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tater_salad posted:How the gently caress does one let their brakes get like this? I mean on the 2nd brake job wont the shop say "time to replace rotors"? We had a dodge minivan come into our shop that was in there only because the "Brake" light came on. It was on because of low brake fluid (Because it was all in the calipers!). Upon inspection, the rotors looked just like that, but oddly enough, the brakes seamed fine on a test drive, not so much as a pull! The metal backing plate was all that remained of the brake pad on that side, and was bent like a banana from heat. Shocking to see something that bad after virtually no noticeable drive-ability issue.
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# ¿ Aug 3, 2011 06:03 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 22:28 |
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Paul Boz_ posted:One of my younger brothers snapped both intake cams at the gear last weekend in his N/A z32 because he apparently had some mildly bent valves that bound the cams at 6500 rpms. How would bent valves bind the cams?
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2012 07:01 |
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Beach Bum posted:If the stems jam in the guides the cams will encounter too much resistance and snap. Nope, that would be the first time in history I believe. I have never seen a valve bent above the valve guide. Someone is feeding you BS.
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2012 08:17 |
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Ferremit posted:Less a mechanical failure, More a Mechanics failure. Im upgrading the speakers and stereo in my mates hilux and pulled the door skins to find these... Please don't suggest that as being a Mechanic's failure. Stereo installers have no connection to mechanics. That is in the top 10 percentile of installations I have seen come from a stereo shop unfortunately. That is a different level profession, and I do not appreciate being lump summed into that mix.
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2012 08:50 |
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D C posted:
I have done about 50 timing belt jobs on the Audi's and Passats configured like that. You do NOT need to disassemble to that extent. Who told you that?
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2012 09:10 |
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PainterofCrap posted:Get to use this in two threads. The person that would go at this with vice grips I would assume had never done so much as an oil change.
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# ¿ Sep 26, 2012 11:05 |
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Das Volk posted:Horrible E30 failure (torquing the caliper bolts without Loc-Tite can be perilous...) I work at a German shop, and I have never once heard of anyone using loc-tite on caliper bolts. Properly tightened caliper bolts don't come out. I have also never seen a tech actually use a torque wrench to tighten them. Who told you this was a thing?
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2012 09:34 |
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thelightguy posted:Battery offgassing hydrogen + spark. Believe it or not, it's not really common knowledge that you should clip the negative clamp to something metal that isn't the battery. No one quite seems to understand this. The idea is to connect the very last ground cable away from the battery (Both grounds dont have to be away from battery) because no circuit is complete until then, and no spark is possible until then as there is no current drawn till this point. Even after that, it is still a 1 in a million shot that you are going to ignite gas from the battery. This was just jumped incorrectly, period, or another issue went down. Especially considering both cars are burned, and all the length of the cable.
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2013 07:50 |
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11BulletCatcher posted:This picture here is exactly the same dashboard I have, only in the color that I plan on painting my someday. I think my car has the same dash. Trying to work on a way to make the gauges more effective without looking new age/tacky as gently caress. Getting there. Edit, I actually have my cluster out of my car (Still daily driven), so i went and looked at it, and the warning lights are laid out a little differently, what is this out of? Budget Monty fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Feb 6, 2013 |
# ¿ Feb 6, 2013 08:07 |
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Beach Bum posted:The worst part of looking for a radio for my 87 BMW 3 series was trying to find a radio that wouldn't look out of place with all the goodies like bluetooth. GOOD loving LUCK It's hard when daily driving a car to balance classic look, and functionality. I am restoring my car to stock looks, and trying to only make wheel/suspension mods that could be un-done in a weekend, so it could be sold to someone who is looking for a stock classic car. Bolt in air suspension, and wheels are all that has really been done outside of stock. I did update the electrical system to a blade style fusebox and all new wiring, but trying to retain the basic factory body/interior (Car is dirty here, but remember, daily driven in a Seattle winter):
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2013 09:48 |
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Root Bear posted:All right, enough of that poo poo. One of these lower control arm bushings is not like the other: I don't see the problem here. Everything looks fine to m............. HOLY poo poo!
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# ¿ Jun 11, 2013 08:13 |
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Astroman posted:Ha, yep! Happens to me every time I drive most any other car, since all mine have been on the tree for a few years now. Air shocks, and air springs are 2 very different things. An air shock is an assist, where as an air spring is a full spring replacement. I still don't buy that this was the cause of the accident, and the explanation is for poo poo in that article. I have seen many of those Lincolns with the air springs blown, and the car does not rest on the ground, it just gets really low. I'd love to hear an actual list of the events that led to this caused by a blown air spring. I had a customer tell me the other day that my car was unsafe ('64 Impala on bags), and reference this accident (I had not heard of the incident till he mentioned it). But this is the same customer that wanted us to install SMALLER valves in his Corrado VR6 to increase his HP... Plus he started crying once (He's in his about mid 30's) while talking about his car in our office, So I don't take him too seriously.
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# ¿ Jun 11, 2013 08:42 |
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0toShifty posted:VW mechanic? CommieGIR posted:They changed this later, it was mostly an 80's model and earlier thing. This style was used all the way up to the '99.5 Golf/Jetta bodystyle. Basically anything that had an NA 4 cyl. motor from '74-'99.5.
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2013 23:17 |
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Throatwarbler posted:I really don't get all the hate for the VAG V8, yes it has a timing chain? That Ford Cologne V6 they put into every single thing in the 1990s had timing chains on both sides of the engine, it's not really that uncommon. When you did the timing chains on one, did you think when you were done: "That was a totally reasonable amount of work to keep this sub-par car on the road"? I work at a VW/Audi shop, and none of these piles are worth that amount of labor as "Maintenance". End of story. VW can die in a fire as far as I am concerned these days.
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2013 09:58 |
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Both of these pics are from the same '96 VW Golf i just bought on the cheap: Knew it wouldn't go into 5th gear when I got it, and a few days of driving, and the clutch decides it will no longer disengage. The 5th gear problem is pretty obvious... The sping fell out of the clutch disk, and the part holding the spring in originally, broke off and wedged itself between the flywheel and disc. Fixed a second gear issue inside another trans as this one was too far gone, and got it back on the road. Did all this on saturday, got to the shop at 1:30P, was home by 8:30P with a half hour commute each way.
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# ¿ Nov 12, 2013 20:48 |
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kastein posted:Not bad! What'd you do, combine parts from that transmission with the one with 2nd gear issues and slap it back in? Opened up the trans. with the second gear issue, and replaced the slider and a few other parts from the 020 tranny parts bin at the shop. It's been great since Sat. so far. I used nothing from my original trans. but the drain plug.
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2013 06:50 |
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McSpatula posted:Pretty tame, but a contribution to the pile. Here's an RPF1 and tire destroyed by the mean streets of Compton. I think this would be considered more of a "User Error" as opposed to a Mechanical Failure". But don't feel bad, I just did this to a brand new $700 Dayton (Rubbed the inside of the wheel well, Problem has been resolved for clearance, but the damage is done): You can barely see, but the chrome is hosed all the way around the lip, you can even see the wash mitt fuzzies stuck in the rough chrome from washing the car. Guess that's gonna be my spare now... Edit (Found a better pic): Budget Monty fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Apr 3, 2014 |
# ¿ Apr 3, 2014 07:39 |
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SocketSeven posted:My Girlfriends windshield fought a goose. They both lost. There were feathers stuck in the glass. She did the right thing though, and hit that fucker head on rather than risk her life swerving or something else stupid. I am pretty sick of hearing that argument. Every situation is different, and if you are a generally alert driver, and know your surroundings, there are obviously many situations where an evasive maneuver is safe, and can also avoid a situation like this. It always gets described like "Hit the animal, or die in a fire". And if that is how someone actually thinks, I fear that I share the roads with them.
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2014 09:22 |
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I had a fun week with Mechanical failures. Unfortunately, the first one was my '98 Suburban that I loaned out to this chick who doesn't understand what a coolant gauge is: The Suburban had a leak just waiting to start because of a retarded exhaust shop employees awesome placement of an oxygen sensor bung (You can see the oxygen sensor rubbing against the aluminum line for the rear heater core: It just happened to rub through when she borrowed it, and she drove it all day with almost no coolant in it, temp gauge pegged.... Next, and even worse to fix, Customers VW Eurovan (24V VR6 of course... With plenty of bent valves!):
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2015 09:15 |
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SouthsideSaint posted:So there both getting new motors right?.......Right??????? Suburban already did, and have been driving it all week. I parked my '64 SS Impala (The normal daily), to drive the couch on wheels, and to make sure everything went alright. Unfortunately, I am fixing the Eurovan motor...
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2015 06:28 |
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This is the front left tire off my Six-Fo....
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# ¿ Jul 14, 2015 00:45 |
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veedubfreak posted:Is that the same car that was rear ended or is this a different 64? This is a different one, here they are together:
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# ¿ Aug 4, 2015 06:46 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 22:28 |
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So I heard a loud crash outside our shop today. I go outside to see what it was, and look across the alley that divides our shop from the Hyundai dealership shop...
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