The most idiotic thing you've done (car related)

[Seanl]

Luckily enough I've not done anything stupid to my own car YET. Bu today as it happens, went to scrappy to get some retaining clips for my bonnet litters to attach em to the ball joints, and decided to use some French thing to take em off of. (206 wagon I think it was). Anyway, the glass was on dampers as well as the boot, so decided to use the glass ones as it was easier to get to. Boot was already in the air, so opened to glass out, and when I removed the damper, the glass flew forward and shattered. £20 cost of the glass and a really pissy bloke to boot. The most expensive damper clips in history!

[Rhyso]

Tried removing my interior mirror to retrofit an auto dimming one

That cost me £60 for a new windscreen 

[JC]

bought it

then only insured it TPFT

rolled it into a field 21 days later

not good when it was only 18 months old

 

[Rhyso]

This poor chap could be a contender

http://uk-mkivs.net/forums/t/438439.aspx

[Wayne]

This poor chap could be a contender

http://uk-mkivs.net/forums/t/438439.aspx

Major fail 

[the_stink]

This poor chap could be a contender

http://uk-mkivs.net/forums/t/438439.aspx

'cilit bang and the turbo is gone'  that is pretty epic

think mine would be crashing into the back of a rav 4 after 20hrs of mk2 ownerhship which meant i had to be recovered from Salisbury to bristol 150 quid 

[richw911]

Driving 300 + miles with only roadside assistance cost me £500   :embarassed: 

[Wayne]

Driving 300 + miles with only roadside assistance cost me £500   :embarassed: 

Ouch, was that when your water pump went.

[Golf_GT_TDI]

Tried removing my interior mirror to retrofit an auto dimming one

That cost me £60 for a new windscreen 

  I did the same on one of my dads old cars, he had a BMW 5 series and he was taking some bits off to sell it standard, he had the autodip mirror I said I'll get that off easy... I did it real careful and the screen still cracked! he wasn't too pleased oops

[richw911]

Driving 300 + miles with only roadside assistance cost me £500   :embarassed: 

Ouch, was that when your water pump went.

Thats the one  :embarassed: