Has Anyone Ever!!

[H35-IAN]

well guys i just had to share this with you lot,

ive got this week and next off so ive been messing around with the e30s the first got i did was clean the sport full valet etc etc painted the grill black , i then thought ive got a hartge gearnob somewhere!!

So i decided to go look for it , anyway i found it lerking in the wardrobe so i decided to set about getting it on ..........First job was to get the old one off which is the one piece original sport gearnob but with no m stripes

Anyway i got my arm round it stood up so i could pull it hard and the fookin thing wouldnt come off ....i tried again and again lol then got fed up i then got both hands over it sat in the car with all my power i pulled the fukker clean off including the gaiter lol but then at the same time i punched myself in the nose and eye to the point i nearly knocked myself clean out! i cut my nose open and put bruizing round my eye hahahhaha i fukkin laugh now but at the time it hurt!!

HAS ANYONE EVER DONE THIS ?????

i just wana know if im the only idiot who puts his face over it and dont realise lol!!

ian.


p.s ive got some pics to put up later of wat im doing on the car!!

[orangecurry]

not quite!

I changed knobs and knocked the rear-view mirror off, but no personal injury

[Geeman]

He he he... that's funny.

I had a spanner spin off and clock me in the face. That was pretty painful.

[eun]

i wanna see pics of the injury

sorry ian

[Cloggy Saint]

The closest i've come to that was when i was removing the rear wiper arm from a mk 2 golf. After pulling like fcuk it eventually came free.....straight into my eye! It wasn't easy trying to explain to the doctor in Dutch that i poked myself in the eye with a windscreen wiper

[hammoj28]

YUP! Iv done similar unfortunately. Had a bit of trouble getting it off so I stood behind the front seats an tried to pull it off, anyway it came off quite fast so I jumped back and hit my head on the roof! heard that a lot of people have hit themselves in the face when doing this.lol.

[Demlotcrew]

Yup ive seen it done loads of times.

Andrew

[HartgeH27]

Cant beat that one Ian - but did walk into the patio sliding doors on xmas eve .....had walked out and left it open and my lad closed it (it was dark) .....was rushing back in and all of a sudden I stopped....BANG !!!!
That made my eyes water lol !!!!!

[Cyruz]

Yep, I've done this Luckily it wasn't the brushed steel one I was replacing it with

[Ziggy]

I know you already knew, but if you'd searched on here for how the knob came off, you'd have found plenty of warnings not to smack yourself in the face!

Slipped & put a pair of pliers through my lower lip once! & petrol in the eye stings a bit too...

[andrewe30m3]

years ago, trying to get the steering wheel of my old metro... i loosened the nut too much and when it came off with some force i hit myself in the face... yup that seriously hurt!

[Hyperion]

hahahahahahaha ...man thats funny, man just dont go around telling people you punched yourself:)

[H35-IAN]

cheers for all the Laughs lads i must say i deserved it hahahahaha!! was so fooookin funny though me 4 m8s who were cleaning there motors were pissing emselves laughing i was almost on the floor knocked out hehehe! no no i cant get pics up ive only got a cut on my nose left now but it still aches!!

[d6dph]

hahaha, sorry ian but thats slightly funny! haha

[paulj]

well guys i just had to share this with you lot,

ive got this week and next off so ive been messing around with the e30s the first got i did was clean the sport full valet etc etc painted the grill black , i then thought ive got a hartge gearnob somewhere!!

So i decided to go look for it , anyway i found it lerking in the wardrobe so i decided to set about getting it on ..........First job was to get the old one off which is the one piece original sport gearnob but with no m stripes

Anyway i got my arm round it stood up so i could pull it hard and the fookin thing wouldnt come off ....i tried again and again lol then got fed up i then got both hands over it sat in the car with all my power i pulled the fukker clean off including the gaiter lol but then at the same time i punched myself in the nose and eye to the point i nearly knocked myself
clean out! i cut my nose open and put bruizing round my eye hahahhaha i fukkin laugh now but at the time it hurt!!

HAS ANYONE EVER DONE THIS ?????

i just wana know if im the only idiot who puts his face over it and dont realise lol!!

ian.


p.s ive got some pics to put up later of wat im doing on the car!!

Many time mate

You have just made my day i cant stop chuckling

thanks

[bootyman]

Yep. Done that too, although the advantage of being Black is that you dont see the bruises

[dsio]

When I changed my knob for a nice woodgrain one, I couldnt figure it out, and someone here told me to straddle the center console and pull over my shoulder to not knock myself out. That worked well getting the knob off, but then I fell backwards and cracked the rear ashtray and coin holder when my arse landed on it.

By the way, if anyone has a coin holder insert for the center console, and could ship to australia reasonably cheaply, PM me ;)

[Andy335Touring]

& petrol in the eye stings a bit too...

I've done that

[Ant]

Ian mate, I think we've all done something similar in the past, my most recent was splitting the bridge of my nose open with a 24mm spanner, I was lying on my back under the car @ the time, both eyes filled with blood and scrabbling to get , not fun, it "needed" stitches, but in the best DIY ever, I superglued it back together, slapped a plaster on , nad geot stuck back,

Kin double nose in the morning ! not good, its huge as normal

get well soon

[Zayyan]

Mine just comes off with one hand, I'm always playing with my knob when I'm bored in the car.

Only car-related injury I've had is when a front foglight kept going off so I bashed it back in with my wrist as I'd done many times before, though obviously the glass broke

Had a 1cm deep gash in what could be described as a "busy" place in terms of bloodflow.

The look on the face of the woman in the kiosk (this was at Tesco petrol station) when I went in and placed my rather colourful hand on the counter asking if they had a first aid kit was priceless

[bigun]

lol this thread is good just thought i would share this with you a few years ago i was trying to get a rusty screw out of a rear arch spat,MK3 xr3i slipped and put the screw driver through my hand ive also glued my one eye shut with superglue trying to open it and split the tube lol i also hit a plastic handled chisel with a wooden mallet it shot back and blacked my eye lol

[stonesie]

He he he... that's funny.

I had a spanner spin off and clock me in the face. That was pretty painful.

I did that with my ratchet at work, tightening a caliper carrier bolt at eye level.

1 final tweak i thought and that will do........ it did alright, socket slipped off and the body of the ratchet smacked me square-on in the temple and cut my head open it was all i could do to stay upright

[DanThe]

Smacked myself above my eyebrow with a Snap-On half inch drive ratchet about 400mm long. Was cracking suspension bolts and slipped off a rather tight one Also while changing fuel filter on a corsa on a 2 post lift, overlooked it had an accumulator so when i pulled the fuel hose off i got a right eye full, literally had to put my eye under the cold tap!
I once rubbed my eye after changing a 'furry' battery, god that hurt!!
That was all when i was an apprentice mechanic, so no more daft tricks like that nowadays

[eko]

Worse thing happened to me car wise was when i was about 18 i had a B reg Orion 1.3GL and was fitting a set of XR3i coil springs.
Did one side of the front no problem.When doing the other side,i stripped the strut from the car,put on the spring clamps and proceeded to remove the spring.
Remove all the top mount etc and got hold of the spring around one of the coils,as i did this one of the clamps slid round trapping all 4 fingers on my left hand between them
To make matters worse,no matter how carefull my dad was to loosen them they effectedly just tightened more hence having to improvise and use some old seatbelts to tie up the spring and cut the clamps of with the grinder very twitchy moment ill say!

Luckilly no broken bones but plenty of bruising and genuine pain.

Certainly learnt a valuable lesson that day

[Martinaston]

Just remember when using a sharp knife, always cut away from yourself.

[johnna]

dropped a lambda probe spanner when removing the o2 probe from the e36 I had. It hit me in the tooth.

When knocking a water pump off it's spindle, my right hand 'pad'- the fleshy bit at the bottom of the thumb just split and exploded. It was wrapped around the shaft of the hammer- claret everywhere!

Mind you my other pastime (football) has yielded:
5 broken noses, one broken hand, 4 broken 5th metatarsels, 2 broken fibulas, 2 broken tibias, 1 broken femur, 1 broken cheekbone, 1 torn knee ligament, 2 stitches in eyebrow, 16 stitches in ankle, 4 stitches in peak, 2 broken teeth.

Cars are safe, although I once dropped a mini on me ma.....

[bigun]

dropped a lambda probe spanner when removing the o2 probe from the e36 I had. It hit me in the tooth.

When knocking a water pump off it's spindle, my right hand 'pad'- the fleshy bit at the bottom of the thumb just split and exploded. It was wrapped around the shaft of the hammer- claret everywhere!

Mind you my other pastime (football) has yielded:
5 broken noses, one broken hand, 4 broken 5th metatarsels, 2 broken fibulas, 2 broken tibias, 1 broken femur, 1 broken cheekbone, 1 torn knee ligament, 2 stitches in eyebrow, 16 stitches in ankle, 4 stitches in peak, 2 broken teeth.

Cars are safe, although I once dropped a mini on me ma.....

you could make a lot of money as a stuntman

[stevo]

i know a guy who was hitting a stuck on wheel with a ball-pein hammer to loosen it, he missed the wheel and hit the tyre, resulting in the hammer bouncing off and whacking his head!
oh how i laughed!! especially when a big lump appeared on his dome!

[316eyes]

Not e30 related but worth a read.

Decorating the lounge when I first got married at 10.00pm Sat. night like you do when you're in love and want to impress her.
Cutting waste off in the corner with a stanley knife when she walks in with a cup of tea for me (bless). Take the tea, put it down and go back to cutting paper.
Didn't know I'd turned the knife round and put a 1" gash in my thumb.
3 hours later, no plasters left, no bandages left and running out of hankies
decide it needs stiching - so off to casualty.

Indian lady doctor gives me local pain killer jab (they don't seem to work on me but the fooking needle hurts). Cos I can still feel her touching the end of my thumb she gives me FOUR jabs over an hour and still doesn't work. Tell the silly b*tch to stitch it or I'll tw@t her and go home and do it myself.

Get home at 5.30am and still got to finish the decorating cos her parents are coming for dinner.

Had about 10 lots of stitches since then, NONE with anaesthetic!!!!!!!!!!

[316eyes]

dropped a lambda probe spanner when removing the o2 probe from the e36 I had. It hit me in the tooth.

When knocking a water pump off it's spindle, my right hand 'pad'- the fleshy bit at the bottom of the thumb just split and exploded. It was wrapped around the shaft of the hammer- claret everywhere!

Mind you my other pastime (football) has yielded:
5 broken noses, one broken hand, 4 broken 5th metatarsels, 2 broken fibulas, 2 broken tibias, 1 broken femur, 1 broken cheekbone, 1 torn knee ligament, 2 stitches in eyebrow, 16 stitches in ankle, 4 stitches in peak, 2 broken teeth.

Cars are safe, although I once dropped a mini on me ma.....

Thought I'd played in some rough leagues. Are you sure you didn't accidently sign on for a rugby team?

[bmwe30mtech]

Changing my exhaust my leg seized up in the cold and got bad cramp. I leapt up and smacked my head on the underside of my car, getting lots of 'mess' in my eyes.

Another time stupidly pushing my car up my drive (steep), i pushed with the boot open. It fell down and hit my hands so i fell flat on the floor and almost got run over by the car roling back!

Incidently my gearknob came off realy easily!

Paul

[316eyes]

Had 3 e30s - all with loose gearknobs - you just get used to pushing it back on.

[H35-IAN]

i dont post very oftion because i dont see the point in posting pointless stuff ive been around along time as most of u know though and i do come into the forum everyday!! and im pleased to say its getting back to how it used to be loving all the new developments within the zone to fair play guys.

im glad i could make a decent post anyway got u all amused and sharing other funny and not so funny moments always good to see and read!!

[M5pilot]

Ive punched myself in the same way the first time I removed a gearknob!

Now I face the other way when doing it.

Dont worry, we have all been there!

[stonesie]

Another good 1 for me was the first time i removed a steering wheel.... i was young, foolish and owned a nova so i supose it served me right that it was stuck and when it finally came off (partly me using all my weight and writhing at it, partly the spring behind it) it smacked me staright in the nose

in my defence it was a 1.4L that i made into a lightweight GT/E...