What was the LAST thing that broke on your car?

[iwannavr]

Bit of a different topic really.. so.. what was the last thing to break on your car?

Mine on the fiesta was a headlight bulb, which are notorious for being crap to change yourself.

[APB]

This should be interesting, now let me think :

Cerbera: Crankshaft snapped in half, the rear de-mister will not turn off, the windscreen wipers stops half way across the screen, the air-con does not do anything and the new exhaust melted the carpet in the boot!

911: Engine backfire, split the airbox in half and set fire to the air filter

Mondeo: A water pipe came lose, rubbed against the power stearing pump pulley, split, sprayed water onto the PAS pulley going round an island, the PAS belt slipped, I could not steer the car and ended up on the payment

The wife's Festa is running a treat

Maybe I should get a VW next time!

This post has been edited by APB on Oct 25 2009, 12:10 AM

[iwannavr]

Sounds like fiestas are the best car at the moment!! lol

[j-me]

not so much broke it but last time i tried to get the passenger side front wheel of my golf it was stuck on! just would not come off the wheel hub, even after i took the wheel bolts out, even resorted to taping it with a plastic mallet from the back, so i've just ignored it since then

[APB]

Oh mate. I've had this. Are they alloys?

The aluminium in the alloys has a different electronic potential to the iron in the steel in the hub and when the aluminium and the steel come into contact, electron flow causes Galvanic Corrosion (this is how a battery works and why salt, containing sodium ions, rots your car faster than just water). So now your alloy has welded itself to the steel hub.

Get yourself a large rubber mallet and give the wheel a good thwack and move it round and belt it again. Keep this up and the weld will crack and your wheel will come off.

When you put it back together cover the contacting surfaces with grease (some people recommend copper slip grease. I just use normal grease as you are doing it to stopping the electron flow by putting a non conductor between the different metal and not greasing it to let it spin quicker ) and then do the same with rest before they weld up.

Sorry for the hijack

Andrew

[hodgy_7]

Glove box handle. just reacently broke.Alternator belt slippingand rear wheel bearing died rather quickly(got 1 today 9quid) halfords has its uses 3 quid off with trade card aswell.

these are just 3 problems which add to the long list of things to do.

This post has been edited by hodgy_7 on Oct 25 2009, 08:11 PM

[robrabbit]

wire to a marker light, and orange colouring wearing off of the bulbs

[hodgy_7]

Alternator belt snapped today

[mufcdamo]

headlight bulb

[Patch]

Set my brakes on fire,312's are just no good