#1 Car Club In Kitchener - Waterloo - Cambridge - Guelph - View Single Post

**fixitmattman** · 03-14-2005, 11:07 PM

So the other day my dad comes home, asks me if I have a sec to take the Escort for a ride as he say's it's making some clunking noises. So I grab my coat and we go for a spin. I'm driving, and sure enough there's issues. Accel is fine, breaking is fine, but when turning or coasting it makes a lovely little vibration in the drivers front end. My first thought is what the hell? I just went over this thing from head to toe when I fixed the damage from the deer and it was mint

Get home, pop up the front end and everything is rock solid, bearings, ball joints and all the other good stuff is fine, no play that I can feel at all through moving the tires. I figure it was the CV's crapping out. Not unwise, the car has 255k on it and gets driven on some pretty bad roads. It's -15 out so we put it down, and I'll look at it on the weekend. Of course between the 4 days it's steadilly getting worse. Put it up again, same deal the suspension is rock solid, can only feel a slight thud in the tires when I move it, but I can't track it down as it was pretty subtle. I decide I'm going to pull the wheel off for further investigation. Go to pull the lugs off, and the're loose as hell

Well that would do it. So I check all my wheels, and they're all loose. The passenger rear was even missing a lug

I check the rims and they're fine so I re-torque all the lugs to spec and whip a new lug on there. Take it for a spin and all the problems are gone as expected. But WTF about the loose lugs, I haven't touched that car forever, and neither has my dad

The next day it dawns on us, the last time the wheels were off was at safety, at Crappy Tire. Coincidentally, 2 days after it came back from Crappy Tire, the #2 injector harness also mysteriously worked its way off the injector as well, my dad drove home from Hamilton on 3 cylinders

Just can't kill that 1.9

For some reason I'm not surprised by this either. I know they don't like me over there because I've raised some hell over their incompetence before, but WTF?

So, anybody else have any crazy stories like this?

Matt

03-14-2005, 11:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
fixitmattman My Neon made me a mechanic Posts: 2,618 Location: Brantford / Thunder Bay Join Date: May 2004 Ride: 00 Neon Fav Mod: Class:	Shop stories.... So the other day my dad comes home, asks me if I have a sec to take the Escort for a ride as he say's it's making some clunking noises. So I grab my coat and we go for a spin. I'm driving, and sure enough there's issues. Accel is fine, breaking is fine, but when turning or coasting it makes a lovely little vibration in the drivers front end. My first thought is what the hell? I just went over this thing from head to toe when I fixed the damage from the deer and it was mint Get home, pop up the front end and everything is rock solid, bearings, ball joints and all the other good stuff is fine, no play that I can feel at all through moving the tires. I figure it was the CV's crapping out. Not unwise, the car has 255k on it and gets driven on some pretty bad roads. It's -15 out so we put it down, and I'll look at it on the weekend. Of course between the 4 days it's steadilly getting worse. Put it up again, same deal the suspension is rock solid, can only feel a slight thud in the tires when I move it, but I can't track it down as it was pretty subtle. I decide I'm going to pull the wheel off for further investigation. Go to pull the lugs off, and the're loose as hell Well that would do it. So I check all my wheels, and they're all loose. The passenger rear was even missing a lug I check the rims and they're fine so I re-torque all the lugs to spec and whip a new lug on there. Take it for a spin and all the problems are gone as expected. But WTF about the loose lugs, I haven't touched that car forever, and neither has my dad The next day it dawns on us, the last time the wheels were off was at safety, at Crappy Tire. Coincidentally, 2 days after it came back from Crappy Tire, the #2 injector harness also mysteriously worked its way off the injector as well, my dad drove home from Hamilton on 3 cylinders Just can't kill that 1.9 For some reason I'm not surprised by this either. I know they don't like me over there because I've raised some hell over their incompetence before, but WTF? So, anybody else have any crazy stories like this? Matt ------------------ This is where you type a bunch of shit about how awesome your car is. FACT: It's been scientifically proven that the more shit you write in here the less cool your car is. Nine times out of ten the majority of people who talk shit down here don't even have any of the crap they talk about on their car. I drive an 8 year old domestic and barely give two shits about it. I beat the hell out of it and it begs for more, just like your girlfriend. Go ahead, cut me off. I dare ya.