Spidey944

Broke the stud on a brand new oil pressure sending unit by over tightening the 6mm nut. $hit! Was very carefull with the new, new one.

Turbodan

had a flat leaking tire with screw in it...took it to corner gas station, put on wheel lock, guy wanted to put car on hoist with arms in wrong place, had an argument and drove car away without lifting car, lost the wheel lock took my mechanic all day to drill out the locks on all 4 wheels!

gregeast

After having had the car out of commission for months installing a MAF, new turbo, rebuilt head and timing belts I managed to drop a small washer through a spark plug hole the day I was ready to fire it up. Thankfully I saw it drop in. The thought of pulling the head again was NOT very appealing. Tried magnets (turned out to be an aluminum washer), compressed air and swearing, not necessarily in that order...

A buddy of mine stopped by and stuck a piece of gum on the end of some hard vacuum line and managed to fish the dang thing out and through the hole! I nearly kissed him :-)

Techno Duck

Did that before also. Was trying to save myself the 6 bolts removing the lower tray. Took the oil filter off thinking i was clever stuffing rags everywhere. I had oil leaking onto the driveway for a week and made a horrible mess of the engine .

Was changing the timing belt, forgot to tighten the spring tensioner and the belt slipped a few teeth when i was turning the engine over by hand. Spent a good deal of time trying to get the cam and crank back into time.

spammajamma

I always close very slowly

schwank

Paid a shop to do my clutch on my first '44. They told me the coupler to the tranny had been destroyed somehow and the only new one available was several hundred dollars from Porsche. Not knowing what I do now I let them fix it.

My car will NEVER go to a shop again.

Bryans951

Instead of buying a low profile jack, I got the bright idea to drive onto a small stack of bricks so I could get the jack under the car. When I hit the brakes, the stack fell over and bent the bottom of both fenders.

Worst part was the wife saw me do it!! I'll never live that down.

kevincnc

Yep the most stupid thing I did was handing it over to a shop to work on it when I first got it, which will never happen again. It ended up with a dent in the hood from underneath and an even bigger leak. Stupidest thing I did- scratched the fender because I wasn't using fender covers. I guess I've been lucky so far.

FSAEracer03

...don't ask.

FRporscheman

3. I wanted to replace the front rotors on the NA. Thought I'd do the bearings too. I removed the hub, removed the rotor, did the bearings, put the hubs back on without rotors.

2. Didn't feel like disconnecting the battery when R&Ring the starter. Got sparks and zaps. Still have a burn scar.

3. 2nd time. Didn't disconnect the battery before working on the starter. I didn't forget, I just didn't think I needed to. Well this time my screwdriver got arcweld scars.

turbo8

i was under the car removing exhaust bolts with a impact ratchet, ya it slipped out of my hadn while i was ratchiting and it swung around and hit me in the head, i laid there for about five minutes while the daze wore off

JonH

Ouch, bet you'll never order pizza without your pants on again!



Stupid thing I've done - bought directional wheel/tire package mounted and balanced, looked at set laying in garage and said that's not right, pay garage to reverse and re balance rear tire, mount on car, drive car 500mi, pay garage again to reverse and re balance tire again because it was right from the start. Most expensive right rear tire I'll ever own.

Bryans951

Just thought of another one. I was trying to loosen one of the plugs on the cam tower and it finally poped loose. My hand slipped and I punched myself in the chin chipping one of my front teeth. It hurt for about a month.

OriginalSterm

punched myself in the face loosening a bolt somewhere under the car. two hands on an 18" breaker bar can make a lot of torque, look out when it lets go.

ausgeflippt951

Fortunately I haven't done too many idiotic things on my car...or at least I can't remember them, whatever they were.

However, I can remember this instance, because it happened last week:

After having the whole front end repainted in May because of the installation of my vented nose panel, I chipped the bumper in three places because I dropped a wrench. But no -- it didn't just bounce once and fall to the ground, IT BOUNCED FIVE FRIGGIN' TIMES! I have no idea how the laws of physics let that one happen...

I got mad so I threw the wrench as hard as I could and hit my arm on a tree in the process...and I still haven't been able to find the G-D wrench...