by "Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
Published 09/26/2017 at 08:55
by "Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
Published 09/26/2017 at 08:55
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Cruising down the road, put my windows down for fresh air. Hear a loud BANG! from my left front. ‘What the hell just broke?’ I wondered, and started making motions to pull off to the side of the road. But nothing changed, no noises continued, the car rolled fine.
Pull into work, get on the ground and check my tire, my wheel, my brake, my strut...nothing out of the ordinary.
Did I just roll over something I didn’t see? Was there something coming the other way that made a noise I didn’t notice? Am I imagining things? I need to sleep more, or drink more coffee. Probably both.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
09/26/2017 at 09:01, STARS: 0
I have noticed that the small cubes of asphalt that sometimes get pulled out of the road can make one hell of a noise. I rolled over one pulling into my spot at the autocross on Sunday and it scared the shit out of me (and the people standing next to the car I was pulling in next to). They tend to get squeezed out from under the tire and launched into the bottom of the car making quite the racket.
"e36Jeff now drives a ZHP" (e36jeff)
09/26/2017 at 09:02, STARS: 0
did you hear the loud bang while the windows were rolling down? If so it could be the window regulator singing you the song of its people.
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
09/26/2017 at 09:02, STARS: 0
something on the road you did not notice is my bet, but if no damage to car just ignore it and enjoy your day.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
09/26/2017 at 09:12, STARS: 0
My favorite road noise event was when somebody had lost
a bumper
into the road, and I didn’t see it until I drove over it. Snapped the left front wheel on my Benz up hard enough to break the sway bar mount - though weirdly no damage to the tire.
"4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30" (4muddyfeet)
09/26/2017 at 09:18, STARS: 1
Plastic drinks bottles with the lid on tight can go off pretty loudly when you catch them just right. I make a point of driving over them in car parks just for that reason.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
09/26/2017 at 09:22, STARS: 1
Please don’t do that. That cap hurts like a motherfucker when it hits you.
"themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles" (themanwithsauce)
09/26/2017 at 09:24, STARS: 0
I was driving to work yesterday and was making my lane change into the exit ramp. It’s uphill at first and as I gently pressed the accelerator I heard some noise of some kind, a quick power cut, a dull pop, and then everything was normal. I was terrified I had somehow just blown a tire but I think I was just the poor soul who ran over some plastic garbage or something and one tire lost traction or something by grabbing it.
Just a week for weird noises I guess...
"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
09/26/2017 at 09:33, STARS: 0
Nah, it was after they were down and distinctly outside of the car.
"e36Jeff now drives a ZHP" (e36jeff)
09/26/2017 at 09:40, STARS: 0
That’s good, the song of the window regulator is one of my most hated sounds.
"4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30" (4muddyfeet)
09/26/2017 at 09:45, STARS: 2
I can’t promise to not continue doing it
"KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs" (kusabisensei)
09/26/2017 at 10:00, STARS: 1
What about the “Running over the Dalek that did no damage other than spear the oil cooler”?
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
09/26/2017 at 10:03, STARS: 0
Is there suddenly a large hole in the bottom of the engine where a large hole shouldn’t be?
"TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts." (thebloody)
09/26/2017 at 10:09, STARS: 1
Future scene of 4muddyfeet driving by Squirrel.
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"whatuptkhere" (whatuptkhere)
09/26/2017 at 10:11, STARS: 0
weird.
today I was driving along with my driver’s side window down and felt something ping me in the shoulder and land on my lap. it was a pebble, not sure if thrown by someone on the side of the road or flung up by a car tyre.
"whatuptkhere" (whatuptkhere)
09/26/2017 at 10:12, STARS: 0
weird.
today I was driving along with my driver’s side window open, and something pinged me in the shoulder and landed in my lap. It was a little piece of gravel, either tossed by a bystander or flung up by a car tyre. very strange.
"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
09/26/2017 at 10:29, STARS: 0
Not that I can tell, but it’s an american v8. It’d probably still run
"4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30" (4muddyfeet)
09/26/2017 at 10:36, STARS: 0
This is the sort of thing that sounds like a daily occurrence for RamblinRover
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
09/26/2017 at 10:42, STARS: 1
Quarterly, at most. (Summary below:)
Incident in question was the fiberglass dome of a full size Shawcraft Mk III classic series Who Dalek I’d made, popping off the lazy susan bearing in the neck while in the back of KusabiSensei’s truck, which I was driving behind. Skipped on the pavement, struck oil cooler. In the mountains of western NC, approaching midnight.
Several months before the decapitation, I’d actually taken it to a convention and greeted Sylvester McCoy with it.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
09/26/2017 at 10:43, STARS: 0
The trauma of that was quite perverse indeed. The noise was sub-par.
"KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs" (kusabisensei)
09/26/2017 at 10:43, STARS: 0
It actually is. Putting the two of us in close proximity yields some pretty crazy stuff.
Like encouraging me to restomod a 57 Bel Air.
"KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs" (kusabisensei)
09/26/2017 at 10:45, STARS: 0
I thought the buzzer of the oil pressure notification still worked. Or was it that you saw it go from being pegged at 3 (Because the gauge on the W124 is only marked 0-1-2-3) drifting down to 0?
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
09/26/2017 at 10:50, STARS: 0
Probably ran something over then.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
09/26/2017 at 10:53, STARS: 0
Level light. Didn’t actually get pressure loss, but the level light came on.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
09/26/2017 at 10:57, STARS: 0
Also, nearly all buzzer function of any kind on that car is
total gefickt.
"KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs" (kusabisensei)
09/26/2017 at 11:08, STARS: 0
Well, at least it’s not the incessant blinkenlight of the 4matic W124 with respect to the 4matic transfer box.
I assume that is still as it was?
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
09/26/2017 at 11:24, STARS: 0
Well, it’s not blinking, just on. If 4MATIC is required for a short distance, one can jumper A Thing and turn it back on until it runs long enough to fault out. But yes, steering wheel position sensor is dumb, and the clutches probably aren’t the best anymore. I think default/no clutches engaged has some torque transfer neutrally like an old scooby, so it’s not completely useless.