F*cked my car up :P
03-27-2004, 09:42 AM
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F*cked my car up :P
Oh man, what a long week..
The whole week I was planning a trip to TN, to see a close friend of mine I haven't seen in a -very- long time. The car is a Honda Civic, a '98 Hatchback. I'm lowered about 2.5" or so, so I picked up a set of stock steelies to roll on so I wouldn't put camber wear on my good wheels. Don't know why, but about 3 and a half hours down 64/I81 I start to feel a wobble. I start to pull over and I hear "ping, ping!" and I see something shiney fly. Get off on the shoulder and BAM the wheel comes off and I slide 50 yards on my rear left LCA. Wheel studs sheared! F*ck! Sitting there, frustrated as hell, can't get any roadside assistance because I dont know where I am at. Walk down a half mile or so to get the mile marker/freeway exit number. Finally, Roadside assistance tells me they cant help me. Cop tells me if he comes back hes gonna take my car. Shit. A truck pulls up behind me, and the guy asks me if I need any help. Ends up giving me a ride to a tow truck, following me to the service station, and taking me by a truck stop where I could hang out and not have to sleep in the car. I get kicked out of the truck stop becuase the manager though I was homeless (I fell asleep in the TV room) so I sleep in the car. Talk to the mechanic in the morning, and he keeps calling my car a hyundai and saying he needs to get wheel studs for a hyundai, oh shit Im thinkin. But finally he fixes it, and I pay the last of my money to get it fixed.. drive down the road...get a mile.. BAM, the other side goes. SHIT, so I spend the night in the car again and get my pops to pay CC over the phone for the tow and fix, now I gotta pay him back next check... ended up putting my rims back on and taking the steelies off and limping home. They reamed me for fixing wheel studs. $80 to be towed a mile, each time, and the first time for 4 studs was $100 or so and the 2nd time was like $35 from a different shop. $100? I coulda done it myself if I had tools. I hate going to mechanics unless I need to. Problem? Probably aftermarket lugnuts on steel wheels (It had never crossed my mind before this). I guess I learned the hard way. Who knows, but Im glad to be back in Richmond finally... too bad I never even GOT to TN
Oh well... next week Ill find out if anything is really bent in the rear suspension..
The whole week I was planning a trip to TN, to see a close friend of mine I haven't seen in a -very- long time. The car is a Honda Civic, a '98 Hatchback. I'm lowered about 2.5" or so, so I picked up a set of stock steelies to roll on so I wouldn't put camber wear on my good wheels. Don't know why, but about 3 and a half hours down 64/I81 I start to feel a wobble. I start to pull over and I hear "ping, ping!" and I see something shiney fly. Get off on the shoulder and BAM the wheel comes off and I slide 50 yards on my rear left LCA. Wheel studs sheared! F*ck! Sitting there, frustrated as hell, can't get any roadside assistance because I dont know where I am at. Walk down a half mile or so to get the mile marker/freeway exit number. Finally, Roadside assistance tells me they cant help me. Cop tells me if he comes back hes gonna take my car. Shit. A truck pulls up behind me, and the guy asks me if I need any help. Ends up giving me a ride to a tow truck, following me to the service station, and taking me by a truck stop where I could hang out and not have to sleep in the car. I get kicked out of the truck stop becuase the manager though I was homeless (I fell asleep in the TV room) so I sleep in the car. Talk to the mechanic in the morning, and he keeps calling my car a hyundai and saying he needs to get wheel studs for a hyundai, oh shit Im thinkin. But finally he fixes it, and I pay the last of my money to get it fixed.. drive down the road...get a mile.. BAM, the other side goes. SHIT, so I spend the night in the car again and get my pops to pay CC over the phone for the tow and fix, now I gotta pay him back next check... ended up putting my rims back on and taking the steelies off and limping home. They reamed me for fixing wheel studs. $80 to be towed a mile, each time, and the first time for 4 studs was $100 or so and the 2nd time was like $35 from a different shop. $100? I coulda done it myself if I had tools. I hate going to mechanics unless I need to. Problem? Probably aftermarket lugnuts on steel wheels (It had never crossed my mind before this). I guess I learned the hard way. Who knows, but Im glad to be back in Richmond finally... too bad I never even GOT to TN
Oh well... next week Ill find out if anything is really bent in the rear suspension..
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03-27-2004, 10:33 AM
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Re: F*cked my car up :P
damn dude, sorry about that. $100 is about right for 4 studs...
if you figure that most shops have an initial fee of 1hrs labor (ours is 80bux) and parts atop that (im guessing $3-5 ea. for nuts and same for studs)... you didn't get reamed so badly.
if you figure that most shops have an initial fee of 1hrs labor (ours is 80bux) and parts atop that (im guessing $3-5 ea. for nuts and same for studs)... you didn't get reamed so badly.
friends and i have had a few personal experiences
03-27-2004, 09:01 PM
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It does suck, I think I bent my LCA, so now I get to replace them with some bling SRRs or something haha, I just hate that ugly purple color :P I flat spotted the f*ck out of the tires too. I have to drive to work and hear that stupid "thump, thump, thump" and then when I go faster its like "thumthumthumthumthumthum" and it just makes me want to walk to work from now :P
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03-27-2004, 10:07 PM
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if i drove a honda, i'd walk too..
o wait, i already did drive a honda and had to walk to work
j/k with ya. but that does suck. just noticed that yoru front lip is missing, im assuming that was destroyed in the accident?
o wait, i already did drive a honda and had to walk to work
j/k with ya. but that does suck. just noticed that yoru front lip is missing, im assuming that was destroyed in the accident?
03-27-2004, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by fatboyee
j/k with ya. but that does suck. just noticed that yoru front lip is missing, im assuming that was destroyed in the accident?
Yeah my front lip is wasted but I ghetto rigged it together with some kind of fiberglass resin sheit and I might sand it a little and paint it. I dont want to buy a new one :P Im so ghetto. Its leaning up against the door right now.Edit: Actually, it was destroyed by the redneck mechanic who drove it up the ramp into the bay, and by the tow truck drivers who didnt give a f*ck wether they broke it or not :P I could care less about the lip as long as I got home.
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