WHAT DID YOU SCREW UP TODAY?

[chillywilly]

Originally Posted by Freetime

This doesn't really make much sense. You can't "accidentally" put the car in R because of the gate lock.

That's like saying you can't accidentally shoot yourself because of the safety switch...

The physical motion of going into 1st and R is identical except for pulling up the gate lock, and it did happen to a few members in this thread apparently.

[ProTekk]

Not related to my FR-S but I managed to destroy my 10 day old HTC One which insurance won't cover since I purchased it at full retail price outside of T-Mobile, not only that, my LG Nexus 4 now has a shattered LCD after replacing $100 worth of parts already. So now here I am back on my old Samsung Galaxy Nexus debating whether or not to eat the $1,100 worth of phones or spend an extra $100 to get my Nexus 4 back up and running.

/rant

[tuckdaddy]

Not today but about a moth or two ago jumped the car about 3 feet on a back road at night. Couldn't slow it quick enough. Nothing happened just sheared the tow hook and scratched the shit out of the bottom of my front bumper. Fairly embarrassing.

[Touge_ninja]

Flew past 2 state patrols on my way back to work doing 90+ and didn't get pulled over.....almost crapped my pants....

[immortal_suby]

Originally Posted by Veovius

What, what? I'm confused; what's the difference?

Most trolley jacks are very short and narrow and light duty with tiny wheels and the handle has to be removed and re-positioned to lower the jack.

A floor jack will be longer and wider and has larger and wider wheels. They are much more stable. The handle can be removed but generally the handle stays in the jack and it is twisted to lower it. A good floor jack will roll or turn a little to account for vehicle shift as it raises but a trolley jack will usually just tip over because the wheels suck and the jack is too narrow.

Floor jack:



Trolley jack:

[polarstorm]

Originally Posted by BlueSTaR

Tried to clean off some bird shit, must have had a rock in it... Cuz it scratched.

Should buff out though.

Seagulls eat anything. Including nails.

[BlueSTaR]

Originally Posted by polarstorm

Seagulls eat anything. Including nails.

Yeah, lesson learned. Will be more careful next time

It's on the roof which I plan on vinyl wrapping anyway.

[oTaGGeDo]

Installing my ptuning gopro mount I had to remove the tow hook cap and took a huge chip out of my paint lol time for a little touch up

[polarstorm]

Originally Posted by BlueSTaR

Yeah, lesson learned. Will be more careful next time

It's on the roof which I plan on vinyl wrapping anyway.

Don't feel so bad, it'll work out nice.. my windshield cracked today from a stone chip (cracked a few mins later, maby from playing loud music).. bummed out.

[Books]

Originally Posted by oTaGGeDo

Installing my ptuning gopro mount I had to remove the tow hook cap and took a huge chip out of my paint lol time for a little touch up

Man, I did the same thing! Wasn't a huge chip, but enough to annoy the hell out of me. I was putting on my plate relocation kit so no can see it

[Nezz]

Originally Posted by chillywilly

My last car was a 2001 1.8t A4, and the brake pads would stick if I left it in the drive way over a rainy weekend. Takes just a bit of extra throttle to break it loose but the brakes feels and sound like crap until the rust is rubbed off. The A4 was also a maintenaince whore, so it made me very sensitive to things that sound out of the ordinary. Nice to know we have drum e-brakes tho.

Aha. A VAG product! That'll do it. Eesh. A friend had a Passat that froze its brakes in hot weather here...

[Richard Cranium]

Originally Posted by Nezz

Aha. A VAG product! That'll do it. Eesh. A friend had a Passat that froze its brakes in hot weather here...

I never had an issue with my B6 but I never used the e-brake! That's one car I never had an issue parking exclusively in gear.

[potter]

I was taking a buddy to get his car from thye shop today and the pull in is pretty steep.. pulled in slow and still ended up scraping front bumper.. cant see it unless you look under but i know its there and bugs the crap out of me .. and i feel like idiot knowing should have went in more at angle..

[TRDBen]

Originally Posted by potter

I was taking a buddy to get his car from thye shop today and the pull in is pretty steep.. pulled in slow and still ended up scraping front bumper.. cant see it unless you look under but i know its there and bugs the crap out of me .. and i feel like idiot knowing should have went in more at angle..

Did the same thing but on a parking curb. You cant see it, but I feel like I should know better It's hard coming to accept ground clearance when I just had a truck for 5 years.