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Location: Finland
Registered: November 2002
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Your funniest car related blunder.
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Wed, 03 March 2004 17:58
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Here's mine:
Blunder 1
Last summer I fixed my gasoline tank by welding. Tank had rusted very badly. There was at least dozen pin sized holes and you could make more by just blowing. Anyway I vented the tank for several hours and filled the tank with water before welding. I was welding this in front of garage. I did managed to weld most of the holes. Then I went for cup of coffee and when I came back to finish rest of the holes, I put mask back on and took mig-pistol (or what ever it's called) and pulled the trigger. In the very second of electric arc BOOM. You can guess what happened and I can tell you that I have never seen 65liters of water go thru 2" hole in less than 0.2seconds. Explosion spitted the water out so hard that the water flew about 7 meters and hitted in the wheelbarrows, that were sitting in the lawn. Wheelbarrows took off and flew/rolled in the bushes and thats something like 5 meters. I'm glad that the tank didn't splinter. Tank took off in the opposite direction of water jet. Tank hitted me and there I was sitting in my arse gasoline tank in my arms. There was two of my friends watching this parody. You cant believe how hard we laughed.
Blunder 2
My mother had Sunny like this except it was station wagon and it missed that fully sick body kit. Anyway, I was driving it in really worn-out gravel road. All the sudden I almost hitted my head in the wind screen because car stopped really violently and I was like WTF? I jumped out and noticed that rear tires were ~30cm off the ground. After I leaned to look under the car, I saw that spare-tire and tire-rack had dropped and wedged between hole in the road and sunnys floor-pan. I did get off just by reversing a bit. The hinge was rusted off from the spare tire rack and cotter pin that should keep this thing up was SO stucked. So I started hitting it with shovel and that took ages. I already started to plan that I will reverse rest of the way(~10KM). Happy ending was that I did get the rack to fall off. As a mark of my win over the spare tire rack, I leaved the spare tire and the tire rack there .
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Location: Potts Point, Sydney
Registered: October 2003
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Thu, 04 March 2004 01:29
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That's the best looking body kit i've ever seen
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Location: Epping, Sydney
Registered: April 2003
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Thu, 04 March 2004 01:54
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lol dude that is so crazy about the fuel tank. man! Dangerous stuff
you will have to wear body armour next time
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I supported Toymods
Location: I renounced punctuation
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Thu, 04 March 2004 02:01
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Doing a auto to manual conversion on a friend's Escort and the starter motor dropped on my scone. I was out cold for 30 seconds, according to my friends. Anyway, I had a nice gash across my forehead so they took me in to hospital. A doctor very diligently ordered a CT of my head. It revealed air in the cranial vault, so theoretically I had sustained an open skull fracture. I was in hospital for a couple of days getting IV antibiotics. Parents were pissed off, mostly because the Esky was still in their garage.
I suppose you could call me an airhead.
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Location: Ballarat, Vic.
Registered: September 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Thu, 04 March 2004 02:18
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some relos in my old home town were putting a lpg gas tank in a car (they knew what they were doin)..... BOOOOM. fucked if i know how they managed to do it
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Location: Randwick Sydney
Registered: November 2003
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Thu, 04 March 2004 21:43
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After fixing a dodgee fuel regulator, my friend forgot to tighten the hose clamp on the fuel return line on the injector rail (why he took it off is unknown ) well, after the engine was idling for about 5 minutes my mate give it a rev and it decides to pop off, the hot engine gets petrol all over it and I get a face full of optimax followed by TURN THE FCUKING THING OFF !
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Location: Brisbane
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Thu, 04 March 2004 22:10
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When I was pulling my front cut apart I disconnected a hose from the power-steering pump... or so I thought. Turns out it was actually one of the aircon hoses, and as the aircon system was fully charged I got a blast of gas directly in the face! I hope that stuff isn't too poisonous because I got a good lungful of it... talk about a shock though, I must have jumped back a good couple of metres!
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Location: Lost in the K hole
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Fri, 05 March 2004 00:37
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hehehehe norbs - i too have undone a fully loaded aircon line by mistake!! kaboom - face full of shitty oil!
my biggest blunder: lying under an old jeep i once owned, and i was removing what i thought was a rear underbody splash gaurd (needed to have a look at the transfer case shifter mount)... anyway, just as the last bolt undid, i learnt that the splash gaurd was also the gearbox/t-case x-member and rear engine mount and had the whole lot fall and pin me under the car...
was screaming until the old man stuck his head outside, realised what was going on and went and fetched the jack
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I supported Toymods
Location: Central Coast
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Fri, 05 March 2004 02:30
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Damn man, that musta hurt !
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Location: Parramatta
Registered: July 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Fri, 05 March 2004 03:46
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LOL... i dont know why i did this i know better but i did it somehow damn im friggen dumb.... i just pulled up to the misses house after giving the 2 a real hard time, i could hear the radiator boiling (like how a ketal boils)... and i though aawh yeah i better check it out... and i opened the radiator cap to the first lock and there was too much pressure and bang it flew off the cap smashed me in th face with a crap load of boiling hot water....
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Location: was adelaide now newcastle
Registered: February 2003
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Fri, 05 March 2004 04:12
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when i did my first engine conversion, the problem of 1 bolt on the bell housing of the 4ac caused no end of greif, after soaking with wd40, rounding the head of the bolt, bashing on a smaller spanner, using extension bars of differing lengths, i still had no luck, after wasting 3 hours i gave up and called a friend, after a furthur hour, my fiance offers the great bit of wisdom "are you turning it the right way?",....2 minutes later the engine and gearbox were appart..........
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Location: Parramatta
Registered: July 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Fri, 05 March 2004 04:20
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Quote: | when i did my first engine conversion, the problem of 1 bolt on the bell housing of the 4ac caused no end of greif, after soaking with wd40, rounding the head of the bolt, bashing on a smaller spanner, using extension bars of differing lengths, i still had no luck, after wasting 3 hours i gave up and called a friend, after a furthur hour, my fiance offers the great bit of wisdom "are you turning it the right way?",....2 minutes later the engine and gearbox were appart..........
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i love it so very much... i have done that one one but it didnt quite take me that long to click! LOL
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Location: Rocklea qld
Registered: February 2003
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Sat, 06 March 2004 08:50
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I once changed a old commodore from auto to manual and i put a switch in where the neutral safety switch used to be to act as like a kill switch. Then i stopped one day came out and the car wouldnt start . For weeks i had to cross the starter motor at the terminals to get car to run. I changed starter motors and everything. After about three weeks of doing this my g/f finally decides to remind me that the switch is most likely off. After a quick flip of the switch. NO MORE PROBLEMS.
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Location: Berkeley Vale, Central Co...
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Sun, 07 March 2004 08:48
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About 18months ago I was heading down to the 2002 Sydney Motorshow when I broke down on the freeway. My own stupid fault the car had no oil. So I ended up calling a towtruck to tow my car home.
On the ride home the tow truck breaks down on the freeway with a flat tyre. For some stupid reason the tow truck didn't have a spare tyre and ended up having to call another tow truck for a replacement tyre.
At this stage I could only laugh with the days event. Ended up originally having to wait nearly an hour for the first tow truck and then nearly another hour to wait for the second tow truck.
Eventually I made it to Sydney to see the Motor Show that year.
Patrick
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Club Member
Location: Sydney, NSW
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Sun, 07 March 2004 09:16
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At work removing a bull bar off a new Prado... I was standing infront of the car while one dude was undoing the last bolt and another holding the bar... The bolt comes undone, other dude lets go to grab a spanner, I turn to look for the spanner, complete bullbar hits my head and takes me to the ground... (car was on the hoist at full height)... I wake up a few mins later upstairs in the lunch room, laying on the lounge...
Just a Buldge on my head for the next week and I was ok...
At home, removing driveshafts from my brothers Charade, one was stuck and I got underneath it to lever it out and pop, it comes out and smack, lands on my forehead cause my brother decides to let go of it...
Lesson learned: Do not trust anyone holding anything...
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I supported Toymods
Location: Plumpton/sydney
Registered: November 2003
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Sun, 07 March 2004 09:39
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I was helping my brother remove his transfer case out of his cruser and he had the shits with a bolt that wouldn't come lose, he finaly got it lose but at the same time the rachet sliped of the bolt and smacked me right between the eyes, so there I was out cold for over 25 minnuts finaly waking up to fine I was being put on to a strecher and going for a ride in an ambulance, but I was olny in hospital for the night.
My cousin was changing a starter motor in his car one day before a cruse in to the city, so we are crusing down the M4 when his starter motor falls out smashing through my front end and ending up in my radiator.
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Club Member
Location: Sydney, NSW
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Sun, 07 March 2004 09:54
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Siktoy ra23 wrote on Sun, 07 March 2004 20:39 |
My cousin was changing a starter motor in his car one day before a cruse in to the city, so we are crusing down the M4 when his starter motor falls out smashing through my front end and ending up in my radiator.
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Hahaha... ROFL...
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I supported Toymods
Location: Plumpton/sydney
Registered: November 2003
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Sun, 07 March 2004 10:04
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I thought it was after the shock of it hitting me ( my poor ra23)
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Location: Brisbane
Registered: July 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Sun, 07 March 2004 12:30
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my ones rather old and stupid but its the stupidest thing thats happenned to me with a car.
remember that fake blood stuff you could buy that looks exactly like real blood... I was 13 at the time, i smeared that all over the tops of my fingers to pretend when mum closed the hood of her car that she got my fingers and i was bleeding.. so i was leaning over with my hands on the inside of where the hood would be and didnt suspect that she was closing the fucking thing.. she slams it down breaks 2 of my fingers and cuts every one of them open like a bitch... so much for my little gag.. now real blood was running all down my hands once i got the fingers out.
my maet just laughed cause he thought my joke had worked... until he saw me bawling my eyes out
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Location: Canberra
Registered: August 2003
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Mon, 08 March 2004 06:25
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We put a webber carby into a mates gemi, he got the carby from a 'mate' who had 'reconditioned it'. As it turns out he left out several key gaskets...car was running fine, then boom fuel and fire everwhere.
That was cool, but then another friend made the wise decison to try and smother the fire with a newspaper, when this caught on fire he threw it, and it landed in my mates garage, near a whole bunch of paint...I put out the newspaper by stamping it out, luckily no damage done, and the guy who owned the car put out the engine fire with a wet blanket. We then proceeded to bash newspaper boy for being utterly stupid!!
30 seconds of madness tho.
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Location: Brisbane
Registered: October 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Mon, 08 March 2004 07:54
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we had a sportage at work on the hoist, we were pulling the box out, we had the box most of the way out but had the back of it supported with a big rod.
they techs went to lunch and halfway thru "BANG", the hoist had slowly dropped and was being held up by the back 2 supports and the rod, the rod launched out and the car dropped back onto 1 of the front supports, now the car was teetering between the 2 back/1 front and 1 back/1front, about 2m above the ground, so we got a few techs to lift the front and put the hoist back under.
scary
also at my work b4 i started we had a similar thing happen, we didnt have enuff room to put all the cars one night, so we put a pajero on one hoist, raised it up and parked another car under it, came to work the next day to find the pajero sitting on its guts on top of a magna
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Location: Brisbane
Registered: July 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Mon, 08 March 2004 13:01
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Mr DOHC wrote on Mon, 08 March 2004 18:54 | we had a sportage at work on the hoist, we were pulling the box out, we had the box most of the way out but had the back of it supported with a big rod.
they techs went to lunch and halfway thru "BANG", the hoist had slowly dropped and was being held up by the back 2 supports and the rod, the rod launched out and the car dropped back onto 1 of the front supports, now the car was teetering between the 2 back/1 front and 1 back/1front, about 2m above the ground, so we got a few techs to lift the front and put the hoist back under.
scary
also at my work b4 i started we had a similar thing happen, we didnt have enuff room to put all the cars one night, so we put a pajero on one hoist, raised it up and parked another car under it, came to work the next day to find the pajero sitting on its guts on top of a magna
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nice uhh hoists u have there.......... lol
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Location: Victoria
Registered: February 2004
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Mon, 08 March 2004 14:33
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My friend as an apprentice (talking of hoists) put a small bus through the roof of the place he worked at. Although he never saw the funny side of it
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Location: Finland
Registered: November 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Mon, 08 March 2004 21:06
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We were taking this down in awful hurry!
http://toyotacover.50megs.com/sekalaiset/P1010046. jpg
And there were only me my friend and no good little bottle jack. So we decided to put couple tires under the jack and lift from middle of rear axle. We only did get rear of the car only slightly lighten. So my friend suggest that if he lifted from rear guard and I take one tire off from one side and then we would change to the other side. This felt like a good idea. But the practise showed otherwise. When my friend lifted from the rear guard, jack stumbled. Tire piles fell off and jack flew to wall at horrendous speed. Thank god it didnt hit us. Luckily we did put tires on that Corona so no damage was happened. After 15 seconds of silent horror my friend calmly and plainly said "and it's down". We laughed this when we did realize what happened.
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Location: theres a castle on my hil...
Registered: October 2003
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Mon, 08 March 2004 22:35
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ok this is not my blunder but my brothers. The oil feed line to the turbo was corroded and had a hole in it so instead of replacing it cut out the bad section and replaced it with rubber fuel line hose and hose clamps. He then drove to castle towers (huge shopping centre) and once he got to the carpark the rubber hose gave way and let hot oil spill everywhere causing a shit load of smoke. this set the alarms off and stacks of people started exiting the building thinking it was an evacuation for a real fire. the fire trucks came to help move his car and clean up the oil.
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Location: Castle Hill
Registered: August 2003
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Fri, 12 March 2004 07:00
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nice, how long ago was this? i think i was working at towers that day, and had to evacuate!
if it was the time i am thinkin of, tell ya bro thanks for getting me out of work!
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Location: South-West Sydney
Registered: February 2004
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Fri, 12 March 2004 11:35
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during the automotive tafe course i attended,
we were doing a practical lesson to go out to the workshop and just to do a simple job of changing a tyres.
after the teacher had told us what to do we all went to a car each and put it on a jack etc...
while one side (rear) the car is held up, we're meant to take bolts from the rims with an air rachet to take the tyre off... so we did...
but there was this one guy, who had to work on a car with a hub cap to cover the steel rims - which he didnt notice it was a hub cap...
so im there, working on my assinged car, and all i hear is "CRRAAACCKK" - with the sound of the air rachet.
and i turn around and there he was with the air rachet in his hand with the shattered hub cap.
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Location: Sydney
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Your funniest car related blunder.
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Sat, 13 March 2004 00:12
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MR. 2 wrote on Fri, 05 March 2004 14:46 | LOL... i dont know why i did this i know better but i did it somehow damn im friggen dumb.... i just pulled up to the misses house after giving the 2 a real hard time, i could hear the radiator boiling (like how a ketal boils)... and i though aawh yeah i better check it out... and i opened the radiator cap to the first lock and there was too much pressure and bang it flew off the cap smashed me in th face with a crap load of boiling hot water....
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hahaha you dumb ass
Mind you I have had my share of car related stupidity, check my signature below....
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