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This idea of putting the car on jacks then punting it in gear to find out was wrong is a very bad idea, a potentially suicidal idea. Maybe it's a good thing you were not able to carry it out.

Take that shit box to your mechanic when you have a chance.

Good luck with your finger.
 
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IronWing said:
While I'm still puzzling that out I can accept as a working hypothesis with a fairly high degree of certainty that I was doing it wrong.
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Good on you for not blaming it on the jack stand, the jack, or the car.

In the future I would suggest steadying the jack stand near the bottom.
 
Apparently you were steadying the jack stand near or under the bottom. I suggest you steady it from the side.
 
Ouch, OP. I'm glad you weren't more seriously hurt as it sounds like things could have gone much worse and I hope your finger gets better soon (as much as it can).
 
sdifox said:
It grows back.

I have lost finger nails multiple times... Car doors like slamming on them for some reason :biggrin:
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Depends. Sounds like he crushed it. Much worse than getting it stuck in a door. Very bad damage won't grow back.
 
IronWing said:
So Friday evening we set out to obtain dinner, driving the Honda Fit. As we pulled away from the curb it became quite clear something was wrong as the car made very bad, very expensive sounding noises, like sheet metal tearing. So we parked the car and took the truck for the evening. On Saturday it rained all day (1.8" YEA!) so I didn't investigate the car further. Today morned cool and clear so I decided to figure out if I could determine the cause of the bad noises. The noises only came when the car was moving so I decided that I would have to put the front of the car on jack stands to listen while it was in gear. A Fit is one of those crappy little cars with no frame so to jack it up one has to place the jack under the car where the reinforced jack points are located. It is somewhat difficult to fit the jack and the jack stand under the reinforced area but not impossible. The scissors jack provided by Honda sucks (a jack too crappy to lift a Fit 😱 ) so I used the bottle jack out of the truck. I accomplished the task for the passenger side and proceeded with the driver side. As I brought the jack down while holding the jack stand something went bad, real bad. The jack stand ended up bearing the weight of the car (good) with the ring finger of my right hand pinned under the stand (bad) lengthwise. I want pause here to mention that some folks view their traumatic injuries as super cool, a high point of living to marvel upon. I am not one of those people. I did two things simultaneously. The first was to yell quite loudly for my wife. The second was to see if I could reposition and raise the jack with one hand. The second failed while the first worked so my wife jacked up the car, freeing my hand. Then it was off to the urgent care place. The results so far are a couple good tears of the skin, the tip of the finger tip bone is crushed, and I lost the nail. I should also mention that it hurts and I still don't know what is wrong with the car.

tl;dr: ouch
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Wall of text is wall of text.
 
Damn, that sucks. Hopefully it heals up well so you can come back and hit the enter key in-between some of those sentences.

KT
 
Ken g6 said:
Yes, but that's in mice. This is in a person.
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right, I was trying to find a better link. This is cool, too--but I had read about a case where a man lost the very tip of his finger, and a buddy of his, who had been developing this powder, sent him a sample and told him to apply it for about 4 or 5 weeks time. The tip grew back completely.

OP looks to have serious bone and nail damage, though. Would probably need a mold like that--and I'm not sure how well the powder, at that time, could replace bone as well as skin tissue (my guess is that the pluripotency of these type of stem cells are very much reduced with a medical sample).
 
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