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Offline opel

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Re: Death Trap
« Reply #10 on: 09 March 2009, 19:36 »
seller shud have know and shudnt let anyone on road with that. u very luky mate some one looking down on u
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Offline Wayne

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Re: Death Trap
« Reply #11 on: 09 March 2009, 19:43 »
Quote from: MrBounce on 09 March 2009, 13:49
Quote from: wayned on 09 March 2009, 12:59
To be fair yes maybe you should have checked but lets be honest who has ever checked the wheelnuts on a car when collecting it.

Well, considering there was only one nut on the wheel a simple glance at them would've done the trick...  :lipsrsealed:

Maybe, maybe not, they could have fell out on the way home.
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Offline Mikester

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Re: Death Trap
« Reply #12 on: 09 March 2009, 20:37 »
I had to drill one the screw out on one front disc, as they do corrode up etc. But its not a problem if you dont have it in as the bolts hold it in place. But when you only have 1 wheel bolt then its a problem! bad news mate.
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Offline Mikester

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Re: Death Trap
« Reply #13 on: 09 March 2009, 20:38 »
Quote from: wayned on 09 March 2009, 19:43
Quote from: MrBounce on 09 March 2009, 13:49
Quote from: wayned on 09 March 2009, 12:59
To be fair yes maybe you should have checked but lets be honest who has ever checked the wheelnuts on a car when collecting it.

Well, considering there was only one nut on the wheel a simple glance at them would've done the trick...  :lipsrsealed:

Maybe, maybe not, they could have fell out on the way home.

If they were loose they can easily just fall out. They did so on our people carrier. And where rattling around inside the hub cap thing.
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Offline ian24driver

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Re: Death Trap
« Reply #14 on: 09 March 2009, 22:26 »

Should you leave bad feedback???
I think yes! That peasant could have left you 6 feet under mate, and others.


Unless they geniunely came off themselves and i take everything back i said.
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Re: Death Trap
« Reply #15 on: 09 March 2009, 22:38 »
I'd get onto him. He should re-inberse the cost of wheel nuts at least.

Sure it hasn't damaged anything?
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Offline crazystevie

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Re: Death Trap
« Reply #16 on: 09 March 2009, 23:03 »
well i have left bad feedback on ebay,i sent him an email last night he replied to and said sorry but it was ok,well i dont accept that,as i have said yes i should have give the car a good check over wich i did,i even checked the tyres etc but just never thought of wheel nuts,well i supose its a lesson learnt,i dont think any damage was done apart from the wheel well where the one nut was is now oval instead of round,their is a vibration coming from the floor on the near side i think its the exhaust,but i will check more to-morow,many thanks for all you replies.
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Offline Mikester

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Re: Death Trap
« Reply #17 on: 09 March 2009, 23:07 »
Think i would want to get this car in the air, and check over all of the suspension and steering before i drove it tbh.
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Offline Wayne

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Re: Death Trap
« Reply #18 on: 09 March 2009, 23:37 »
^^As above if the wheelnuts were loose what else has been left or could be wrong.
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Offline hollandsd

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Re: Death Trap
« Reply #19 on: 12 March 2009, 08:27 »
A simmilar thing happend on my old honda accord, went into Dover, parked up went fishing, came back out and drove home, started hearing what i thought was a bearing going and then when i got home, jacked the car up and the wheel fell off, some tw*t in dover had undone the wheel bolts. (the wheels looked like alloys but werent)

Also a friend of mine had her wheel actually come off on a dual carriage way, wrecked her wheel arch and it was a beautiful modded mk2 left hooker. :cry:


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