Why you should never open a car radiator while its still hot
 

I am smart enough to know this having worked on many cars but well it got the better of me the other day. One of the hoses didn't hold and sprayed me in boiling water, got around 20% burns mainly right and left arm and right side of my chest.

http://www.thehornygirl.com/burn1.jpg

http://www.thehornygirl.com/burn3.jpg

Arm they choose not to bandage I guess there going to have to now.

It was totally my fault but serves as a timely lesson and a painful one going to take around a month or more to heal.

omg sorry to hear

Ouch.looks painful,get well soon

OMG! The boiling water erased your facial features!

So a hose failed while you were under the hood? Damn. I'm glad your eyes are ok.


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Ouch, that looks painful bud. I guess you're lucky it didn't hit your face.

Yeah... pretty unlucky if it failed right when you popped the hood, or were you checking the hoses?

damn.Hope you will recover soon.

Ouch.. Burns are the worst. :(

Sorry to hear that mate, keep out of the Aussie sun :winkwink:

fuck that looks painful, hope it heals up good for you dude!

lol at the face removed it cause well am just ugly... and it didn't actually fail I was clamping the main hose to radiator when it (under pressure) blew back spraying all the water out.

Off to get the bandages changed in morn not looking forward to that.

man thats pretty fucked up, getting hit by hot radiator water/fluid always been a paranoia of mine and now i see with good reason. hope you recover from that quickly.

I see your burns and raise you a "i ripped off half my fingernail searching for underwear in a laundry basket".

Put your laundry away dude.

wow that sucks.

this is why i never work on my car. not worth the risk of getting fucked up over paying someone $50 to do something :2 cents:

I pulled the cap off my first car within a day of buying it, I knew it felt hot but didn't know that it would spray... Looking at your pics I guess I am lucky all I got was a ruined tshirt.

That looks very painful. Hope you get better soon.

f... - you stole my line!


sorry to hear that, i have always been extra cautious and didn't touch anything if it was still above body temperature. i might be a pussy, but at least a healthy pussy :upsidedow

That had to fucking hurt.

ouch :(

Yeah I learned that lesson when I was 17, spent 2 hours in casualty with skin falling off my wrist, hurt like a mofo. Get well soon :thumbsup

Wow, that's some burns!

Oh shit man! That sucks :(

I once popped a hot car radiator valve, and the damn thing blew right into my fucking face. Chemical burns on half of my face. I walked around like TwoFace from the Batman for a few weeks. I'm lucky it healed up without any scars.

I see your half ripped off fingernail and raise you a "I ripped my whole big toenail off from bashing my foot repeatedly on a cement floor"

lol

true story

no big deal as we all do dumb things from time to time, glad you are ok

damn :S, bad luck

Anyone who has worked on cars a lot has at least gotten VERY CLOSE to this accident at one point or another. Sorry to hear man that sucks. Try to get some good pain meds at least =)

That sucks dude.....

I hope that doesn't scar too bad.

Holy fuck dude... I feel for you. Burns hurt like hell

Ouch man, feel better soon!

very painful stuff. I know those burns hurt a lot

damn sorry to hear it hope you heal soon. Another reason why I don't attempt to fix my own car.

jeeez, get well soon

Holy fuck that looks bad :( Hope you heal soon !

Holy shit dude !! :(

What sort of pain relief did they give you?

fuck man that sucks....hope you get better soon

Wow, tough lesson, hope it heals up well.

ouch, that sucks.

that sucks dude, hope you get better soon

Hope you'll get well very soon!

That really looks like it hurts, hope you get better soon. I'm sure it doesn't make you feel any better but at least it didn't hit your face.

Because it will blow your ass to hell!! Ouch, they should put those pictures on the labels of coolant/anti-freeze

damn man i was boiling water awhile back and went to dump it into bowl and about a cup full went on my stomach and i cant imagine how much more painful your burn is. The blisters and shit then the itching, burns suck.

Since then I never cook with shirt off LOL used too always

Since I left the Hospital nothing at all just plain old painkillers type shit you would give your two yr old kid lol. I was on morph and few other things in there but I have certain reactions to Morphine as such couldn't have much at a time.

It really only hurts when I move so lol been trying not to do much of that.

Thanks all for the warm wishes.

It's like anything you're used to, you become too familiar, too complacent, so one silly mistake can cause big probs... my father in law opened an oil cap while the engine was running (why would you do that?) and got hot, used oil squirted in his eyes! Luckily he was ok... glad to hear Darkhorse is too. :) (I just typed out "Darkhose" - how appropriate! :winkwink: )

Oh no .... hope you're ok ! Ouch !

Oh my that looks sooooo painful. Hope you heal up fast.

Shit! It looks painful...