Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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I'm too scared of doing that, always unplug it. You're lucky you didn't lose fingers, must have been fairly scary.
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scaron5188
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Registered: 17th Apr 08
Location: Chippenham, Drives: arden 2.0 sport
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Well tbh honest after really wanting to get my xe running this weekend I made quite a few 'school boy' errors lol.
1.tried starting it with ecu unplugged ( sportyboy lol )
2.tried starting with out earthing fuel rail.
3.killed my battery after jump leading off another car and putting live and earth wrong way round ( it was dark n I was tired lol)
4.got my my new cv joint and fitted it all back on, lowered my car back down, took it for a drive and realised when my steering wheel started to shake like a fucker and pulled over I noticed my wheel bolts hanging out ha
Needless to say I will never rush anything again lol.
Don't laugh to much 
[Edited on 27-10-2011 by scaron5188]
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
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Yeah rushing is the worst things for balls-ups.
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t_benn_1
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Registered: 28th Sep 04
Location: Shropshire
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
I'm too scared of doing that, always unplug it. You're lucky you didn't lose fingers, must have been fairly scary.
Could of very easily. It was no where near as bad as it could of been. Quick bandage and back to it.
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Jed D
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Registered: 15th Mar 11
Location: Durham
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changed the filters in a spray booth oven and fell in 
metal grid landed ontop of me and i was winded worst part is that i still have a loose bit of bone floating around in my elbow. i use it as a party trick 
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scaron5188
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Registered: 17th Apr 08
Location: Chippenham, Drives: arden 2.0 sport
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Yeah rushing is the worst things for balls-ups.
Yea.. Never again. Will definetly take more time at something like that again. Touch wood she's running perfectly now 
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bigron1988
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Registered: 29th Aug 09
Location: Southport, Merseyside
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took the cap of my brake servo and forgot to put it back on, drove out and had to use a scrap car i had as a brake
using a grinder to cut through some metal and looked down and pants were on fire off the sparks, have a nice scar now from it
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Graeme
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Registered: 26th Jul 04
Location: Northampton
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Put some engine cleaner in my old ex corsa. Drained the oil to find that the tub wasn't big enough to take all the oil and it over flowed all over my mums driveway. Couldnt grab another bucket as had me and brother in stitches for a while.
A friend knocked him self out losening wheel bolts when It slipped and hit his chin on the wing and knocked him out. He still gets the piss ripped out of him for it.
[Edited on 27-10-2011 by Graeme]
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Jake
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Registered: 24th Jan 05
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with a widow maker jacking up on side, i though it would be a good idea to jack up the other size with another widow maker....
fortunately a always put a wheel underneath the rear beam so it didnt slide too far
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spencer88
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Registered: 6th Oct 08
Location: cornwall
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fitted alloys when I was about 18 to my Escort diesel estate.
Didnt even think about alloy wheel bolts, just used normal ones.
drove out the road and three wheels came off.
Never felt so stupid.
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bigron1988
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Registered: 29th Aug 09
Location: Southport, Merseyside
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quote:
Originally posted by spencer88
fitted alloys when I was about 18 to my Escort diesel estate.
Didnt even think about alloy wheel bolts, just used normal ones.
drove out the road and three wheels came off.
Never felt so stupid.
this made me laugh
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tom130691
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Registered: 13th Sep 08
Location: Daventry
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forgot to put coolant cap back on
spend an hour with antee trying to remove his water pump and then finding 1 last bolt in a ridiculously obvious place
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spencer88
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Registered: 6th Oct 08
Location: cornwall
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also drove my vectra with oil cap off with not realising.
Was following a car, thinking, god his car stinks of oil. Turned out, it was mine
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IvIarkgraham
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Registered: 27th Mar 04
Location: Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
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Started it with return fuel line off, and forgot to put an earth back on when doin my mantzel
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chrisritch
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Registered: 2nd Sep 08
Location: Northants Drives: V40
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forgot to tighten wheel bolts
changed coilpack and car wouldnt turn over, took an hour to realise i hadnt plugged the fucking thing back in
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SteveoBC
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Registered: 22nd Feb 07
Location: Bucks
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Ian just reminded me of some;
-Set fire to myself while grinding
-hit finger with chuck of a DA sander
-burnt finger from melted sealer whilst welding
-crushed finger a door shut when tightening hinges (heard the nail snap in half and go crunch)
-best was knocking over some de-greaser with my foot wilst welding on my back under a pickup truck, then watch a weld spark fly into the liquid on the floor which had silently run under the truck next to me, the resulting flame traveling underneath towards me soon made me shit myself and scramble out from under the truck lol
cracked the screen of my corsa right down the middle when i got it out of storage to put back in beacuse i carried it holding the sides instead of carrying it in the middle
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AlexW
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Registered: 25th Oct 08
Location: Essex
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Ha I used to be a mechanic.
Left wheel bolts lose on my own cars, Even my boss did it on his own car.
Forgot to put a sump plug back in after quickly lowering the car to get something out of it.
Left gearbox bolt lose on one of my old cars, I didn't realize until I started taking the gearbox out to replace it. Lose bolt was cause of it not going into gear 
I've done the trying to start a car with things unplugged, Either ECU, Coilpack or fuel pump.
When I converted my corsa from 1400 to 1600 I couldn't work out why it didn't run right after converting, Then realised I hadn't switched to the 1600 ecu.
Recently at my new job, cutting a bumper, knife slipped and left a inch long scar on my hand. Wiring up towbar electrics I put the wires into the relay the wrong way around and couldn't figure out why the sidelights were flashing insted of the indicators Spent ages messing around with the earth and even checked all the trailer board I was using.
Yeah I've made quite a few mistakes, These are just the ones I can remember.
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t_benn_1
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Registered: 28th Sep 04
Location: Shropshire
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i've done the leaving the sump plug out but on a matbro. the boss couldn't work out why i kept coming for more oil. I was only 14/15 at the time though
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3CorsaMeal
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Bought a corrado.
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Mike
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quote:
Originally posted by AlexW
Forgot to put a sump plug back in after quickly lowering the car to get something out of it.
I've seen that done before, the lad was still insisting he'd put the plug back in but forgot to tighten it up, even after we found the dry sump plug sat on the ramp nowhere near the 8 litres of oil that'd just gone straight through a Shogun engine 
Another one of mine that I just remembered, not a bad one but servicing a car when I used to work at Suzuki, with each service you got a bottle of screenwash and a bottle of fuel system cleaner, both the same style bottle, picked up the wrong one and put the whole bottle of screenwash in the petrol tank
[Edited on 27-10-2011 by Mike B]
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DanCobb
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Registered: 14th May 11
Location: Lewes/Brighton
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Put an engine in the back of a mates van and forgot to hold it down with something, Spilt the whole content of oil from my engine in my mates van, took us ages to sqweegy the oil out . Was a rental van too
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Liam-Wilko
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Registered: 6th Mar 08
Location: Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
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I sat and watched my mate take the bold compleatly off the steering wheel to change it I told him to put the bolt on a few threds and he said ner it will be okay till he pulled it and the spring unloaded the steering wheel off in his face and broke his nose was quite funny to watch
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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I've left the sump plug off, I tried to dodge the issue by claiming I was purging the old stuff
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Jay
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Registered: 26th Sep 04
Location: Liverpool
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I was using a grinder once and the circuit breaker tripped on the genny and I put it down on the bench to flick the switch and shouted over to me dad to do it and the grinder shot into my leg right down slicing my pants and my leg slightly, obviously hadnt turned it off when I put it down
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am4nf
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Registered: 27th Jul 08
Location: South Ayrshire Drives: Corsa Sport
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Twiggy wins tbh
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