Dumbest Thing You've Done While Doing An Oil Change.

[Matt89]

I slammed my hood down on a flashlight (honkin' maglite). It allowed the hood to engage the catch, but under so much pressure I couldn't open it again.

I had to get a 'tool' and push the flashlight out of the way before I could open the hood again. I was afraid the the hood would be all warped but it settled back in its place thankfully.

 

[moribundman]

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I slammed my hood down on a flashlight (honkin' maglite). It allowed the hood to engage the catch, but under so much pressure I couldn't open it again.

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A friend of mine, really, it wasn't me, once slammed the car door shut, but got his fingers caught in it. He couldn't get his fingers out and he couldn't get the door open. This wasn't an oil-change-related accident, but it happened at a gas station. My friend screamed murder but nobody helped him because they thought he was some murderous whacko. Finally, the cops showed up and freed his mangled fingers. Oh, and he's mechanically very inclined. I suppose it happens to the best of us.

 

[1sttruck]

A former manager said that one of his kids called one day, not long after his kid had started working at a gas station. His kid said that something didn't seem right when he had filled up a VW bus, as it only held a few gallons of gas. He told his kid "DO NOT START THE CAR !". For those who don't remember some of the VW buses had an oil filler cap that looked like a gas cap, and his kid had filled the crankcase with gas :^) He went over and helped him to change the oil.

 

[TallPaul]

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Originally posted by 1sttruck:
...his kid had filled the crankcase with gas :^) He went over and helped him to change the oil.

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Free engine flush.

 

[TallPaul]

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Well, I once let a bumble bee get into the oil filler hole. He didn't come out...[/QB]

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I just know this is going to happen to me. I gotta time my oil changes around it. Let's see, May through October is six months. About 1000 miles per month. OK, what Valvoline oil will go better than 6000 miles?

 

[Gurkha]

Almost set my brand new Accord V6 on fire by spilling over engine flush over a hot engine. Luckily the fire hose was nearby but my spark plug wires were ruined.

 

[1sttruck]

How about 'the dumbest things that car makers have done for oil changes', like the tilted oil filter on the Ford Taurus. Every time you unscrew it about a cup of oil drools all over the starter and frame. I guess that one could put a bag around the filter and puncture the bottom to drain some oil out before unscrewing it, but it seems that mounting the filter vertically would have made life easier for what is probably millions of people. Maybe we could design and sell 'Taurus oil filter diapers' :^)

 

[Morcos]

Yea i was doing an oil change on my friend's camry straight 4. the oil filter is soooo stupid, its right infront of u went u open the hood pointing down, so when u unscrew it uve got to put a towel around the filter and it still seems to drip to the ground.

lemme think of some stupid things i did while working on cars...

-I used a fram filter! before i saw bitog

 

[steeltoe]

I've got two. First was a 91 Jimmy I drove in high school. Spent 1.5 hours and three screwdrivers trying to get the oil filter off. My dad walked up after a while, looked, and simply said," Lefty loosey, Righty tighy".

Second, was on my then girlfriends 97 accord I changed the oil and drove about 35 miles before i relized I left the fill cap on the battery!

 

[Morcos]

In high school i took an auto mechanics course 3 years in a row. oh the things that happend.

a friend of mine (no liscence) whines and wants to drive a teachers car out of the garage and into the parking lot, while doing so, he didnt watch his mirrors and his left side view mirror got ripped off. (teacher wasnt very happy)

the mechanics teacher ran over my foot with his gmc truck, i wasnt too thrilled.