So a couple nights ago on the way to another member, the car basically s**t it self.. Im very lucky that the only damage done was to the car and not me.
I heard a couple huge bangs then coasted in to a side road, the whole n/s assembly was hanging on by one bolt which I think was also snapped and was basically just resting on it. As you can see the caliper had spun 90deg. Then on the way back home on the back of the truck the whole thing came off and the car rested on the wheel. I was told he did the strap like this for this wheel because he couldnt do it the normal way or something (not exactly how he said it) all other wheels were done normal and theres no damage to the arch.
At midnight down a narrow one way street with just enough space for the recovery truck, I went and found an old jack in the shed and luckily had just enough tools in the car already to get the wheel and hub off so we could try and get it off and onto the drive with 3 wheels, fortunately the 630lb asts held up the rear and there was enough space to get it home safe, the drive is quite steep which was a slight mission but it was more that it was midnight down a busy residential street and probably a lot of pissed off neighbors but theyll live.
So first thing first, speaking to the other member the rear 10mm spacers behind the stub are being binned, as he was telling me hes seen this problem happen before on track and a lot worse happened to them. I always thought how can those 4 little bolts hold up the whole wheel crashing around in pot holes and such.. Obviously its not exactly strong. Im going to put things back to normal bar the spacers as its still on 3 wheels jacked up but its got me thinking of the mk3 setup, it seems stronger and the stub has the thread so no counter sunk bolts and nuts but also the better caliper and slightly bigger bearing, nows the time to do this and its an inexpensive mod. I just want to feel safer as right now I dont have much confidence in the car as you can imagine, Ive had a driveshaft snap mid corner as well which again luckily didnt do any other damage.
The only thing is the abs sensors and maybe rings as I 100% want the abs. If you see the picture down the page, theres the thread for the disc shield which a bracket holding the sensor could bolt to. But I have no clue if its something that can be done (without ££) And will run the standard setup like how it is from factory, its just a consideration!
I heard a couple huge bangs then coasted in to a side road, the whole n/s assembly was hanging on by one bolt which I think was also snapped and was basically just resting on it. As you can see the caliper had spun 90deg. Then on the way back home on the back of the truck the whole thing came off and the car rested on the wheel. I was told he did the strap like this for this wheel because he couldnt do it the normal way or something (not exactly how he said it) all other wheels were done normal and theres no damage to the arch.
At midnight down a narrow one way street with just enough space for the recovery truck, I went and found an old jack in the shed and luckily had just enough tools in the car already to get the wheel and hub off so we could try and get it off and onto the drive with 3 wheels, fortunately the 630lb asts held up the rear and there was enough space to get it home safe, the drive is quite steep which was a slight mission but it was more that it was midnight down a busy residential street and probably a lot of pissed off neighbors but theyll live.
So first thing first, speaking to the other member the rear 10mm spacers behind the stub are being binned, as he was telling me hes seen this problem happen before on track and a lot worse happened to them. I always thought how can those 4 little bolts hold up the whole wheel crashing around in pot holes and such.. Obviously its not exactly strong. Im going to put things back to normal bar the spacers as its still on 3 wheels jacked up but its got me thinking of the mk3 setup, it seems stronger and the stub has the thread so no counter sunk bolts and nuts but also the better caliper and slightly bigger bearing, nows the time to do this and its an inexpensive mod. I just want to feel safer as right now I dont have much confidence in the car as you can imagine, Ive had a driveshaft snap mid corner as well which again luckily didnt do any other damage.
The only thing is the abs sensors and maybe rings as I 100% want the abs. If you see the picture down the page, theres the thread for the disc shield which a bracket holding the sensor could bolt to. But I have no clue if its something that can be done (without ££) And will run the standard setup like how it is from factory, its just a consideration!
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