Give me some stories of how you managed to break your car.
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I need to read other people's tales of woe, after my own today.
A couple of lost screwdriver attachements, a snapped stud in the EGR valve (because i tried to put the stud from the engine cover in the hole... f
kwit) and a broken fuel return pipe leading to £20 being dumped all over the road in the space of 10 miles means I am currently feeling very down and pissed off and have fled to the safety of a family member who owns a garage. And the end of it all, the original job still wasn't even done and i get very very fked off. I was lucky the car didnt catch fire though.
So, make me feel slightly less depressed and give me some of your stories of vehicle self destruction
A couple of lost screwdriver attachements, a snapped stud in the EGR valve (because i tried to put the stud from the engine cover in the hole... f
kwit) and a broken fuel return pipe leading to £20 being dumped all over the road in the space of 10 miles means I am currently feeling very down and pissed off and have fled to the safety of a family member who owns a garage. And the end of it all, the original job still wasn't even done and i get very very fked off. I was lucky the car didnt catch fire though.So, make me feel slightly less depressed and give me some of your stories of vehicle self destruction
Putting spark plug cover/thing on. If you have a williams you'll know the insert with F7R is rare so use bit of carbon fibre i cut up instead, bolting it down, forget to put both in, just wanna start car up see if new leads work, awful awful tapping. One of the bolts had fell onto the alternator cable and been driven into the belt, that was a sod to replace, felt like such a muppet.
Decided to change the coolant on my Skoda Rapid Coupe, for no particular reason (
). There's a bleed point in front of the bulkhead and I forgot to tighten it when I finished. It boiled over the next time I drove it, which blew the head gasket, caused the liners to slip and resulted in it being scrapped. 
Thankfully it was cheap in the first place.
). There's a bleed point in front of the bulkhead and I forgot to tighten it when I finished. It boiled over the next time I drove it, which blew the head gasket, caused the liners to slip and resulted in it being scrapped. Thankfully it was cheap in the first place.gregpot2000 said:
Changed my headlight bulb and it shattered inside the headlight. Filling it with broken glass pieces in what is a sealed unit! Cue asking for advice on here and being advised to tape some garden hose to a vac, and it worked! Although was very awkward!
You did it TWICE!?
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danjama said:
gregpot2000 said:
Changed my headlight bulb and it shattered inside the headlight. Filling it with broken glass pieces in what is a sealed unit! Cue asking for advice on here and being advised to tape some garden hose to a vac, and it worked! Although was very awkward!
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