Really scary Impreza suspension failure
Discussion
One of my best friends was on his way to work two days ago when all of a sudden something broke on the front of his Impreza at 60mph.
He said it felt like driving on ice - he was over the wrong side of the road, narrowly missed oncoming traffic and somehow avoided the hedge.
It turns out the wishbone snapped clean in half.
This is on a car that recently had an engine rebuild, replacement calipers, struts, ball joints and is serviced religiously every year. The MOT was March this year.
From now on he’s agreed to bring the car to my house once every six months and we will have a beer and very carefully check it on my ramps because like I’ve told him before - you just can’t trust anyone nowadays.
I’m really upset that the spanner men he has been using didn’t spot this - I know March is a while ago but seriously there must have been some signs by that point. The ball joints were done a few weeks ago!
I keep replaying it in my mind and realise just how serious this could have been. Horrible.
He said it felt like driving on ice - he was over the wrong side of the road, narrowly missed oncoming traffic and somehow avoided the hedge.
It turns out the wishbone snapped clean in half.
This is on a car that recently had an engine rebuild, replacement calipers, struts, ball joints and is serviced religiously every year. The MOT was March this year.
From now on he’s agreed to bring the car to my house once every six months and we will have a beer and very carefully check it on my ramps because like I’ve told him before - you just can’t trust anyone nowadays.
I’m really upset that the spanner men he has been using didn’t spot this - I know March is a while ago but seriously there must have been some signs by that point. The ball joints were done a few weeks ago!
I keep replaying it in my mind and realise just how serious this could have been. Horrible.
Interesting about the recall - I’ll make him aware of that.
He has it serviced at specialists so you’d expect them to be pretty clued up.
Perhaps I’ve just had a few too many stupid garage related things this past few weeks where cars belonging to friends have ended up on my ramp and perhaps I’m just a bit flustered because of the potential consequences of this.
Obviously I can’t be certain I would have spotted the potential failure any more than the next guy but I am very picky about things and so, I’d back myself on this working for a mate who I care about vs a garage having to do it commercially.
He has it serviced at specialists so you’d expect them to be pretty clued up.
Perhaps I’ve just had a few too many stupid garage related things this past few weeks where cars belonging to friends have ended up on my ramp and perhaps I’m just a bit flustered because of the potential consequences of this.
Obviously I can’t be certain I would have spotted the potential failure any more than the next guy but I am very picky about things and so, I’d back myself on this working for a mate who I care about vs a garage having to do it commercially.
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