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Tute

Tute

Tute

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So er.. I just got the Skoda back from the dealer. The windscreen jets had packed up.

I had a chat with the mechanic who had the job of replacing the washer pump. The problem?

I managed to fill this

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with this

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That's a bit embarassing. :o

So please, go ahead - I deserve both barrels for stupidly costing myself £50 and the use of the car for two days.

And what are all your car "FAIL" moments?
 
Bad luck Tute! :(

That's a classic! :D :cool:

Think my only 'doh' moments have been leaving my sidelights on and flattening the battery!!! Plenty more to come though i'm sure. :)

gt
 
And to make it worse, it's not even my car.

You try telling your girlfriend's Dad how you totally failed with something so simple.

My Mum had a right laugh about it when I told her as well. :o
 
Nice work :), I once manged to flick the lights on my corsa while i was getting out and didnt realise to come back to a dead battery, thats about as bad as ive managed.

Hawker
 
Perhaps its easier done than first thought - anti freeze is watery and blue - very much like screenwash.

Obviously you'd have to be blind not to read 'Anti-Freeze' on the side of the carton, but hey, guess it happens! j/k :D

I too am surprised that it killed the washer pump :confused:

Not done anything quite like that, but once decided to check the oil in my old car while washing the windscreen. Opened the bonnet only to scrape the leading edge against the two wipper arms that I hadn't replaced. That was a costly affair.

n
 
Closest I've got is not being able to open the bonnet, but that's because it was slightly bent out of shape! Needed to change a fuse and felt useless :P
 
I once left my car parked in the Stansted Airport long-term car park for a week while I was away. I left the lights on. They have a policy of trying to "get you started" if you have a minor problem when you get back to your car (flat battery, flat tyre, etc.). Arriving in the middle of a freezing, wet, winter's night and discovering that I had a flat battery, I 'phoned to ask for assistance and was told to wait in my car and someone would be along shortly.

Some time later, a van arrived but went to attend to another car first. Having watched and waited for about 15 minutes, I wandered over to ask when he might get round to jump-starting my car. The mechanic was deep in a very heated discussion with someone whose clutch had seized and was demanding that the mechanic repair it right there and then - I could have sold tickets :D
 
Mine wasn't a car fail moment. More of a yacht fail moment. When I was a bread snapper at 15 I managed to put about a cupful of water into the diesel tank. Our cruise from Cowes to Belgium was delayed by a day because the tank had to be purged.

I might also have failed once at Croft in the e28 M5 during qualifying once in 97 after trying to hang with Colin Wells in the Moseley ex btcc M3 around Sunny. Of course I more or less went straight on.

Silly me :D
 
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