This of course would suit a DIY page, but its admin only, as i just found out! lol.

1: Do not put fish oil on your exhaust manifold! it stinks when the engine turns on and there is smoke that resembles a fire pouring from the air vents and grille! and the smell last for weeks!


2: If you cannot find HT leads in the colour of your choice (for me, red) DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES paint them!! i spent £42 on a new black set. i binned them after a couple of weeks. why? because the paint didnt dry, and i couldnt get them on without me, and the engine, gettn plastered in red patchy paint. and then the HT leads were covered in fingerprints in the wet paint!
o, the paint did have 2 coats. the 1st dried, but the second didnt, after 2 weeks!
i now have a days work trying to remove enamel paint from dirty black areas! grrrr.


please, add your own silly c*ck ups. such as using kitchen roll to check the oil, then forget to bin the kitchen roll, and then watch it ignite on the manifold runners while you are talking to the neighbour!! (not me, honest. and its ok, non-coupe related incident )

and also things like, forgettn to add the oil filler cap after filling, and then driving miles. just to find that you have a big oil stain to clean up from everywhere! o, and no oil!



add your own below.

I left a bulb box on the top of the engine which slipped onto the belts causing it to make funky burning smell once

Cover up ANYTHING electrical. When I went to pick up my last car, the valeters had steam cleaned the whole engine bay - including the eletrical sensors. The car was wrecked.

where there's blame there's a claim

when i was changin my bulbs i put the new 1;s on top of the engine plastics, then i knocked them, they rooled onto the battery hit the live n fried both of em

as per my experience:

Unscrew the Hot plate, clean it all up and spray it silver, leave coat one to dry over night.

following morning, wake up too late so screw it back on with just one coat done

that night, come home, drop the car off and go out...











come home to find that my dad has sprayed EVERYTHING under the bonnet silver and hasnt masket ANYTHING off!!!

left my petrol cap on the spoiler and drove off, left the sunn roof open in the morning when it was sunny at work forgot then 11hours later left work there'd be torrential rain 2 day sof drying the car out inc vacumcleaners dehumidifiers and heaters

I like it!!!

dont wear a tie when checking fan belts.........................