car problems
 

LOL well today is just a wonderful day

i have an old 1990's car so w/e

comming home from school, me and a friend of mine - brady were riding in my car, i stop at a stop sign to make a left hand turn, and i exucute the turn


POP

crap what was that < clunk clunk clunk > me and brady look at each other <oh ####>

i pull into a parking lot, and the gears arn't working, i am thinking it's the transmission, on a front wheel drive car..... when a tranny <transmission> goes out in a front wheel drive car, youhave to pull the ENGINE out to get to it.....wee

so i call my mom, some dude pulled on the side of the road and gave me a cell phone...it was a rod comming from the transmission to my tire, to turn it.....i think it's called a cv joint, anyways i tore it up good. and it was dragging.....so like we tie the joint up so we can bring it home.....my mom hooks her car up to mine aand we proceed to drive home, at 2 mph

well about half way there 2 miles or so, during a turn, the joint comes loose, and decides it wants to flatten my TIRE - great, now there is another 70 bucks to fix the tire -- wee freakin la

so here i am, going 2 mph, getting pulled by my mom on a rope 2 feet long, crossing a major intersection, with a flat tire rolling on a rim, and then the grinding starts, oh yes my friends grinding......i hope that the city doesn't decide to sue me for leaving a 2 miles scratch in thier road....

pictures below




with the tire off

[img]http://www.daplayazclub.com/uploads/tireoff.jpg[/img]

it seems the cv joint completly became a spike

[img]http://www.daplayazclub.com/uploads/rod1.jpg[/img]


that's the end of the rod, it was thrown into the engine, but it doesn't look like it's done any damage yet.....that end connects to the wheel, the other connects to one side of the transmission.

belive it or not that spike used to look like this

[img]http://www.chang-jiang.com/parts/cvjoint/bentian.jpg[/img]




well, when the rod became a spike, and i turned that turn as mentioned above, it decided to slice mein tire

[img]http://www.daplayazclub.com/uploads/tire1.jpg[/img]

isn't that just peachy

don't ask me how that happened, but i just saw it on the tire

[img]http://www.daplayazclub.com/uploads/tire2.jpg[/img]

sorry mayne hope it works out for ya.

Re: car problems
 

[quote="[22nd Elite] Cloud":89c15]
comming home from school,[/quote:89c15]
this is the end of freakin july, what freakin school do you go to?

summer school probably dumboss

lol

yeah i failed 12th grade, because the teacher was the hardest teacher in the school.

so to graduate, i have to pay $150 bucks, and make 7 / 13 points to graduate.

I have 8 thus far, so like the only thing i have to do to graduate is stay awake :)

but thanks for asking happy:

edit : i only failed by 1 class, and i've never failed before, just to let ya know iam not a slacker or nothing hehe

holy fuck. how could you not tell the thing was worn out?!?! sweet jesus! when the bearings begin to go it makes a hell of a racket when going around turns. this is why people should have to know at least a little about cars to own one oOo:

BTW what kind of car?

[quote="Sergeant_Scrotum":b1123]holy fuck. how could you not tell the thing was worn out?!?! sweet jesus! when the bearings begin to go it makes a hell of a racket when going around turns. this is why people should have to know at least a little about cars to own one oOo:

BTW what kind of car?[/quote:b1123]

it has been clicking for a while on turns, i have taken it in to several shops and they said that it was indeed the CV joint going bad, but that it wouldn't do any damage...i havn't had the $$ to fix it, but i guess iam SoL about that now LoL

it's a 1990 Geo Storm, i picked it up for $400 bucks, though it's a crappy car, it gets good mileage, and gets to point A to point B. and my friend $400 bucks is a steal for a car.

[img]http://memimage.cardomain.com/member_img_a/225000-225999/225134_18_full.jpg[/img]

not quite that one, but same build and color....

lol

owned

cars are like that? did you learn your lesson? if you put off problems you will only grow bigger. if you had just replaced the cv joint it may have cost about 100$. now you have to replace that, the tire, a new rim, & got knows what else is messed up under there from that thing flopping around.

[quote="Sergeant_Scrotum":36eee]cars are like that? did you learn your lesson? if you put off problems you will only grow bigger. if you had just replaced the cv joint it may have cost about 100$. now you have to replace that, the tire, a new rim, & got knows what else is messed up under there from that thing flopping around.[/quote:36eee]

rim was dented, i took me a hammer and fixed it, it was acutally not all that messed up LOL

new tire = 25 bucks

the cv joints are 50 somthing at o'rieliy with the core return thing.....each so that's 100 there...not including labor :)

yes yes i did learn my lesson lol

Re: car problems
 

[quote="[22nd Elite] Cloud":f775b]LOL well today is just a wonderful day

i have an old 1990's car so w/e

comming home from school, me and a friend of mine - brady were riding in my car, i stop at a stop sign to make a left hand turn, and i exucute the turn


POP

crap what was that < clunk clunk clunk > me and brady look at each other <oh ####>

i pull into a parking lot, and the gears arn't working, i am thinking it's the transmission, on a front wheel drive car..... when a tranny <transmission> goes out in a front wheel drive car, youhave to pull the ENGINE out to get to it.....wee

so i call my mom, some dude pulled on the side of the road and gave me a cell phone...it was a rod comming from the transmission to my tire, to turn it.....i think it's called a cv joint, anyways i tore it up good. and it was dragging.....so like we tie the joint up so we can bring it home.....my mom hooks her car up to mine aand we proceed to drive home, at 2 mph

well about half way there 2 miles or so, during a turn, the joint comes loose, and decides it wants to flatten my TIRE - great, now there is another 70 bucks to fix the tire -- wee freakin la

so here i am, going 2 mph, getting pulled by my mom on a rope 2 feet long, crossing a major intersection, with a flat tire rolling on a rim, and then the grinding starts, oh yes my friends grinding......i hope that the city doesn't decide to sue me for leaving a 2 miles scratch in thier road....

pictures below




with the tire off

[img]http://www.daplayazclub.com/uploads/tireoff.jpg[/img]

it seems the cv joint completly became a spike

[img]http://www.daplayazclub.com/uploads/rod1.jpg[/img]


that's the end of the rod, it was thrown into the engine, but it doesn't look like it's done any damage yet.....that end connects to the wheel, the other connects to one side of the transmission.

belive it or not that spike used to look like this

[img]http://www.chang-jiang.com/parts/cvjoint/bentian.jpg[/img]




well, when the rod became a spike, and i turned that turn as mentioned above, it decided to slice mein tire

[img]http://www.daplayazclub.com/uploads/tire1.jpg[/img]

isn't that just peachy

don't ask me how that happened, but i just saw it on the tire

[img]http://www.daplayazclub.com/uploads/tire2.jpg[/img][/quote:f775b]


well that hole in ya tire doesnt look like it came from the C.V. Joint. looks like that tire was gonna blow anyway and it just happened to blow the same time your CV went out. and that doesnt look like any CV joint i have seen. well anyway you look at it YOU ARE SCREWED..

Re: car problems
 

[quote=rdeyes]
well that hole in ya tire doesnt look like it came from the C.V. Joint. looks like that tire was gonna blow anyway and it just happened to blow the same time your CV went out. and that doesnt look like any CV joint i have seen. well anyway you look at it YOU ARE SCREWED..[/quote:d4ca4]

yeah, saying that is a big help oOo:

you fucking boons dont quote the first damn post! cuss:

That hole in the bottom of the tire is from when it went flat, it dragged alot in one spot due to the bent rim. so as it was draged along it wore the rubber away.

[quote="Sergeant_Scrotum":fb3ba]you fucking boons dont quote the first damn post! cuss:
[/quote:fb3ba]

My cars a pos. Sonofabitch drains the batter everyday and wont fire up half the time. Need a new alternator but my dad said its not that, and i fking know it is

[quote="Sergeant_Scrotum":a97e9]you fucking boons dont quote the first damn post! cuss:

That hole in the bottom of the tire is from when it went flat, it dragged alot in one spot due to the bent rim. so as it was draged along it wore the rubber away.[/quote:a97e9]

pardon me almighty message board god ..

itsw commen sence man, pure commen sence.

mine is currently doing the same thing, I am just in the habit now of unplugging the battery every time i turn the car off overnight. it takes about 24 hours for it to drain. things to check: check to see if your battry is any good, give it a load test (you need a special machine for this if you dont have it then just try unplugging the battry cable for a day and see if it still drains, if so than its the battry. if it continues does not drain when unplugged some things to check: trunk light going off as the trunk lid goes down, ashtray light if equipped, glove box light, check all these because if stuck on they will kill the battry. if its not that than Im not sure, I still havent really done any real work to find out whats causing it on mine yet. I may check it out this weekend. If I find the cause il let you know.

[quote="Sergeant_Scrotum":57e97]itsw commen sence man, pure commen sence.[/quote:57e97]

its basic spelling.. my man basic spelling .. C-O-M-M-O-N.. S-E-N-S-E-

[quote="Sergeant_Scrotum":a3f98]mine is currently doing the same thing, I am just in the habit now of unplugging the battery every time i turn the car off overnight. it takes about 24 hours for it to drain. things to check: check to see if your battry is any good, give it a load test (you need a special machine for this if you dont have it then just try unplugging the battry cable for a day and see if it still drains, if so than its the battry. if it continues does not drain when unplugged some things to check: trunk light going off as the trunk lid goes down, ashtray light if equipped, glove box light, check all these because if stuck on they will kill the battry. if its not that than Im not sure, I still havent really done any real work to find out whats causing it on mine yet. I may check it out this weekend. If I find the cause il let you know.[/quote:a3f98]

check the brake switch, make sure that the lights are not on at night.

if you have amps <as for the radio and stuff> make sure they are wired to turn off and stuff.

just some ideas

[quote="Sergeant_Scrotum":35cc7]itsw commen sence man, pure commen sence.[/quote:35cc7]
Good point.
Good point.

dance:

My car is going to the garage thursday, gonna need a new alternator and I know it.

...if I can't work that lyric into a surefire rockabilly hit tune then I'll be a monkeys uncle.... rock:

[quote=rdeyes]its basic spelling.. my man basic spelling .. C-O-M-M-O-N.. S-E-N-S-E-[/quote:3f021]

sleeping: go back to noob school.

[quote="Eight Ace":c37d5]...if I can't work that lyric into a surefire rockabilly hit tune then I'll be a monkeys uncle.... rock:[/quote:c37d5]

Rofl, dude youre the most hilarious person ive ever met, internet or person

[quote="[22nd Elite] Cloud":57815][quote="Sergeant_Scrotum":57815]mine is currently doing the same thing, I am just in the habit now of unplugging the battery every time i turn the car off overnight. it takes about 24 hours for it to drain. things to check: check to see if your battry is any good, give it a load test (you need a special machine for this if you dont have it then just try unplugging the battry cable for a day and see if it still drains, if so than its the battry. if it continues does not drain when unplugged some things to check: trunk light going off as the trunk lid goes down, ashtray light if equipped, glove box light, check all these because if stuck on they will kill the battry. if its not that than Im not sure, I still havent really done any real work to find out whats causing it on mine yet. I may check it out this weekend. If I find the cause il let you know.[/quote:57815]

check the brake switch, make sure that the lights are not on at night.

if you have amps <as for the radio and stuff> make sure they are wired to turn off and stuff.

just some ideas[/quote:57815]

another weird one that can drain your battery is check the cig lighter, long ago I had a penny fall in there and it would drain my battery. ( i never used the cig lighter so I didnt think to look)