Thread: Talk about your all-time bonehead moves

My biggest oopsie:


After I got my NX, it developed a clunking noise near the front right wheel. I figured it was the CV joint, so I replaced it with a good, used one. Put on the retainer clip, gave the axle a good whack, and reinstalled the rest of the parts. Job done in half an hour.

I went for a testdrive, and when I made a U turn to go back home (end of the street), I heard a loud POP, and the engine revs went up, but no power whatsoever. Right axle was spinning, so had to be the CV joint.

Dad towed me back (long street), and put her back onto the jack. Re-replaced the CV joint, making sure to give it a couple of hard blows with my hammer. Result: Compressed threads on the axle, and the nut wouldn't go on. I cut a piece of the broken axle off with a dremel (tedious work), and managed to install the nut.

Ordered a new CV-joint, same problem. Axle would pop out of the CV joint if I turned too sharply. But I was sure I installed the retainer clip, and I couldn't figure out what was wrong. Thankfully the axle never popped out when I was way out of town.

I got used to it, though, jacking up the car and putting in the axle again, once in a while.

However, when I replaced my shot set of K-sports for some stock struts and springs, I figured that I might as well try to fix the damn joint.

So there I sat, removing all the bolts and nuts, pulling the knuckle out, so I could remove the CV-joint. Pulled it off the axle, and I reached for the retainer clip on the axle.

As I removed it, something shot away from the axle, and I saw it land from the corner of my eye. After a short search, I found what sprung away.

A second retainer-clip. Which had been sitting in the groove all the time. Preventing the first clip to actually secure the CV joint.

Man, I felt stupid, and relieved at the same time.

ANother thing I just thought of. One time I accidentally left a pair of needle nose pliers sitting on the radiator fan. Chipped the hell out of it after a drive.

I was doing an oil change on a older sienna once the ones with the 3mzfe motor so the filter sits in the front and usually makes a nice mess when removed, so as usual I removed it and cleaned the mess up as the oil drained.. After I was proud of my clean up job I walked back to the counter, wrote down my notes and recommendations, put the drain plug on, brought it down and filled it with oil, started it up and as I'm sitting in the car I see the oil light isn't going out so I quickly shut it off, forgot the oil filter!! Lol.. That oil change took bout an hour and 45 min in total if not more cuz I had to wash it all down with a power washer n degreaser.. and the next day the car came back cuz the customer complained bout a oil smell.. My bad lol.

Another one was when we replaced the injectors and harnesses on my homies z32.. Had a "wonderful" time doing it lol.. So we got everything removed, cleaned out his manifold, new plugs, new injectors, harnesses, valve cover gaskets, fuel lines, fuel filter.. So we finally get it all together, it refuses to start it'll just crank n crank.. We spent 5 hrs trying to figure out what we did wrong, finally... We realize that we mixed up the fuel lines to the fuel filter and fuel rail lol.. We swap them and immediately the car starts! Ha.

Lmao I was thinking the same thing but it ran like a lumpy v8 lol

worked on my car. put everything back together. dropped the car down. went to go for a test drive and both front wheels came off pulling out of the driveway. fucking cool. since then i triple check each little thing i do

lmao,

I did my first swap I couldn't turn it on, it would not turn on at all. For 2 days of checking everything, I realized that I had left the negative wires to the intake manifold disconneted.

You just didnt replace the lugs or what?

didnt put the lugs on. dont know how it didnt fall right when i lowered it on the ground