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Post Fri May 13, 2005 6:43 pm

what a fcuking day iv had! going along a straight bit of road playing with a peugot thing, come to the rounabot in the center of town, went over fairly rash (50 ish) next thing i know BANG then front left wheel locks up smoke allover the place, and now i have no steering heading towards bollards and a load of cars waiting at the junction, slams on the brakes, yet another BANG PDING CRASH SCREEEEEEEEEEECH, i now have arms like arni, the car stops sideways in the middle of the road, im thinking what the fcuk happend there i hossestly thought i had a blow out, but nooooo it couldnt be as easy as that now could it!!!! put the car in to gear to remove it from the center of the road verry slowly tyred to move the car forward to get it to the side of the road and i noticed the front passenger side just raised its self right up in the air oops im thinking, so i get the car to the side and to my FCUKING horror, the front wheel is right up next to my bumper, wing creased to fcuk side skirt off, wing pod off, and a huge cloud of smoke surrounding me,

so i start to investigate what the fcuk has just happend, and the only thing i could find wrong is an absoltley FCUKED control arm the actuall ball joint that attaches to the strut, had sheerd the nut off, so obviousley, the wheel had its own plan in mind, and the plan it had was to kill me!!
but im back home now in 1 pece, so im going to have a relaxing bath, then i just need to find 1 wing, 1 sideskirt, 1 wing pod, and a control arm

heres some pics for the perv's on here (you know who you are :wink: )

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Post Fri May 13, 2005 6:49 pm

Nasty 8O

Least it didnt happen at like 100+ innit!

As it happens I think I saw 1 sideskirt and 1 pod on ebay at the mo :)
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Post Fri May 13, 2005 6:50 pm

Fook dude! :cry: :cry:

as long as you're ok mate! looks like a harier ride than you can get at alton towers 8O 8O :eek:

front wing is Ԛ£23 from GSF-so thats not too bad

my front wings look nearly as bad as that-only its rust 8O :lol:
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Post Fri May 13, 2005 6:54 pm

fookin 'ell man!!

bet that scared the living sh*t out off you 8O

looks pretty nasty but at least you are ok mate :wink:
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Post Fri May 13, 2005 6:59 pm

ooooh! nasty! at least it's all in primer still, if it had been my car, it would happen on the way home from having the paint done!

looks like you managed to get off very lightly by the looks of it! the wheel looks ok too! jammy!
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Post Fri May 13, 2005 6:59 pm

re re post post..... :oops:
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Post Fri May 13, 2005 7:11 pm

fook me!! nasty dude. good thing your ok, it could have been worse. hope it gets sorted mate.
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Post Fri May 13, 2005 7:14 pm

yip it did scare the sh1te out of me, its not something you expect when you'r doing silly things over roundabouts at 50ish mph now is it,
and im sort of glad it's happend now :roll: , and not on the 10th of next month when its just been painted 8O
but at least im not hurt and i didnt manage to stack it in to another car : )
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Post Fri May 13, 2005 10:00 pm

So why did it come off?

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Post Fri May 13, 2005 11:14 pm

thats the million dollor question andrew mate, it just looks like the actuall nut has been forced off and mashed the threads on the balljoint in the prosess, i mean it was only m.o.t'd about 5 months ago and sureley if there was any sign of nasty play they would of said or evan failed it yeah??? im obviousley going to investagate more tomorrow when i put a new control arm on ( 40pound e.c.p yeah??) ill take more pics and see if any1 can tell WTF happend, i might sound pharanoid, but i suspect sabotage :roll: i know not likeley is it?? or is it hmmmmm
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Post Fri May 13, 2005 11:23 pm

I wonder if it's possible when it was originally put on,the nut was cross threaded,thus not having the strength it should have? :?
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Post Fri May 13, 2005 11:41 pm

Probably someone removed the ball joint at some time and bu**ered up the thread with the ball joint seperator.
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Post Sat May 14, 2005 12:06 am

They were probably fitted by a mackem! :crutch:


Glad to read you're in one piece fella!
A bit dicey there for a minute hey!
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Post Sat May 14, 2005 1:31 am

Nasty although it could have been alot worse.
You could have ended up hitting another car or it could have happened at high speed!