So today my car battery died, couldn't even be revived with a jump. I was able to walk to an auto store to get tools and a new battery (damn that mfer was heavier than I expected). I had never had to replace my own car battery before.
I screwed the fastener nuts the wrong way for like 5 minutes, cut my hand, and ultimately accidentally crossed the positive and negative terminals with a wrench that exploded in sparks. I don't even know what stopped me from being electrocuted but I didn't feel a thing.
While I'm happy I was able to take care of it myself and will be able to in the future, I also feel like such a dunce for not knowing wtf I was doing and almost shocking myself
I've made many mistakes when fixing my own cars so take it from me it happens. There's this time I put a battery that was too tall in my sister's car because we didn't have the money for the proper battery, shit make sparks with the hood as it welded it. I fixed that with some electrical tape insulating it. There's this most recent mistake where I bored a hole into my new radiator, fixed it with some jb weld few days ago.
Among my friends and family they see me as some sort of mechanic but the sheer volume of fucks ups is pretty massive. Everything runs at least and not being a trained professional I'm doing alright all things considered so be easy on yourself. You didn't get majorly hurt or anything and you learned some important lessons as long as you don't do them twice you're good
Thanks, it was a real 'necessity is the mother of innovation' moment cause at first I called like 3 auto shops/roadside assistance places and none of them could help till tomorrow, but I have work in the morning.
So real, I've mostly been put in this because we don't have the money for an actual mechanic. I will say the real curse of being handy is the permanent "temporary" fix. My ac compressor crapped out and made my serpentine belt fall off, I ran a bypass thinking just for now till I fix the ac fixed. That's been almost 2 years now
The super handy guy at my work was fixing the AC the other day, he tried to explain it to me and I was like I literally have no idea what half those words mean lol
Yeah I forget a lot of the things myself tbh, I only ever find out what they are through watching videos on yt. Makes it easier to find the parts at eh store/online if you have some terminology at hand.
There's never anything as permanent as a "temporary fix"