[PICTURES] Well, that's not good...

jsheahawk

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In this thread, post pictures you snapped of things on a vehicle (if you say it isn't yours, we'll know you're lying :2thumbsup:) that were very much not good. We've all been there, and this is a safe place.

I'll start us off with a picture of my passenger side outer tie rod. It literally came apart as I was removing it. I don't know how it didn't fail in place. That could have been bad.
 

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Sparky

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Dec 4, 2011
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Oops.

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Swiss frame.

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That's an issue.

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Sparky

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Defective metallurgy. Those are Comp Cam aftermarket vlave springs from my Camaro, and that series apparently was prone to that sort of failure. I lucked out that when it broke it was just the top most coil so it didn't drop the valve. Heck it still ran fine, just had an abnormal clicking. I had to buy new springs and replace all of them.

I was looking for some other pictures of my goofups or problems I found but I apparently deleted some of them.
 
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Mooseman

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When my diff blew out last year when the pinion locking bolt decides to take a vacation.
 

DAlastDON

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Hit a small bump in the road followed by something hitting the fender liner with a thud then going tink tink tink in the road behind me. Went back and found something in the road.
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Looked underneath and saw the passenger side had something where the drivers side was missing something.

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Mooseman

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Today on my son's '98 Accord. Ball joint broke and then carnage. Luckily it happened in the parking lot of the pizzeria he works at. I just dragged it to a spot out of the way. So, broken ball joint, axle, end link and brake line. Next stop, scrap yard...DSC_0253_1.JPG DSC_0254_1.JPG DSC_0255_1.JPG DSC_0256_1.JPG
 
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