I feel like a horrible horrible person.
#1
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!
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!
#6
02-01-2012, 11:24 AM
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.
#9
02-01-2012, 11:44 AM
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Mentor, Ohio
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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).
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).
#10
02-01-2012, 11:52 AM
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.