Worst Accident While Fixing E30

[Daf318is]

Unbolted a bootlid on a touring whilst I was stood underneath it man all that glass and metal is heavy when it lands on your head!

[l3e30]

My worst was the other day when trying to remove caliper bolts on the 30. First punched the spring platform on the shocker, 4 bleeding knuckles later i then some how managed to remove my thumb nail which has now gone septic and hurts like a bas**rd. Never mind hey, much worse could have happened

[hazd31]

bonnet and spare tyre of a defender was my worst, hospital and stiches on my chin,

with the e30 i hit my face with the sump while changing it, dont ask me how but hospital again and some sort of superglue to me another scare.

another one was seatbelt tensioner on a mk3 golf went off while i was removing it from the car, badly bruised hand, scar on my chest and a ripped my fav t shirt!

+many cuts bruises and genrally lots of paid working on the 30!!

[gooner1]

i remember gooner (i think it was) saying about his accident when he was working on his e30. Can't rememeber it all tbh but i do remember that it wasnt pleasent!

Ive not had anything too bad thank god.

Yup, that was me. 318 touring on axle stands and trolley
jack, on a sloping hard standing.

Pulled whole car off stands and jack whilst trying to undo a stubborn diff bolt. Resulted in a 67 kilo idiot bench pressing
the best part of 1000kilos, while trying to attract the attention of my cloth eared Doris. Sure she was looking for the life insurance, having a nice cup of tea and several ciggies, before
she deigned to answer my ever increasingly desperate whimpers for assistance.

[town325i]

i remember gooner (i think it was) saying about his accident when he was working on his e30. Can't rememeber it all tbh but i do remember that it wasnt pleasent!

Ive not had anything too bad thank god.

Yup, that was me. 318 touring on axle stands and trolley
jack, on a sloping hard standing.

Pulled whole car off stands and jack whilst trying to undo a stubborn diff bolt. Resulted in a 67 kilo idiot bench pressing
the best part of 1000kilos, while trying to attract the attention of my cloth eared Doris. Sure she was looking for the life insurance, having a nice cup of tea and several ciggies, before
she deigned to answer my ever increasingly desperate whimpers for assistance.

your one lucky man to still be here then

[gooner1]

i remember gooner (i think it was) saying about his accident when he was working on his e30. Can't rememeber it all tbh but i do remember that it wasnt pleasent!

Ive not had anything too bad thank god.

Yup, that was me. 318 touring on axle stands and trolley
jack, on a sloping hard standing.

Pulled whole car off stands and jack whilst trying to undo a stubborn diff bolt. Resulted in a 67 kilo idiot bench pressing
the best part of 1000kilos, while trying to attract the attention of my cloth eared Doris. Sure she was looking for the life insurance, having a nice cup of tea and several ciggies, before
she deigned to answer my ever increasingly desperate whimpers for assistance.

your one lucky man to still be here then

Don,t i know it, which is why i repeatedley bang on about
not getting under unsupported cars now.

[fuzzy]

i had a similar occurance under a celica. the jack dropped and the car fell on my head, fortunately i always put the removed wheel under the car just in case. i was picking pebbles out my face for weeks after being pressed into the pavement.

[robbo86]

I have done the fuel lines one but missed my eyes. Up the nose and in my mouth though. Also dropped a socket bar on my forehead while trying to bolt up the propshaft.

[essexboy]

i burnt all the skin off me arm from thumb to elbow while bleading my old 316 as i cracked the rad cap to let steam out and it flew off into orbit

[jaymos]

7 stitches im my right butt cheek after sledging down a hill on a binbag

[robbo86]

Not quite car related jay, but hilarious nonetheless

[pac1982]

Not half as bad as some peoples on here but this is a very recent one, while fitting some front wings on the E30 a mate was helping me he went to give the arch liner a good whack to get it in place and hit two rusty screws with the palm of his hand going a good 10mm in

[jaymos]

Not quite car related jay, but hilarious nonetheless

I know but i aint had an accident while working on my car
ive also dislocated my shoulder after falling out of a bunkbed

[robbo86]

Some people are born clumsy, others have clumsiness thrust upon them!

[Jimbo2006]

Those damn sharp edges of the rear spring seats on the chassis side...
I had red lines on my forehead for about a week on four different occasions whilst working in the dark wheelarch/on fueltank etc.

Also cut my wrist nicely with an angled screwdriver trying to remove gearbox selector seal under the car. Not on purpose although I was pretty annoyed. It bled a lot, for a fateful few seconds I looked at it thinking 'hmm, this might be really really bad...'

[bramley]

I've been lucky, but I did hear some good advice from a mate at the weekend: "Never put your hand anywhere that you wouldn't put your d1ck" if only his colleague had listened to that advice before putting his hand under an unsupported tipping bed on a Unimog...

[sihooker]

"Never put your hand anywhere that you wouldn't put your d1ck"

I'll only be shaking hands with women from now on....