OMG I am such an idiot.

Mako

Mako

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Everyone loves stories of people being stupid, so here's one for you.

Last year I put 6x9 speakers in Mako's doors. As I was working, I sat everything in the footwells. When I went to put everything together again, I found that the Cougar badge in the offside door handle was missing. I hunted everywhere and even went a bit mental. Couldn't find it.

Fast-forward a year. Nearside window was getting a bit slow (thanks for pointing it out Dave) and noisy, so I stripped down the door this evening to grease it up.

Guess what was stuck to the magnet on the back of the 6x9.



:LOL:
 
There needs to be a badge or something so the rest of the world can easily identify us.

On the plus side, Mako's windows are nice and quiet now. ;)
 
I dropped a bolt while doing the window regulator in 50 shades, inside the door, try as I might I could not find it, to the very last day the door reminded me with a friendly rattle on closing, easily done, lol
 
When removing the scooby spoiler I dropped a 10mm nut inside the boot hatch.......tried to fish it out with a telescopic magnet wand.....for 30mins and no joy! I guess I will grow to love the rattling nut, so much so, I may name it :eek:
 
localloon said:
When removing the scooby spoiler I dropped a 10mm nut inside the boot hatch.......tried to fish it out with a telescopic magnet wand.....for 30mins and no joy! I guess I will grow to love the rattling nut, so much so, I may name it :eek:
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As you change gear and accelerate/decelerate, it can clunk around in harmony with your special short-shifter roll-pin mod. :LOL:
 
The other day I thought now my car is near enough sorted I will attempt to sort out all the stone chips on the bonnet, so after a bit of preparation I filled about a million of them with paint and left them for a couple of days to harden properly .
So today out i went to sand and polish the bonnet- got out the detailing sander, got out the 1200 and 2500 grit sandpaper , bucket of water ,and finally the buffer and G3 compound, so i thought right got everything and then the wife started mithering about something, i tried to ignore her as i sanded but when she stopped talking and just stood there open mouthed i thought WTF it was then that i realised i hadnt changed the paper on the sander and was rubbing down with 60 grit,
The wife turned round and ran inside chuckling.
I can laugh now but it will need a lot more work and a respray and the wife just sits in her chair not saying anything but shoulders moving up and down whilst she bites her lip.
I took a pic because i was going to do a before and after of the stone chips,this is after 3 sandings with different size grit paper
 
Mako said:
Still, it's an opportunity to get rid of every single stone chip it's ever picked up...
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Very true but i will have to try it myself because the painter saw his a*** when i did the body kit myself

bobster1982 said:
still did less damage than the car wash down the road lol!
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The local car wash near me damaged someones car and it turned out they had no insurance, word soon got round now no locals will use it
 
mmikey82 said:
The local car wash near me damaged someones car and it turned out they had no insurance, word soon got round now no locals will use it
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On one of the ones near where I used to live (Chelmsford) some little scrote tied a bunch of nuts to those gigantic spinning brush things. The first car of the day got destroyed.

It was a BP garage so I assume it was insured, but still...
 
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