Well.. one time, I was working on my FC. Something was up with the foglights.. they just weren't working, so on a day off, I decided to work on it. I got all the supplies I needed.. almost. I rewired the system and I went out to be a relay switch to my foglights would come on whenever the ambers came on. The people at all the auto shops said they never had any.. but the had regular toggle switches, so I said whatever and I bought a toggle switch. As I was under the hood hooking up the switch.. I realised it would have been better if I just hooked up the switch to the inside of my car.
Ice cream break #1
I soon needed to go back to the shops and get some more wires and connectors. All simple. When I got home, I wired it all leading into the inside of my car. Now I needed to figure out where I was going to put my switch.. I decided I would put it where my old foglight switch
should have been (the switch was long gone before I bought the car). Great.. the switch doesn't fit, so I ghetto fit it with a saw blade and now it fits. Well.. kinda. I soon noticed that I couldn't put the inside panel in I wired it going into the panel.. not coming out of the panel and I used up all of my connecters.
Ice cream break #2
I went to the store and grabbed some more connectors and went home to put it in. I pulled on the switch to come out.. and it broke.
Ice cream break #3
After getting another switch, I put that in and now, all I had to do was hook the wires up to the foglights and I'm done. I looked at my wires and they were all yellow. How dumb of me. This is what I get for being cheap.
Ice cream break #4
I got back under the hood to hook up my wires to my foglights and they were such a bitch because my foglights are directly under my retractable headlights, so accessability isn't the greatest. I finally got it in, and I power up the lights and I hear a giant shock. I blew the fuse for my amber lights. No ice cream break this time! I went into my tool box and replace the fuse... but then it blew.. again. and again. and again.......
Ice cream break #5
I went to the auto shop and bought new fuses and then I went home to put them in. IT FINALLY WORKS WITH NO TROUBLES. Excited, I got in my car to fire it up and go for a cruise! The second I started my ignition, I heard an explosion and something big and metal fell out of my car. I got out, and found that I blew my muffler off. By then, I had enough ice cream and was about to call it a day. Don't you just love working on cars
If you want to see pics of my muffler exploding off, there's a link in my sig. I only blew off one that day, and blew the other one off while doing some acceleration testing on the highway. It's garaged now.. but I have big plans for it this winter. Sounds like I'm going to have a lot of ice cream
Hope you feel better!