Another Car post
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Reading the post from _Damian S_ below reminded me of how little I know about cars and how much I need to learn. I got into my car a few months back and started driving home. The journey home involves a lot of bends and as I went round the first few the back of my car appeared to slide a little whenever I squared up on the straight. I decided just to ignore it and continued my half hour drive home. On reaching my house I got out my car to discover the back right tyre was 100% flat. I couldnt believe I had driven home on a flat tyre without noticing and without crashing. Then when I was out driving about 2 weeks ago a strange grinding noise started happening whenever I was breaking. The car had just passed its MOT so I thought that it was weird that a noise had appeared so quickly. It turned out to be my break pads, although to say the word pads would have meant that there was actually any padding on them which there wasnt. It had grinded down to the metal and thats what the noise was metal grinding against metal. :)
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My brakes have done that before too, wasn't nice. Had to get it to the garage going incredibly slowly and using nothing but low gears/clutch control to stop myself, handbrake if it was absolutely necessary. Luckily it wasn't far to go and where I was living then was flat as a pancake.
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LOL, I thought I kept it fairly short. :)
The answers posted by me are suggestions only and cannot be used in anyway against me.
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Reading the post from _Damian S_ below reminded me of how little I know about cars and how much I need to learn. I got into my car a few months back and started driving home. The journey home involves a lot of bends and as I went round the first few the back of my car appeared to slide a little whenever I squared up on the straight. I decided just to ignore it and continued my half hour drive home. On reaching my house I got out my car to discover the back right tyre was 100% flat. I couldnt believe I had driven home on a flat tyre without noticing and without crashing. Then when I was out driving about 2 weeks ago a strange grinding noise started happening whenever I was breaking. The car had just passed its MOT so I thought that it was weird that a noise had appeared so quickly. It turned out to be my break pads, although to say the word pads would have meant that there was actually any padding on them which there wasnt. It had grinded down to the metal and thats what the noise was metal grinding against metal. :)
The answers posted by me are suggestions only and cannot be used in anyway against me.
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Reading the post from _Damian S_ below reminded me of how little I know about cars and how much I need to learn. I got into my car a few months back and started driving home. The journey home involves a lot of bends and as I went round the first few the back of my car appeared to slide a little whenever I squared up on the straight. I decided just to ignore it and continued my half hour drive home. On reaching my house I got out my car to discover the back right tyre was 100% flat. I couldnt believe I had driven home on a flat tyre without noticing and without crashing. Then when I was out driving about 2 weeks ago a strange grinding noise started happening whenever I was breaking. The car had just passed its MOT so I thought that it was weird that a noise had appeared so quickly. It turned out to be my break pads, although to say the word pads would have meant that there was actually any padding on them which there wasnt. It had grinded down to the metal and thats what the noise was metal grinding against metal. :)
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You describe the way my sister and mother drive. They expect the car to be like a horse or a mule. They "feed" it gas, water it every now and then and they expect that all its "ailments" will be answered and resolved by a night's sleep. :| My sister burned out my car engine that way when I was away for 14 months. She didn't change the oil once during that time and she drove a lot
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You describe the way my sister and mother drive. They expect the car to be like a horse or a mule. They "feed" it gas, water it every now and then and they expect that all its "ailments" will be answered and resolved by a night's sleep. :| My sister burned out my car engine that way when I was away for 14 months. She didn't change the oil once during that time and she drove a lot
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
They expect the car to be like a horse or a mule. They "feed" it gas, water it every now and then and they expect that all its "ailments" will be answered and resolved by a night's sleep.
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
She didn't change the oil once during that time and she drove a lot
Thanks for the reminder, need to do the oil and water!
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Haha, 11 people have voted on it so far, somewhat controversial post
The answers posted by me are suggestions only and cannot be used in anyway against me.
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Reading the post from _Damian S_ below reminded me of how little I know about cars and how much I need to learn. I got into my car a few months back and started driving home. The journey home involves a lot of bends and as I went round the first few the back of my car appeared to slide a little whenever I squared up on the straight. I decided just to ignore it and continued my half hour drive home. On reaching my house I got out my car to discover the back right tyre was 100% flat. I couldnt believe I had driven home on a flat tyre without noticing and without crashing. Then when I was out driving about 2 weeks ago a strange grinding noise started happening whenever I was breaking. The car had just passed its MOT so I thought that it was weird that a noise had appeared so quickly. It turned out to be my break pads, although to say the word pads would have meant that there was actually any padding on them which there wasnt. It had grinded down to the metal and thats what the noise was metal grinding against metal. :)
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Yo clearly know not only nothing about cars, but also about driving them! Obviously if the back end is loose the first thig to check is the tyre pressures, after that you probably have worn suspension bushes. If its a RWD with a live axel probably it will be the panhard bushes (or watts linkage bushes if its a better car). Otherwise its (lower) wishbone bushes. (Even McPherson strut suspension has a sort of lower wish bone) Re grinding, yep, its the front pads that are shot. An MOT wont pick this up, but its obvious the car hasnt been serviced properly. If you leave the pads too long you will need new disks too, theyt arent too expensive, around £20 each for a basic car going up to £60 if its a vented disk. (Takes about an hour and a half per side to fit, and you *should* renew both sides at the same time to keep even braking).
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Find a good MOT place that will let you know what si wearing, that advice is well worth the time talking to them.
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An MOT garage will not be able to spot worn pads easially because you cant see them without taking off the wheel. The only way they *might* notice is on the brake test where with prolonged testing the performance will degrade due to heat build up and pad vapourisation.
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Yo clearly know not only nothing about cars, but also about driving them! Obviously if the back end is loose the first thig to check is the tyre pressures, after that you probably have worn suspension bushes. If its a RWD with a live axel probably it will be the panhard bushes (or watts linkage bushes if its a better car). Otherwise its (lower) wishbone bushes. (Even McPherson strut suspension has a sort of lower wish bone) Re grinding, yep, its the front pads that are shot. An MOT wont pick this up, but its obvious the car hasnt been serviced properly. If you leave the pads too long you will need new disks too, theyt arent too expensive, around £20 each for a basic car going up to £60 if its a vented disk. (Takes about an hour and a half per side to fit, and you *should* renew both sides at the same time to keep even braking).
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fat_boy wrote:
but also about driving them!
I'm afraid I have to disagree with you there.
fat_boy wrote:
after that you probably have worn suspension bushes.
Nope it was a flat tyre Ive fitted new pads now
The answers posted by me are suggestions only and cannot be used in anyway against me.
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Reading the post from _Damian S_ below reminded me of how little I know about cars and how much I need to learn. I got into my car a few months back and started driving home. The journey home involves a lot of bends and as I went round the first few the back of my car appeared to slide a little whenever I squared up on the straight. I decided just to ignore it and continued my half hour drive home. On reaching my house I got out my car to discover the back right tyre was 100% flat. I couldnt believe I had driven home on a flat tyre without noticing and without crashing. Then when I was out driving about 2 weeks ago a strange grinding noise started happening whenever I was breaking. The car had just passed its MOT so I thought that it was weird that a noise had appeared so quickly. It turned out to be my break pads, although to say the word pads would have meant that there was actually any padding on them which there wasnt. It had grinded down to the metal and thats what the noise was metal grinding against metal. :)
The answers posted by me are suggestions only and cannot be used in anyway against me.
You can learn a lot by lurking on auto forums. I've been trying to do as much of the maintenance on my car as I can, and have learned a good bit from DIY forums and articles. Even if you don't plan to do the work yourself, you'll get a much better understanding of things.
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