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nope, i used surgical glaves.

yes, i am that ****.

and no i don't still have my cleared headlights. i sold them. because, i am ****.

d17a2x3oy

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

thefivespeeder

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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

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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

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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

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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!

Ashhole

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you actually got a refund from the dealership? lucky you. mine not only wouldnt give me a refund if i tried, but would prolly try and charge me for their time

Nick

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bring'n it back from the dead

_Viper_

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Not posting up me in the nude while doing my DIY...

Hey im a premium member I just got an idea.

bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha

civ2nv

attempted to cut t-tops in but then could not find anyone who wanted to do it or had the time so now for a school project we are putting a new roof on.

Al Gore FTW

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fvcking up my tails by puttin too much clear coat on em then it ran, while smoking them. then i had to scrape it all off and now it looks like this

_Viper_

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^^^ looks dope^^^^^

Al Gore FTW

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lol stfu

_Viper_

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They look like the car caught fire ..
Bwahahahahahahahahaha

S2KREY

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doing electrical work and blew a fuse but had no clue which one so had to go threw every single one to find out which one was blown

_Viper_

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OK well I left my car once in newtral and I was leaning in the engine bay. Then my car rolled out of my garage (Theres an incline ) and i fell into the engine Bay trying to stop it from backing out.. Anyways it backed right out into the street and I got broadsided by a BUS thus sending me into the ICU for a week.

The paramedics told me that I had the Vtec lettering printed on the side of my forhead...

CivicHatch9one

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WOW that sucks.....all i did was break a clip while clearing the headlights... and i want to do the blue needle diy and i know ill mess up so ill prob be back on this post lol

QBoi

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I cut through the red/black wire in my gauge cluster completely lol. I was doing my indiglo gauges in the dark without a flashlight hehe.

stinkypie

Screwed up my power mirror switch while changing the bulb to a blue LED.

BTW, just because you've been soldering for years doesn't mean you still won't burn your finger and throw the power mirror switch into a concrete wall as some kind of stupid reflex.


New switch due in Thursday: $10.

chknmnky

Biggest mistake on DIY = Doing it myself.

1of_many

When my friend and I lowered my car we had to cut out the rear fender lip and slipped and skippe dup the side of the car...not as bad as it sounds thank god but then to top it off when he hit it with some black paint to seal the raw metal he tested it on a paper to make sure it sprayed good sicne it was sittin a while and then when he moved gust of wind blew the paper up on the side of the car so had a nice scratch from a saw with a black smudge next to it. It is all good now though since the repaint...lol. Should of expected it though things were going to smooth. I also did the blue LEDS didnt have a prob other than i am not patient enough to solder LEDS...lol Still havin a prob with some of them burnin out though.