Good jobs gone bad

[Ardenblueroy]

I always find a few well placed 'YOU F*CKING C*NT!!'s here and there helps.

Pmsl.....used a few choice words doing my fmic.

[@ndy]

I tried to give a Nova lense a tap as one of the rear bulbs was being tempremental. Got irritated by the third hit so hit it harder and smashed the lense which i had only changed a week before. Epic Fail.

A very good friend used to chuck his spanners about however as he worked at a dealership it was always a trifle scary especially as one landed at my feet one visit.

[Violet]

I did this in 2007.
I was on the way to a job interview about 40 miles from home. Halfway through the journey, all electrics cut out (all lighting, dash lights, fuel pump relay, revs, etc). About five fuses blew at the same time. I replace the fuses and within seconds, they blew again.
I reached behind the dashboard to fiddle with the loom (it's been dodgy since I've owned the car), and replace the fuses again. They blew again, so again pulled up, did the same thing, and bang, fuses blown again.

I then improved access to the fusebox, thusly:


Jiggled the wiring loom and the didn't blow again for the journey. I had a spare dashboard in the shed so changed it when I got home.

[garymanc]

How did you manage that? The terminals are different size! Was a hammer involved at All?! The hand sounds painful too bud

well the cables that connect to the round battery post,not sure if there called terminals ? are the same size on my manta's.
the biggest pain was asking my mechanic mate for some help, he didn't half take the pee.
its good when you can laugh about it when its fixed.

[Turbostevo]

well the cables that connect to the round battery post,not sure if there called terminals ? are the same size on my manta's.
the biggest pain was asking my mechanic mate for some help, he didn't half take the pee.
its good when you can laugh about it when its fixed.

Yes mate main thing is you wasn't hurt too badly, although the burnt hand sounds rather unpleasant!

[MSG]

A mate rang me to ask me for a favour, his neighbour had just come back from work and she had lost her house keys, either left them on the train or in the office, so she desperately needs to get back in her house, her husband has just left for France the same day, so there is no one else with the keys!

It was 10.00pm when he called me, I agreed to take the chellenge on, she would pay me reasonable charges, but she cannot affoard the professional locksmith charges and was quoted around £350.00 by a couple of places my mate rang for her through the yellow pages.

I went over, thinking its going to be easy money, 5 minutes to drill out a yale lock on a front door, and I even had a spare lock on me, but when I got there, she told me that she also had a dead lock so will i be able to unlock that as well!

No chance! I thought, not without damaging her door, so I opted to go through my mate's house into her back garden and instead drill out a PVC cylinder lock! I had not drilled this kind of lock before, so I did not know what i was getting into!

In the end, I broke two drills, one a 5mm and one an 8mm, and had to charge my battery 24V drill several times through my mate's house, in the end I almost gave up, I had to come back home at 1.0am to take my extension lead and a mains powered drill, and then struggled for the next hour to finally drill the cylinder lock as it had hardened steel pin inserts to prevent drilling, but you can imagine how I am drilling away at 2am to the annoyance of other neighbours!

finally manged to get her over the fence and into her house, now hoping she can find her spare keys inside the house, so that she can open her front door to get out to work the next day, but she could not fine any spare keys, so now we are all trapped in her house as my mate had gone to sleep when I told him that we have sucseeded in openeing the back door and he can go to sleep as he had an early start.

So now we are both locked in her house! and it left me with no choice other than to start working on her dead bolt from isnide the house!

So I then had to drill the timber door frame from the inside, and rip off a section to allow the dead lock bolt to allow us to open the door, the top yale lock was Ok to open from the inside, so I was now struggling to remmove the deadlock steel plate fitted to the door frame, and took me another good hour drilling wood and chieselling away and trying to leaver out the bolt and the screws that were like 3" long into the frame! Finally managed to open her fron door as well, it was now 3.30am and I changed her yale lock so that she can lock it again, and get in with a new set of keys, but the rear door cylinder will need to be changed and so temporary placed a piece of timber length under her door handle so that no one could try to open it as the handle won't turn due to wood being jammed underneath it. Got home at 4 am!
really peed off!

I just didn't anticipate that she would have deadlocked it and that her rear garden patio door was drill resistant.

Had I known what I was going to get into I would have said sorry, can't do it! But drilling out yale lock is a few minutes job!

No wonder the locksmiths quoted her the actual price and I only agreed to do it for fift quid! That is 6 hours from the time my mate phoned me to the time I collected all the tools and left my house and was with them by 11pm, that about £8.00 per hour, two trips back and forth a total of 24 miles, broke two drills, and disturbed a few of her neighbours, into the early hours!

Oh Jesus, another late day in my life and its now 5.05am Friday!!

[Davey j]

coming accross allot of spire nuts recently, some people call them J clips. basically a fold of sprung steel with a captive nut or thread in them, ideal for securing items with bolts with no access. not so great after 30 years when the tang breaks off and they just go round and round in the panel void with zero method of getting at the back of them.

i spent 2 hours on one of them, then lost my rag and bounced the 13mm spanner off the bonnet which is now lost in the beech hedge. then i stormed off in a nerd rage and tripped over the mower and hurt my hand breaking my fall. so then i punch the door frame because it had hurt my hand breaking my fall, then i broke my knuckle punching the door frame a second time in retaliation for hurting my hand on the first go.

I cannot fathom you losing your temper like that which makes this even funnier for me! :-)

[rickisgrate]

put a hammer through the windscreen of my old mk3 astra diesel when the ex pissed off and left me. Not the same thing but you get the idea

[joff-turbo-nova]

lol. making inanimate objects pay.

i remember watching a tv show called genius, a member of the public suggested putting offending items like the bumper or spire nuts in a naughty box (or in the corner) as punishment, since its all psychological anyway and makes just as much sense.

Genius with Dave Gorman - the episode was with Jonny Vegas :-

Torture Box

Joff