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Never be so stupid as I was
Rick Law:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on September 20, 2021, 09:16:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: bob91343 on September 20, 2021, 05:36:03 pm ---DIY oil change is another possibly stupid thing. What if you kick the oil plug and can't find it? You can't drive to your auto supply store, or anywhere else.
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Drain the oil. Phone rings. Distracted. Come back to car. Fill engine with new oil. Why is it not showing on the dipstick yet? Why do my feet feel wet?
Yep. I wouldn't have thought it could happen. But it did.
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This is not nearly as bad as another real-life nutty DIY oil change mistake. Before you think the guy is really dumb - a qualifier: We were both full time college students and working full time plus as much over-time as possible to pay for college. So we both were sleep-deprived almost every day. I did my fair share of dumb things while sleep-deprived. Amazing how brainless one can be when doing things while heavily in need of sleep.
The guy has a Pinto (remember that car? it was designed to be sold at below $1 per pound when purchased new). He got it used. He did his first-time DIY oil change. Seeing how dirty the oil looks, he use the garden hose to rise the inside first... He did got his car running again, after it was in the shop for weeks...
Not his first mistake with that car. One time, I heard him grunting upon arrival at work. He had driven to work hand-brakes ON (> 20 miles on the highway) and only realized he did that when he arrived the parking lot at work!
Good news is, he was majoring in Business and not anything engineering, so it is not likely that he was the designer of the bridge you are about to drive on.
CatalinaWOW:
Perhaps doing dumb things is something that should be required of any Turing Test. If the machine isn't making stupid mistakes it isn.t intelligent in the same way humans are. We all have done them and continue to do them. At least your dumb thing doesn't involve injury or permanent loss of equipment. Many of us can vouch for much worse outcomes.
tszaboo:
--- Quote from: bob91343 on September 20, 2021, 05:36:03 pm ---DIY oil change is another possibly stupid thing. What if you kick the oil plug and can't find it? You can't drive to your auto supply store, or anywhere else.
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Then we get on a bicycle and go to the nearest car shop, which is probably 2-4 km away.
james_s:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on September 20, 2021, 09:16:01 pm ---Drain the oil. Phone rings. Distracted. Come back to car. Fill engine with new oil. Why is it not showing on the dipstick yet? Why do my feet feel wet?
Yep. I wouldn't have thought it could happen. But it did.
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:-DD
I did exactly that once. Except I don't think my feet got wet, I heard the sound of liquid dribbling just about the time I'd finished pouring in the first quart of new oil. It was fun trying to fumble the plug in while avoiding the rapidly expanding lake of oil on my garage floor.
Zero999:
--- Quote from: tszaboo on September 20, 2021, 11:54:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: bob91343 on September 20, 2021, 05:36:03 pm ---DIY oil change is another possibly stupid thing. What if you kick the oil plug and can't find it? You can't drive to your auto supply store, or anywhere else.
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Then we get on a bicycle and go to the nearest car shop, which is probably 2-4 km away.
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I dumb thing I did a couple of years ago was bodge a repair to the front mudgaurd. I fixed it with cheap cable ties, rather than buying a new one. It got caught between the front wheel and frame, causing me to flip over the handlebars, headbutt the pavement and break my thumb. I went to hospital, as I had mild concussion, got a CT scan, but didn't realise my thumb was broken, until a couple of weeks later. This meant it never fully recovered and my left thumb is still weaker than my right, which is annoying being left handed.
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