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[xtr hardcore]

Forgot where reverse was and had to get out and push it back!!

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Bought a Rover.

[jb93]

Just spent ages getting the grille nice and level, and then realised I hadn't put the spotlamp brackets on

[travellering]

topped off the oil, then closed the bonnet and drove off. Every time I'd get on or off the throttle, there was this poing sound like popping a door panel in and out. Was totalling up the effort and cost involved in the engine mount replacement I clearly needed, when I opened the bonnet and found the filler cap was off, and wedged between the rocker cover and bonnet...

[MaxAndPaddy]

Bought a Rover.

Off with his Head!!

[ChrisG10]

Whilst watching family guy. My dad decides to tell me how to remove my track rod end.. and as ii could tell that this would be a lecture i turn full attention to the telly!! All i heard was as family guy finishes is you might have to hit it with a hammer! So totally blind with ignorance I take off the nut like it says in the Haynes manual and I hit it with the biggest lump/mallet I could find.. smashing a track rod end and now having to get it tracked XD Costing me more money :L

[jamesmpi]

Having spent a few weekends reinstalling my engine after having it rebuilt I felt very excited a couldn't wait to take it for a spin.
Thought that a little trip to a near by petrol station was a good idea so bolted on my kn air filter to the throttle body, fired her up and set off.
After slowly cruising down the single track lane for the house to main road I pulled out and accelerated (carefully) away.
Then suddenly the revs shoot up to max rpm at 8k and sat there bouncing off the rev limiter.
Panking I quickly turned off the engine pulled over and realised that the jubilee clip holding the air filter had caught on the accelerated cable jamming it open. Oops that ran the engine in nicely!

[stocky]

Today I topped up my oil whilst out, nipped up to a mates, had a look under the bonnet and found the oil cap had come off and is now probably along the a16 somewhere :S

[AVV IT]

With the car locked and my tools locked securely in the boot, I put my keys down on top of the air filter housing, so that both hands were free to fiddle with something in the engine bay. When finished, I then closed the bonnet with the keys still sitting on top of the air filter..... unfortunately I have an internal release bonnet!! .

What's worse is that I've now managed to do this on two occasions!!

Edited by AVV IT, 21 August 2011 - 06:56 PM.

[MaxAndPaddy]

With the car locked and my tools locked securely in the boot, I put my keys down on top of the air filter housing, so that both hands were free to fiddle with something in the engine bay. When finished, I then closed the bonnet with the keys still sitting on top of the air filter..... unfortunately I have an internal release bonnet!! .

What's worse is that I've now managed to do this on two occasions!!

OK so it wasnt the mini but in the same vain, strapped the little one into the car seat who was happily playing with my car keys, shut the back door and then hear <CLUNK> as he pressed the central locking key. Spent the next 5 minutes tapping on the window whilst trying not to look like a panic'd parent in the supermarket carpark going "press the button mate, no the other one...no not that one...nooooooo dont drop them................."

[davies145]

checked the oil and it was low so i took the oil cap off and placed it on my air filter and top the oil up for about it and check the oil and knocked it down the back of the engine with it stuck there got a stick to push it out didnt help at all and made it worst spent the next 5 mins doing j turns trying to knock it out in the end gave up and ask a friend to stick his hand down there as i knew it was hot and he said he ddint mind and finally got it back and drove home.

also,
at my girlfriends house her old on which is abit far from a petrol station and i couldn't be bothered to top up on petrol and she wanted to go to Tesco and get some sweet and she said you wont have enough petrol and i said the gauge is crap and said we will go anyway, so just left the house and abit down the road the car cuts out and i thought something has come off so checking everything under the bonnet and then we decided to push it up and down see if we can get it going and then it clicks that we have ran out of petrol so had to walk back to her house and ask her mum to take us to get some,

[Minxy1986]

told my other half that the metal container in my boot was the battery..... so tries to take it off...... wont come out......
sticks a screwdriver in the seem of the metal container to prise it apart..... im stood there watching having a fag

i shout S**t its the petrol tank!!!!!! the response from my boyfriend was (very calmly)

you... my love .... nearly killed us!

that will teach him to take car advice from me!

whoops

Edited by Minxy1986, 21 August 2011 - 09:30 PM.

[mike19]

Let my dad help

[minimender]

Bought a siezed 1300GT engine and box for my old 998 Cooper in 1971.

Rebuilt it carefully and oiled all bits as I put the engine back together, very proud at my achievement.

set it all up in the car ready to start the engine.

When I tested if the ignition switch was working the engine fired up first turn

Problem was that I hadn't connected the throttle return spring and my newly rebuilt engine revved its cods off with no oil pressure up and no water in it.

Panic set in and it took me an age to just turn it off...doooh

Did no harm though and it went like a rocket.

[Daviewonder]

I got stuck up under the front wing of a Clubman whilst trying to fix something at the side of the road. I can't remember what I was trying to fix as it was 14 years ago but I remember panicing quite a bit at the time