Today's edition isn't so much made me happy as made me laugh uproariously. So my scooter is down, I ordered some more parts today.
NBD got my beater car insured Saturday, so at least I can get to work.
Nope. Not any more. Car was fine Sunday, to and from work no issues. Went to work this morning, all good. Got in the car to come home, started car, backed out of my parking space, put the car in drive,
BOOM, CA-LUNK. Wtf was that noise? Hmmm, car still goes forward, oh well, figure it out when I get home. Car drives fine, until you try and brake. The car cuts a HARD left when moderately pressing the brake pedal. Makes coming to a stop in a straight line a challenge, and makes a horridly loud noise when starting off again. So, I made my 8km trip home rather carefully. Due to the amount of pull when braking, I did not have to steer when entering my driveway, only needed to vary the brake pressure and then fight the car to straighten out. Now for the laughing part. I get out of the car and begin checking over the front end and find that I can take hold of the left side front tire at the top of it, and pull out, leaning the tire out at about 20-30 degrees off vertical. First I thought it was a broken ball-joint, but no, the upper control arm (or A arm to some) has ripped free of it's mounts and is almost not attached to the car. I found this wildly humorous, because I just completely replaced all the brakes, insured it for three months, and named the car Danger Mouse, because it is small, grey and felt dangerous to drive. That was an hour ago now and I'm still giggling about the whole thing. I wasn't expecting much from a car made in 1986, and not particularly looked after, but I was hoping for more
