[bender rodriguez]

Mine prob when I was running a wire to a mic in the dome light/sunroof controls. Taking it apart I cracked the mic grill plastic. When I went to BMW to get a replacement cover they told me it was an entire unit that cost 375.00 dollars. Told them I would super glue it and they replied with "That is not the BMW way" Ended up finding the part on ebay used for 45 dollars + it had an extra SOS switch that mine did not have before.. So an upgrade!!

[Taran.J]

Carbon fiber hood wrap within 24 hours of owning it to hid the previous owners cat's scratches on the hood. Ran it for about a year, looked sexy but couldn't resist Jet Black respray.

Now she's sittin pretty without makeup

[NjPrince]

Originally Posted by Taran.J

Carbon fiber hood wrap within 24 hours of owning it to hid the previous owners cat's scratches on the hood. Ran it for about a year, looked sexy but couldn't resist Jet Black respray.

Now she's sittin pretty without makeup

That's not a diy mistake punk

[Taran.J]

Originally Posted by Njprince0226

That's not a diy mistake punk

I did it myself and it wasn't as sexy as a respray. I say MISTAKE!

[AgentAvalos]

breaking the intake manifold nipple when installing a charge pipe with a blow off valve.

[spencers]

On my e46 I shattered the side view mirror glass when removing it to repaint

[N54B30A]

Probably doing a turbo swap on jack stands without dropping the subframe

[N54B30A]

Originally Posted by AgentAvalos

breaking the intake manifold nipple when installing a charge pipe with a blow off valve.

I've done that one way too many times

[ctuna]

Ancient History but I snapped bolt while installing a water
pump on a Honda Accord . I was used to American cars with
no wimpy bolts at the time . Had to have the car towed to
a nearby shop to complete the job.

[kdbryce]

A few years back I tried to switch out the LEDs in my cluster to make them white. Fucked it all up and had to buy a new cluster.

[StevenY.]

I was changing interior bulbs to LED and I broke one of the sockets for the map lights. Thinking back, I should have just taken the whole assembly out. Not too bad though.

[Twiztid Nick]

I tried to plasti dip my whole car ....from sparkling graphite...to red ..with cans.....

[AgentAvalos]

Originally Posted by sahyoun

I've done that one way too many times

i learned after the first time lol

[AgentAvalos]

Originally Posted by Twiztid Nick

I tried to plasti dip my whole car ....from sparkling graphite...to red ..with cans.....

[NEFARIOUS]

In my defense, I was 20, dumb and had no clue how to paint ANYTHING. Also, long story, but hey, I know I ramble sometimes.

Sooo... On my Solara, the grille's chrome accent was flaking off, so I found the idea of doing chrome spray paint instead of plating it for $300, but wound up looking like frickin' primer.

Even worse? It was the night before a coworker's wedding so I wanted everything PERFECT. Pressed my suit, bought new shoes, detailed the car... but primer-look gotta go before I head out in the morning.

The bad part? When I took paint thinner to it, the bigger surface wiped right off, but the nooks where the sandpaper was inaccessible actually had the chrome sheen I was looking for but never had; pissed me off big time. However, it was getting late, I parked on the street in a bad neighborhood, and awkwardly half-shiny half-flat-plastic thing is better than no-grille-toothless-witch, so I just slapped it back on my car and decided to leave it to the weekend.

I intended to keep a low key and park as far as possible, but with no self-parking at the fancy resort, I had no choice but to use the valet. Just as the new bride and groom were leaving in a stretch limo in front of 200 attendees, some idiot valet driver grabbed the wrong key and was parading my car around the plaza, and apparently it's been circling for a good few minutes. Even worse? Their best "limo pic" involved the front of my sorry-looking car and it was front row center on MySpace (this was 2006, people), and a few people were even making comments on my car, which her having 2,500 friends was no help.

[Gizm0]

Mine was when i bought this nice book shelf from Walmart. I tried to put it together myself, but the instructions weren't clear. Got my dick stuck in the ceiling fan.

[Dark_Knight_335]

Thankfully it only involved plasti-dip.

[Delta0311]

I was like 20 years old and tried to tint my friend's windows. Let's just say it didn't work out well.

[pk_]

I wanted to black out my headlight housing on my w204 MB C350.

So I tried the "oven bake" method.

"tried"..........

[NGEE]

Originally Posted by sahyoun

Probably doing a turbo swap on jack stands without dropping the subframe

Did you have a thread going for that install? I'd really like to read it.

[MrPig]

I sheared a plug in my e30 once from over torquing it even though my scumbag torque wrench was on the right setting.

[spencers]

On my e46 I shattered my driver side window after changing out the lock actuator. Metal on glass doesn't mix.

On the family e36 I stripped a couple exhaust manifold nuts and had to dremel them off. That sucked.