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Originally Posted by dem00n
Bought a car sight unseen and it was a lemon? Installed a part wrong and went for a drive? Reoccurring sex stains on the passenger seat?
I'm still young, so i have plenty of automotive mistakes to look forward too. Mine would have to be driving from NY to OH right after getting my license. An 8 hour drive for a noob was a stupid mistake...
I came home with a duct taped on underbody from hitting a dead deer on the I-80.
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hmmmm. let's see....
probably not changing out a tire on my 66 mustang when the tread was getting thin...
Because later after I had considered changing it but didn't, the tread came loose on the freeway and started to flap against the wheel well.
No, problem, pull over to switch it to the full size spare...
EXCEPT....This is on the 15 south going to San Diego and it's up and down hills, difficult to tell what's flat and what's slope.
Looks flat and I have no blocks for the wheels.
I jack it up no problem, I take the wheel off no problem, as I'm going to put the spare on it, it rolls forward off the jack and lands on the brake drum.
I jack it back up, put the spare on and tighten down the lugnuts and go on my merry way...
Someone flashes his lights at me about 5 miles down the road, so I get out of his way.
Well he was flashing me because my wheel was wobbling, don't have a clue how I didn't feel it.
It was dark and what I didn't notice was that the brake drum got canted when it hit the ground. So even though I tightened down the lug nuts, the drum prevented the wheel from going on straight and the wobble ate right through the lug nuts and the wheel went flying by my window.
All I could see were sparks and I decided to try and lightly tap the brakes to come to a stop...
As soon as I did, I started spinning. I went across three lanes of traffic and ended up facing the wrong way in the second from the right lane with cars coming at me.
Cars started going around me and I was able to get out of the car and to the side of the freeway. I realized that I left my cell phone in the car and managed to get back out to it and dial 911. Then as they answered and I started to say I was reporting a stalled vehicle on the freeway I got to "I'm calling to report" and a drunk kid came slamming on his brakes and skidded for 75 feet and still managed to hit it hard enough to total it.
So, failing to change the tire when I knew I should resulted in a totaled mustang. It also resulted in an $8000 settlement from his insurance company, but I would prefer to still have my car to be honest.
Jaden