What's the dumbest thing you have done with your car?

[carltalon]

I gave QPR my creditcard #

[Enes]

Originally Posted by carltalon

I gave QPR my creditcard #

actually that statement should read " I lost controll and used a creditcard"

[unreal808]

In my DSM, Down shift to second instead of third.

In outher cars. The dumbest thing I ever did to a car was, take a vice-grip to the rear brake line and crimp them off, and remove the rear brakes on a Tempo, that I couldn’t afford to fix.
And put "Great stuff" expanding foam in a rust hole, and paint it.

Great Stuff is the shyt! The dumbest thing I have ever done, hasnt happened yet. It will be to drive the gsx as a daily driver. Today, I was under it, dropping the exhaust, and I saw all the back end was rusted. Not rusted THROUGH, but noticable surface. Damn car came from CT. So, when the tranny is done, and the body is done, I will take it to a lift, and blast all the rust I can, get some rust inhibitor stuff, coat the underside with that, then some under coat stuff, like bed liner. Hopefully it will help the car out. Driving it like it is, would be DUMB, lol. (Oh, and I let a friend ride my chopper, and he laid it down)

[Jakey]

Install a stereo system in my old Grand Am worth more than the car then make a spur-of-the-moment decision to sell it for a huge loss.

[JDM]

Originally Posted by 1slowdsm

Let RS Motors touch my car! Clutch job=$600 for labor + over $350 for ACT 2100 clutch (which they called Stage II). I dont even know if they resurfaced my flywheel or not.
Fried my clutch at RF last spring and wasting too much money on crap parts...like Punishment Racings 2.5" Pressbent DP. Cheap in price and quality..haha.

I backed up into those concrete blocks that hold up light poles in parking lots...haha.

I learned that one the hard way too... RS Motors is now out of business... All the guys should be gone soon... Propulshun should be hiring NEW guys who know what they're doing, I've met a few of em'... I guess time will tell

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Originally Posted by JDM

I learned that one the hard way too... RS Motors is now out of business... All the guys should be gone soon... Propulshun should be hiring NEW guys

Oh god, even worse. I would trust Ron over them. It's not like there are really that many guys out there locally who know a lot about modding different kinds of cars. The most knowledgable Honda guys out there locally have their own things going. Did Propulshun get the dyno?

[JDM]

Nope. They're buying a newer, nicer one. AWD. Ron is gone, and so are the rollers.

They're hiring some outside help from has been shops...

[Pimpin Dsmstyle]

I put a body kit on my 1.8 sohc 92 1g eclipse. Left it unpainted. I also bought 15 inch ADR rims and put low pro tires on. Can you say good bye to 1500 bux? I coulda bought 3 part cars with that dude.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Originally Posted by JDM

Nope. They're buying a newer, nicer one. AWD. Ron is gone, and so are the rollers.

They're hiring some outside help from has been shops...

Ron took it with him? Wonder if it's for sale.

[Emcee gsxtc]

I bought an 88 civic hatchback,

I bought a 95 looks like a 98 mits eclipse GSX,

I bought a 91 Pontiac Sunbird,

I bought a 90 mits eclipse GSX,

and broke them all and many others.

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I knew about QPR but tried to fix my own car myself.

I didn't whip out the biggest credit card I could find it and give it to QPR.

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I raced people for no reason at all in above cars at stupid times and in minivans owned by my parents.

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I still believe I can own a car that won't break.

[Emcee gsxtc]

Oh, and the not stupid thing was bought a nice 4 dr car (Audi A4) that i still broke, but HAS A WARRANTY!

[Sticky Rice]

putting money into it!...

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Are you sure about RS Motors being gone? I called them today and they were still there and said they had an AWD dyno.

[Khadgar]

Originally Posted by DSMChick

The dumbest thing I did with my GSX, was to buy suspension for the car, never use it, and end up losing money on it.

Nah, I thought that was a pretty good thing. =D

[SlowWhite]

Originally Posted by JDM

I still think I win this contest. I've probably spent well over $35k in my car by now. Stupid me.

Ya don't worry you'll never catch up to me.... your not even 1/2 way to what I've spent.

[MATCHBX]

I did something like what Raptor did. In high school, the fuse popped for the brake lights on my 73 Valiant. Being the cheap ass that I was, I wrapped the fuse in tinfoil instead of spending the $1 to buy new ones. It held for quite a while until I was a block away from home and I got smoked out of the car. The headlights dimmed, smoke started rolling out from under the dash and I could see 3 wires glowing red thru the thick smoke. I spent about 7 hours or so the next day rewiring almost the entire car all the way back to the brake lights. DOHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Alpine TSi]

I wanted a loud ricey muffler for my Neon(yes I said Neon) back in the day, but I couldn't afford it. So I took my drill and a big UniBit and drilled four holes into the muffler to make it loud.

[AJ]

Originally Posted by Alpine TSi

I wanted a loud ricey muffler for my Neon(yes I said Neon) back in the day, but I couldn't afford it. So I took my drill and a big UniBit and drilled four holes into the muffler to make it loud.

hahahahahaha

[Alpine TSi]

Yeah.... laugh it up, just like I laugh everytime I pull up that Scorcher pic I have saved to hard disk.