Well pregnancy brain strikes again!!
Last night driving to work and the car starts making a nocking noise, I continue on, it gets worse and steering colum starts shaking. I make it to work, and speak to a guy online who lives near me who said he would come and look at it tommorrow (today) so I drove it home at about 20mph as the noice got so bad and the steering wheel was shaking badly.
I had an emergancy appointment at the dentist this morning which I had to cancel as darent drive there (now ive got to put up with tooth ache, ear ache, head aces etc on my right had side as cant get in for 2.5 weeks) and I got Marco to come to my place.
He took it for a drive and said basically that sounds f***** and may be my drive shaft bent, I nearly cried as thats a hell of a lot of cash to fix. We got out and both noticed at the same time the passanger wheel sticking right out the arch. We took the cover off and 3 bolts were completley loose and only one bolt was holding the wheel on!!!
We managed to sort it and are not sure why they loosened so I need to check it every day, I may need new bolts (or someone tried to steel my wheels and got disturbed) but on Sunday I cam home on the motorway from manchester, if it had come off on the motorway I would have been dead for sure, even if it had of come off going 30mph with it being front wheel, I would have been injured badly and still could have died!!
Im always messing with my car, im very competant with it, and would usually check this as soon as I heard nocking but my pregnancy brain has made me so forgetfull It never crossed my mind to check the bolts!!
Anyway, its only a ''coulda'' story, but non the less, still pretty scaret when I think what ''coulda'' happened!
Last night driving to work and the car starts making a nocking noise, I continue on, it gets worse and steering colum starts shaking. I make it to work, and speak to a guy online who lives near me who said he would come and look at it tommorrow (today) so I drove it home at about 20mph as the noice got so bad and the steering wheel was shaking badly.
I had an emergancy appointment at the dentist this morning which I had to cancel as darent drive there (now ive got to put up with tooth ache, ear ache, head aces etc on my right had side as cant get in for 2.5 weeks) and I got Marco to come to my place.
He took it for a drive and said basically that sounds f***** and may be my drive shaft bent, I nearly cried as thats a hell of a lot of cash to fix. We got out and both noticed at the same time the passanger wheel sticking right out the arch. We took the cover off and 3 bolts were completley loose and only one bolt was holding the wheel on!!!
We managed to sort it and are not sure why they loosened so I need to check it every day, I may need new bolts (or someone tried to steel my wheels and got disturbed) but on Sunday I cam home on the motorway from manchester, if it had come off on the motorway I would have been dead for sure, even if it had of come off going 30mph with it being front wheel, I would have been injured badly and still could have died!!
Im always messing with my car, im very competant with it, and would usually check this as soon as I heard nocking but my pregnancy brain has made me so forgetfull It never crossed my mind to check the bolts!!
Anyway, its only a ''coulda'' story, but non the less, still pretty scaret when I think what ''coulda'' happened!
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