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Overdose666 02-01-2012 10:47 AM

I feel like a horrible horrible person.
 
Yesterday my front right tire went flat. I thought maybe some hoodlums just let the air out in the middle of the night. Nope got to a gas station about a mile away and tried to air it up, got it to about 20psi when a chunk of the sidewall shot off and it all deflated. Not having a donut. I decided to be a dick and drive my baby another half mile on a flat tire to my girlfriends house where i could park it.

I grabbed the scissor jack from my girlfriends civic and started taking the wheel off so i could go get a used tire, the moment i pulled off the wheel the jack buckled in and the car dropped. The brake rotor dug a good 1/8 of an inch into the concrete. Thats when i discovered a problem, It was raining pretty hard, and my car was hanging out of the garage about 2 feet to far for the door to close.... I drove it on the rotor, then today i had to back it up on the rotor... Now my abs is completely gone, but i have a fairly nice firestone with about 7k on it for $40. I feel like a dick for doing my rotor like that... On the plus side the flat tire held up like a champ and theres not a single scratch on my rim!

Jomao_o 02-01-2012 10:59 AM

http://mattnando.typepad.com/.a/6a00...da22970c-200wi

Overdose666 02-01-2012 11:02 AM


Originally Posted by Jomao_o (Post 414598)

The whole story or is there a specific part that displeases you?

Jomao_o 02-01-2012 11:14 AM

The ENTIRE story.


What were you thinking ...driving on the rotors?..since when?

Mr.Monte 02-01-2012 11:24 AM

:ttiwwp:

im kidding! damn mann id be crying.

Overdose666 02-01-2012 11:24 AM


Originally Posted by Jomao_o (Post 414604)
The ENTIRE story.


What were you thinking ...driving on the rotors?..since when?

It was that or risk having a lot of tools and random stuff get stolen... And theres no way driving a total of 4 or 5 feet did anywhere as near as mush damage as having the whole car fall on the rotor... I... I blame honda... No, I blame the jackass who invented the scissor jack.

Overdose666 02-01-2012 11:25 AM


Originally Posted by Mr.Monte (Post 414609)
:ttiwwp:

im kidding! damn mann id be crying.

Your lucky I'm even posting this, i am ashamed!

03JGMonte 02-01-2012 11:29 AM

Wow :eek:

The_Maniac 02-01-2012 11:44 AM

WOW MAN!
First, you are lucky you were NOT in a compromising position when that jack failed.

Second, scissor jacks suck in general. Since most Hondas I see I think are "lighter" then the Monte, I wonder if the Honda juack was never designed to support a non-Honda car.

Live, learn, make better future decisions and be safe. I've gotten to a point in life I use a jack stand for all things I used to just rely on my floor jack for (and pray I never need the emergency jack while on the road).

DRuben 02-01-2012 11:52 AM


Originally Posted by Overdose666 (Post 414610)
It was that or risk having a lot of tools and random stuff get stolen... And theres no way driving a total of 4 or 5 feet did anywhere as near as mush damage as having the whole car fall on the rotor... I... I blame honda... No, I blame the jackass who invented the scissor jack.

Yep I stay away from those ($20) scissor jacks ever since my Monte crumbled mine lol. I had the tire on when it fell so it just bounced, luckily!


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