Keith Browning Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 This is a major contendor for the Darwin award. This truck WAS DRIVEN INTO THE DEALERSHIP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredsvt Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Looks very familiar. Except yours still has a nearly complete brake rotor. Had a '99 F350 with a 10 horse trailer in tow start to lose the bearing in the Poconos. He drove 250 miles all the way back. The driver had nearly no brakes and next to no steering all the way back. He stated he heard NOTHING! Uh, ok. It looked just like that. Was one hell of a big ticket with everything cut up, rotor, caliper, bracket, axle, spindle nearly cut in two, hub gone, wheel and tire destroyed from the wild circle track alignment! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warman Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 By and large, if it will move, somebody will drive it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 You got caught driving a commercial vehicle in Ontario with a defect like that, they'd cut your balls off. Wow. That's. Just. Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warman Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Flip side of the coin.... <some> aboriginals will slip the socket of a separated tie rod end over the ball stud and secure it with a bicycle inner tube and continue to drive.... The reason they used bicycle inner tube? Convenience... they used to use strips of moosehide... but it is easier to steal a bicycle than kill a moose out of season... I'm sorry if I appear to stereotype... shit happens.... We absolutely require both safety and anti-tampering legislation in Alberta... but our elected officials look at these types of legislation as "political suicide"... Even in our modern times, we still have "eunuchs". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 will slip the socket of a separated tie rod end over the ball stud and secure it with a bicycle inner tube This is a good idea....for the mechanic to drive the truck into the shop from the parking lot after it's been towed in.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredsvt Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 I've seen tie rods re-attached with large plastic tie straps, and one with coat hangers holding them together. And they weren't even in the shop for the front end. I just sent emails to our motor vehicle agency in trenton to get a vehicle our local or state cops wouldn't take off the road. ( jurisdictional pissing match) A 1992 F150, with a roach coach body on it. Came in for a flat tire. The owner said "don't pick it up or it'll break in two" Laughing about it. I looked under there and the frame was snapped in two on BOTH sides, the right side having its break right AT the 60 gallon propane tank. This asshole was driving it every day for obviously a long time as the frame ends were all beat up and rounded and parts rusted badly. The DMV came through, pulled it, and pulled the inspection license of the shop that passes anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shlep Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 See it everyday lately, the scrap haulers seem to get away with all sorts of things like that. Usually the junk on the trailers is in better shape then the clunker they're towing it with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrunoWilimek Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 You got caught driving a commercial vehicle in Ontario with a defect like that, they'd cut your balls off. Wow. That's. Just. Awesome. I just put a rebuilt rear differential carrier in a 2000 F550 cattle truck. It has been sitting on our lot waiting for the parts since about 2 1/2 months ago. The left rear inside dual blew out while it was sitting on our lot and the outside tire on that side went flat. When I(very gingerly)pumped it up to get it in the shop, it had a rather obvious bruise(circular bulge) on the inside sidewall. The tires were both badly weather checked and had been retreaded. It went right to a nearby truck tire dealership when it left here, but I noticed the very faded annual safety sticker had expired a year and a half ago. The rear rotors were pretty well rusted away and the whole underside was very rusty. There was at least 4 inches of cow poop(luckily dry)inside it. The reason for replacing the carrier assembly was the axle side gears grenaded and took the rest of the diff with them. It was driven to our dealership. How do people get away with driving junk like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 How do people get away with driving junk like this? Yet a guy takes his racecar up the street for a quick toot, and gets hung out to dry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Clayton Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Quote: Yet a guy takes his racecar up the street for a quick toot, and gets hung out to dry Huh. Sounds like experience talkin' there 'ol boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LARRY BRUDZYNSKI Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 If Aarons talking about his own neighbourhood....There isn't a large amount of the O.P.P. on patrol in the sticks....He must have really been tearing it up and making all kinds of hell to get busted.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 If Aarons talking about his own neighbourhood....There isn't a large amount of the O.P.P. on patrol in the sticks....He must have really been tearing it up and making all kinds of hell to get busted.... Ha. There is NOW. OPP took this over from Amherstburg police in the spring, and them fuckers are EVERYWHERE. And it was a mid throttle toot, it just had no exhaust on it, and everyone got ALL fuckin' bent out of shape. Plated, and insured, and everything. Sheesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mchan68 Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Those little punks tooting around in those so-called "rice rockets", you know those beat up old Jap crap pieces of turds on wheels (mostly Honda Civics) with those fart can exhausts? THOSE are the ones that I think SHOULD be getting harrassed by our local constabulary on a day-to-day basis. In fact, THOSE are the pieces of turds on wheels that I wouldn't feel bad seeing the engines blown up under that so-called "cash-for-clunkers" deal that you folks down South have going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Amacker Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 We have a new channel on our cable TV platform called mchan..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Those little punks tooting around in those so-called "rice rockets", you know those beat up old Jap crap pieces of turds on wheels (mostly Honda Civics) with those fart can exhausts? THOSE are the ones that I think SHOULD be getting harrassed by our local constabulary on a day-to-day basis. In fact, THOSE are the pieces of turds on wheels that I wouldn't feel bad seeing the engines blown up under that so-called "cash-for-clunkers" deal that you folks down South have going. I actually welded a soup can on for a kid when I was at the indy garage. They're now Soup Can exhausts, forever. It was a Chunky soup can. Sounded very, very authoritative at idle. As for the racecar - went up a half block at about 1/3 throttle. Cops were here before we even got it back to the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseldoc Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 I used to work at a service station when I was in high school and tech school. It came in NOT for brakes, but an oil change and tire rotate. I pulled the front wheels off while the oil was draining and saw not a rotor but the ribs in the rotor. I called the customer and told them they will need brakes obviously and gave them the estimate. They asked if it could wait for a while, I obviously said no and that it had to be fixed NOW. They regretfully consented and I repaired the front brakes. When I removed the caliper what was left of the rotor fell off on the ground. I than pulled the rest of the rotor off the wheel studs. Why do people always want to skimp on brakes???? It is their life and everyone elses on the line. Let an oil leak slide a little but NEVER put off brakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warman Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 "Whaddaya mean my brakes are almost worn out???? They were OK this morning!!!!". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredsvt Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 Just had a guy come in with an '04 F150 FWD, he's complaining of a metallic grinding noise near his feet intermittently. When he stops, then goes again it isn't there for a while. We mentioned about the IWE problems (truck has 140k on it) and I go to take a look under the truck (in the lot) and I see brake fluid pouring out the left caliper and spraying all over the wheel. He says "oh, I know about the brake caliper leaking" I just want the grind to stop. My 3 KIDS don't like hearing it when I'm driving" I walked away and left him to the owner of the shop...Fucking idiot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 "Whaddaya mean my brakes are almost worn out???? They were OK this morning!!!!". These are usually the ones that have the rotor face worn off, and the pad backing plate halfway through the vents. "Just started making noise as I pulled in here!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamageINC Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Hahaha, well he's not the only contender for a Darwin Award - I know I wouldn't be crawling around under that thing with a camera, lol!! (I kid, I kid) I remember an 01 Expedition one time, customer complained of noise in the front end. Loosest ball joints in history. Raised the truck up and, no joke, the wheels sag and the left front ball joint just pops right out of the socket and the whole knuckle swings out and away from the control arm. A *light* tug on the other wheel seperated the joint on that side too. The great thing is that the guy DIDN'T WANT TO FIX IT. We had to have guys hold the wheels in place so we could lower the truck down & guide the ball-studs back into the sockets as the weight came onto the suspension. He did get it towed out of there (thank God) but it was still retarded. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshbuys Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Here's another contender - 08 F450 - customer states - was driving down highway with wheels unlocked and in 2 wheel drive - loud bang and wheels locked up....Other guy that works for the company was following him and said he about lost the truck when it happened - pretty sure it was in 4 HI!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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