After an oil change do NOT drive away with the old oil pan under the car.

Share your similar stories if you have.

 

Here's a mistake I did... the type of mistake you make ONCE in your life.....

Changed the oil and filter on my '71 Econoline. Filled it up with the requisite 7 quarts of oil. Went to start it up, and realized I had left the drain plug in the old oil pan.

So, all 7 quarts were now all over the ground. A huge mess! And, it was my only vehicle at the time, so I had to walk miles to and from the parts store to get another 7 quarts.

 

put the oil cap back on. dont leave it in the engine bay where it will tear up your belt and leave you stranded.

 

Did this once during high school too.

 

Make sure it is tight too. Had a drain plug come out after a couple of hundred km's while on the free way. In Datsun pickup truck. with no oil light (or probably burned out bulb)... That didn't end well.

 

Do NOT assume that the gas filler and diesel filler are different size on cars in Europe....I came close to disaster last week when I went to fill up a Renault diesel and realized that I has pumping gas into it. Luckily I only put a few litres in and then changed to diesel and no harm was done........

 

After removing the rear bumper on a 996, when installing don't forget to plug the license plate cable back in. Otherwise you'll have do it all over again.

 

Don´t leave the locking lug nut socket on the lug nut when you go for a test drive around the block.

 

Don't mix up your spark plug wires after doing a valve adjustment and spend the next 3 hours trying to figure out how you possibly managed to completely de-tune the engine.

 

.. changed oil after trip to beach house, car filled with fresh oil. Started engine. Oil warning light. Look under car, nothing... check oil - empty. Scratching head, re-fill with oil... start engine, oil warning light, look under car, nothing... check oil - empty. Check drain plug - missing. Realize parked on sand, oil seeping in with no puddles. DOH!

 

Nothing like this has ever happened to me ....... today.

 

Had to park outside one night, raining like crazy, so I put a garbage bag under the decklid to keep rainwater off the engine. Forgot to remove it in the morning when I started the car and the fan belt ate it up.

 

+1 LOL

 

85 Mazda RX-7, if you know rotaries you will know that exhaust system runs really hot.

So never grab your tail pipe to check for a rattle when the car is hot.

Doh!

 

Left locking lock nut socket on side of H40, West of Mtl after tire change in heavy downpour, car loaded to the gills with 4 people and a black Lab.
Realized dumpshyte mistake when arrived in Ottawa and could not remove the spare donut rim.
Next day, girl friend then, now wife, decided to drive back to Mtl in her car, in the off-chance I would remember the location of the tire change and that the lock socket would STILL be there .... and IT WAS!!!!