OK, so here we are... I want to start a confessions thread, based on a very foolish.... n'ay - stupid blunder I made earlier!

So I got given by a friend an alloy from a MK3 mondeo, I am looking to get a new tyre chucked on there so that I have a spare decent full size in the car, rather than the cheapo space saver!

Anyway... At lunchtime I went out, took the driver front wheel off and put the spare alloy on (no tyre, I just wanted to make sure it did fit! so I popped the wheel back on, finger tightened the nuts, put everything away and went back to the office!

Got in the car and started driving home - after about 7 miles I noticed a slight vibration in the wheel - thankfully I was on the side / country roads and never got any great speed up! the second I felt the vibration it was like a metaphorical facepalm moment, so I dropped the speed to 20mph (much to the delight of the drivers behind me!) and pulled in at the next village and into a siding, got the extendable wheel wrench out and finished the job I started many hours ago, all of them took a good one full turn!

So, that was my moment, I will blame the heat as it was hot, and it was a very special act!!!

Only about 5 minutes from a motorway, if the vibration didnt start then, I would have been on the motorway and potentially with a much worse outcome!

So, cmon, confession time! whats the daft things you have done!

Oops! That could have been much worse mate. Glad you spotted that before too long!

I will need to have a think about this and report back

After changing the headlight bulb on my focus the other day…

I thought I had cracked it, however 2 days later the bulb fell half way out & was shining into the sky! When I opened the bonnet to sort out this issue, the rubber seal off the back was still sat on the top of my engine.

2 days & over 100 miles and it was still there! Result.

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Been rushing around jump starting cars. Got one running, jumped out, moved some stuff, jumped back in, reversed back out the way forgetting to take the jump leads off.

DOH

Some good ones there guys! and Stef, I look forward to hearing yours most of all :D

Yeah I was quite fortunate, but goes to show, no matter how many times you have done it before, you can still fluff it up without realising :D

Changed the exhaust on my old Clio, bit scared of the handbrake and left it in 1st gear, Once fitted and sealed up I was so excited about having a 100+DB decatted system on I stabbed the key in the ignition and gave it a turn with sheer excitement.

Needless to say what stuffed me up was the fact the rear end was on stands and the fronts weren't so it came crashing down off them, killed the stands, 2 huge dents in the underside and a bent Snapon breaker bar, which I left underneath the car ( which remarkably they replaced for free lol ) and then the fact the car was facing the fence ( not my boundary either ) and it took the fence out and scratched the whole front end up.

Luckily I put the rear wheels back on before doing this otherwise it would have been written off.

So now, we never ever ever ever ever ever ever leave a car in gear, we use chocks instead.

These are lessons hard learned :)

Under most circumstances its excitement or an external thing that stuffs your mind and you forget lol

These are good guys, keep them coming! A few lessons learnt I think lol.

Can't make up my mind between these 2.

The other day I changed my washer jets over and closed the bonnet just on catch to make sure they was ok. Drove to my cousins house doing 60 mph then noticed the dash going spastic as I left the bonnet on catch. Lol.

The 2nd one I had not even passed my test but brought some pepper pot alloys for my mk3 fiesta jacked up the front one by one but on the rear I decided to jack up both sides at the same time. Please bear in mind I only had the standard scissor jacks. Lol. Needless to say the car came crashing down on the rear discs.

Amazingly though there was no damage.

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At the end of the 90s I had my nice shiny new Japanese hatchback. It was summer and when I got home I had opened the bonnet to help it cool down but it was resting on the latch not even on the safety catch.

The next morning I drove off and I managed to get up to around 50mph before there was enough air under it to lift it smack back into the windscreen. Luckily a straight familiar road and I was able to bring it to a safe stop. The bonnet had flattened against the windscreen and curled over the roof. Ran to a house to get some string to tie it back down (it wasn't pretty) before going back home to get it towed to the garage.

I remember seeing the bonnet lift in disbelief but everything after that is a bit of a hazy memory as I think I was in a dream/nightmare. One expensive insurance claim and a lesson learned.

Ouch! some painful moments there chaps!

Father forgive me I have sinned twice and in my defence I was a lot younger haha.

First set off in my MG metro to knebworth for a queen concert with my mate. After a few miles oil starts spilling out onto the windscreen so pulled over. I'd forgot to replace the filler cap after filling oil up day before. Rest of journey done with a cloth stuck in top lucky it didn't catch onto the engine.

Second in the MGB GT on a Sunday morning on the way to a friends daughters christening, we are to be god parents, driving down road when near side rear wheel comes off and overtakes car like a bouncing bomb. Car falls onto axle and grinds to a halt wheel bounces down road into a bus shelter. Lucky it was Sunday and no buses or someone would probably have been killed.

Funny now looking back but at the time it was pretty scary.

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mmmm where to start,oh ok here goes.

top up with oil in my old mk1 renault laguna left the cap off,other half went shopping and parked in the towns main multi,as she parked up LOADSA smoke etc lifted bonnet and the contents were splattered on the underside of the bonnet,rac'd back home.

washing my beloved renault 25 monaco with a green sponge,YES YOU KNOW THE ONES.

having a blow out in a firms transit van,(anyone know brighton clock tower up to the train station??)anyways parked up on a side road facing up hill,PLEASE BEAR IN MIND i had never EVER had to deal with 1 of these before.so after finding everything i lent the spare wheel up against the van,got back in to read on how to change a wheel.then some chap tapped on the window and said DO I OWN A WHEEL COZ ITS OFF DOWN THE HILL M8. :cry: so theres me trying to do a linford after it down the middle of the road in brighton,it hit a curb and took off like a missle and smacked itself into a front door,HOW on earth it missed all the shop windows and other cars etc i really have never figured that 1 out but extremely greatful.picked up said wheel extremely :oops: surrounded by everyone and there son,then set about changing the wheel.

or the piste del resistance,the tory conference the 1st 1 after the brighton bombing.in a higherd twinn wheel transit that the day before paid a visit to london to pick up about 25 drums of spirit based woodworm fluid each had 25ltrs in it(EXTREMELY FLAMMIBLE).

next morning driving to my depo in shoreham it decided to run out of deisel right out side the grand hotel.

within seconds i was surrounded by 'ole bill' ARMED.iirc i think i messed my pants by this time.was asked WTF are you doing and when i replyed to a flat capped officer the painful expression on the guys face must of echoed mine.i was escorted to the nearest pay phone(no mobiles back then)phoned the office to be met by histerics.escorted back to the van,TOLD not to even pick my nose,and if i leave the van they would blow the doors off,oh i had the bomb squad behind me in there blue transit.so i opened the rear doors to show them,of course they were really happy having THAT sitting outside THE GRAND NOT.

might have a few more in the memory banks but ill leave that for now,im off for a CRY NOW.

Ouch Phil a lesson definatey hard learned there :|

Oh dear Greg, you have learned a lot from your experiences ;) I actually PMSL at the grand hotel jobbie :D I would have paid to see that!

jeebo,looking back i wouldve been myself pmsl especially if it was someone else.

after ringing my gov through his tears of laughter he said SIT TIGHT er yeah like i was going anywhere?well not only did 2 of my fellow works m8s turned up the manager of my firm did aswell,PURLY FOR THE CRACK on my behalf.3 guys for 1 ltr of derv.

lmfao, that is good, I think you take the prize for the best one yet :p