Share Your Bonehead Moves

[NevadaMike]

have you done a boneheaded move? Share it here.

Ill start. The PO of the Jeep Wrangler TJ removed the fog lights from the bumper for some reason. I was looking at some led cube lights to put in their place. They come with an adapter so it’s plug and play; no splicing required. I see the factory fog light switch inside, but the light on the switch never turns on no matter what position it’s in. I check the fuse box under the hood to see if the fuse is blown. Non of the fuses are marked what they are for and I don’t have an owners manual. So I get online and find out the fuse for the fog lights is in a fuse box behind the glove box. I look at the fuse and it’s ok. I decide to move onto another project before I start rating into it chasing wires to see if the PO repurposed the switch for something else. I hop into the Jeep and head to the store to get something and since it’s now getting dark out I turn on the headlights. As soon as I do that the light on the fog light switch comes on. I forgot the headlights need to be on fir the fog lights to work.

Now it’s your turn to share.

 

[Steel City 06]

More than once I've taken a sledgehammer to stuck rotors only to realize an hour later the parking brake is on...

 

[TJ Jim]

One boneheaded move is telling anyone you did something boneheaded. They will in turn tell EVERYONE

 

[Fishtaco]

When I drove my first TJ (Brother lent it to me for a few months) I decided to check the oil before I took off in it but couldn't find the hood pull lol

 

[John Cooper]

When I drove my first TJ (Brother lent it to me for a few months) I decided to check the oil before I took off in it but couldn't find the hood pull lol

Then you get a TJ and let the dogs balls put deep scratches in it and call it trail rash!!!!!!!

 

[TWiG01]

Then you get a TJ and let the dogs balls put deep scratches in it and call it trail rash!!!!!!!

Your dog must have balls of steel!

 

[John Cooper]

Your dog must have balls of steel!

That's what @Fishtaco ( ) called his trail rash in another thread.

 

[mrblaine]

That's what @Fishtaco ( ) called his trail rash in another thread.

After discussions with him about things mechanical and his very bizarre ideas of how things work, believing he said that isn't a stretch at all.

 

[John Cooper]

After discussions with him about things mechanical and his very bizarre ideas of how things work, believing he said that isn't a stretch at all.

He probably likes vegemite too.

 

[mrblaine]

He probably likes vegemite too.

That is a cultural thing, not understanding mechanical things isn't.

 

[UKTJ]

Then you get a TJ and let the dogs balls put deep scratches in it and call it trail rash!!!!!!!

How about saying somebody said scratches were made by the dogs balls, when he actually said they stood out like dogs’ balls

 

[UKTJ]

That is a cultural thing, not understanding mechanical things isn't.

Like not being able to read, or understand, or both

 

[John Cooper]

Like not being able to read, or understand, or both

Dang limey, always got to be pointing out others mistakes

 

[UKTJ]

Dang limey, always got to be pointing out others mistakes

We used to have an empire, all we are left with now is acting as global English language pedants

PS I think you mean other’s, God damn it just can’t help myself

 

[mrblaine]

We used to have an empire, all we are left with now is acting as global English language pedants

It is too bad you aren't a mechanical pedant, you could explain things to him in a language he understands since God knows he don't get it from our explanations.

PS I think you mean other’s, God damn it just can’t help myself

Forgivable, this time.

 

[BonesXX]

I installed led tails and when I went to change the flasher I look under the dash by the pedals and there it was. But for some reason it was still doing the fast blinkers. It turns out if you put the flasher in the right place by the steering column it works. Thankfully Blaine was there to call me a fucking idiot and set me straight

 

[suicideking]

Leaving the tail gate open and driving away. Then your friend on the radio: Um, your tailgate is open dumbass! Walk of shame to close it...

 

[Kevin Q]

So many in the year since I've had this Jeep and some with my first Jeep. Long story short, tried to play in the woods with my first Jeep before playing in a hockey game. Got it stuck in mud and had to abandon it overnight. My gf at the time, wife now, was coming to see me play for the first time. She drove me home and Jeepers from nearby QVC pulled me out the next day. I was in my early 20s and dumb(er).

 

[Zorba]

I always have my SLR camera about when I'm working on the Jeep, to take pix for my website. I used to set it on the front bumper a LOT. Yes, you see this coming...

Hopped in the Jeep to drive it somewhere, about a mile from the house, I stop at a stop sign that's on a downward slope. Hear a strange sound of something falling, didn't know what it was. Pull forward, and see something in the road behind me. I *still* hadn't figured it out. I turned around pulled up next to the thing, see that its my camera, get out and grab it, then pull over to look for the rest of it. The battery and the CF card both had come out. Found the battery, never did find the CF card.

Thank Goddess no other cars came along while this fiasco was in progress! The cheap, kit lens was destroyed - thankfully I didn't have one of my expen$ive lenses on the thing at the time. The battery door was broken off, so I bought a parts camera for $20 and fixed it - and bought another camera from the same line for $60 to have a backup, and that camera also came with a lens to replace the one that was destroyed.

BONE. HEAD.

Now I *NEVER* leave the thing on the front bumper...

 

[mrblaine]

I always have my SLR camera about when I'm working on the Jeep, to take pix for my website. I used to set it on the front bumper a LOT. Yes, you see this coming...

Hopped in the Jeep to drive it somewhere, about a mile from the house, I stop at a stop sign that's on a downward slope. Hear a strange sound of something falling, didn't know what it was. Pull forward, and see something in the road behind me. I *still* hadn't figured it out. I turned around pulled up next to the thing, see that its my camera, get out and grab it, then pull over to look for the rest of it. The battery and the CF card both had come out. Found the battery, never did find the CF card.

Thank Goddess no other cars came along while this fiasco was in progress! The cheap, kit lens was destroyed - thankfully I didn't have one of my expen$ive lenses on the thing at the time. The battery door was broken off, so I bought a parts camera for $20 and fixed it - and bought another camera from the same line for $60 to have a backup, and that camera also came with a lens to replace the one that was destroyed.

BONE. HEAD.

Now I *NEVER* leave the thing on the front bumper...

My helper had a very bad habit of laying his black smartphone in its black protective case on top of black winches when we were working on rigs. He no longer does that with the new phone.