Whats your biggest mistake you ever made while DIY?

[lilpoot7]

Originally posted by Elite fixing my shocks, because they were turned backwards its not a DIY but I really fvcked up my car, I jacked it up in the wrong place, right underneith the radiator and I bend the core support, lifted up my hood like 1 foot and I had to hammer it back down, now my hood moves and wiggles, its not that noticeble only when you look at it closely. Oh and I lost a bolt while I was at it, I only have 1 bolt holding the shock/strut down in the rear right of the car.

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[Soon2BeGrlRacer]

while clearing someone elses headlights i forgot to remove one of the lights from the socket and as I was pulling it apart I heard, "CRACK".

It wasnt completely broken, the only thing was that the black case has a little crack other than that it still works today

[SMURF_KILLER]

ah man every DIY I did did something wrong with my car.....painting interior, clearing headlights, etc

[TeLLy]

- dropped a trunk lid on my head (took the springs off)
- stabbed myself with a voltage tester
- shocked myself hooking up 2AWG wire for amp power supply
- working on bumper lights for a 1.6EL, had a piece of hot melted plastic that I was dremelling off fly into my face. Left a little red crater for 2 weeks
- cut myself on the inside of my fender (right under where the edge of the hood comes down)
- gotten Goo-Gone in my eye while cleaning various pieces of engine bay
- burned myself on exhaust tip (never try to lower the exhaust yourself after having driven for an hour)
- grabbed the business end of a soldering iron in a vain attempt to catch it as it fell from the table. Used a lot of burn cream stuff that day.
- somehow managed to get cut UNDER my fingernail while changing a friend's headlight bulbs (dammit)
- gash on head and stomach, 8 skinned knuckles, several miscellaneous bruises from endlink install (read here)
- paint can splattered everywhere as I was painting someone's headlights
- didn't wait for paint to dry on my headlights and when I put them back together the paint came off on the corners
- was doing this girl's headlights and some black goo got on the housing. I rubbed it off, but some chrome came off with it
- had 2 pairs of windshield washer nozzles fly off on the highway (no more LED washers for me thank you very much
- broke the rear left passenger seat bolster while trying to remove the door sill trim
- put my center console together without plugging the antenna back into my deck...no radio
- slammed a door closed in frustration....but my friend was working between the door and the car....SMACK
- don't accidentally touch a wire brush that's hooked up to an electric drill and is spinning
- dremelled a piece off my fingernail by accident...took off some skin behind the cuticle while I was at it
- Automotive-Gooped my pants to my shirt
- Krazy-Glued my fingers together trying to put my push-button ignition together
- stepped and slipped on a floor jack

These are all the ones I remember from the last year....

[xRiCeBoYx]

changing a light bulb on my old car (92 toyota paseo) and i dropped it into the front bumper and it was stuck behind the splash guards and shit.. i had to take off the bumper to get to it..

[acidbaby]

i had my first diy fopa today and i was wondering if i cut the front bumpstopper do i need to buy a new one to put the springs back on
also im bottoming out over every bump with my coilovers if i raise it higher will it fix it or do i just have to get springsplease i dont know how to do my own post or i would

[spellspoil]

this deserves a bump

[pheaton]

Originally posted by sadboy916
most people probly touched the chrome on their headlights

ME!!! I messed up my cleared headlights bad. . lol. . They are ok, but I'm gonna have to get new ones eventually cause the chrome is messed up, the plastic is messed up. . Just not a good deal. . lol

[JayFReaZy]

while installing my HKS Hi-power rear section, I had the car on 1 jack stand since I had taken off the rear passanger side wheel. i had taken off the passanger side rear wheel in order for me to take out the screws for the exhaust easier, since it was extremely rusty!!! Well, after i installed the exhaust, of course I wanted to turn it on and hear it. So, I go inside and turn on the car. The first crank sounds great, a nice low tone. So, of course I now wanna rev the muthafcuka, so instead of putting it on neutral, I put it on drive!!! . And, since I only had 1 jack stand on the back, and the civic is front wheel drive, u guessed it, screeeech, then SLAAAAAAAMMM. It landed on the rear suspension part. When i was in the car and that happend, I was just so fcukin sad, lol. I thought I fcuked it all up. I thought it hit the rotor or something, thank god it didnt. Well, this happend a little over a month ago, and I've done some serious driving as always, and it still runs great. Thank god there were no problem.

[gearbox]

Every DIY I've done has had something gone wrong.

--ruined 02 gauge cluster
--left bulbs inside when clearing headlights in the oven
--Dropped wrench between + and - terminals on battery and almost tried to grab it with hands.
--dropped bumper on the concrete
--blew fuses
--burnt hand with soldering iron
--many more that I can't remember.

[7thGenerasianCivic]

broke the bulb holder for the auto shift boot light while doin the manual "look."

[Kairi]

let's see.. I've done some stupid shit before...

When I first bought rims, I put my front two tires on backwards- after a while they kept make a "t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t" sound while driving until one day they blew cuz they had ZERO traction, I was like "WTF?!" and they were really spensiv tires =X

then I ****ed up my dash pieces when I painted them, I did the two side vents first and I spray painted them wrong and ended up getting a wierd texture to them, but it's kinda coo cuz not alot of people have the same texture I have now. the center trip piece came out just fine, looks like pro brushed aluminum.

when I took off my "civic" emblem, I didn't know goo-gone existed and ended up having a million scratches... wierd thing is now you can look at the car at angles and read "civic" (I say it looks ghosty- so I call my car a ghost civic)

and I had a civic spoiler for a while but I tried to rewire the led in it so that it blinked in patterns instead of just lookin like a light... well, yea..I ended up spending 300 bucks to have the holes where the spoier was filled up and painted over perfectly (you can't even tell I had a spoiler before) and also sold the spoiler for 85 bucks to someone on here years ago.

yea, that's it tho.

[maxsin]

After reading all these posts, I will never attempt a DIY. lol. My car only has 5900 miles on it.


Well I am going to do the DIY for the REVO SS with the Grey and CAP upgrades so hopefully I wont break any pins.

[urmystlkal]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I could not stop laughing while reading this

Originally posted by TeLLy
- dropped a trunk lid on my head (took the springs off)
- stabbed myself with a voltage tester
- shocked myself hooking up 2AWG wire for amp power supply
- working on bumper lights for a 1.6EL, had a piece of hot melted plastic that I was dremelling off fly into my face. Left a little red crater for 2 weeks
- cut myself on the inside of my fender (right under where the edge of the hood comes down)
- gotten Goo-Gone in my eye while cleaning various pieces of engine bay
- burned myself on exhaust tip (never try to lower the exhaust yourself after having driven for an hour)
- grabbed the business end of a soldering iron in a vain attempt to catch it as it fell from the table. Used a lot of burn cream stuff that day.
- somehow managed to get cut UNDER my fingernail while changing a friend's headlight bulbs (dammit)
- gash on head and stomach, 8 skinned knuckles, several miscellaneous bruises from endlink install (read here)
- paint can splattered everywhere as I was painting someone's headlights
- didn't wait for paint to dry on my headlights and when I put them back together the paint came off on the corners
- was doing this girl's headlights and some black goo got on the housing. I rubbed it off, but some chrome came off with it
- had 2 pairs of windshield washer nozzles fly off on the highway (no more LED washers for me thank you very much
- broke the rear left passenger seat bolster while trying to remove the door sill trim
- put my center console together without plugging the antenna back into my deck...no radio
- slammed a door closed in frustration....but my friend was working between the door and the car....SMACK
- don't accidentally touch a wire brush that's hooked up to an electric drill and is spinning
- dremelled a piece off my fingernail by accident...took off some skin behind the cuticle while I was at it
- Automotive-Gooped my pants to my shirt
- Krazy-Glued my fingers together trying to put my push-button ignition together
- stepped and slipped on a floor jack

These are all the ones I remember from the last year....

[pheaton]

JayFreeze. . When I read that I cringed . Good thing nothing got messed up . .

GearBox. . I hear ya. . seems like everything I do I break something, mess something up, hurt myself, make the problem worse, sucks big time. . Also the reason that I do it myself instead of letting anyone else do it, because if I mess up all the time, other places do too I'm sure. So if there is going to be something wrong with my car, I might as well know about it.