Biggest Epic Fail with home car repairs/installs

[Frost]

After reading another thread and talking about roadworthys and subs being loose reminded me of when I was new to the car scene and installed my first sub.

But my biggest epic home install fail was running the power cable through the massive crack in the firewall. Was like that for almost 6months and was constantly adjusting the clutch, wasnt until the roadworthy guy said "what do you call this?"
But that was my biggest fail with a home job

[private9]

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My biggest would be that I somehow twice (once on each side in the same session) pushed a jack up through the sill panels of a car a few years back.

[Dezza]

My repair job on my right hand side skirt was an epic fail. It looked fine when it went on the car, but it recracked again. So I've got a big arse crack in the skirt.

There was also an incident when fitting the EF mirrors, when we drilled right through into the base of the a-pillar. I had to drill that extra hole in the door to fit them, but I really should have had the door open at the time!

[wicksy]

i went to screw my amp down in my boot and drilled into the fuel tank lol

[pantic]

i was cutting out my old sport shocks out of my ea i wrote off and in the middle of my farm all drive grass around me. i rolled it so i couldnt open the rear doors to get to the shock bolts. so i was cutting out the shock housing.. which i found is double platted... well my car sorta caught alite i asked my mate to bring me some water.. he came back 5 mins later to this... lawl


he had time to grab a camera flames were alot bigger but i managed to keep the fire staying in the car. fun at 11pm at night..

i wont cut out stuff no more in my backyard without a hose next to me

[UNEZED]

my fail is
I wanted to remove my towbar completly and at the time i didnt know how to take of the rear bar so i just cut it from the bottom wit a hacksaw lol and i still havnt replaced the bumper. When i found out how easy it was i just laughed

[BLCKED]

i went to screw my amp down in my boot and drilled into the fuel tank lol

lol i have done that

i rushed my new amps i got last year and didnt screw them to anything,

went out for a drive with some mates and totally forgot about the amps, did some skids and drifting and they went flying around my boot and the fuse i had was to big so i basically melted the internals of my battery when the power cables came off the amps and jammed under my sub box shorting against my wheel arch inside the boot

scared the shit out of me at the time, pretty funny tho when i think about it.

[nommic]

ROFL I think pantic's effort ending in flames is the winnar

[Steady]

Brand new 5L PS pump, broke the low pressure fitting (which is plastic and molded into the housing of the pump) within 10 seconds of trying to put it in.

Mutliple silly moments with jacks, all of them ford scissor jacks.

[pantic]

ty nommic

[Dansedgli]

last July -2007- I adjusted the rockers in the maverick. Had a left over vac hose that I couldnt find a home for after looking for ages. Chucked a bolt in it and tucked it away somewhere.

August 2008 adjust rockers again. Find out that the vacuum line was the advance for my dizzy. Plug it in and car has twice the power.

[misseseries]

haha pantic
we had like 4 ppl running out there with buckets the hose didnt reach the car LMAO trying to kill the grass around it so it wouldnt spread thankgoodness it was windy or half the paddock wouldve been set on fire :/

[G3R3N]

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My biggest would be that I somehow twice (once on each side in the same session) pushed a jack up through the sill panels of a car a few years back.

Ey, thats not very nice! At least it's named appropriately!
Pretty sure this thread's been done before too

[TUFED6]

he came back 5 mins later to this... lawl

this wins

[holmsy]

i went to screw my amp down in my boot and drilled into the fuel tank lol

lol i have done that

i rushed my new amps i got last year and didnt screw them to anything,

went out for a drive with some mates and totally forgot about the amps, did some skids and drifting and they went flying around my boot and the fuse i had was to big so i basically melted the internals of my battery when the power cables came off the amps and jammed under my sub box shorting against my wheel arch inside the boot

scared the shit out of me at the time, pretty funny tho when i think about it.

dude wtf.
iv never had my amp or sub bolted down. they lay around in the boot of which ever car i chuck them in.
with car parts and tools all over them and metal parts around terminals n shit.
never had them stop working or short.
with drifting, burnouts or what ever.

[BLCKED]

the power cables came off the amp

you seen the way i drive haha

multiple amps not just one

[Dansedgli]

dude wtf.
iv never had my amp or sub bolted down. they lay around in the boot of which ever car i chuck them in.
with car parts and tools all over them and metal parts around terminals n shit.
never had them stop working or short.
with drifting, burnouts or what ever.

You must drive like my Mum.

Ive done the same a few times. Blew 1 amp once in the EB and managed to make a sub box flip upside down in the mav. The amp was mounted on the top before I left, when I got home the amp was under the box and the sub was pointing in the opposite direction. :S

[old_mate]

when i first bought the XY i had just done an oil change and was driving to work, first straight bit of road i come across i hit it and the knt stalled

i had retarded the timing a little to stop it pinging, and forgot to put the coil lead onto the dizzy properly lol.

fucked two Datto wiring harness by installing the battery terminals around the wrong way when i was 14.

[holmsy]

dude wtf.
iv never had my amp or sub bolted down. they lay around in the boot of which ever car i chuck them in.
with car parts and tools all over them and metal parts around terminals n shit.
never had them stop working or short.
with drifting, burnouts or what ever.

You must drive like my Mum.

Ive done the same a few times. Blew 1 amp once in the EB and managed to make a sub box flip upside down in the mav. The amp was mounted on the top before I left, when I got home the amp was under the box and the sub was pointing in the opposite direction. :S

lol yeh maby.
i think its jus cause of how the amp and sub sit. with a bit of shit stacked around them usually.
and the amp is a big heavy prick so sits pretty well.
plus i got some excess cable so they dont get caught up.

[stav50]

my amps are velcroed to the carpet with wood neatly sitting on top of them lol, sub free, pretty funny when u take off like a crazy man, subs end up right back in the boot

[Hybrid34]

Changing Rims over late at night on my drive way (bit of an incline), hadn't had any sleep,
Used two jacks (stock ones you get from the boot),
Jack Rear RHS up, and Front LHS up at the same time (though it would be faster to remove two wheels at once),
As i was jacking one of them up while the other jack was up, I saw the car starting to move, both jacks bent and nearly had the car sitting on its bum...
bad move..
-ash