disturbing discovery

[vannic]

i just found something very disturbing under my car. i have a huge tear in the chassis, almost directly under the drivers seat. i think it's in a channel where some wiring travels under the car from back to the front. i'm hoping that it's only going to need to be smashed back into place and welded, but any thoughts would be great.

[predator]

You should be able to get it repaired and fixed up. At least it is only a small section. ylwgtr has a thread in the melb section where he shows how he repaired his chasis rail to as good, if not better than new.

p.s. somebody is stuck under your car there, better let them out

[vannic]

You should be able to get it repaired and fixed up. At least it is only a small section. ylwgtr has a thread in the melb section where he shows how he repaired his chasis rail to as good, if not better than new.  

thanks.  i can't seem to find ylwgtr as a user but at least it's good to know that it should be able to be fixed.

p.s. somebody is stuck under your car there, better let them out

it's amazing the places one will put themselves to get the right picture isn't it

[WazR32GTSt]

i just found something very disturbing under my car.  i have a huge tear in the chassis, almost directly under the drivers seat.  i think it's in a channel where some wiring travels under the car from back to the front.  i'm hoping that it's only going to need to be smashed back into place and welded, but any thoughts would be great.

how did that happen? take a speed bump at 40km/h?

[blur]

thats some rip going on there!! looks like its repairable, take it to a good panel beater.

[vannic]

how did that happen? take a speed bump at 40km/h?

i have no idea how it happened. i definatly don't take speed bumps fast. i can't stand my car hitting or scraping anything. i woke up this morning searching back through my memory to what could have caused it and the only thing i can think of is . . . a year or so ago i was driving home from work on a fairly dark stretch of road and i heard and felt a reallly loud bang/bump under the car in just about that exact position. i had a look when i got home but couldn't see anything obvious (i only noticed this time 'cause i had the car up on stands and was further under it). i'm guessing there was something pretty solid on the road that i didn't see which i caught under the tyre and flung it up in a way that caused it to rip this big freakin hole. although, the more i look at it, it looks like it couldn't have happened with the car driving forwards. it almost looks like the tear happened from the back to the front . . . . i might drop by the panel beater's today and see what they say.