spark it was like fireworks night, i will have to get my father to dig the photos out my jaw is still aching

[lee_capri]

here's another one me and a mate go to waight this car is,so we take the axle's off it while it is on the trailer,fill it full of scarpe,and i said to him what if it fall's off,he said to me we will leave it ware it is,pull out of the my drive,right out side the front of my house,it come's clean off the trailer,took us about 4 hrs to get it back on got to the bridge she waighed in for 2.5 ton and it was a old cortina,this back in the early 90s just so you no

[X-pack-Glyn]

Spent 3 hours removing full dash in a mk1 fiesta to change the heater motor

 

If you know where the heater motor is on a mk1 fiesta you will know what a complete numpty i felt afterwards.

 

Called myself some names that day

[escortmad79]

Yeah, all the time, had a goodun tonight as it happens, not car related though...

 

We've brought a huge box of fireworks for nov 5th, but me being me i cant wait, so i grabbed the biggest rocket i could find to set it off in the back yard.

didnt have anything to launch it out of so i used one af my flowerpots (a 1600 x flo block), i lit the thing and it shot out the block straight up between the nieghbours coving for there extension a few feet above, then exploded, several times...the panic has now set in and im trying to grab the garden hose whilst this things still "emiting showers of sparks and bangs", the nieghbours dog is now going balistic and there extension has now filled with smoke, doused the coving with the hose and cowardly went to see the nieghbours...got a bit of making up to do tomorrow

FPMSL!!!

[hotrodholty]

i used to have a 4 door mk1 golf and decided to fit a new stereo, my mate called round when i was doing it so jumped in the back seat to have a ciggy out of the rain, me sitting in the front wiring the stereo in, next minuit i must have shorted out some thing in the dash and all the loom in the dash went up like kindling filling the car and the street with thick choking smoke. i bailed out running round to the front to disconnect the battery when in my panic i heard a scream. i didnt realise that the rear doors had child locks on em and my mate was still locked in the back screaming like a bitch and trying to squeeze his fat arse between the front seats to get out. needless to say we both survived although he doesnt tend to come round quite so often anymore

[deltamal]

Just got my first car, had saved up for 3 weeks for the oil, forgot to put the sump plug back!

[bigglesmk2]

Errmm!

The mrs borrowed my mondeo estate diesel,filled it up with petrol.

Only put £10 in before realising