Great ways to mess up somebody elses car!

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Great ways to mess up somebody elses car!

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006 | Uncategorized

So I (being the oh-so-nice guy that I am) offered to help order and install some really nice projector headlights into my old car for the kid who bought it from me, to save him some money.

Being of sound mind and judgment, I was confident in my ability to yank out a bigass lightbulb and stick in another one. Well perhaps sound mind and judgment is in the eye of the beholder, as today I behold nothing but a pain in my ass.

I don’t feel all that wordy tonight so I will simply give you the extremely short version.

Spent 2 hours removing headlights and plastic casing. Removal of framing was very difficult and not having an acme black hole I was forced to quickly pry off chunks with claw hammer and oodles of willpower, causing a chunk of the NON-damaged Quarterpanel to have an inch or two worth of paint chip off and disappear.

Results of time spent: old headlights removed but new headlights NOT installed, more damage done to body of car (nothing a little electrical tape and a funny story to give to people about it can’t fix) and last but not least a few minutes time spent talking to the police officer about why somebody with no headlights was riding my ass for about a block at night.

Solutions for non-installation:
Option 1) Remove metal bar (which also removes radiator) and comfortably install headlights).
Option 2) Remove metal bumper (tried to do this, but the bolts were just there for show and tell, apparently the metal part under the bumper is actually welded to the frame of the car).
Option 3) Break the super long bullshit support plastic off of headlights (it would make them slightly less stable, but would still work).
Option 4) Take it to a bodyshop in the morning and pay them a few bucks to stitch it up.

Needless to say he opted for option 4. I would of probably gone with option 3 myself, though I think option 1, though time consuming would of rendered the best results.

On a side note, I spent some time earlier messing up my own car by discovering that the TV from the hottub really is dead, when I tried to install it into my car.

Originally I was planning on stealing it until it was noticed since it has sat UNUSED in the hottub for over 3 years due to the lack of a stereo for input. I suppose the only reason it doesn’t work is just to get me to put it back and save on Karma points.