Had a car crash today

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after a track rod end snapped

Eeek!

Sometimes we forget how we daily put our lives in the hands of a bit of metal just a few mm across.

True, but once one has snapped, one tends to forget it less often

I'm still not convinced that someone didn't try to cut it. You could see where it was slightly marked between the locking nut and the track rod. And usually, when something like that snaps, you can see where it has part fractured previously.

I'd fired some Fs into a particularly grumpy and aggressive supervisor, in front of 40 of his staff, about a week before it happened. Then we had a proper slanging match.

Sounds a bit too inventive to be attempted murder.  You're a lovely chap too, I don't buy it.

i can buy it, people get bitter and twisted and dont see the what could happen go wrong, if the truth be known im prolly guilty of such things, no ones perfect... and we are all capable of murder, just need that push over the edge...

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my new grandaughter 2 weeks old

Good on ya mate!

thx
GM....

[Tony]

after a track rod end snapped

Eeek!

Sometimes we forget how we daily put our lives in the hands of a bit of metal just a few mm across.

funny you should mention this sort of thing i regularly think as im driving down a steep hill, what if the brake pipe leak / pops i would be fecked, sort of got a thing about that... i even go to the extent of avasive monouvres like pull hand brake which wouldnt do much and drop down gears and make it scream and ride the tourque of engine to slow it down... wierd...

You say that... was talking to a friend about brakes recently, he says one particular vehicle (which escapes me now I want to remember) the brake pads wear so thin that they slip out of the calipers!

You only know it has happened when your foot goes to the floor.

Anyway he says he knows this because he was in a car with a friend that had this vehicle - coming down off the motorway on the slip road, suddenly the driver flicked the wheel left and they skidded sideways down the slip road.  The driver knew it had happened and took appropriate action.  Not something I could do though without a lot of practise!

Ermm.. sorry if that doesn't help with the nightmares!

[greasemonkey]

after a track rod end snapped

Eeek!

Sometimes we forget how we daily put our lives in the hands of a bit of metal just a few mm across.

True, but once one has snapped, one tends to forget it less often

I'm still not convinced that someone didn't try to cut it. You could see where it was slightly marked between the locking nut and the track rod. And usually, when something like that snaps, you can see where it has part fractured previously.

I'd fired some Fs into a particularly grumpy and aggressive supervisor, in front of 40 of his staff, about a week before it happened. Then we had a proper slanging match.

Sounds a bit too inventive to be attempted murder.  You're a lovely chap too, I don't buy it.

He'd rubbed me up the wrong way properly. we'd been on night shift and I was particularly irritable. He was a proper threatening bloke, the whole gang were scared of him, just the sort I like to antagonise........

It was 'kin hilarious, he'd got a massive bald head and no neck, he started going bright red from his shoulders up, and when the red got half way up his bonce, he started going purple, and all his veins started pulsating, his face was three different colours, till the purple reached his scalp.

Remind me and I'll tell you the full story when we meet up.

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nar im kool with it, i live with alot of things, after awhile they become companoins i wouldnt say friends...

hehe 

[greasemonkey]

A Nissan patrol will pop the pad backing out of the caliper if it wears to thin, or the older ones will anyway. A couple of pumps on the pedal, and you have got braking force, just not much. Not a problem at lowish speed, Funny thing is, if you whacked the brakes on hard, it would probably stay in.

[photoman290]

i am amazed how people who don't know what they are doing attempt to tackle brakes and steering. ignorance is bliss until something breaks. i am very fussy about who does work on my vehicles. a friend got some local cowboy to fix her brakes. he didn't bleed them properly so she drove home with no brakes. which around here is a bit hairy to say the least. if you have to brake  and don't have brakes its in to a granite wall or thew other car or tractor. not a lot of run off areas on these roads.

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Sorry to hear about you car RM.
A few doors and a wing from Ebay and it'll be ok I hope.

Congrats on being a Grandpa again, it's one thing I'm not looking forward to but I'm sure it wont be long.

GM, I know what you mean about letting someone get under your skin,
I'm normally a very placid guy, but an idiot I was working under the other year got both barrels a few times.
I was so frustrated that I let him get to me like that, I hate loosing it. Gained loads of respect from the other guys though.

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Sorry to hear about you car RM.
A few doors and a wing from Ebay and it'll be ok I hope.

Congrats on being a Grandpa again, it's one thing I'm not looking forward to but I'm sure it wont be long.

GM, I know what you mean about letting someone get under your skin,
I'm normally a very placid guy, but an idiot I was working under the other year got both barrels a few times.
I was so frustrated that I let him get to me like that, I hate loosing it. Gained loads of respect from the other guys though.

door i could prolly get, big problem is the right colour, prolly loads of green ones lol

but the wing can stay its a welded on wing = ouch

[Dickjotec]

Congrats on the nipper and commiserations on the bump, hope I could handle it as calmly.
Dick

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Congrats on the nipper and commiserations on the bump, hope I could handle it as calmly.
Dick

thx dick, yeah gonna get a quote tomoz and ring the guy see if he wants to do it that way, if not its insurance and it will be written off, im hoping i can buy it back as part the deal....

[K.H]

If your touring the scrappies im after something (again)

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If your touring the scrappies im after something (again)

let us know what...

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but the wing can stay its a welded on wing = ouch

I'm sure 406 wings are bolt on, it is the front one isn't it.

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but the wing can stay its a welded on wing = ouch

I'm sure 406 wings are bolt on, it is the front one isn't it.

i didnt look bloke next door thought they were welded on, will have a look in the morn thx mark...