Bent Axle
Bent my axle on a right turn. Cost me $1200 to get it fixed. Was evacuating from the Sonoma County fires, and clipped a curb in a narrow access road. Got great service from "Jay and Bill's Tire" in...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
Bent axle OR bent spindle?
Axle according to the mechanic.
Old-Biscuit wrote:
How fast where you going? (personally --evacuating I would have been hauling butt)
I was going slow - perhaps 5mph. I felt a jolt. At the time, there was no urgency, just lots of confusion and I got distracted. We were navigating around the perimeter of a fairgrounds, and I was more concerned about all the other people and not getting down a street that I could not turn around on.
Old-Biscuit wrote:
That wheel is really out of whack!
I looked at it once we were settled. It did not look like the photo. Once the evacuation orders were lifted, we left and another driver pulled up next to me and said, "your wheel is coming off". It wasn't, but I pulled over within a 1/4 mile and saw the damage. The tire place I found was only another 1/2 mile. Turns out it was highly recommended.
