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>grab super
>fill tank
>leave
>2 min later bike dies
Turns out it was super diesel not 98

Bike was a two stroke so only had to drain the fuel and put correct in and it was all good, embarrassing as fuck tho

>oil change
>drain oil
>filter won't budge and broke plastic socket
>shove flathead between filter and pan to break seal
>doesn't work, walk 3 miles to buy a new wrench
>put new filter on
>week later notice car has no oil
>look under, see this

>doing my first oil and filter a few years back
>grandfather taught me to give it a quarter turn with the filter wrench after you install a new one
>since kicked this habit
>dont have a filter wrench so i pop in to a mechanic
>inform him ive just done an oil and filter and id like to borrow a wrench to tighten in
>he says he'll do it for me
>busy looking at oneof the cars they have in shop
>thanks mechanic
>get 100m down the road
>engine light
>smoke
>pull over
>hed loosened the filter because thats what 'id asked him to do'
>50 dollars of brand new oil all over the floor
>too spaghetti to ever go back after i argued with them
Id call it mostly my fault but half on the apprentice for not listening to me.

Looks fine to me.

your mom is based, lol

jb weld a filter on and call it a day

thank you magnificent miata

Thank you magnificent Miata.

>be 16
>put gasoline in daddy's diesel
>start engine and fuck up his truck

>look at me, I'm a student and drive a porsche. I bought the wrong part once, what a fuck up!
Fuck you.

Is this bait?

>mom needs an oil change on her '07 explorer
>no worries mom I can do it, I have a first gen explorer how much different can they be
>it turns out ford got downs syndrome sometime between 1994 and 2005
>see what I think is the oil pan
>looks similar to mine, sameish location
>huh kinda far from the oil filter but whatever
>drain it like a retard
>why is this red
>oh fug
>ok I'll pour it in the dipstick hole and it'll be good
>there isn't a disptick
>o fug
>have to pump it in from the bottom
>have to order a special Ford brand Fordapter to pump it in
>this fucking valve is like $20
>learn how to do a transmission fluid change
>get it done in a day after getting the part
>change oil after quintuple checking the oil pan
>mom talks about how her car "feels better when it shifts!"
>she thinks I am a fucking master mechanic now because "no other oil change made my car work so good!"
>turns out it had been 120k miles since fluid change
So now I'm the "car guy" on my mom's side of the family

I’ve run my car out of oil twice, idk where it goes or how it still moves

>remove dash instert thing to fix odometer
>take it out
>break it
>is kill

Install pinion seal first. Just to realize pinion bearing had to be put in first. Wasted a 20 dollar seal. So run to vato zone and get a 10 dollar one.

>being this assmad that some user drives a shitty porch than can be had for less than 4 G's

yikes

A customer offers to give another customer a ride home that just spent several thousand dollars on his G6 and is leaving it with us.

They get to the intersection and I hear someone yelling.

There is a HUGE trail of oil leading from our shop to the stop light.
The oil filter is in our parking lot.
A mechanic from a dealership down the street hits the oil slick and stops his car in the street to stop traffic, surely thinking i'm a fucking retard.

This all unfolds as the district manager is pulling into our parkning lot.

I swore it had gotten tight, but I had cross threaded it.

Luckily both the customers were cool as fuck, and the DM didn't even yell at me. He cleaned up the mess and said "we got lucky".

>Buy used car from out of state and drive it home
>Owner had an ugly ass tow hitch on it
>Go to remove it
>Tow hitch is mounted in between the exhaust and the frame
>Exhaust mounts block off direct access to the bolts
>Grab a flexible extension and get to it
>Have to really put my ass into breaking the bolts
>Get half of these old rusty ass bolts off and start on the other side
>Socket keeps slipping off a bolt
>Stick my hand up there, make sure the socket is on there and give it a good tug to make sure its solid
>Start heaving to break it
>Socket slips off the bolt
>Hand goes into the exhaust tip at full force
>Cut it down to the bone
>Still isnt fully healed 2 months later

I bought a pair of gloves after that.

Kek. Seems like something I would do.

Not really a repair fuckup, but here goes.

>just replaced battery, but keeps dying
>must be the alternator
>drive to vato zone to get it checked
>landwhale comes out with his tester
>tells me to start it up
>push in clutch, start, let clutch out
>forget I left it in gear instead of using ebrake
>lurchandstall.jpg
>fat mans foot was in front of the tire
>run over his foot
>he pisses himself
>I apologize profusely and leave
>call vato zone a week later to check on landwhale and make sure I'm not being sued

Please. The only reason one would buy a Porsche is to show it off. This is exactly what the
>I bought the wrong part for muh porsche, I'm so bad, tee hee hee
guy is doing. Yup, my ass hurts from having to read that shit.

or bc they like the design? if he was trying to flex he would've lied about the model. no one can brag about a 944. they're 1500$ shitboxes.
i could understand if the post was
> lol i bought the wrong part for my carrera
but it was
> im a shit college student who bought the wrong part for my high maintenance shitbox

Thank you magnificent Miata

>being this butthurt
Holy fuck dude, you read the OP?
He's not showing off, he posted a fuck up story
Go sperg out on /b/

Thank you magnificent miata

>get new seat for muh AW11
>Recaro SPG, maximum comfy
>pop off drivers side roof to enjoy some Spirited Driving™
>hoon around backroads for a few hours
>get home
>go to bed
>wake up
>its been raining
>i hadn't put the top back on
Nothing was lost to water, but goddamn i was about ready to kill myself

Probably one of the stupidest things I've done in my life:
>Be dipshit teenager, dad runs a repair shop and as such I was admittedly ignorant towards car maintenance
>Driving an old ass Mercury Grand Marquis (seats were comfy as fuck)
>Start up car to go to school one day
>Going out of driveway
>"Man why is my steering barely working"
>Engine stops, won't start
>Call my dad and explain the situation
>Asks me to check oil level
>Completely empty
>Calls me a retard and says he'll look at it but the car is probably fucked
>He gets here and runs some fluid through the engine (I completely forget what he used) plus puts in some oil, it miraculously starts up
>Tells me in his 20 years of working with cars he can count the amount of times he's unfucked a seized engine on one hand
To this day I'm still shocked that didn't destroy any pistons or cylinders, but I make sure to check my fluids regularly since I'm not expecting to get any more plot armor after that fuck up

>tighten diff drainage bolt after fluiod change with torque wrench
>confuse Nm and ft-pnd
>strip it
I was able to use a longer bolt that hangs on to the four threads that have not been stripped. I tightened that one by hand.

That made me chuckle. Nice happy ending though.

Buying a Porsche 944 to show off is like buying a Mercedes A140 to show off.
It might have the same badge as the fancy car, but it really isn't the same.

>buy 10 year old car
>headlights are yellowed
>buy 3m headlight resto kit that attaches to a drill
>bought 3m auto painters take to protect paint surrounding headlight
>first pass, get to close to edge and nick the paint
>all the way into the metal

The rest of the car needs a paint job due to bird shit damage and other defects but fuck I hate myself for not being more careful.

My recommendation: when using any orbital polisher or precision sanding, double up on the masking tape

Couldn't you have just pulled the headlights entirely?