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09-17-2011, 3:52pm | #1 | ||||||
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Talk about sloppy freeking workmanship.......
Talk about sloppy freeking workmanship.......
DAMN lucky a friend's son didn't die.....'04 Sebring, 4 dr....bought it a few months ago for him to drive V6 auto, nothing special.... so they go to do a brake pad job on the front.....the idiots did not tighten the caliper mounting bolts tight/secure/whatever!!! and so within a couple days, the top bolt of the forward mounted caliper comes out and is no where, when I pulled the wheel off.... the kid got hit on driver's side, tore shit out of the mag wheel and the chrome plastic hub cap....the caliper managed to swing forward on the upper edge and of course hit the weld joints of the spokes on the wheel....weakening and destroying it.....and I not sure but the kid looses control at slo speed, and so gets hit by a lady on the left front wheel....neatly snapping the spindle just a inch below the upper ball joint..... it's flat bedded here by same guy with his wife's Escort with the piston, and the Chapparal boat....his kid.....so here it's in my driveway.... the fender is destroyed....the spindle, the hub, the 1/2 shaft, the headlight assy is total junk, the plastic liners can be saved.... the crazy part is....the car is not all THAT bad a shape for what happened.... when a spindle snaps...you know something major happened..... I wonder if that brake caliper didn't set up some harmonic or other that caught the upper section of that spindle, and broke it clean off, it looks like something like that happened, as opposed to a stress/bent/snap thing.... teach kids to tighten their caliper bolts....jeebus H Christ man..... |
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09-17-2011, 4:05pm | #2 | ||||||
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Lucky dude is okay,
When working I always double check all fasteners before placing the wheel back on. I had a pontiac hit in the wheel, broke the half shaft as well as the bracket the strut bolts to. Replaced the shaft, low control arm and strut assy from a salvage car and all was well. |
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phew, thought i was involved somewhere here...
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