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What was your most recent expensive screw up?

Not bike-related, but...

Replacing the left front CV axle on my Audi A3 VR6 (note: Don't buy an Audi on Craigslist), then discovering 2 weeks later that I had torqued the bolts too tight, when they snapped and the axle spun free wildly, smashing a hole in the transmission housing, dumping all the fluid in about 2 seconds flat and ALSO throwing bits of aluminum housing into the gears, instantly turning the car into...an expensive brick.

Sold the car (basically for scrap) almost 2 years ago, and I JUST finished paying off the loan over the summer...
 
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Over torquing my oil drain bolt on a cold winter morning... Cracked the oil pan. Reminiscent of the scene from The Two Towers when the Ents broke the damn above Isenguard.
 
senpai71 said:
Not bike-related, but...

Replacing the left front CV axle on my Audi A3 VR6 (note: Don't buy an Audi on Craigslist), then discovering 2 weeks later that I had torqued the bolts too tight, when they snapped and the axle spun free wildly, smashing a hole in the transmission housing, dumping all the fluid in about 2 seconds flat and ALSO throwing bits of aluminum housing into the gears, instantly turning the car into...an expensive brick.

Sold the car (basically for scrap) almost 2 years ago, and I JUST finished paying off the loan over the summer...
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I think we have a winner!
 
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