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ok guys, we all know accidents happen, and i had one last night. here's what happened. we did a custom box for a chevy silverado a couple weeks ago, and the customer decided to take it back out after a week for whatever reason, so we resold the box to another customer with a similar setup and the same truck. well, the box was designed to screw into the bracing on the back wall of the truck, and when i put it into the new truck i used the same screw holes that worked in the original truck, but this time the back window shattered. the only difference was that the original truck had a sliding rear window, and the new one was full. here's some pics....

this is the first truck. it screwed in behind the CVR logo.

this, obviously, is the second truck. it was loud, and expensive. $400, plus tint.

so, i know nobody likes to brag about this kind of thing, but we all know it happens, so can anyone go one up on me? i hope so cause i don't want to win this one.

tuff luck I hate when that happens posted_image

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Big Dave

Thats what I'm say'in! Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Now where are those guys that think they're perfect? "I'll never break a clip" lol Any good installer knows that the bigger the funk-up the bigger the lesson learned!

But anyhow I got a drywall screw through my finger way back. To me that was worse than your broken window

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Tell the Snap-On guy I'm not here!

Well I can say I never put a screw through a window.

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~1993

Once I tried removing an old remote-starter antenna where the double-sided tape turned into concrete after several years of sun. Eventually I tried the panel popper using the metal lip under the roof liner as the anchor point. The popper's elbow slipped and cracked the front windshield.

~1995

I used to work with a guy that used 4" drywall screws to mount an amp. A couple minutes later we could smell gasoline. Needless to say we had to replace the tank. 10 years later and I think the box is still labelled "Gas Tank Specials".

antique irreplacable... apparenlty, 1971 Opel GT windshield. this year. Halogen lamp got too close to the windshield, heated it up and popped it. i'll take pictures if you all dont' bleieve me. lol

~~Vinn

wow...and uh, 5150azn- i put a flathead screwdriver through my fingernail a few weeks ago...kinda like your's

summer of 2003, one of my beginning flipdown monitor installs. i cut the hole for the shroud, ran wires and put a board in there to screw the TV into, i grabbed 2 inch screws first, measured, saw they were too big so i grabbed 1.25 inch screws and it was perfect, i had the TV up with one hand, the other hand was putting screws on the #2 bit of my drill and shooting them up..well i accidentally grabbed one of the 2inch screws off the floor and yea it went through the roof!

i drilled into a gas tank of a 99 maxima

cut my finger with a razor blade in a Porsche and got blood on the carpet!

and a few cracked door panels and sill plates here and there.

im not ashamed to admit my mistakes, any installer who says they never make mistakes is lying and probably not that good of an installer because the more experience you have, the better you are, and the more experience you have...the more stuff you have broken in the past! lol

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I hate those week a/c vents they just fall apart. lucky for me I have a good savage yard close. they always seem to have the part.

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Big Dave

and who hasn't broke at least one hood release lever off of a chevy truck? you know, the i think 96-99 body style where they are in the kick panel...bad design.

soundmasta wrote:

and who hasn't broke at least one hood release lever off of a chevy truck? you know, the i think 96-99 body style where they are in the kick panel...bad design.

Haha! Hey isn't it cool that when you pop the kickpanel back on, how it holds the lever in place! Good as new!

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lucky for us....i also had a tilt lever in an impalla fall right off in my hand. the dealer covered it under warranty, but i still don't know how it broke. it was metal.

Locked keys in vehicle...twice in same vehicle (2nd time only ten minutes after finally getting vehicle unlocked). You would think I would have rolled down the windows after the first...dumbass!!

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inallalone

September 2001: I was in a hurry to get out of work to go pick up my brand new Acura RSX and was rushing on an Avitall 2200 on a 1999 Stratus. We all know what haste causes... I got the Parking Light output and the (-) Door Trigger input mis-matched while quickly reading the TechSoft. $1700.00 for a new BCM. ouch.

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Oh, and who hasn't had a sun-baked Miata center dash bezel shatter in their hands upon removal, even AFTER performing the "Please don't break" dance and saying the prayer.

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I've scratched a dash of a brand new Tahoe 3 years ago. I've broken some clips. I've gotten dirt on a headliner of an 03 F-150 King Ranch when it first came out. And I have broke a door handle trim ring (inside) in an 97 Mustang.

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i was helping a fellow installer finish a remote starter by doing a mercury switch under the hood for him. i checked twice for clearance and saw i was good, but got a phone call i had to take. went back to the car and started screwing the merc switch in the wrong spot. yep, all the way through. $1700. pissed me off.

me and one of my fellow installers were working on a 71 olds. delta and did a deck+4 speakers. well the fronts were a pain so i did them and the deck while my other guy did the rears. the rears went behind the seat in this car(drop top). well i guess the alpine type-r 6x9's were not considered back in 71 and when se went to put the top down all we heard was a little crinkle(the glass in the top crushing against the magnets). put the top back up and it was cool., disspearing glass. to top it off, my other installer sliced his hand wide open while cleaning the glass and had to go get stitches. we can sit back and laugh now, but it was not a funny site.

actually, i take that back, it was funny as hell!

Goddam. Like I've said before I admit I've made mistakes. But jeesh guys drilling through things? I can see myself doing the dissapearing window thing though. Anyone pop an airbag or srs unit? And man, I hope you guys didn't have to fork up the 1700 from your own money. I'd quit before I do that!

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Cracked a windshiel on a 02 PT cruiser running xm ant, fried ignition coil on a 00 sebring, burnt dash on a 93 chevy , all while duing unsupervised training.

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jcassonjr wrote:

Cracked a windshiel on a 02 PT cruiser running xm ant, fried ignition coil on a 00 sebring, burnt dash on a 93 chevy , all while duing unsupervised training.

lmao! wtf?? How do people like you have a job?

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5150azn wrote:

jcassonjr wrote:

Cracked a windshiel on a 02 PT cruiser running xm ant, fried ignition coil on a 00 sebring, burnt dash on a 93 chevy , all while duing unsupervised training.

lmao! wtf?? How do people like you have a job?

I dont know if you can read J@ck@ss but the key words are "unsupervised training". And according to your previous posts you have never broken anything but find no fault in criticizing other peoples mistakes. The ignition coil was due to a bad wire code thanx to direct techs. The burnt dash was from the customer tripping over the extenstion cord of my soildering iron, and the windshield was just a trainie not thinking clearly and not knowing the trim was glued to the windshield.

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Alpine cda-9855
Alpine Mrd-m1000
1 farad digital Rockford cap
2 Treo SSi 12's
Large centerport box

soundmasta wrote:

and who hasn't broke at least one hood release lever off of a chevy truck? you know, the i think 96-99 body style where they are in the kick panel...bad design.

No one has broken those, they come from the factory broken.

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Shaughn Murley
Install Manager, Dealer Services
Visions Electronics
Red Deer, Alberta

I put a drill bit into the back side of a brake booster, while installing an alpine alarm That sucked, and it was one of those things you know happened RIGHT whwn it happened LOL

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Not a good sound.

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