went to take out the trash and im kinda short so i used both hands to toss that trash in the dumpster.......yepppppp my keys went flying with it...evrything on my keychain, car, apt, my friends spare keys...mustve been like 10 pm and i was going on a date that i totally didnt want to miss so i was just like "i'll call the maintenance guy tomorrow morning..." well tomorrow morn came and i was late for work so i had to call him that afternoon....well they'd compressed the trash by then and there was no way of getting it out------so bye bye keys.

i did it again a couple months later.....soooooo, if you guys find an xB keyless entry and actual engine key on a silver doubled headed Scion keychain (that NOBODY has anymore--except maybe a few of you)---pls gimme it.

 

you do not know how many times i burst out laughing reading these stories, especially the foot odor kid!! hahahaahahahaha

I spent an hour and a halp trying to install tailights on my box and couldn't figure out why the stock ones wouldn't come out of the tailight area. An hour later, I sit on the bumper pondering and the lights fall out onto my lap. I'm such a retard!!

 

Like redneck 69, I put my lowering springs on the front, got them done, then went to the rear and saw the bump stops sitting on the table. Had to completely start over on the fronts, both of them.

 

Also, on the spring replacement, I used a floor jack to jack the car up, then jack stands at all four wheels. When I went to lower the car back down, I did not account for the lower springs and let the car back down onto the floor jack. Well I actually caught the mistake in time to keep from bending or breaking the ground effects. Jacked the car back up and put some 2x4s under the tire, really, really close to disaster.

 

did the same thing with my springs, wow i am accident prone. i used a swing arm lift for my install. when i went to set it back on the ground the lift wouldnt go down far enough, so my xb just sat on the lift instead of the ground.. i had to push the car to the side and swing the arms out, then push it the other way and get the other arms out.

 

Yup, I did that yesterday installing speakers. According to law, the little rivet stopped directly centered beneath the car.

 

I once threw my cell phone (stupid nextel) in disgust and broke my windshield on my old Dodge Stratus. Cost me 250 to get it fixed and i traded the dumb thing in 2 weeks later for my box. And now I don't throw my phone anymore.

 

Tried to remove the Dealer Sticker on the rear, had the tips from SCIONLIFE on doing it (using a blower, fish line,etc)..So I tried to pry off the thing with a thin screwdriver wrapped in a thin cloth..it came off alright, in pieces and NICE SCRATCHES !...tried to remove scratches, made it worse...Now I need a paint job!...

 

Well here is a tip from a veteran of stupid things ... First, don't ever try and remove the cloth insert from your door panels. The entire interior of my box is painted, except the dash, did it right, looks great, so I thought I would do my inserts since I've done it before on other vehicles. Well let me tell you, the cloth comes off easy enough, but the foam, that is an ancient chinese secret, that ____ is fused to the plastic. Having access to a shop I tried everything ... solvents, acids, gas, laquer thinner, paint remover, A GRINDER !!, nothing got that foam off. Ended up having to buy leather and doing all the door panels cuz dumb ___ me removed the material from all the doors first, instead of one at a time.

Second dumb story .. involved my beetle ..

As you may know removing the intakes from a beetle engine is a bit tricky, one bad move and a bolt slides right down into the engine. Well, this time I thought I would be real careful, use magnetic sockets, etc ... I got three of the four bolts out, put them down, removed the fourth, cleared the engine, felt great, got about 15 feet away from the car, slipped in some oil, threw my hands back and swoosh .. bolt right into the engine from 15 feet away .. Mind you this hole is less than 20mm wide and I made it from 15 feet without seeing the target .. The NBA aint got nothin on me !!!

 

Hi, I'm the guy who started this thread. I feel so much better knowing other people have had problems too.
Another stupid thing i did was de-badging my XB..it's all scratched and discolored.

 

Here is my bonehead mod gone wrong !

Mesh grille on a xB, not bad if you are on a budget. The End result although it doesn't look too bad I don't like it's not the look I thought I was gonna get.



Taking it way to far --- Don't try to put mesh were it doesnt belong or in this case fit ! Had to sand it down a little was actually a little worse.



Snow shovel incident - pay attention to where you throw the snow as to not hit ur car with the shovel



& yes I did get some paint on the rotor

End result, I was just plain stupid ! I now must pay $275.00 for paint & bodywork & I will now do it right & purchase the 3pc. billet grilles probably about $250.00. This lesson will only cost me $525.00 & the loss of my xB for 2days.

Friends don't let friends drink & mod + shovel snow !

 

Yeah, that WAS pretty stupid.

 

Oh yeah, I mounted a tweeter in front of where my glovebox opens without realizing it, then went to the dealer to get an alignment and oil change for free. "Where's your service manual?" "oh, it's right... *thudthudthud*... in the glovebox which I can't open."

They did it all for free without questions though

 

I think I need to post that pic of the nasty key scratch someone did to my car. I will make everyone cry.

And now just today, I scrapped my bottom bumper. Not paying attention, and realizing how difficult it is to see the front of the car, I went too far and let the front hit the side walk curb.. .ARGHHHH!!!

 

So I have to say i dont feel all to bad about being such an idiot after this..... I blew my mass air flow sensor somehow while installing my system!

 

I screamed at my wife one night cuz i thought she was going to do this. The parking stalls angle into the curb, I was on the passenger side, one of the rare times I'm not driving. I said "Stop.... STOP" Got out, she was still about a foot away... had to apologize profusely... BUT the next time she drove, she parked it on top of the lip, right on the parking block. I had to stare at it all thru dinner wondering if it was going to slide off the block OK. She walked home with the kids, we were just a few blocks away. I think she was afraid that if we loaded it up it would grab. I told her if she messes it up, I'm buying a lip kit. I think that was probably the last time she's driven the Box...

 

forgive me, but damn thats harsh. a man making women and children walk like that when there's a car there.....im saying you couldve backed it up and then asked them to get in...a lip is always replaceable....a wifey aint....

 

after leaving the clubS saw a lot of cops on the road..., finally got pulled over for 50 in a 35 (N Tryon)...got a ticket......was on the phone with my boys who were all coming down that night too to hang with my girls and i at my place ---not even a mile down the road, cop was coming from the opposite way---didnt pay attn and almost ran through a red light but my friend shouted so i slammed the breaks really hard and was about a quarter way into the intersection....didnt get pulled....met up with the guys and drove around to grab some latenight food and had to slow it down several times again...i shouldve just been super careful to start off with after we saw the first few cop cars....most idiotic part was that i knew the police station was right there and thats where i got caught for speeding....right after i zoomed by the station......

 

I couldnt afford an audioforms enlosure, so I cut a hole in the panel and dropped an old 10" sub in there sounded like crap then I bought a nice sub that works in free air. sounds better but I still need to get an enclosure.
Iv'e sone so many stupid things I can hardly remember most of them, I left a brand new gleaming shiny diamond plate aluminum toolbox full of expensive drawing supplies in my crx parked in harlem. my window was broken within 3 hours.
also my girl was trying to stop me from leaving her house so she jumped in the crx and stalled the engine, then she started laughing (because she was nervous) so i got ____ed and jumped on my own car and punched the windshield in.
<--IDIOT