The great P80 Volvo Bloopers - Idiots - Fails thread - June 2023

[abscate]

Jack owner didn’t care about jack since no one was hurt, and was enlightened about limitations og light aluminum jacks, cheaply

[greg850r]

Volunteered to do an oil change. Afterward started car to move it and when I put it in drive it was like neutral. Motor revved but wouldn't move. I had drained the transmission fluid. Motor had 10 qts of oil in it and trans was empty. Car was my dad's 69SS Camaro pace car. I was 10 years old.

[abscate]

Payback for abuse of child Labour



Thanks for sharing

[BlackBart]

Car was my dad's 69SS Camaro pace car. I was 10 years old.

ohh noooo!!

[abscate]

Rolling home from Commack in Shagg

Uh oh….

Reservoir empty. Fluid in upper hose. Reservoir hose popped off. Loosened cap and rolled 3 miles home watching temp like a hawk.

At home, someone forgot to clamp the oetiker. Round up the usual suspects.

[volvolugnut]

Volunteered to do an oil change. Afterward started car to move it and when I put it in drive it was like neutral. Motor revved but wouldn't move. I had drained the transmission fluid. Motor had 10 qts of oil in it and trans was empty. Car was my dad's 69SS Camaro pace car. I was 10 years old.

A friend, who will not be named, once admitted when he bought his first car, he did a similar oil drain from the transmission. He drove it until it quit and then called the dealership. The dealership replaced the transmission and was never informed WHY the transmission failed.
volvolugnut

[BlackBart]

^^^ ow.

Not a Volvo, but I did a stupid this last week.

I finally got a set of old steelie wheels sanded down to bare metal and ready to paint. Bought the fancy 2k epoxy primer and a factory finish color mixed in spray cans. 100 bucks of paint, ouch.

I set up a home-made paint station outside under a tent, got a real 3M organics face mask (you can't even smell this nasty paint, impressive), started early in the morning to finish before the heat. Everything went well - 3 coats of primer with 5 minutes between, half hour wait to color, then 2-3 coats of color with maybe 10 minutes between.

But as you can see on my wheel painting jig, there's a possibility the wheel might slip off the end of the conduit, which might happen as you spin the wheel with one hand as you work your way around.

BOOM CRASH.... a wet wheel slipped off and went face-down into the grass. The sawhorse then flipped, sending the opposite wet wheel face-down into the grass. SO much effort wasted. Amateur hour.

They've been drying and off-gassing in the garage, and now I can see there are bare patches, rough patches, not shiny patches, and a giant run. A genuinely mediocre to poor paint job. This weekend I am lightly sanding again, smoothing them out, sanding off the grass, and trying again with another $30 can of color.

sigh....

wire wheel and sanding (pics are sideways on my monitor)

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sawhorse and conduit jig

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to the Western Front

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Primer

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grass....

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[volvolugnut]

^^^ ow.

Not a Volvo, but I did a stupid this last week.

I finally got a set of old steelie wheels sanded down to bare metal and ready to paint. Bought the fancy 2k epoxy primer and a factory finish color mixed in spray cans. 100 bucks of paint, ouch.

I set up a home-made paint station outside under a tent, got a real 3M organics face mask (you can't even smell this nasty paint, impressive), started early in the morning to finish before the heat. Everything went well - 3 coats of primer with 5 minutes between, half hour wait to color, then 2-3 coats of color with maybe 10 minutes between.

But as you can see on my wheel painting jig, there's a possibility the wheel might slip off the end of the conduit, which might happen as you spin the wheel with one hand as you work your way around.

BOOM CRASH.... a wet wheel slipped off and went face-down into the grass. The sawhorse then flipped, sending the opposite wet wheel face-down into the grass. SO much effort wasted. Amateur hour.

They've been drying and off-gassing in the garage, and now I can see there are bare patches, rough patches, not shiny patches, and a giant run. A genuinely mediocre to poor paint job. This weekend I am lightly sanding again, smoothing them out, sanding off the grass, and trying again with another $30 can of color.

sigh....

wire wheel and sanding (pics are sideways on my monitor)

Can you laugh about it yet?

volvolugnut

[BlackBart]

No.

[duke1]

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