Had a slight issue the other night with the rear brakes..
hit a bump in the road at 40mph and the rear brakes locked up, handbrake was jammed on, drivers side rear disc was glowing orange like a Le Mans 24HR car
, and the amount of smoke that was coming off it i thought the car was gonna set up in flames
Second mare of the night was the car not fitting on the tow truck greenflag sent, which was annoying because they told me the name of the garage who were going to recover me, and i know only one of their trucks fits my car on due to how low it is.. Anyhow long story short they came in a regular tow truck, i couldn’t be arsed to f**k about so I removed the lower splitter and all was good
Myself and Ben (Ben victors off here) inspected the car the morning after to find this on the rear passenger side
Spot the problem....
(for those less blessed amongst us the calliper should sit at around the 1 o clock position)
Also the sh!t guard that sits on the hub was like this
The reason??? Well the bolts which hold the calliper on the hub were gone!!!! No damage, no fecked threrads, just complete gone as tho they had been removed; now i know these were super tight as i hammered them on a few month back...They are the 2 Allen key bolts.
I also had a overheated problem due to a frozen RAD on the night we had a -12 temp... this was the nail in the coffin for my already leaking radiator....cracked...big time
So we fitted a new one, no pics of the new on but here is the car in prep for removal of old unit, we managed to remove/replace with the slam panel in situ which was a bonus, refilled the system with 50/50 mix of VW G12 Plus, and fitted a new heater resistor..
car heater/coolant system runs like a charm as do the breaks, we were lucky enough not to have warped a disc, one of the pads was destroyed so we changed those out for a new set
Last thing done was wiring in my puddle lights in my doors, we did Bens car too, this is a cool mod
trip to the car grave yard to find a MK4...
and here they are, these are lit, bright so hard to get a decent pic but you get the idea, basically just like on a mk4 gti