So, I'm installing an APR "bipipe" in my Audi S4...(if you don't know, not important; it's an intake part).
Sun goes down 7-ish these days, and the garage is packed with Honda Gyro-explosion parts (I'm disassembling one for parts), so I'm time-limited. Hurrying along, removing the headlights, when I accidentally drop the Torx socket somewhere in the engine compartment. You know, one of those "blump, tap, THUMP, tinckle..." then nothing sounds. Particularly missing is teh subsequent light thud of it hitting the ground. You look down inside, try to interpret sounds-versus-material observed, attempt to predict where it fell down-through.
Grab the flashlight, look around. Nothing.
Look on the ground under the car...nothing (not too much optimism there, as you didn't hear the muted thud of metal-on-asphalt...)
Grab the magnet-on-a-rod, move around it in there listening for the revealing 'tink' of metal-on-metal...nothing.
Remove engine undercover...nothing.
GAD-DAMMIT it's getting dark. F**K it. The engine has cam covers so it's not going to get inside, I'll deal with it later. Finish removing the remaining parts as much as I can that night. I'll drive the other car to work tomorrow. Go grab a beer.
Next day, on the way home from work, buy a new Torx socket (Jeez Louise these things are expensive!) Use it to finish the whole job just as the light goes away. Grab a beer to celebrate success and feel all nice and proud of myself; grab a couple of celebratory slurps then head out for a test-drive.
Driving through the neighborhood, hit a bump in the road and felt a sudden "THUMP, THUMP, THUMP, THUMP" of something metal in the left front tire...gawd-DAMMIT, what did I run OVER???" Pulled over on a side road, drove a few yards until the fequency of the last "thump" should put whatever it is at the top of the tire...
Stop. Hand-brake on, out of gear (car still running)...carefully run hand over top of tire to feel for it...find it...pull it out and immediately hear a "SSSSSSssssss....." of air pressure escaping...F**K!
Sun goes down 7-ish these days, and the garage is packed with Honda Gyro-explosion parts (I'm disassembling one for parts), so I'm time-limited. Hurrying along, removing the headlights, when I accidentally drop the Torx socket somewhere in the engine compartment. You know, one of those "blump, tap, THUMP, tinckle..." then nothing sounds. Particularly missing is teh subsequent light thud of it hitting the ground. You look down inside, try to interpret sounds-versus-material observed, attempt to predict where it fell down-through.
Grab the flashlight, look around. Nothing.
Look on the ground under the car...nothing (not too much optimism there, as you didn't hear the muted thud of metal-on-asphalt...)
Grab the magnet-on-a-rod, move around it in there listening for the revealing 'tink' of metal-on-metal...nothing.
Remove engine undercover...nothing.
GAD-DAMMIT it's getting dark. F**K it. The engine has cam covers so it's not going to get inside, I'll deal with it later. Finish removing the remaining parts as much as I can that night. I'll drive the other car to work tomorrow. Go grab a beer.
Next day, on the way home from work, buy a new Torx socket (Jeez Louise these things are expensive!) Use it to finish the whole job just as the light goes away. Grab a beer to celebrate success and feel all nice and proud of myself; grab a couple of celebratory slurps then head out for a test-drive.
Driving through the neighborhood, hit a bump in the road and felt a sudden "THUMP, THUMP, THUMP, THUMP" of something metal in the left front tire...gawd-DAMMIT, what did I run OVER???" Pulled over on a side road, drove a few yards until the fequency of the last "thump" should put whatever it is at the top of the tire...
Stop. Hand-brake on, out of gear (car still running)...carefully run hand over top of tire to feel for it...find it...pull it out and immediately hear a "SSSSSSssssss....." of air pressure escaping...F**K!
Retract hand from wheel well to reveal...
....the missing Torx socket.
GAD-DAMMIT!!!!!!
I deserved that.
Cars suck.
Karma is a vengeful bitch...
....the missing Torx socket.
GAD-DAMMIT!!!!!!
I deserved that.
Cars suck.
Karma is a vengeful bitch...
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