A Cautionary Tail

[Guest flightless]

My car has now done 300 miles and driving home this evening (the day before i was taking the car off the road for its first once over - there's irony for you) the lock nut on the lower ball joint came off and the suspension dropped onto the wheel. luckily i was going slowly and was close to a turning.

 

I had thought the lock nuts were fully tightened and there were washers fitted = obviously not ;-)

 

For all you guys out there who are in the first few day of driving their car i would say don't leave it as long as i did before checking...

 

cheers

[Les Welsher]

Yet another one,

There was a thread on this in maintenance and modifications about the middle of May.

Again it seems to be cars that have not too many miles on the clock since being built. Luckily, all have been at slow speeds.

 

Matt,

maybe something could be pinned on this as a warning so that it doesn't just go off the topics after 30 days to be forgotten about. ( lots of people just SVA'd or near to it, and taking their pride and joy onto the road for some fun for the first time. The last thing we want is for someone to have an accident )

 

Les

 

(who checks his nuts regularly)

[Mat-Moo]

What exactly should I pin though and where... at the end of the day no one ever seems to really bother reading the pinned topics anyway and even then I would say after the first 100 miles it would be advisable to go around and check all the major nuts, and minor, for tightness. Maybe we need a topic (pinned) in SVA saying so you've passed, but please follow these rules or something? Anyone care to write up something?