Wheel Wobble - Hand brake turn into kerb?

[elliotff]

Saw this idiot driving his car yesterday. Not sure how much you can see from the video but this rear near side wheel was wobbling like mad.

I suspect the idiot tried to do a hand brake turn and failed. also the tyre was bald ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5X1VTCDHic&fea...

(extremely dangerous not to mention the noise of the exhaust banging about!)

[hman]

Hand braking and slapping a kerb normally folds the axle/wishbone in so I would have expected more of a camber or toe problem leading to crabbing of the car as the driver compensates.

Your video is such st quality that I cant see if the tyre is bald or not, however driving on a tyre thats wobbling will dramaticaly increase wear so that would be no suprise.

Maybe the car was on the way to a garage to get the problem fixed?

If I was you, rather than videoing and laughing at the poor soul Iperhaps you should have pulled up alongside and let them know that the wheel was in a bad way and offered to help put the spare on (if the car has one?).

Further more a wobbling wheel is also a classic sign that the wheel nuts are loose and the wheel is about to depart- another reason for letting the driver know the problem.

Pistonheads, (st quality) videoing of a non event rather than helping matters.

[HarryFlatters]

In my youth, I bent an axle stub in my old Punto doing similar...

[AdeTuono]

That's some assumptions you made in the title to the video...

1) That the driver's an idiot
2) That they hit a kerb
3) In the snow
4) Doing a handbrake turn

Are you a detective?

[sc0tt]

I bent an alloy driving up the road in the snow with my handbrake on.

Bought 2 alloys for £33.50 on ebay. Sold one for £35.

£1.50 Profit.

Win.

[elliotff]

I did speak to him a mile or so before i started to film.

The Youth said

"i dont care the car is still driving, therefore must be ok to drive."

He then fulfilled his stereotype and wheel spind away from the lights like a proper tt.

I have no sympathy for this guy.

[elliotff]

AdeTuono said:

That's some assumptions you made in the title to the video...

1) That the driver's an idiot
2) That they hit a kerb
3) In the snow
4) Doing a handbrake turn

Are you a detective?

also i didnt say he hit the kerb hence the ? in the topic and he was a idiot.

[Rovinghawk]

elliotff said:

He then fulfilled his stereotype and wheel spind away from the lights like a proper tt.

Ah, irony.

RH

[Ari]

Mate of mine once handbrake turned a Vauxhall Viva HA very poorly, hit the kerb hard and somehow managed to bounce up onto it! (Lucky he didn't roll it).

He bent the wheel yet remarkably the car was undamaged. Got a new wheel from the scrappy and all was well.

He also once slammed the drivers door so hard when it wouldn't start that he shattered the window. It's fair to say mechanical sympathy wasn't his strong point. (It was out of petrol..!)

[hman]

So, the question is, did this go as well as expected for the OP.


I think not.

[Mr2Mike]

elliotff said:

I did speak to him a mile or so before i started to film.

The Youth said

"i dont care the car is still driving, therefore must be ok to drive."

He then fulfilled his stereotype and wheel spind away from the lights like a proper tt.

I have no sympathy for this guy.

[y2blade]

What an idiot.