Confession time…

[ErAcEr]

Getting into the drivers seat by stepping on the foot rails and doing this all so quickly I sent my knee cap into the headlight knob switch. Dealer was kind to install free of charge when I bought the part. Lesson learned, go slow getting in, DOH.

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[wibornz]

I have nothing to confess. I did sit in the driveway one day with a grinder and cut off wheel and tape off the tub in the rear to make room for 40 inch tires. Then put 37s back on and sold the 40s.

 

[Gnomad]

I’ve done the Sunrider thing too. Was picking up my wife, somehow got distracted, and forgot to latch it. Scared the crap out of us. I’m very very careful now about latching my corvette roof after that experience. Plenty of stories on the Corvette forums by people who’ve had that sucker fly off in traffic! ?

Did the torrential downpour thing too. The worst part waa that I was sitting in a windowed conference room, not 20 feet from my Jeep. Just 2 of us in there for a couple hours of focused discussion. Walked out after and discovered my flooded Jeep. Felt like the dumbest person alive. Hah

However, I’m lucky to be here typing after the dumbest thing I ever did. My parents bought me a used CJ5 when I turned 16. I had that Jeep all of two weeks. Being an indescribable teen male, I decided it was wise to be going 70mph down the long desert dirt road we lived off of.

I remember losing control in a pretty mild turn, time slowed down and all that.

Next, I remember climbing out of the Jeep, upside down, after it had stopped rolling.

Somehow, with only a lap belt, I miraculously walked away without a scratch. Nothing! Sadly, the CJ didn’t fair quite as well. I distinctly remember the softop was torn off and laying in the dirt WAY back up the road and the battery had launched itself, off into the desert, quite a distance from the main wreckage.

Over my next 38 years of driving, I’ve yet to cause another accident…one was enough!

 

[BUSHRVN]

Getting into the drivers seat by stepping on the foot rails and doing this all so quickly I sent my knee cap into the headlight knob switch. Dealer was kind to install free of charge when I bought the part. Lesson learned, go slow getting in, DOH.

Totally waiting for mine to break!!! Done that a few times in the 4 months of ownership and every time I count my blessing!!

 

[gato]

I have nothing to confess. I did sit in the driveway one day with a grinder and cut off wheel and tape off the tub in the rear to make room for 40 inch tires. Then put 37s back on and sold the 40s.

Off-topic, but why? You didn't like the 40s?

 

[wibornz]

Off-topic, but why? You didn't like the 40s?

I tow a camper with the Jeep all over the US to go wheeling. I get between 12 to 14 mpg towing with 37s. I only got 8 mpg with the 40s. There are places out west that I would not be able to make it from gas station to gas station towing the camper.

 

[kbp810]

Since there’s already plenty of rain related top down stories… how about having the doors and top off the jeep (top totally removed), but then suddenly getting called in to work at 3am… still half asleep, backs feeling sore, so no motivation to put things back on… but also not thinking to check the weather.. (temperature had dropped significantly overnight).

Now, of course I’ve had plenty of very chilly rides home when the sun went down; but this was well beyond chilly. Don’t remember now exactly how cold it was, just remember begging for red lights and/or places to pull over to stop to warm up for a bit... and also at some point remember desperately trying to avoid someone’s sprinkler that had kicked on.

 

[Dr. RGB]

Installed the Clayton 2.5" Overland and some 35's. Completely forgot about parking garages. The top scraped the concrete beams all the way to the 7th floor, going 5 mph to not rip the damn thing off. I had a line of traffic 2 floors long and there was no place to turn around and leave the garage.

 

[Will]

My old TJ had it worse than the JL as far as being a victim of bone-headed moves. Both of them have been drenched from downpours and neither has missed a beat.

The TJ had the following sins committed against it, in rough chronological order:
- I came out of class at high school, the day after I got it and found it running. I just hopped out when I got to school and it sat there running all day.
- Beat and bounced a perfectly good vehicle off of rocks for a few years.
- Flopped it on it’s side/rolled it back over.
- Sunk it in the river. Replaced the transmission.
- Sold it ? (worst one)

For the JL:
- I’m gonna tell myself that I am now an older and wiser man and go with that.

 

[captainstabbins]

I gambled and lost....That was uncomfortable.....

 

[wibornz]

Installed the Clayton 2.5" Overland and some 35's. Completely forgot about parking garages. The top scraped the concrete beams all the way to the 7th floor, going 5 mph to not rip the damn thing off. I had a line of traffic 2 floors long and there was no place to turn around and leave the garage.

Should have aired down maybe?

 

[kbp810]

Installed the Clayton 2.5" Overland and some 35's. Completely forgot about parking garages. The top scraped the concrete beams all the way to the 7th floor, going 5 mph to not rip the damn thing off. I had a line of traffic 2 floors long and there was no place to turn around and leave the garage.

LOL... something similar happened to me once with a parking garage in Chicago. 4" lift on 37's; I was inching up to the height test bar when someone there gave me a thumbs up and waived me forward. As I looked in my rear view, noticed the bar was swinging a bit, but figured maybe just a wind gust. Then as I'm driving through, top is scraping at every beam. Very nerve wracking.

 

[DHW]

Installed the Clayton 2.5" Overland and some 35's. Completely forgot about parking garages. The top scraped the concrete beams all the way to the 7th floor, going 5 mph to not rip the damn thing off. I had a line of traffic 2 floors long and there was no place to turn around and leave the garage.

Previously living in high-rise apartments and having to go to numerous courthouse parking decks has always kept this at the forefront of my concerns. That's why I went with the 2" Mopar lift. Even then I'd have to remember to close the Sunrider or soft top each time. Which brings us back to my original post.

There is one deck in downtown Atlanta that is unusually low and because of that it has something that measures each incoming vehicle and blares what can only be considered a train horn if the vehicle is too tall. Even with the Sunrider closed the Jeep was too tall. So then I get to back out, uphill, into downtown traffic with a train horn constantly going in the background. That one was fun.

 

[calemasters]

Nothing on my JL but on my JK, while doing an oil/filter change, the O-ring on the old oil filter stuck to the oil filter adapter and I did not notice. It turns out that 2 oil filter gaskets are not better than one. The good news is I always check for leaks after an oil change and only lost about 1/2 quart of oil.

 

[cafecito820]

So as the title states, what’s the dumbest thing you’ve done in your Jeep?

And before someone says it, “conceiving my child” doesn’t count.

Dude, I about blasted Monster out my nose when I read that. You almost owed me $3... lol

I haven't done anything truly stupid IN it yet, but I've done plenty while working on it at home:

• Tried to shut the hood while one of the latches was "up", and left a nice gouge in the latch handle.
• Set my wash brush on the driveway, then proceeded to scrub a few pieces of sand into the finish of my fender flare.
• When installing my dash cam, I ran the power cable down the A-pillar on the passenger's side, but didn't tie it tightly enough to the existing wiring. Then, when I put the grab handle back on, the power cable shifted slightly, and I screwed the factory bolt straight into the power cable and wondered for weeks why the effing camera didn't work...
• Dropped a pair of tweezers into the rubber slot where the parking brake is. I have a nice scar on my arm from having to retrieve that POS by having to shove my arm up from where the rear cup holders are.

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