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Hey guys
Well i got my car serviced today at 120,000kms and as i was driving home i hit the brakes hard as if to avoid a kangaroo or something due to some knob head infront of me, well anyways the place where it was serviced decided they would leave my old fuel filter im guessing in a box under the bonnet, and whilst i hit the brakes my car decided to have a mind of its own and basically the car locked the rear wheels and dumped the back end sending a severe jolt throughout my car and dislodging this 'spare' filter and it hit the drive belts and threw itself around the engine bay smashing all the gaurds and tearing one of the air inlet hose things on the LHS of the intake manifold of an Alloytec. which made the car very angry and played up for a while.
Basically from this i hope that after a service or any work has been done, check under the bonnet or anywhere where work has been done. this is the second problem in 2 days for me, the last one was after my audio gear was put in nothing was screwed back and as i was vaccuming and washing my car my dash fell apart and i had to go through the vaccum to find all the screws.
So make sure you check your cars ey. could have easily been prevented but i took other peoples work for granted.
So after my little inciddent what should i watch out for in the coming months damage wise.
I will be getting a wheel alignment done after the jolt to the wheels and brakes and im also taking it back tomorrow to get them to fix everything they broke.
Cheers guys
Willo
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Err no offence I call bs. A small fuel filter couldn't of caused that much damage surely.
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Im not bull shitting ey, its either that or they have broken my covers and tried getting away with it but nothing was put back together properly. and i just realised but by gaurds i meant engine covers.
either way im trying to say to people, be sure to check over all the work before leaving the workshop. dont take other peoples work for granted like i did
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A filter weighs what......200grams, and if it was in a box then it would of done SFA damage.
Also what, did the guy in front of you chuck an animal out the window that resembles a kangaroo. Top points for him for being able to do that.
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#### head, read it properly. they braked for no reason therfor i braked. think about it smart ass
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I thought there was some law about leaving enough distance to stop?
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OP Just take pics and you'll stop nay sayers
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Agreed I want pictures to back up your claims. Was the mechanic a franchise or just a local garage?
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I took some pics so I'll upload them tomorrow for ya. So this forum is all about helping other commodore owners out a shit ey, bs to that! So u guys have never been startled by somebody hitting their brakes hard for no apparent reason....
So here I am asking for help and I'm getting ragged on?? This forum is full of shit then. Where is the help??
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Then leave if you not happy
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Yes I can totally read that from this sentence,
Which mind you makes no sense.i hit the brakes hard as if to avoid a kangaroo or something due to some knob head infront of me
Then you go on about the car locking the back wheels, which wouldn't happen with ABS. Then you say the car dumped the back end, well in 99% of the cars I've seen, the front end goes down under breaking, and the other 1% where in reverse.
But you know, I'm obviously the ####head here.
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James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
-Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
-Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short Phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
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Mate dont take it so seriously, might be a commodore forum but its still the internet, don't take it to heart.
Like i said, take some pictures of the damage and there might be some advice as to what looks out of place.
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Your story makes no sense. There is no way something could be flung around with enough force to break BOTH engine covers, and knock off one of the vac hoses on the inlet manifold. There isnt enough force to cause the kinetic energy required.
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This makes no sense to me, where would the filter in the box have been sitting to fall forward? Theres no room on top of the engine with the bonnet shut....
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We help each other out, but when people smell bullshit, then there is no mercy. So in future make sure you tell your story plausibly and preferably with evidence so as not to get 'ragged' on.
Fairly simple really.
Another person that has a serious problem with grammar and spelling.
Make the stupid stop!
Unrestrained loads can become lethal projectiles in a high speed accident where the sudden stop launches them, but this is a filter in a box with not much space to move between the closed bonnet and whatever surface it was on. At best it would have slid sideways/forwards/backwards, but not launched through the air.
The OP's story is a good one, but not credible.
MYTHBUSTED: Annotated Mythbusters: Episode 36: Killer Tissue Box
Episode 36: Killer Tissue Box
Can a cardboard box in a car become a lethal weapon? mythbusted
Splitting an arrow with another: mythbusted
Myth: Can a cardboard box in a car become a lethal weapon?
Woohoo! Car abuse and destruction. Not their best mythbusting, but they got to wreck the Fury.
In an auto accident, if the tissue box is sitting on the back shelf, it can fly forward and hit the driver. The question is, how much damage can it actually do to the driver?
Injuries from objects in cars:
13,000 people were injured in 2001 in the US by 'unrestrained objects'
2 cases in Australia where drivers were imapled through the seat with golf cart umbrella
Found a case of a lady killed by her own groceries
The mythbusting borrows heavily from their setup from the driveshaft pole-vaulting myth. Once again they took the 1967 Plymouth Fury out to the old Alameda Naval airstrip, though this time intent on complete destruction. As such, they removed the remote control equipment from the car and instead setup a rig to tow it into the concrete barriers (don't want to lose any valuable electronics).
They built two rigs for this mythbusting. The first was a cart, of sorts, made with a single aluminum i-beam and a diamond plate floor on top. At the front of the cart was a box with ballistics gel to serve as the target. Various items were placed on the back of the cart, ready to fly into the gel when the cart 'crashed.'
The first did some tests towing the sled with the Dodge Ram pickup. First they snapped the cable connecting the Dodge Ram to the sled (just like in the American Graffiti myth). They then wound the cable through the i-beam for a second try, which only resulted in an 18" tear in the i-beam. In a rare occurrence, it was Jamie's choice of the lighter aluminum components for the rig that messed things up.
For the second day of crash testing they decided to slow down to 45mph and and to wrap nylon strapping around the i-beam.
The final setup for this rig was: pickup - towline - crash sled - towline - concrete weight. There was 1000' of slack in the towline between the crash sled and the concrete weight. When the line pulled taut, the sled would detach from the pickup and 'crash.'
Testing with various back shelf objects
They tested with several 'common' objects, some realistic, some ridiculous:
Bobblehead: fell over, so no data
1kg Fire extinguisher: didn't do too much damage to the ballistics gel, but it put a dent in the extinguisher. It would probably hurt.
Subwoofer: subwoofer was a bit dented.
Hatchet: flew blade first into the ballistics gel target and embeded itself all the way through to the other side.
Bowling ball: awesome! ripped through the ballistics gel target and in slow mow you could see the ballistics gel wobbling in midair as it was pushed out the back of the box.
Kleenex box: accelerated up to 70mph for the Kleenex box. Didn't really do any damage, and at this point they already declared mythbusted.
Death of the Fury
The second rig involved the Fury itself and was a oneshot deal: time for the wrecking of the Fury.
Buster was loaded into the Fury and a single kleenex box was placed in the back seat.
The rig had a slightly different setup:
Pickup truck -> towline -> through concrete barriers -> towline -> Fury
The pickup pulled the Fury into the concrete barrier at 65mph, causing the Fury to shoot upwards in a spectacular fashion. The Kleenex box flew into the headrest instead of Buster, but even so, the cardboard on the kleenex box wasn't even crumpled.
They're all looked jokingly at the data (114.8gs to Buster head from hitting the dashboard), knowing full well that: mythbusted
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Talk about going over the top thewheeldeal
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Just a cut & paste...maybe too much info??...hahaTalk about going over the top thewheeldeal
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I agree with fuzzy :P
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