Muggles and a 'hideous lack of maintenance...'
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By muggles, I mean your average Joe or Joe-ess who uses their car as an 'automotive white-good' and wouldn't recognise a problem even if it smacked them in the face?
What hideous and dangerous results have you seen?
A mate of mine runs a small local garage, and he has a 'shelf of shame' where he keeps parts that he's removed from cars which frankly beggar belief - and the owner has been driving the car around on our roads, totally oblivious.
There are many examples - but to pick one that I really like, is a front disc / caliper shocker...
The owner had carried on driving the car after the front discs had worn to a ridiculously thin state - and the pads had worn through to the metal. Eventually, the disc had worn through to a point where it was so thin, it snapped away from it's mounting. So basically the bit of the disc that was bolted to the hub stayed there, and the rotor part itself became detached and stopped rotating - starting a new life basically being held in thin air by the caliper's pads.
As if this wasn't bad enough - he still didn't notice, so after a while the disc became rusted solidly to the pads, in the caliper.
When it came in for an MOT - and failed spectacularly, the owner just shrugged and said 'yeah, the brakes haven't felt that great for a while, I must admit...'
So, the trophy is a rusty caliper with a rusty disc rotor basically welded inside it. Shocker!
I could cite other examples of girlfriends I have had, where upon closer inspection of their cars after starting a relationship with them, have revealed similar deadly examples of non-maintenance. From tyres down to the metal cords, through to rusty brake lines leaking fluid, a complete lack of illumination at the back of the car with ALL the bulbs failed, to ball-joints and wheel bearings absolutely hanging. It's scary really, that we have to share the roads with such thick f
ktards is it not?!
Anyone else seen such terrifying neglect on daily driving vehicles?
What hideous and dangerous results have you seen?
A mate of mine runs a small local garage, and he has a 'shelf of shame' where he keeps parts that he's removed from cars which frankly beggar belief - and the owner has been driving the car around on our roads, totally oblivious.
There are many examples - but to pick one that I really like, is a front disc / caliper shocker...
The owner had carried on driving the car after the front discs had worn to a ridiculously thin state - and the pads had worn through to the metal. Eventually, the disc had worn through to a point where it was so thin, it snapped away from it's mounting. So basically the bit of the disc that was bolted to the hub stayed there, and the rotor part itself became detached and stopped rotating - starting a new life basically being held in thin air by the caliper's pads.
As if this wasn't bad enough - he still didn't notice, so after a while the disc became rusted solidly to the pads, in the caliper.
When it came in for an MOT - and failed spectacularly, the owner just shrugged and said 'yeah, the brakes haven't felt that great for a while, I must admit...'
So, the trophy is a rusty caliper with a rusty disc rotor basically welded inside it. Shocker! I could cite other examples of girlfriends I have had, where upon closer inspection of their cars after starting a relationship with them, have revealed similar deadly examples of non-maintenance. From tyres down to the metal cords, through to rusty brake lines leaking fluid, a complete lack of illumination at the back of the car with ALL the bulbs failed, to ball-joints and wheel bearings absolutely hanging. It's scary really, that we have to share the roads with such thick f
ktards is it not?!Anyone else seen such terrifying neglect on daily driving vehicles?
Some great examples here lads, keep them coming. Thanks for the links to the 'MOT Howlers' websites too - some fascinating reading there, and proof that basically backs up my point, no?
And as an aside - I thought it was beautiful, and typically PH, that the thread descended into an argument about Harry Potter - yeah there were some handbags prevalent...however this kind of digression is exactly what makes PH such an interesting and fun place. I really enjoyed that, thank you
Now, back to the horrendous lack of maintenance....
And as an aside - I thought it was beautiful, and typically PH, that the thread descended into an argument about Harry Potter - yeah there were some handbags prevalent...however this kind of digression is exactly what makes PH such an interesting and fun place. I really enjoyed that, thank you
Now, back to the horrendous lack of maintenance....
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