What's the worst thing you've done to your car?

[ken_ja]

Re: What's the worst thing you've done to your car?

I'm crew chief for a couple of Rally teams in Jamaica. One day we came back into the city, from a few particularly muddy special stages, for a super special stage to take place in the heart of the business district. I had been working for the entire three days of the rally so I decided to spectate and watch this stage and leave my assistant in charge of the service crew (big mistake but that's a different story).

I decided to not wash my pick up which was covered in red mud from roof to undercarriage, you couldn't tell what colour it was, figured that the mud would keep the crowd from leaning on it. That didn't work, parked in my prime spectating spot, jumped in the back and enjoyed the show. The crowd was so big and packed tight that when the stage was over and I was leaving, almost every body panel had been wiped clean. Needles to say alot of scratches were left behind. Never taken my truck to a special stage again. Park well away and find a roof to spectate from.

[Skuz]

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Dumbest thing I had done to my car was after a complete repaint (white), I wanted to add stripes to the car. Back then I was a huge fan of european rally, and Toyota was sponsored by Castrol. Since my car was white, I wanted to add red and green stripes to look like that. That looked great in my mind, but quite less in reality. Since I had paid for that, I decided to leave them there and the car eventually died years later still wearing them, but never again will I do such a thing. I remember my mother calling my car the "Christmas candy cane".

Some years after that I decided to repaint my Tercel's rusted lower door section and taped newspapers only about 1' around the area. I used a sandblast machine, some body filler, primer, paint.

1st, sandblast residue came out of the vents for MONTHS.
2nd, the car was COVERED with primer overspray, even when clean, you could see and FEEL the overspray when you put your hand on the car. The white paint had become grayish.

Fortunately, that was back when I was starting to learn claying with a Quik Clay kit. The clay ended up completely gray, but the paint was very slick and ready to be waxed.

[03mach1]

Re: What's the worst thing you've done to your car?

Well I was hit by a deer on my motorcycle 2004 Ninja 250
I was in tiny accident with my T-Bird but it was not my fualt there was no damage done to the car except a scratch in the bumper. The car tried to turn left and never looked back twice I slammed on my brakes and and I did not even know if I hit the other car it was that light of a hit. I did press any charges on the the car who pulled out in front of me. She said it was her fault.
My Mustang I bumped a parking curb and scratched the bottom of the bumper and knocked the alignment out. I know I have had a lot of things happen to my cars and bikes but I am a very protective person of my things and hate to see things happen to them. I was so upset at the person that pulled out in front of me.

[CarbonBlack]

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With this car, I haven't done anything worth mentioning that would be considered bad.

With my old car, the worst thing I ever did was try to accelerate on wet highway (to avoid being rear-ended by a speeding Hummer, mind you)

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$12k in damages counts as the "worst thing ever" in my opinion!

-Do you think scratchX would fix it?
sorry about the accident, was anyone seriously hurt?

-nick

[catzcradle]

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Someone had moved one of our trash cans into the driveway, and as I leave before it's light, I backed into it, leaving a nice dent in the rear liftgate.

Thankfully paintless dent repair was able to get it nearly perfect, but man was I pissed at myself the rest of the month.

[RogueGypsy]

Re: What's the worst thing you've done to your car?

Well I was hit by a deer on my motorcycle 2004 Ninja 250
I was in tiny accident with my T-Bird but it was not my fualt there was no damage done to the car except a scratch in the bumper. The car tried to turn left and never looked back twice I slammed on my brakes and and I did not even know if I hit the other car it was that light of a hit. I did press any charges on the the car who pulled out in front of me. She said it was her fault.
My Mustang I bumped a parking curb and scratched the bottom of the bumper and knocked the alignment out. I know I have had a lot of things happen to my cars and bikes but I am a very protective person of my things and hate to see things happen to them. I was so upset at the person that pulled out in front of me.

Why did you let a Deer ride your Ninja?

The dumbest thing I ever did with a car, it wasn't mine, was an old game of Alley Rally. A friend had a Pinto we used for a shop class Frankenstein and after the various experiments were performed we took it upon ourselves to test the results. Long story short, we just packed a 302 under the hood and decided it was time for Alley Rally. Flying down one of our favorite alleys we hit a garbage can, as often happened. This time the can was full of concrete and it won. After jacking the rear end up and shoving it over a couple times to get it pointed down the alley again. We drove home swearing we'd never 'do that again'. I guess the owner of the can was tired of it being hit by maniacal teens in Pintos. We retired "Franky" after that run. Turns out the owner of the can was a local Sheriff. Nice guy as it turned out, taught us how to operate a jack hammer on our weekends for the next month. That was a good mix of Concrete in that can.


Brock

[Trick95]

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The dumbest thing I did was to my 95 GT. I tuck that car way over in the garage to keep it out of the way, and backing out I clipped the side mirror and broke it off and left a 4 foot scuff on the paint. A couple new mirrors (hey, they gotta match perfectly) and some rubbing and it was all fixed. I was mad at myself for quite awhile.