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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Victoria, The no fun state
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don't know if its a re-post but this is from another forum
http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...d.php?t=992964 |
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windsor user
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Geelong
Posts: 13,123
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hollleyyyyyy craaaaap!...
guy should thank his lucky stars he isnt dead |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 9,292
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wow!
thats some serious stuff right there. if that was a right hand drive car - he would be dead! (he's lucky he isnt already). |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Victoria, The no fun state
Posts: 1,668
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yeah i can't beleive he walkd away alive.
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Walking with God
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 7,321
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That's some scary stuff indeed!
Thank God it didn't kill him. GK
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Ford Fanatic
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 1,480
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Wow....I wonder though if it would have been that bad if the car did not have a sunroof. I imagine that the roof would have held up better.
Food for thought before looking at putting in a sunroof i guess.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Melbourne
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That is one lucky escape! Or unlucky to be hit (whichever tickles your fancy)
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Canberra
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Lucky to get out of that! Shame it was a pretty nice car too :(
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Victoria, The no fun state
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here's more food for thought imagine hewas in a convertible
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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15+ Years!
Join Date: Mar 2005
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I always check my wheel nuts after service.
Both my rears were loose after a service. Didn't find out for 3 days later when I heard a scrapping noise at low speed. In the mean time I had to rush my wife to hospital in an emergency so had the nuts come off we would have both ended up in hospital or the morgue. Just can't trust the mechanics to tighten and torque those nuts. (no offense to the guys that do the right thing) CHECK EM PEOPLE.
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Location: Adelaide SA
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head on with a 20" wire wheel...... gang banger must have run out of bullets.
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Watts a panhard.
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 929
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I wonder if it was caused due to the wheel studs shearing off. Stupid huge wheels with enormous moments of inertia...
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Townsville
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I drove my car out of my driveway and it felt like the engine was going to fall out stopped it all the wheel nuts loose on the left front but the stud with the locknut had snapped off as I went down the driveway . Someone had tried to steal my wheel lucky the stud snapped off in the driveway and not the motorway or else someone could end up dead
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GetBlown or GetBlown Away
Join Date: Jan 2007
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That was the first thing that came to my mind, imagine if it was right hand drive or he had a passenger. Remember Lowndes at Bathurst the other year when the tyre landed on his Falcon that was a scary moment just watching, i couldnt imagine what this poor guy was thinking. I seen a 9" when it was being transferred from 1 Falcon to another and when the 31 spline Moser Billet Axels come out to my amazement the wheel studs instead of being new bigger ones to match the billet axels the standard studs had been kept and had been modified by welding & grinding to make them fit. The Falcon was running 11.5 @ 120mph with these home made studs and the price of a set of new studs compared to the money spent on the whole diff, its was probably only a matter of time before they let go. |
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Regular Schmuck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 5,640
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Ouch. That made a mess.
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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That guy is wheely wheely lucky.
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Parts bin special
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Narre Warren, Vic
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I can't believe how destroyed that BMW is though! That bloke was very lucky to walk away from that!
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The Convert
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Port Campbell
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amazing how in so many car accidents the cars are such a mess and so close to killing occupants but they come away basically unscathed.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,463
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This F150 rolled in while I was at a dealer in the U.S. A wheel came off an SUV coming in the other direction on the freeway, luckily he was uninjured.
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XD Sundowner
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: moranbah
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we get little sticker on windscreen to check before you leave premises ,ok for me but my missus couldnt tighten or check em right so its pot luck they do the right thing i guess. and that would scare c r a p outta ya wouldnt it .
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Bris-bane
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I check my wheel nuts every so often but how many 'average' motorists bother to keep an eye on their wheel bearings?
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building the xe...
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: western sydney - home of the mullet
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hope ive never caused anything like that in my time lol
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Living in GT Nirvana
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Hmmm - Must be why Ford doesn't have a factory option for a sunroof on the new FGs ...........Does ANCAP do a "flying wheel" test?
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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How do you check bearings?
And I read all 18 pages in that thread lol. For anyone that couldn't be bothered, hes fine, scratched up arm, no shoulder breakages, car will be sold for parts and hes discussing some sort of compensation with his lawyer, probably in the form of sueing the company, btw those are the single bolt wheels, much like V8 super cars. |
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building the xe...
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: western sydney - home of the mullet
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which is why theyre not allowed on our roads...
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Watts a panhard.
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 929
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It's funny due to the irony being that many Americans I know consider our requirement of getting cars engineered to be "Communist".
More like "Sensible". |
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Starter Motor
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Keysborough, Vic
Posts: 19
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bloody hell copped it good. i wonder how often this event does occur?
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