Whats your lists of mistakes when doing DIY's?
 

- stepped and slipped on a floor jack
- Automotive-Gooped my pants to my shirt
- dremelled a piece off my fingernail by accident...took off some skin behind the cuticle while I was at it
- don't accidentally touch a wire brush that's hooked up to an electric drill and is spinning
- put my center console together without plugging the antenna back into my deck...no radio
- burned myself on exhaust tip (never try to lower the exhaust yourself after having driven for an hour)
- cut myself on the inside of my fender (right under where the edge of the hood comes down)
- shocked myself hooking up 2AWG wire for amp power supply
- dropped a trunk lid on my head (took the springs off)
- stabbed myself with a voltage tester

-slipping off the jack handle and hyperextending my thumb
-picking up a piece of metal that I was grinding on w/ bare hands
-cross-threading a mount bolt because I was tired, and didnt care
-wondering why a bolt wont go in, because Im turning it left, instead of right
-getting zapped by the battery because Im using a 10" extension, touching the opposite terminal
-too much threadlock on hood pin studs, making it impossible to remove the nuts
-wd40 is flammable

-grinding without goggles
-doing electrical work without unplugging the battery
-using a 9/16 vice 14mm wrench/socket
-always snapping the rear lower control arm bolts
-spending all my money on I/H/E thinking it would make power... so I turboed later
-welding without gloves nor goggles
-welding while pants are soaked in oil... burnt the bottom of my pants
-using crescent wrench
-shorted out my O2 sensor cuz the wire was laying on the exhaust pipe, causing the insulation to melt and blew almost every fuse in my car

... theres more...:od

Oh god yes

lol at the crescent wrench. i think everyone has done that.

- blow fuses
- drop a nut or bolt down into the engine bay and have to dig it out.
- jack giving out -_- (that was scary as shit)
- broke three Craftsmen wrenchs
- forgetting about reverse threading
- put wrong bolt in wrong hole
- forget rotors get hot after driving and switching out brakes

-shocking myself on the coil
-stabbing my oil filter with a screwdriver cause i couldnt find the wrench to pull it off
-forgetting to hook my alternator up after the swap(glad autozone gives free replacment batteries when its under warentee)
-forgetting to hook my fuel pump up after the swap the trying to figure out why it wont work for 3 days:mad:
-trying to fix shifter while driving
-not waiting till coolent is cold to drain it cause "they dont know what they are talking about"

and of course

- trying to use a crecent wrench

:D :D :D :D