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**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

**Mini_Mopar** · 03-15-2005, 01:15 AM

Well nothing crazy but when my mom got her oil changed in her 86 Trans-Am they put a pretty big scratch in it. Of course we got them to pay.

**sevsev** · 03-15-2005, 01:23 AM

I've heard alot of bad things about CT, boo

**SR20DET** · 03-15-2005, 08:41 AM

Moved to Local shop talk

**92_mazda_mx-3** · 03-15-2005, 08:53 AM

My buddy got his tires changed at CT and the kid that drove his neon into the garage grinded and stalled that thing like a bitch (lepiszem it was my buddy ryan the guy that was with us sat or sun). We went to Tim Hortons and had some stuff took maybe 1 hour jus sitting and talking eventually we come back to CT. We get in the car to start it and all his Temp guages are past HIGH into the red zone. The stock temp guage on the dash was way past the red. We asked what the fuck was going on they denied they drove it but there were mysterious burnout marks in the back parking lot. We cooled down and were jus coming out onto the street and 1st is ok. 2nd gone, 3rd gone, 4th sometimes, and 5th was completly dead. They fucked his car over and i think hes gunna try n sue em cuz he had to buy a new tranny.

So yeah crappy tire sucks. :fuckyou:

**2JZ2NV** · 03-15-2005, 12:19 PM

A gut I know had a similair situation, he had a swap done in his car from a kw shop(not authority) and he picks up the car late one night and the next morning he goes to work as he goes to work 5 min down the road he turns left and boom the wheel falls off and slides into a tree fuck his car up good and tows it to bac when they bring it in they set the car up to measure and pull they needed to take the other wheel off to put it on specail wheel stands john un did them by hand and we looked @ the rim that fell off all the holes were pretty much out of shape Iam not sure what happened after that but if I was the guy I would of sued there pants off it would of cost the guy over $4000.00 to fix but john cut the guy a real big break

**TYM2PLAY** · 03-15-2005, 06:21 PM

That's funny you should mention this story because i know this guy very well. Get it right though he was going straight when the wheel fell off and the car is still a mess which is why he has it booked at our shop to have it put back on the frame machine and straightened properly, his power steering pulley rubs on the damn frame which is still bent so we can't get his new motor in.

**AUTHORITY 1** · 03-15-2005, 08:09 PM

Well when you work with a small budget you cant really preform miricals but it did touch when it left and every time I saw he did didnt say anything

**92_mazda_mx-3** · 03-15-2005, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TYM2PLAY

That's funny you should mention this story because i know this guy very well. Get it right though he was going straight when the wheel fell off and the car is still a mess which is why he has it booked at our shop to have it put back on the frame machine and straightened properly, his power steering pulley rubs on the damn frame which is still bent so we can't get his new motor in.

whoa dude u straighten frames?
wher do are u located?
the previous owner of the MX3 hit something and now i need the frame (in the front by rad) un bent or cut and straightened

**fixitmattman** · 03-15-2005, 08:47 PM

I can straighten frames too:

Matt

**TYM2PLAY** · 03-15-2005, 08:56 PM

AUTHORITY 1

It's water under the bridge man, we are taking care of everything the car needs so that it can be he can enjoy a car since his SiR will be on tour

**TYM2PLAY** · 03-15-2005, 08:57 PM

92_mazda_mx-3

Have a frame machine at the shop BKS Customs in Oakville

bring your $$$$$

cause we normally only do full show car builds

**KWghost** · 03-15-2005, 10:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2JZ2NV

A gut I know had a similair situation, he had a swap done in his car from a kw shop(not authority) and he picks up the car late one night and the next morning he goes to work as he goes to work 5 min down the road he turns left and boom the wheel falls off and slides into a tree fuck his car up good and tows it to bac when they bring it in they set the car up to measure and pull they needed to take the other wheel off to put it on specail wheel stands john un did them by hand and we looked @ the rim that fell off all the holes were pretty much out of shape Iam not sure what happened after that but if I was the guy I would of sued there pants off it would of cost the guy over $4000.00 to fix but john cut the guy a real big break

that is the longest goddamn run-on sentence I have ever seen!

**2JZ2NV** · 03-16-2005, 12:15 AM

who are you my teacher.

**92_mazda_mx-3** · 03-16-2005, 12:21 AM

^bahahaha

and tym2play gimme an address and ill try to make it in thie week or sat with mike maybe go for a lil cruise

**Big T** · 03-16-2005, 12:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fixitmattman

I can straighten frames too:

Matt

So thats how you fixed the escort

None of that fancy spreadsheet crap

**fixitmattman** · 03-16-2005, 12:52 AM

^^^So true

Hey dad, does that look straight?

No.

Whack!

It's good now

Matt

**2JZ2NV** · 03-16-2005, 12:03 PM

92 mazda mx3 why dont you worry about the rotting carcus you call a car

**TYM2PLAY** · 03-16-2005, 06:40 PM

92_mazda_mx-3

sure like i said bring your bling our walk in the door rate starts at $5000 and that would be to paint your car factory color.

We don't do any small time work everything we do is a full build
Motor work
Custom paints
Widebody
Audio
Airbrushing .....etc. .................

the list goes on our minimum project when said and done is about $20000

this is an example of our suttle work and the Acurabot is our extreme work

this pic is shitty but i broke my digi at the show on the weekend so it's the best i can do until i get my disc

**opel1** · 03-16-2005, 10:03 PM

CTC is good for safety's on unsafe cars!

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.

03-15-2005, 01:23 AM	#3 (permalink)
sevsev VM Member Posts: 4,259 Location: Cambridge Join Date: May 2004 Ride: 2003 Protege5 Fav Mod: train horn Class: Mini Truck	I've heard alot of bad things about CT, boo ------------------ //Andrew \| 03 Mazda Protege5 3:13

03-15-2005, 08:41 AM	#4 (permalink)
SR20DET VM Member Posts: 3,882 Location: Hamilton Join Date: Nov 2003 Ride: 1993 Nissan NX2000 Fav Mod: Class:	Moved to Local shop talk ------------------ Dave 1993 Nissan NX2000 - For Sale Boomin' Car Audio 519-579-7941

03-15-2005, 08:47 PM	#10 (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:	I can straighten frames too: 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.

03-16-2005, 12:52 AM	#17 (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:	^^^So true Hey dad, does that look straight? No. Whack! It's good now 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.

03-15-2005, 08:53 AM	#5 (permalink)
92_mazda_mx-3 Post Whore Posts: 1,186 Location: Kitchener Join Date: Oct 2004 Ride: Fav Mod: Class:	My buddy got his tires changed at CT and the kid that drove his neon into the garage grinded and stalled that thing like a bitch (lepiszem it was my buddy ryan the guy that was with us sat or sun). We went to Tim Hortons and had some stuff took maybe 1 hour jus sitting and talking eventually we come back to CT. We get in the car to start it and all his Temp guages are past HIGH into the red zone. The stock temp guage on the dash was way past the red. We asked what the fuck was going on they denied they drove it but there were mysterious burnout marks in the back parking lot. We cooled down and were jus coming out onto the street and 1st is ok. 2nd gone, 3rd gone, 4th sometimes, and 5th was completly dead. They fucked his car over and i think hes gunna try n sue em cuz he had to buy a new tranny. So yeah crappy tire sucks. :fuckyou:

03-15-2005, 12:19 PM	#6 (permalink)
2JZ2NV VM Member Posts: 132 Join Date: Feb 2005 Ride: 1994 supra turbo Fav Mod: Class:	A gut I know had a similair situation, he had a swap done in his car from a kw shop(not authority) and he picks up the car late one night and the next morning he goes to work as he goes to work 5 min down the road he turns left and boom the wheel falls off and slides into a tree fuck his car up good and tows it to bac when they bring it in they set the car up to measure and pull they needed to take the other wheel off to put it on specail wheel stands john un did them by hand and we looked @ the rim that fell off all the holes were pretty much out of shape Iam not sure what happened after that but if I was the guy I would of sued there pants off it would of cost the guy over $4000.00 to fix but john cut the guy a real big break

03-15-2005, 06:21 PM	#7 (permalink)
TYM2PLAY Regular User Posts: 301 Location: ON YOUR MOM Join Date: Jan 2005 Ride: Fav Mod: Class:	That's funny you should mention this story because i know this guy very well. Get it right though he was going straight when the wheel fell off and the car is still a mess which is why he has it booked at our shop to have it put back on the frame machine and straightened properly, his power steering pulley rubs on the damn frame which is still bent so we can't get his new motor in.

03-15-2005, 08:09 PM	#8 (permalink)
AUTHORITY 1 VM Member Posts: 762 Join Date: Jul 2004 Ride: 1989 HONDA CRX SI Fav Mod: Class:	Well when you work with a small budget you cant really preform miricals but it did touch when it left and every time I saw he did didnt say anything

03-15-2005, 08:56 PM	#11 (permalink)
TYM2PLAY Regular User Posts: 301 Location: ON YOUR MOM Join Date: Jan 2005 Ride: Fav Mod: Class:	AUTHORITY 1 It's water under the bridge man, we are taking care of everything the car needs so that it can be he can enjoy a car since his SiR will be on tour

03-15-2005, 08:57 PM	#12 (permalink)
TYM2PLAY Regular User Posts: 301 Location: ON YOUR MOM Join Date: Jan 2005 Ride: Fav Mod: Class:	92_mazda_mx-3 Have a frame machine at the shop BKS Customs in Oakville bring your $$$$$ cause we normally only do full show car builds

03-16-2005, 12:15 AM	#14 (permalink)
2JZ2NV VM Member Posts: 132 Join Date: Feb 2005 Ride: 1994 supra turbo Fav Mod: Class:	who are you my teacher.

03-16-2005, 12:21 AM	#15 (permalink)
92_mazda_mx-3 Post Whore Posts: 1,186 Location: Kitchener Join Date: Oct 2004 Ride: Fav Mod: Class:	^bahahaha and tym2play gimme an address and ill try to make it in thie week or sat with mike maybe go for a lil cruise

03-16-2005, 12:03 PM	#18 (permalink)
2JZ2NV VM Member Posts: 132 Join Date: Feb 2005 Ride: 1994 supra turbo Fav Mod: Class:	92 mazda mx3 why dont you worry about the rotting carcus you call a car

03-16-2005, 06:40 PM	#19 (permalink)
TYM2PLAY Regular User Posts: 301 Location: ON YOUR MOM Join Date: Jan 2005 Ride: Fav Mod: Class:	92_mazda_mx-3 sure like i said bring your bling our walk in the door rate starts at $5000 and that would be to paint your car factory color. We don't do any small time work everything we do is a full build Motor work Custom paints Widebody Audio Airbrushing .....etc. ................. the list goes on our minimum project when said and done is about $20000 this is an example of our suttle work and the Acurabot is our extreme work this pic is shitty but i broke my digi at the show on the weekend so it's the best i can do until i get my disc

03-16-2005, 10:03 PM	#20 (permalink)
opel1 VM Member Posts: 57 Location: southern Ontario Join Date: Dec 2003 Ride: Fav Mod: Class:	CTC is good for safety's on unsafe cars! ------------------ Sunshine brings smiles!

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