Short story about my car on the weekend

[ecenshu]

Wen't for a long drive on the weekend to Londsdale (about 25-30kms) and we were giving it some stick on the way (Me: R32 GTR, friend: R32 GTSt). All was fine until we took a wrong turn and ended up near a factory of some sort and had relatively no traffic. As you could imagine, we went for a quick burst and the next thing I know I hear a clunk and a rattle then something bouncing out from under the car!

It turns out the idler bearing for AC belt siezed and just ripped off, my friend almost had a new hole ripped out of his intercooler and missed it by a couple of metres.

Anyone else had the feeling of 'Oh shit!' when driving (mechanically related) not accidents...just parts falling off the engine...hehe :wassup:

[skitzedR32]

fark had that happen on my old cc gsr while back redlined in 2nd and the clunk rattle and bang the bolt that holds the alternator went god knows where, i live up north of adelaide and this happens 3am in victor harbour drove home wid no tunes that nite

hope you got it fixed

[franks]

yeah i've had what i was told to be "axle tramp" in my wrx...i launched the car at say 4 or 5000rpm and i honestly thought the gearbox dropped out

[Ronin]

I was driving down port road a few months ago and the bolts out of the top bush in my front suspension fell out!! lucky i was going very slow or it could have been very nasty. My cars has some sort of camber adjustment kit on the front and whoever put those bolts in did a shithouse job, they were the wrong type and had fken grease on em.

[b0neR]

I was in the car with my dad a while back, he had a new BA Falcon, as we were driving along, heard a big clunk, but we thought it was just a branch as it was quite windy that day and there was debris all over the road. Eventually the power steering went, the battery light came on, it wouldnt idle, everything was phucked. Turns out the idler pulley had come clean off and caused the rest of the drive belt to get shredded up!

[Fast31]

i have dropped a tailshaft. from the front, thats scarey. belted shit out of the floor pan,

have been in a mates car when the front wheel fell off, that was even scarier

[Remix-]

I had an alternator bolt drop off on my old Integra VTi-R. Scared the shit out of me as i was redlining at 8000rpm and the bolt hit the floorpan so loudly.

I've had a brake pad come off in my first car, Prelude Si. Sounded like a train.

[Mcboost]

had a mates 180 flywheel obliterate, some bits went thru his bonnet, some at his feet thru the firewall, and the other 1/4 we found 1 month later wedged behind the ecu, its almost back on the road after 6 months, it also cut straight thru the steering and exhaust and bent the turbo, cut a fuel line and damaged plenty of hoses... was a mighty bang, also chopped halfway thru the left chassis rail

[whistla]

Intercooler pipes popping off at high boost and pushin hard always jolted me into thinking i blew something

Once on the freeway on the way home one latenight, it had been a long while since pushing my car abit, so in 3rd i gave it a tramping when seconds later *PHOOOMP* the pipe from the front mount exit to the second section that leads into the engine bay had popped off, then dragged on the ground, snarled on something and ripped it off...went over the pipe with my front and rear wheel

i squashed it gewd

abit of a pain looking for a pipe on a cold midnight evening on a freeway :S

lucky i dont have an AFM

[RadiuM]

been driving the 4wd to go away for the weekend.. we were just about to hit the freeway when the back wheel's studs sheered off, the back end grazed along the road and the wheel overtook us, hit a tree and flew about 5-10meters into the air.

we looked out the sunroof to see a wheel coming down towards us. It just missed the car door bounced again and landed in front of the car on the road. Thankgod this didnt happen when we were out in wh00p wh00p 4wd'ing.

also had my intercooler pipes burst loose when i was under full load in the 32.. scared the shit out of me for a minute or two

Shaun

[T0nyGTSt]

I launched a dipstick into LEO (lower earth orbit). I think it's over Japan right now.

And I made a smokescreen like I was signaling for a plane on a desert island.

That was a nice day.

T.

[ecenshu]

Ended up replacing all belts because the AC belt rubbed against both the timing belt and the power steering...while I was at it, I wen't for the full service so there goes my 100K kms service (I doubt my car was legit at 64K kms).

Oh well...at least I have peace of mind now!

Now...on to fixing more important things...like my clock

[tridentt150v]

Blew a diff centre at the traffic lights, loudest rumble/crunch I've ever had.

Blew a spark plug out of a motorbike head at 140kph, on a twin cylinder, that was pants $hitting stuff, thought the demons of hell had been let loose, its right under your nose, next to your head, the sparkplug is still in orbit somewhere.

[meshmesh]

Used to have a Mini Clubman GT 1972, driving on the freeway @100km/h taking a swooping bend, and realise I have no steering .... luck was on my side, I had just enough steering to get me through the bend, and my mechanic was virtually a straight run with no turns about 10k's away.

[NickR33]

Was down at Calder having a few runs one Fri night... did my last run and popped the bonnet to let it cool a bit and found oil EVERYWHERE! Panicked badly for a few minutes trying to find the problem before I realised I hadn't replaced the dipstick properly... very messy

[Jolinator]

after taking one of our cars to get its brakes done, on the way back (freeway) the left caliper comes of and jams on, locking the front left wheel on :Bang: