anyone else as daft as me?

[TA03ORA]

So I had the day off and had allocated myself some garden tasks to do as it was such a nice day
by 2pm I had had my fill and putting tools away in the barn i was unable to resist the temptation of a quick spin before the wife got home with the kids...
so i pulled the cover off, flung open the doors. started up - no problem..;) and reversed out..
a faint burning smell and the car just cut out.
holy st

car re-started no problem. I then realised the problem..

..........In my haste I had the accumate still attached to the anderson connector as I reversed out.....

pretty slick eh?


no harm done apart from a bit of scorching and melting of the croc clips but what a plum!

[mycroft]

Once drove my S Series out of a garage with the emissions prob still up the exhaust
Not really my fault .
Never went back there though , to embarrassed

[Gray_101]

One warm summer evening, while running late to get to the local TVRCC meet.
I reversed the Cerb out of the garage only to see an electric cable stretching out in front of the car, getting tighter and tighter.

Oh feck, ive left the accumate pluged in !!!!!! but luckly no damage done.

So your not the only numpty on pistonheads,,, theres at least two of us !

[NCE 61]

Have done the same in my Tuscan, snapped the cables clean off the Accumeate side of the Anderson connector in my hurry to go out for a drive, no harm done though just soldered them back on.

[TA03ORA]

I am starting to feel a lot better already..
more..more.....

[vroom]

My old Corrado from a few years back used to have an annoying rattle from the Cat.

In an attempt to locate the fault, I rammed a wire wool pad up between the cat and heat shield to see if I could stop it rattling.

It did the job.

2 months or so down the line I noticed a burning smell when the engine was hot and after days of searching the penny dropped...the Brillo Pad.

It gets worse.

To be sure, I decided to replicate the problem by heating up a Brillo pad using a pair of pliers on the gas hob in the kitchen.

With the pad (almost) glowing I sniffed it to compare the smell - and I burned the end of my nose.



And yes it did smell the same...

[guy pritchard]

my father, bless him, used to put a cushion on the top of his alpine engine to help with cold start, and then close the bonnet,,,

one day, he was tootling along and smoke starting billowing from the front
toasted cushion anyone

could be worse, i was driving along the A3 one day and a wheel came rolling past me!

[nightSpirit]

I thought the snow earlier this year shouldn't stop me fitting an oil cooler to my track car, with drill in hand leaning onto a curved metal bar with the front bumper removed I proceeded to slip, smack my nose on the bar (and cut half my nostril off) and drill straight through my jeans.

I still have the scar on my nose I'll never forget my wife calling NHS direct and saying to the woman 'no he hasn't been hit by a car, he hit the car with his face'

[Geoff Ashcroft]

vroom said:

With the pad (almost) glowing I sniffed it to compare the smell - and I burned the end of my nose

[Robertjp]

Done the accumate thing...so your not alone.

I also cleaned the main headlight reflector lenses on my cerby, only to find the cleaner contained some kind of chemical that stripped off the chrome...DOH!

Let me take daftness to a whole new level, cleaning the chain on the motorbike I used to pop up on a paddock stand and drop into first so the rear wheel is just ticking round, whilst spraying on the chain oil I used to hold a rag behind the chain so as not to cover the tyre...
Then one day I caught the rage in the chain and it pulled my fingers in too,

Cue blood everwhere and the tip of my finger missing!!!

Took 4 months to heal and was extremely painful, needless to say I don't go near moving parts anymore...

So you see I must win some kind of numpty prize?!?!

[SeiW500]

A guy i knew when i was a teenager road his 50cc motorbike from MAnchester to Balckpool & back and when he got home he was thinking the engine was a bit hot (air cooled) so chucked a bucket of water over it................................ oups new engine please!!!!

[ph1l5]

nightSpirit said:

I thought the snow earlier this year shouldn't stop me fitting an oil cooler to my track car, with drill in hand leaning onto a curved metal bar with the front bumper removed I proceeded to slip, smack my nose on the bar (and cut half my nostril off) and drill straight through my jeans.

I still have the scar on my nose I'll never forget my wife calling NHS direct and saying to the woman 'no he hasn't been hit by a car, he hit the car with his face'

Ouch, no idea while reading this I grabbed my nose ?

[bob_g]

vroom said:

I decided to replicate the problem by heating up a Brillo pad using a pair of pliers on the gas hob in the kitchen.

With the pad (almost) glowing I sniffed it to compare the smell - and I burned the end of my nose.



And yes it did smell the same...

Anybody got any idea how to get pasta bake out of a laptop? That's the funniest thing I've heard all day

Some of mine are probably a bit painful to think of..