Whats your biggest mistake you ever made while DIY?

[AR]

Originally posted by sadboy916 most people probly touched the chrome on their headlights nope, i used surgical glaves. yes, i am that anal. and no i don't still have my cleared headlights. i sold them. because, i am anal.

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[d17a2x3oy]

DIY mistake doing my vinyl door inserts and painting the whole door panel with plasti-kote. vinyl is pealing bad, paint is chipping now im force to go buy a black door panel and let someone do the inserts for me. unless someone on this board that is close to me can do it for me for a good price. oh yeah another thing taking out the door panel to paint broke the door handle. so now no one can get out. woohoo i got child protection. for the ladies your welcome to get locked in hah.

[Elite]

its not a really a diy but its something I did to my car and that was dropping my car without shocks, I just used coilovers and the ride is horrible

[orion_squall]

Originally posted by d17a2x3oy
DIY mistake doing my vinyl door inserts and painting the whole door panel with plasti-kote. vinyl is pealing bad, paint is chipping now im force to go buy a black door panel and let someone do the inserts for me. unless someone on this board that is close to me can do it for me for a good price. oh yeah another thing taking out the door panel to paint broke the door handle. so now no one can get out. woohoo i got child protection. for the ladies your welcome to get locked in hah.

oh no, sorry my posts and re-posts about what paint to use on door panal still didn't save you...Appearantly you didn't see them because maybe they are too old now...

Do not use Plasti-kote!!! I tried, and samething happened to me!

Use Krylon "fusion"!!! it really worked!

[Jonauto]

i fryed the blinker relay when i was installing my hyper-blinker. 20 bucks later it worked.....

[ragencajun]

where to start the worst was a set of full length tribal flames got one side on no problem the next i got up and my 3 year old pulled it off and walked on it for me after 3 hours of picking out sand i put it on dumb move i know. Messed up the top of my aem intake and had to buff it out after it was rubing on the hood. fell on my stock hood coming out of the bar got a new cf hood from insurance thank good
no other major things yet .

[mrchowmein]

i shoulda never tried to pop out the door panels with a screw driver. my failed attempt left scuff marks on the plastic parts

[gearbox]

I messed up alot on my last electrical DIY. Ended up with lots of scars and cuts. Forgot to solder resistor to a LED, blew some fuses, and alot of other stuff. Makes me never want to do another DIY after I was done, at least not anything with electronics.

[kenji4861]

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

I did that.. and I tried to wipe off the finger print and.. the chrome came off.. F*CK!

[thefivespeeder]

burnt out dimmer switch, installing HU

[thomusvoo]

umm...nothing at all really.
but i did broke a plastic peice that holds the rear deck togehter... =/
other than that, im really careful with my belongings

[MarylandEcstasy]

http://temp.dirtysamurai.com/gauge/convert.html

^^I thought it would be great to tackle the Gauge Cluster Conversion
..so..8 hours later, 25 pins battered and raped, and a mini jewelry screwdriver that got shoved up under my nail.. it worked..

well..

..with 80 bucks paid to infinite012 to clean up my mess lol

[fixeruper]

but my strut bar to close to my sri and it raddled against each other, lol just moved it alittle, oh and painting my dash w/o using any primer lol it flaked off everywhere just looking at it. thats it no other things, guess im lucky and didnt have anything serious.

[Ashhole]

Diconnected the throttle body heater without letting the car cool down and sprayed myself in the face with hot anti-freeze.

dropped a socket down my exhaust pipe installing my header.

Had to hammer my strut tower bar on. Then it ground a nothch on in my CAI.

[GreatWhite02]

when i took the fuel needle off to replace the gauge faces(later found out you dont have to) so i removed the fuel needle but when i put it back on it just shot way up past the F! Worst part was i remembered I only had about a quater of a tank before i removed the needle! My gas light came on but my needle was on the F! So I didnt know how much gas I acutally had! Yikes! Then I thought there was no way i would be able to fix it so I bought a new cluster for 300 dollars, then went home and realized that my mileage would be reset since it is stored in the cluster! So I tried my luck one last time and got the needle fixed! Wheew! So then I made up a pretty good excuse to the dealership for why i was returning the new cluster and they gave me a full refund! YES there is a GOD!