How to damage yourself servicing cars.
This happened to me as I was changing the front discs on my renault megane.The first set of discs and pads had been changed with no problems. so I confidently went over to the other side of the car with my axle stand and wheel nut spanner. Unfortunately the last time the tyre was changed the car mechanic, who must of been a 20 stone gorilla had done the wheel nuts up so tight I couldn't budge them. Not to be beaten I really leant into it and put my full weight on the spanner, this was to be my downfall. The spanner slipped and I fell nose first onto my axle stand. I was lucky I'd not broken it, but it did swell up and the bleeding took most of the day to stop. Hey you live and learn.
Well, other people live and learn, you'ld of thought that I'd make an effort to look after the nose after that. I went back to the car the following day to finish the job off. My wife had piled the tools into the boot the day before so I opened the boot to get the stuff out again. Sadly my nose got in the way again, and collided with the corner of the boot as I was closing it, reopening the wound.
Personally I blame my genes, the Tyrrell family are renowned for the size of our noses, rivalling concordes. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise
when it gets involved in an accident!
posted by Andy Tyrrell @ 6:05 PM
1 Comments:
Hi,
Just a thought...take it or leave it....
Once I was travelling on a bus and we got a puncture. We all off loaded and watched the driver battle away trying to loosen the wheel nuts. Eventually a huge bodybuilding bloke asked if he could have a go at them. Also nothing... We waited about 4 hours for an emergance truck to come to our rescue. That guy took one look, got a long pipe, put it over the spanner and used leverage to loosen the nuts. No problem, off in a jiffy....
Have fun!
Scott
South African Mini Fan!
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