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Wich mistakes/mishaps you did while working on your car ?Views : 664 Replies : 7Users Viewing This Thread : |
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Jan 25th, 2021, 12:47 | #1 |
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Wich mistakes/mishaps you did while working on your car ?
I was thinking about a topic to share mistakes we've done while DIY
Here's two mistakes I did - and perhaps advice 1. Never work on the car after it has been driven or parked in the rain. As we remove bolts, they get wet and once put back in place, the threads will rust and get stuck, next time removing them will require a much higher torque and may possibly even shear smaller bolts. Same for the wheel lugs 2. Never work in a rush or stress (for whatever reason, be it an annoying cat). Also, if something happens when working on the car - such as perhaps wife comes and gets annoyed for some reason, stop working, take a break. I was changing my brake fluid, draining and burping the calipers, when someone came in and got me stressed for some reason. For one moment I didn't pay attention and I grabbed the bottle to refill the brake reservoir (master cylinder). By mistake, instead of grabbing the brake fluid bottle, I grabbed the power steering bottle. You get the idea. Fortunately, the power steering Pentosin is fully synthetic, so I was able to flush the master reservoir and didn't had issues with the brakes.
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