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General => General discussion => Topic started by: sammyboy92 on 26 April 2014, 20:45
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so i had some coilovers fitted earlier this week and decided today id adjust them and get abit lower so i did one back wheel and lowered it down then took it round the block to settle it , just as i pulled onto a mini roundabout the other back wheel fell off ! luckily i was only goin very slow because i could feel something wasnt right ! the wheel got wedged in the arch and supported the car from hitting the deck so managed to find the nuts and get it jacked up and fixed with out any damage - felt like a right tit though !!! id obviously cracked the nuts on that side ready and just forgot , had a pretty lucky escape !
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so i had some coilovers fitted earlier this week and decided today id adjust them and get abit lower so i did one back wheel and lowered it down then took it round the block to settle it , just as i pulled onto a mini roundabout the other back wheel fell off ! luckily i was only goin very slow because i could feel something wasnt right ! the wheel got wedged in the arch and supported the car from hitting the deck so managed to find the nuts and get it jacked up and fixed with out any damage - felt like a right tit though !!! id obviously cracked the nuts on that side ready and just forgot , had a pretty lucky escape !
And then you came here and told us!
What's your bank details?
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:grin: :whistle:
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Must have been more than "cracked off" to have come off just going round the block :grin:
You should change the wheel bolts out of precaution, I'd get your misses to do it for you as well just to be sure :lipsrsealed: :laugh:
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Must have been more than "cracked off" to have come off just going round the block :grin:
You should change the wheel bolts out of precaution, I'd get your misses to do it for you as well just to be sure :lipsrsealed: :laugh:
:grin: :grin: :grin:
And tap the threads because they will be f**ked on the ends.
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outch.
also you will proberbly find that if you lower your car on one coilover, then when you lower the other three the car will be lower as the other three will pull the lowest one up.
further, it normally takes a good few miles before they proberbly settle, not just a blast around the block.
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stupid person is stupid
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I think we've all done something similar in the past - just not everyone admits it on an internet forum :)
Oh and just for the record...I've done it four times (in 40 years of working on cars) - once in an old Citroen, once on our Voyager and twice in the Golf - each time, I got distracted whilst finishing off a job and didn't tighten the wheel nuts - each time as soon as I heard a noise I realised, stopped and tightened them up :)
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I am with you Andy.
An old Escort that had a clicking noise coming from the rear... Turned out the wheel nuts were half way out.
A Scirrocco Mk1 (a cracking car) that had a clicking noise coming from the front. Driveshaft bolts were loose and I didn't realise until they had all worked themselves out of the shaft and I lost drive. (No harm done thank goodness - and a set of new bolts fixed it).
You only rate stupid if you didn't learn from your mistakes. Like we did and the OP will... So no need for those sort of words.
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I am with you Andy.
An old Escort that had a clicking noise coming from the rear... Turned out the wheel nuts were half way out.
A Scirrocco Mk1 (a cracking car) that had a clicking noise coming from the front. Driveshaft bolts were loose and I didn't realise until they had all worked themselves out of the shaft and I lost drive. (No harm done thank goodness - and a set of new bolts fixed it).
You only rate stupid if you didn't learn from your mistakes. Like we did and the OP will... So no need for those sort of words.
To true we have all done it, I still got the scars from welding myself to the engine bay :grin: