Jimmyb
23-09-2002, 06:12 AM
was coming back from the sunshine coast to brisbane on sunday arvo and spotted all the traffic goin the other way was slow, saw it was becasue everyone was rubber necking at a grand on the side of the road, why were they looking, because one of his back wheels was missing.
i stopped and drove back up the centre strip to see if he needed a hand. well what a mess.
basically the rear disc rotor had a stress fracture which caused it to snap in half, when he applied the brake, disaster ensued, the axle snapped and threy the rotor and wheel off and the diff straight down onto the black stuff. no brakes for him and about 100mtrs of grinding until he came to rest.
i trudged back and found his wheel for him, only damaged on the inside of the alloy.
he called a towie and hopefully got a rescue from them.
hopefully he might turn up on here and let us know what the outcome was.
i stopped and drove back up the centre strip to see if he needed a hand. well what a mess.
basically the rear disc rotor had a stress fracture which caused it to snap in half, when he applied the brake, disaster ensued, the axle snapped and threy the rotor and wheel off and the diff straight down onto the black stuff. no brakes for him and about 100mtrs of grinding until he came to rest.
i trudged back and found his wheel for him, only damaged on the inside of the alloy.
he called a towie and hopefully got a rescue from them.
hopefully he might turn up on here and let us know what the outcome was.