Gayno's 4th Gen

Post by **Gayno** » Sun May 13, 2012 5:24 pm

vanzep wrote:that bolt cant have just worked itself loose - your garage has some explaining to do

lucky your ok

It could if they only did it up finger tight when assembling everything, and then missing it out when torquing them all up afterwards.

2lude · Post by **2lude** » Sun May 13, 2012 5:28 pm

go complain and try to record the conversation on your phone dont say you want compo you just want them to realise the gravity of thier mistake is it was pottentially a deadly mistake

Post by **vanzep** » Sun May 13, 2012 5:34 pm

supose so but theyve still got some explaining - the way i see it without getting too technical (cause id be out my depth) is there is a cross load on this bolt so it was either like you say finger tight and not torqued up at all which is near unforgivable or the bolt was never put in which would be unlikely - what i meant was the bolt couldnt have worked itself loose if it was torqued up properly

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Sun May 13, 2012 7:42 pm

That sucks dude, but at least you're alright and everything is salvageable. Good luck with the garage. And nice to have very briefly met you at the end of Japfest

... Hope it wasn't me that jinxed you

Post by **fweakyg** » Sun May 13, 2012 7:48 pm

NafemanNathan wrote:Hope it wasn't me that jinxed you

uurrmm that probably me .... Passing my "Badluck Lude" virus from my car to his .... Sorry

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Sun May 13, 2012 8:06 pm

fweakyg wrote:
NafemanNathan wrote:Hope it wasn't me that jinxed you

uurrmm that probably me .... Passing my "Badluck Lude" virus from my car to his .... Sorry

Oh thank god!

Post by **Gayno** » Sun May 13, 2012 8:23 pm

fweakyg wrote:
NafemanNathan wrote:Hope it wasn't me that jinxed you

uurrmm that probably me .... Passing my "Badluck Lude" virus from my car to his .... Sorry

Yeah, Rach said "your car needs to stop hanging out with Kat's car, then it can't catch syphalis"

JDM-BB4 · Post by **JDM-BB4** » Sun May 13, 2012 8:28 pm

That really sucks. Glad to see it wasn't a lot more serious and caution was the right route to take when your felt something not being right.

My only concern about blaming the garage is that the caliper or carrier bolt doesn't need to be undone when replacing the CV gaitor. Undoing the hub nut and bottom balljoint under the hub gives you enough clearance to get the driveshaft out AFAIK.

Duo · Post by **Duo** » Sun May 13, 2012 8:39 pm

No worries for the help dude, can't go leaving you stranded, it's just not cricket as they say and I did lol to myself a couple of times as your mrs does have a way of putting things hehe. May have been slighty bad though, Gayno now likes the Stagea with it's "boost VTEC" keeping 5psi until 4500rpm then getting 7psi

Glad I could help though dude and definitely worth the call to the garage on Monday, might be word against word but they still have to accept they are more than likely responsible for it and offer to make it up, I know mistakes can happen but when it's to do with brakes there is no excuse really. At the end of the day it thankfully happened in a relatively safe place where speeds were down and as an enthusiast you didn't ignore the slight grinding and knew it had to be looked at, ultimately that helped keep damage to a minimum and diffused a potentially bad situation. Your average joe public probably would have ignored or not noticed it and there would have been a huge accident as a result.

As I said at the time too dude, if you need a hand or tools just shout, glad it's an easy fix despite the serious nature of the problem.

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Sun May 13, 2012 9:19 pm

Lude Generation

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