Impressive (component) Fails

[320touring]

Inspired by Dollywobbler's quote

 

If we haven't got an 'impressive fails' thread, I guess we need one.

and Clio 172 Brake diskery I'mma start this thread off..

 

 

 

[Squirrel2]

Inspired by Dollywobbler's quote

 

and Clio 172 Brake diskery I'mma start this thread off..

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Cripes! Did that fail in service or whilst someone was trying to separate it from the hub?

 

Squirrel2

[320touring]

Cripes! Did that fail in service or whilst someone was trying to separate it from the hub?

 

Squirrel2

In service..

[jbz2079]

Ouch! Bet that caused a "Moment".

[320touring]

Ouch! Bet that caused a "Moment".

The burd described it as "A big bang then the car stopped"

 

The broken piece of disk wedged in the caliper and locked the rear wheel.

[FakeConcern]

The burd described it as "A big bang then the car stopped"

 

The broken piece of disk wedged in the caliper and locked the rear wheel.

Impressive!

[tooSavvy]

^^^ have we not had reports/incidents of Pug rear brake pads 'potentially' dropping out/locking a wheel ??

 

TS

[bramz7]

My mum's Panda had it's rear diff explode whilst she was driving it.

 

I didn't see any photos but she said it was quite hairy, especially as she was on a motorway when it happened...

[dome]

I'll report back tonight after I've tried to get this Auris home...

[sierraman]

Had a hole appear in a gearbox casing before. Couldn't even get it exchanged. Required a complete new gearbox, somewhere in the region of £3,000 IIRC, works problem though, not mine!

[Zelandeth]

That's not one I've seen before. Have seen a disc separate entirely from the hub before, but never crack like that in service.

 

Best one I think I've ever had was when the gearbox in an LDV Convoy decided to detonate halfway up the A90 between Dundee and Aberdeen. My ears had just about stopped ringing from the bang by the time me, the police and the recovery guys had finished sweeping bits of gearbox out of the carriageway. The gearbox seizing apparently then in turn caused the diff to turn itself into a fragmentation grenade.

 

It's astonishing how far a van can keep going with dual rear wheels locked solid!

[PhilA]

Cambelt roulette.

 

 

Phil

[320touring]

Quite the grenading..

[MikeR]

the wifes car diff threw the rod that held the planet gears on her Escort many years , it rotated round throu the gearbox , clutch , bell housing , leaving a trail of bits down the road ......2 days later it was fixed !

 

I snapped a chain on a motorbike , one gearbox casing cover later and some .use of long bolts to replace the snapped off webbing supports !! 

[davocano]

Back in the mid-1980s I was making progress along the M3 in my Mk1 Cortina; the sudden onset of heavy vibration from the rear suggested a visit to the hard shoulder would be a wise move.

 

Looked underneath and couldn't see anything amiss; decided to limp home and investigate the cause there. Attempted to pull away which resulted in a CLUNKCLUNKCLUNK and FTP.

 

Looked underneath again and lo! Propshaft sheared off at the diff. I remember being quite impressed by the fragments of smouldering metal on the tarmac.

[tommotech]

320touring, are the brake calliper sliders seized? If so uneven pad wear and side loading of the disc could well cause that.

[tommotech]

This was the melted catalytic converter from the Pug 207 I bought as a non runner.

 

[DVee8]

The condenser on the Daimler today just as SoC came to collect it for its MOT.

 

Pushed back into the garage for tomorrow.

[dome]

I'll hopefully have something good for this thread when I get the gearbox out of this auris and strip it down. Going by the noise/smell/oil everywhere when I got home it should be interesting.

[mat_the_cat]

 

This happened on the BX in 2012, after 1 month and 1000 miles. I'd changed them due to a knock, but the only ones my local factor had in were suspiciously cheap at £9 each. Not expecting a long lifespan, I fitted them anyway as they aren't exactly difficult to change.

 

Until a loud bang when going round a corner! As the front height corrector is connected to the ARB, the lack of a drop link on this side meant the suspension strut went up to almost full height, limited only by the compression of the diagonally opposite corner at the rear. That, coupled with no functional ARB at the front made for 'interesting' handling on the 400 mile drive I was on...

 

I went for genuine drop links after that - phoned up my local dealer only to be unhelpfully told they were NLA from Citroen. They were about to put the phone down when I asked if they could do a dealer stock search for them, when it turned out that they themselves had one in stock, and so did another dealer about 30 miles away! Talk about disinterested.

[Guest Hooli]

This was due to slight* overheating due to a blocked sludge trap. It also took both cams, cam followers & tappet blocks with it. Made for a bit* of smoke etc as I was on the M1 at the time.

 

[320touring]

Good effort! Something to aim for..

[gm]

yep, buy cheap, buy twice

 

[dollywobbler]

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This happened on the BX in 2012, after 1 month and 1000 miles. I'd changed them due to a knock, but the only ones my local factor had in were suspiciously cheap at £9 each. Not expecting a long lifespan, I fitted them anyway as they aren't exactly difficult to change.

 

Until a loud bang when going round a corner! As the front height corrector is connected to the ARB, the lack of a drop link on this side meant the suspension strut went up to almost full height, limited only by the compression of the diagonally opposite corner at the rear. That, coupled with no functional ARB at the front made for 'interesting' handling on the 400 mile drive I was on...

 

I went for genuine drop links after that - phoned up my local dealer only to be unhelpfully told they were NLA from Citroen. They were about to put the phone down when I asked if they could do a dealer stock search for them, when it turned out that they themselves had one in stock, and so did another dealer about 30 miles away! Talk about disinterested.

 

Did you get any photos of the battery you once managed to blow up?

[mat_the_cat]

Did you get any photos of the battery you once managed to blow up?

 

Oh yeah, forgot about that one!

 

 

I was angle grinding near to a battery on charge, when there was a sudden bang and a mild stinging sensation to my face. Minor damage to the workshop roof; rather more terminal (groan) damage to the battery.

[320touring]

Liking the Citroen failures re height control

 

GM, B- must try harder..

[gm]

I'll see what I can provoke at the weekend

[Felly Magic]

Sadly no photos, but not long after starting on the buses I had a quite spectacular engine failure on a W reg'd Volvo B7TL near Leeds Uni, engine started to knock, so I radioed in, was told a fitter would meet me at the terminus, so I ok'd, knocking got progressively louder, then dash lit up with low oil pressure and there was one almighty bang as a conrod made a bid for freedom, and the engine died. Large pool of oil on the road, with bits of hot metal everywhere. Engine scrap, £12k to replace, tried blaming me, but the supervisor told me to continue

[djim]

A piston ring snapped on my Yamaha RD125 on the A2 at about 70 mph, causing quite a rapid deceleration a long walk to the nearest phone, and a fair amount of wear to the engine. A few weeks and an engine rebuild later I was attempting a wheelie outside my 6th form as was the style at the time when the throttle cable snapped fully open and, unable to slow down, the bike deposited me on the outside of the curved driveway. I still miss that bike. 

[Supernaut]

Rear wheel bearing on a Peugeot 306.

 

 

The wheel wobbled like the bolts were almost completely removed, then upon removing the drum, the above scene greeted us.

The noises it made while driving were 'interesting'. Every time the bearing caused drag, the back end of the car would drop down due to the design of the torsion beam rear suspension on them. It dragged a few times, creaking and groaning each time, until it went BANG and started wobbling. There were wear marks on the plastic arch liner from the tyre scraping it.