The NEW (2018) BLOOPERS AND BLUNDERS THREAD

Post by **abscate** » 19 Dec 2017, 11:38

Oil change blooper #1066

I was too hastings and forgot to check for leaks or was lame doing it - regardless - I found 500 ml dripping out of the oil filter (housing and cartridge type)

DIagnosis was the O ring had crossed into the threads on removal and I didn't notice (and didn't use the new one they gave me thinking I could sell it on eBay) so off with the housing, seat the new ring, seat filter into housing, then engine by screwing it in.

Spend next 45 minutes cleaning oil off driveway

93SCMax · Post by **93SCMax** » 19 Dec 2017, 15:26

abscate wrote: ↑19 Dec 2017, 11:38 Spend next 45 minutes cleaning oil off driveway

Don't you just hate that. Liquids can make such a mess!

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 19 Dec 2017, 16:01

abscate wrote: ↑19 Dec 2017, 11:38 and didn't use the new one they gave me thinking I could sell it on eBay

Good, I thought I was the only one who did that.

Post by **June** » 23 Jan 2018, 16:38

abscate wrote: ↑01 Dec 2017, 10:39 Yes...get all that dirty laundry out of those dark closets and post those dark times you messed up your Volvo through idiocy, neglect, stupidity, or even just bad luck

Special note to June - letting your full synthetic oil change go for 3005 miles DOES NOT COUNT

All bloopers and blunders should be ended with the infamous..

DOH!!

Time for the 2018 thread

June

Post by **abscate** » 23 Jan 2018, 17:08

Letting daughter date guy who uses regular gas

Back to you , June

Post by **jonesg** » 24 Jan 2018, 05:02

CEL and codes all over the car, started checking fuses, first mistake checking by eye, missed the blown computer cooling fan fuse, compounded first mistake by reinstalling the bad fuse into the wrong slot which caused more problems.
Bought a computer safe test probe and found the bad fuse, tested computer fan against a good junkyard fan and realized mistake as fan got zero voltage, the new fuse was in wrong slot.....doh

I tell myself a lesser man would have junked the car. Don't copy me.!

Oly850 · Post by **Oly850** » 10 Feb 2018, 02:28

Took out the the dual catalytic converter setup on my 2001 S80 to get at some other part and installed the front O2 sensors backwards. It idled okay but the signal for rich / lean was ass backwards and the car ran so rich it set the drivers side cat on fire on the test drive, I returned with one cat glowing bright red and burning everything nearby. Only hooking the car up to VIDA and watching the signal output from the O2 sensors clued me into to what was wrong. Swapping the O2 sensors left / right solved the issue and the thing drove like a very heavy maroon sports car.

Derp.

Post by **June** » 10 Feb 2018, 03:43

abscate wrote: ↑23 Jan 2018, 17:08 Letting daughter date guy who uses regular gas

Back to you , June

Obviously he is gouache! June

Post by **abscate** » 10 Feb 2018, 04:58

June wrote: ↑10 Feb 2018, 03:43
abscate wrote: ↑23 Jan 2018, 17:08 Letting daughter date guy who uses regular gas

Back to you , June
Obviously he is gouache! June

He's a painter too? Yet another strike...

Post by **June** » 10 Feb 2018, 06:22

abscate wrote: ↑10 Feb 2018, 04:58
June wrote: ↑10 Feb 2018, 03:43
abscate wrote: ↑23 Jan 2018, 17:08 Letting daughter date guy who uses regular gas

Back to you , June
Obviously he is gouache! June
He's a painter too? Yet another strike...

One more strike and he's OUT!

June

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