An Interesting thing Happend while driving . . .(rant)

[Mdeezy]

Here I am with another story about what could have been a very ugly situation.

Tuesday September 5th 2006:

I get up for work and naturally am going to drive my car. Recently my passenger side wheel bearing has been very audible and an alarming about of vibrations can be felt at times. I drove my car and for the first 5mins of driving all felt normal.

I was approaching traffic, slowed down from about 35mph to about 10mph and hear a thunk/clunk and a whole lot of scraping. *Sh!t, I figure I might as well go back home and switch cars. I go to make a u-turn and the brakes turned their back on me. I downshift to slow the car down plus use the e-brake. I pull off to a side street, and examine thru and around the spokes to see nothing. I decide screw towing the car, I'll turtle her home. Hazards on and 3rd gear at 26mph got me home in about 15 mintues. I park my car and jump in the beater (Champage Coolie) and head to work.

I get home after work and examine the car only to find a delightful surprise.



That is exactly how the axle was seated I didnt start to remove it yet.



Both my axles are Raxles, so I'll give good ole Marty a call in the morning and see about a replacement.

I'm still shocked I snapped the Mother F**kin End of the AXLE! :faint:

just sharing another fun time with the Maxima

[8bangin302]

thats gotta suck...GL with the fix..

[devin]

ouch

[WhiteAccord]

ouchx2

[IndianStig]

Now that isn't good. My friend broke an axle driving a Maxima just like yours, it was an auto.

[Mdeezy]

damn was it a bad axle? or wierd twisted fate?

[IndianStig]

damn was it a bad axle? or wierd twisted fate?

I think it was a mix of both.....


It was homecoming night, may or may not have been a little tipsy, but he was definitley driving it really fast....trying to keep up with a friend in a Firebird.



It was a GLE, he managed to drive it to the hotel, then home, so it prolly wasn't as bad as yours.