Stupid Things Done to your 997
12-07-2016, 10:07 PM
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I removed the sun visor stickers with xylene. Partially melted the housing for the vanity light.
12-15-2016, 10:15 AM
#48
Damp in reat light cluster 997.2
Hi
My muppetry confession is for trying to fix a little water in my rear light cluster on my 997.2.
I have done this before more than once successfully with good results - sadly not on this ocassion.
I carefully looked up how to remove the rearlight cluster and did exactly as per the video.
I brought the light cluster inside and on a thick towel to stop any scrathces removed the rear panel to allow access to the inner lens area.
Borrowed my wifes hairdryer and began to apply what I thought was 'moderate' heat to dry out the moisture.
Unfortunately I had not checked the hairdryer and it was on its highest heat setting and that was obviously too much for the plastic. There were some 'creaking' noises and when I examined the lens I saw that I had cracked the clear reversing part of the lens cluster.
'Oh what bad luck' I said to myself or it was something like that!
Being really finnicky about my car there was no way I could have it on my car and have purcheased a new rear cluster for a horrendous price.
What a 5* T**t is was for not checking or giving it enough thought.
Oh well I may laugh about it in the future say about 25 years in the future!!
Regards
Glen
My muppetry confession is for trying to fix a little water in my rear light cluster on my 997.2.
I have done this before more than once successfully with good results - sadly not on this ocassion.
I carefully looked up how to remove the rearlight cluster and did exactly as per the video.
I brought the light cluster inside and on a thick towel to stop any scrathces removed the rear panel to allow access to the inner lens area.
Borrowed my wifes hairdryer and began to apply what I thought was 'moderate' heat to dry out the moisture.
Unfortunately I had not checked the hairdryer and it was on its highest heat setting and that was obviously too much for the plastic. There were some 'creaking' noises and when I examined the lens I saw that I had cracked the clear reversing part of the lens cluster.
'Oh what bad luck' I said to myself or it was something like that!
Being really finnicky about my car there was no way I could have it on my car and have purcheased a new rear cluster for a horrendous price.
What a 5* T**t is was for not checking or giving it enough thought.
Oh well I may laugh about it in the future say about 25 years in the future!!
Regards
Glen
12-30-2016, 04:14 AM
#49
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Embarrassed from backing one of my cars into another one, I've told most people that some "idiot" hit it at the garage at work (mostly true)...
12-30-2016, 08:37 AM
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A six pack plus into the evening I decide it's a good time to bleed the brakes. My garage has sh*t all for lights so I usually use portables and put them where I'm working. I pop the frunk and hook the power bleeder up using the frunk light and put the portable light on the caliper. I pump almost a whole bottle of brake fluid in, but the pressure doesn't seem to increase much. I crack the bleeder valve on the caliper and no fluid comes out.
Grab the light and moved to the frunk to check out what was wrong... yep I filled the windshield reservoir with a whole bottle of ATE super. They use the same size cap and in the dark and drunk I had them swapped. Whoops!
Next day I pulled the reservoir, cleaned it good and flushed the lines. It's a pain to get to since you have the remove the wheel well. I guess it's better I didn't flush my brakes with windshield wiper fluid
Grab the light and moved to the frunk to check out what was wrong... yep I filled the windshield reservoir with a whole bottle of ATE super. They use the same size cap and in the dark and drunk I had them swapped. Whoops!
Next day I pulled the reservoir, cleaned it good and flushed the lines. It's a pain to get to since you have the remove the wheel well. I guess it's better I didn't flush my brakes with windshield wiper fluid
01-12-2017, 01:08 AM
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Not my 997.2, but worse ..... the wife's car
I had to go find this thread tonight because I did my part this evening to contribute to doing something STOOPID to one of our cars ....
I was in a hurry to get new windshield wipers on the wife's Q7 (at her request) before we head up to the lake tomorrow afternoon. It's been a bit nasty this week, and we're expecting some freezing rain tomorrow on the roads and she was nervous about the cruddy wipers. So in the middle of removing the old RainX wipers and before I popped the new ones on, I left one of the wiper arms up. In such a hurry to swap these out, I knocked it with my elbow, and it slammed back down on the glass (without the wiper blade attached), leading to a ginormous smash, a football-sized spiderweb crack, and a string of expletives from me. So what should have a 10 minute job and $40 worth of new wipers will now turn into an entirely new windshield .....
I'm such an idiot ..... there, now that I've said it I feel better
I was in a hurry to get new windshield wipers on the wife's Q7 (at her request) before we head up to the lake tomorrow afternoon. It's been a bit nasty this week, and we're expecting some freezing rain tomorrow on the roads and she was nervous about the cruddy wipers. So in the middle of removing the old RainX wipers and before I popped the new ones on, I left one of the wiper arms up. In such a hurry to swap these out, I knocked it with my elbow, and it slammed back down on the glass (without the wiper blade attached), leading to a ginormous smash, a football-sized spiderweb crack, and a string of expletives from me. So what should have a 10 minute job and $40 worth of new wipers will now turn into an entirely new windshield .....
I'm such an idiot ..... there, now that I've said it I feel better
01-12-2017, 08:53 AM
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there was this lawn-care pickup truck that had this steel grated step welded on to it's tail. this rectangular, sharp-edged protrusion was visible neither in the rear nor side view mirrors - too low.
i never saw it puncture my rear bumper.
this cost about 4.5k to fix. ****.
i never saw it puncture my rear bumper.
this cost about 4.5k to fix. ****.
01-13-2017, 01:16 AM
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Originally Posted by sc235813
there was this lawn-care pickup truck that had this steel grated step welded on to it's tail. this rectangular, sharp-edged protrusion was visible neither in the rear nor side view mirrors - too low.
i never saw it puncture my rear bumper.
this cost about 4.5k to fix. ****.
i never saw it puncture my rear bumper.
this cost about 4.5k to fix. ****.
01-13-2017, 08:15 AM
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>>Damn. Why so much?
i did the work at an expensive shop, but there was also some mods to a k40 system that i did since one of the sensors got damaged.
so i guess the raw repair for bumper replacement and paint wasn't really 4.5k.
you're killing my story man!
i did the work at an expensive shop, but there was also some mods to a k40 system that i did since one of the sensors got damaged.
so i guess the raw repair for bumper replacement and paint wasn't really 4.5k.
you're killing my story man!
01-13-2017, 09:10 AM
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I had to go find this thread tonight because I did my part this evening to contribute to doing something STOOPID to one of our cars ....
I was in a hurry to get new windshield wipers on the wife's Q7 (at her request) before we head up to the lake tomorrow afternoon. It's been a bit nasty this week, and we're expecting some freezing rain tomorrow on the roads and she was nervous about the cruddy wipers. So in the middle of removing the old RainX wipers and before I popped the new ones on, I left one of the wiper arms up. In such a hurry to swap these out, I knocked it with my elbow, and it slammed back down on the glass (without the wiper blade attached), leading to a ginormous smash, a football-sized spiderweb crack, and a string of expletives from me. So what should have a 10 minute job and $40 worth of new wipers will now turn into an entirely new windshield .....
I'm such an idiot ..... there, now that I've said it I feel better
I was in a hurry to get new windshield wipers on the wife's Q7 (at her request) before we head up to the lake tomorrow afternoon. It's been a bit nasty this week, and we're expecting some freezing rain tomorrow on the roads and she was nervous about the cruddy wipers. So in the middle of removing the old RainX wipers and before I popped the new ones on, I left one of the wiper arms up. In such a hurry to swap these out, I knocked it with my elbow, and it slammed back down on the glass (without the wiper blade attached), leading to a ginormous smash, a football-sized spiderweb crack, and a string of expletives from me. So what should have a 10 minute job and $40 worth of new wipers will now turn into an entirely new windshield .....
I'm such an idiot ..... there, now that I've said it I feel better
01-13-2017, 08:23 PM
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I had to go find this thread tonight because I did my part this evening to contribute to doing something STOOPID to one of our cars ....
I was in a hurry to get new windshield wipers on the wife's Q7 (at her request) before we head up to the lake tomorrow afternoon. It's been a bit nasty this week, and we're expecting some freezing rain tomorrow on the roads and she was nervous about the cruddy wipers. So in the middle of removing the old RainX wipers and before I popped the new ones on, I left one of the wiper arms up. In such a hurry to swap these out, I knocked it with my elbow, and it slammed back down on the glass (without the wiper blade attached), leading to a ginormous smash, a football-sized spiderweb crack, and a string of expletives from me. So what should have a 10 minute job and $40 worth of new wipers will now turn into an entirely new windshield .....
I'm such an idiot ..... there, now that I've said it I feel better
I was in a hurry to get new windshield wipers on the wife's Q7 (at her request) before we head up to the lake tomorrow afternoon. It's been a bit nasty this week, and we're expecting some freezing rain tomorrow on the roads and she was nervous about the cruddy wipers. So in the middle of removing the old RainX wipers and before I popped the new ones on, I left one of the wiper arms up. In such a hurry to swap these out, I knocked it with my elbow, and it slammed back down on the glass (without the wiper blade attached), leading to a ginormous smash, a football-sized spiderweb crack, and a string of expletives from me. So what should have a 10 minute job and $40 worth of new wipers will now turn into an entirely new windshield .....
I'm such an idiot ..... there, now that I've said it I feel better
07-24-2017, 06:12 PM
#59
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This is one of the better threads. Several I am guilty of. Wrong key in a buddies Porsche. Hood up with wiper up.
I was going to write of my most recent mishap but was a newbie to the 911 world and was too embarrassed, well I'm not now.
I have a motive power bleeder. It is like 6 years old. Recently used it on the Boxster. I went to do the 911 and a hose broke. It sprayed all over my fender and the back of my Cayenne. Mad scramble to clean it up with my favorite microfiber towel.
Of course I didn't give up. I fixed the break my cutting the piece off and went at it again...but I didn't wrap it with an old towel thinking "oh I'm good"...NOPE it happened again! this time it sprayed the other way. Big cleanup which ended with me throwing it in the garbage.
Once I calmed down I took it out and ordered new hoses. I will give it another try but I WILL always wrap it all with old bath towels.
I did need a drink after this, my nerves were shot.
I know I have other mishaps but painful memories are the first to go.
I was going to write of my most recent mishap but was a newbie to the 911 world and was too embarrassed, well I'm not now.
I have a motive power bleeder. It is like 6 years old. Recently used it on the Boxster. I went to do the 911 and a hose broke. It sprayed all over my fender and the back of my Cayenne. Mad scramble to clean it up with my favorite microfiber towel
. Of course I didn't give up. I fixed the break my cutting the piece off and went at it again...but I didn't wrap it with an old towel thinking "oh I'm good"...NOPE it happened again! this time it sprayed the other way. Big cleanup which ended with me throwing it in the garbage.
Once I calmed down I took it out and ordered new hoses. I will give it another try but I WILL always wrap it all with old bath towels.
I did need a drink after this, my nerves were shot.
I know I have other mishaps but painful memories are the first to go.
07-24-2017, 07:04 PM
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I did the same thing after a car wash. I was cleaning the underside of the frunk and didn't think about the wipers still being up. No damage and the paint from the wiper arms buffed right off but it was embarrassing.
