What injuries have you had working on cars?

[AUII_Forte]

Hey guys,

Just wondering what sort of injuries you have all had from working on your car?

I hopped in the car at my GF's house tonight and started it, hmmmm bit of an exhaust leak I thought to myself. Stopped in at work on the way home and poked my head under the car to check it out, the cat bolts had come loose, so I grabbed a couple of spanners and proceeded to tighten them up. Then I burned the f**k out of myself on the cat and went to sit up rather quickly. Which in turn meant I smashed the very top of my nose on the sill and split it open. I spent the next 20 mins trying to stop the bleeding, then I had a look in the mirror to discover I've got 2 nice big black eyes to accompany the nasty gash across the top of my nose!

I have had countless other injuries, such as skin off everywhere and various other cuts and bruises......the joys of cars! lol.

[sfr rob]

HAHAHA DANG that has to suck!

cant add anything YET! :

[Psycho Chicken]

Checking a fuel leak on the old EB, the fuel hose wasn't on the rail properly. I bled the system pressure, tried to fix it, leak was still there. Jumped under the car again...ah I can see the problem, if I just unscrew the hose and put it bac....next second my head was under the kitchen tap trying to get fuel out of my eyes, nose, ears and mouth.

Countless cuts and burns, ah well, comes with the job.

[The MaDDeSTMaN]

skin taken off my knuckles and the back of my hands, boiling water spilt all over my left hand (making driving a manual car rather difficult), getting an eye full of petrol while working on the petrol lines, that's all I can think of at the moment, but that's enough.

[MITCHAY]

Lol the only injury ive sustained is the burning hole in my wallet when i get it serviced by a mechanic hahhahahha.

[Casper]

Many but the worst was replacing the diff in my XD many years ago.

The setting. 10pm on a freezing winters night...Sunday...needed the car to get to work in the morning.
Cars parked in the driveway that is not concreted yet....bluestone crushed rock...very uncomfortable and VERY cold.

I'm laying lengthwise under the car taking drastic action to get the tailshaft free of the unijoint thingy. Drastic action involves booting the hell out of the diff to move it back and dislodge the tailshaft...not really thinking about what happens when it does...which I am about to find out about.

Anyhow, tailshaft suddenly goes "yep, I'm free" and gravity does its job. It drops down and lands snugly...right between my legs. Sudden pain and discomfort makes me shoot bolt upright..under the car. My head is fortunatly stopped from proceeding by the 2 ends of a U bold holding the exhaust on.. pain, discomfort and now blood. Sensing at this stage that sitting upright was BAD I fall back solidly onto the only thing behind me...crushed rock. Pain, discomfort, blood and now more blood.

I will NEVER work on my cars again.

[gtfpv]

you poor bastard. but i had to laugh . sorry.
i borrowed my sister inlaws barina while my car was at the panel beaters once, i promised her id change the oil and give it a service in return for her generosity. i had no time at all it was time to take her car back so i done the service at home in the garage at 1am in the morning i raised the remote door and pushed her car back 3 feet to give me some room under the bonnet, the car was 1/2 in 1/2 out of the garage i forgot to take the remote out of my pocket. i was under the barina remuving the sump plug when the garage door started coming down . i banged my head and scratched my shoulder getting out jumped to my feet and ran towards the door switch in the garage ,in all the haste i fell on my knees and desperately ran on my knee caps and stretched out and turned the door off. the door stopped 1cm from the car, i had to lye on the floor for 20minutes with bleeding knees a bleeding shoulder and a bump on my head. geezz it sucked , i know how ya feel dude.f#####n cars.

Not me, but considering my dad is a mechanic (well owns a Shell servo amongst other things), he has had heaps - here's a couple:
Gas tank fell out of a car on a hoist above his head and hit him in the head, i think 30 stitches.
Angle grinder cut his gut open.
Slipped with screw drivers and put them through his hand / fingers many times.
Had melted metal (i think from a welder) drip off what he was working on and fall on his wrist under his watch strap (so he couldn't wipe it off and it stayed there) and burnt his wrist heaps.
Had a nut/bolt fly off a compressor or something and hit him in the head (few more stitches).
When you drill metal and get the hot curly offcuts, one of them went in his ear drum.

But most of all he has had manual cars which were in gear been started and jump off the hoists onto him as he has been under the cars.

1st time he was around 17 i think, and it crushed his pelvis into 3 or 4 pieces and he was pinned under the car, the next time he was about 30-35 and he was able to lift the car up to get out from under it, and although he still had to gotto hospital, it was less damaging.


Cheers,

-Matty J


. . .I'll think of alot more.

[The MaDDeSTMaN]

Originally Posted by gtfpv

you poor bastard.

I agree, your poor buggar Casper, that would have sucked, and not in a good way either :hihi:

Glad I'm not the only one who has experienced the "joy" of petrol in the eye, not an experience I want to repeat in a hurry...

[Feathers]

The usual grazed knuckles, minor cuts, bruises.

I stick a flat nladed screwdriver through my hand once, had to go to medical centre to get that stitched. But once I trned around and showed my Dad and our mechanic, the mechanic passed out, split his head open, and he had to be taken to the medical centre too.

And a severe burn to the underside of my arms from leaning on a bonnet to lift myself up from a sitting position while using paint stripper, and forgetting I'd already done the bonnet.

[nick81xd]

did a 5000rpm launch and shit the rear uni and tore most of front uni out. climbed under to try to tie driveshaft up, tied it up picked up bolt off ground rope snapped shaft landed on pinky crushing it. left with nail sitting on road and blood ****ing out of pinky

[neb]

ouch.... all i've had is minor cuts and burns on my arms/hands.. nothing too bad

[gtfpv]

i better stop reading this thread before i do myself an injury you see i had a hernia operation 1 week ago in the belly . and reading these stories is making me belly laugh which i'm not quite up to at the moment.. haaaahhhaaaahhaaaaahhaaaaaa!!!!!!!!

[BJ]

I have to admite that in the 20 odd years i have been in the motor trade i have never cut, burnt, broken or lost any part of any thing touch wood. But i have seen plenty one of the first appies i had cut 4 of his toes off. He had steel cap boots on (i hate those bloody things) when he droped a cast iorn head on his foot, another one stuck his finger in a moving tail shaft and lost that and the worst one was my partner he was carrying a gear box over to a bench and drop it and got his di&^k court and cut the tip of geees did he scream.

[BlueRaven]

Yeah, thankfully all i've had is a few cuts, bruises, burns and what not... but there again, ive barely begun rebuilding my car..

[brenx]

Where to start hmm -:

1) Fractured my thumb undoing manifold bolts on a clevo that an exhaust fitter couldn't remove
2) Fractured my nose when undoing an Escort leaf spring. Best not to have your head under it when it falls down ;) I crawled from the garage to the house about 30ft and had to call out for the Mrs. I couldn't see a thing due to my eye watering for ages.
3) Metal in my eyes * lots. Goggles are crap. Metal sticks to the sweat on your forehead. When you take the goggles off it falls in your eyes. Lastest one was last night. I've had doctors and eye specialists remove metal too. Worst one took over 10 visits and 8 weeks to fix.
4) Flash burn (mig welding). I ended up in hospital for about 4 hours. Doctor sent me home with some nice pain killers and sleeping tablets. I couldn't see for 48 hours. Whats weird is my eye sight got better after the injury?!?!
5) Burnt the word "HOLDEN" into my forearm from an exhaust manifold on the HZ I used to own. Ah the 253 power house

I'm sure there is more as I work on cars all the time when I have spare time.

Brenden

[GTFalcon 351]

almost had my head taken off by a falling k frame whilst under a car at pick a part that had been conveniently unbolted but left hanging,by someone

i seriously wonder how many people get injured every year at that place when i see things like bonnets propped up by plastic grilles wedged between the carby and the bonnet

[GTFalcon 351]

Originally Posted by brenx

Where to start hmm -:

5) Burnt the word "HOLDEN" into my forearm from an exhaust manifold on the HZ I used to own. Ah the 253 power house

hahahaha

[Danny]

Working on the bonnet with a lady friend as my assistant..... :
I got a sore back.... :hihi:

[Dezza]

Thankfully, I haven't done anything to myself, but my cousin (a qualified mechanic) set himself on fire! He was trying to start an old paddock basher on his day off by pouring fuel down the carby. He put the tin of fuel down beside the car, forgetting that the car had side-mounted exhausts. When starting it, it backfired, setting the tin of fuel on fire. So he picked up the tin and tried to throw it away from the car, only to have the fuel spill all over his face. Luckily, his dad was nearby so he managed to put out the flames that had engulfed my cousin. The injuries have healed well, and there are no real signs of what had happened to his face. The worst burns were to his ears but even they look OK now.

[XRated]

Had the engine and trans out with Dellboy, I was trying to undo a rusty bolt (forgot which one) so I applied all my force.. Eventually it came loose and all that force sent my right hand flying into something and ****ed out blood everywhere. Left a nice BIG cut in my hand, so it was down to the doctors and eight stitches later I was back trying to help work on the car still.

[benXaGt]

[QUOTE=MattyJ]

Angle grinder cut his gut open.

Did you no that the 9" angle grinder is the most dangerous electrical tool in a work shop?
I had that meaty part between the thumb and pointer finger opened up about 1cms on my left hand it bleed like shit and i didnt get stiches for it i keep my hand closed for a few days to scab up and it took a couple of weeks to heal up. My uncle cut his knee a couple of months ago aswell with a 9".
Also my dads got a pretty horrific story about a bloke who killed himself with one when dad was young.

Most dangerous tool ever is a chainsaw.

[brenx]

I love my chainsaws Angle grinder is definately more dangerous than a chainsaw. Chainsaws have loads of safety features built in to prevent injuries. Unlike the angle grinder.

[Simmo]

fuel burns from changing a fuel filter. i sucked majorly at it [greenmachine will attest to my mechanical skills] and i was just lying under the car getting covered in fuel. next thing i know my chest feels like its on fire and im in the shower with a huge red patch.

apart from that various cuts and scratches and burns.

[EA2BA]

Stabbed my hand with a screwdriver now have grease stuck in my hand as a souvineer, otherwise just the usual cuts, bruises and burns that come with pulling cars apart and putting them back together.

[Racecraft]

Originally Posted by CH7472

and the worst one was my partner he was carrying a gear box over to a bench and drop it and got his di&^k court and cut the tip of geees did he scream.

OMG!!!!

Now that would be the most painful and embarassing injury a man could sustain...
Makes my career high of 30 stitches look like a grass burn...

[Gammaboy]

Worst for me was Green Machine dumping fuel in my Eye while I was under his car....

[EA2BA]

Originally Posted by XRated

Had the engine and trans out with Dellboy, I was trying to undo a rusty bolt (forgot which one) so I applied all my force.. Eventually it came loose and all that force sent my right hand flying into something and ****ed out blood everywhere. Left a nice BIG cut in my hand, so it was down to the doctors and eight stitches later I was back trying to help work on the car still.

That was a fun day hey Luke, and the lesson learned was your car has bitten every one but me so far ........ lol

[xdc351]

Yarr, a car be why I can wear an eye patch and be gettin away with it.

I be reccomending yee all be wearing saftey glasses while working on them automobiles.

[big_waity]

I just sliced my hand open trying to open a box at work. MMM COMPO! lol