So this happened...

"HiredHand" (ghubacek) 01/25/2014 at 03:08 • Filed to: None

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My girlfriend and I were hanging out tonight when we decided to go get some ice cream and drive up to the top of the nearest mountain range to look at the city lights. Sounds like fun, I like ice cream, I like twisty mountain roads. My dog loves to go anywhere in the car. Count me in.

On our way back down we saw some questionably modded japanese cars with their emergency flashers on in a turnout. I stopped to see if I could help and noticed the group of teenagers crowded around one of the car's wheels. On the ground was a shredded tire on a severely rashed wheel. The brake rotor was shattered into pieces, the caliper pushed back, and the shroud was a twisted hunk of metal. The hub couldn't spin because the broken piece of rotor still attached was getting caught on the now re-aligned caliper.

Now, I'm not saying that a bunch of boy racers were drifting when they lost control, ran off the road, blew the tire, bent a wheel, possibly bent a control arm and did god knows what to shatter a brake rotor, but I'm pretty sure I've never seen this happen under normal driving conditions.

I helped him get the rotor off and encouraged him to call AAA, but I think his plan was to put the spare on and get the car down the mountain with the use of only his left front brake and the handbrake.

If the story is about you and you read OPPO, I hope you got home okay. But please, take it easy on public roads.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > HiredHand 01/25/2014 at 03:12

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4-lug pattern.....discs look familiar.....I'm guessing a civic or a golf?

. . > HiredHand 01/25/2014 at 03:22

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I'm about 98% sure they were behaving like idiots when this happened. That was a warning for that dude, natural selection rarely misses twice.

Big Bubba Ray > HiredHand 01/25/2014 at 03:37

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Hot damn. Never seen anything like that before. That guy's wallet is gonna be dry in no time if he busted up suspension bits.

Squid > HiredHand 01/25/2014 at 03:49

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He may have exploded that rotor by having a caliper that got stuck. Regardless he got lucky. If he tried to make it off a mountain with one working front brake and his hand brake he may have ended up over the side. . . or he will have to do a full braking system rebuild.

I do wonder if just a vented rotor would have exploded the way the boy racer rotor did from what ever he ended up doing to cause that much carnage.

Squid > HiredHand 01/25/2014 at 03:51

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Oh and "Secret Agent Richard Gill, you're a boner!"

HACK THE PLANET!

Once_upon_a_pvt > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/25/2014 at 04:34

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S13? Wanna be drifter sounds like s13..

JACU - I've got bonifides. > HiredHand 01/25/2014 at 06:32

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Them's the breaks... er... brakes... um. You know what I mean.

Crocket Bernet > . . 01/25/2014 at 07:18

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Ha, its been missing me for 17 years!

McMike > HiredHand 01/25/2014 at 08:31

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20 years from now people will be asking him why he keeps one of these in his trunk.

And he'll tell this story about that dark, cold, night back in 2014, and then shrug his shoulders and say, "You never know..."

ReallyColorful > HiredHand 01/25/2014 at 08:50

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Probably some eBay rotor he bought because they were "cross drilled/slotted/madtytejdmyo".

signintokinjalol > . . 01/25/2014 at 10:00

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So spinning off the track is natural selection as well?

Enlighten me.

Mathias Rios > McMike 01/25/2014 at 11:38

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HAHAHA this made me laugh. As someone who carries pretty much every tool with me in my car in a large toolbox I feel like that guy. Good comment :)

Mathias Rios > HiredHand 01/25/2014 at 11:39

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Judging by drilled and slotted, and since most 4 lug cars don't come with those kinds of rotors, I'm guessing eBay rotor.

McMike > Mathias Rios 01/25/2014 at 11:41

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I carry the longest plug lead in my toolbox. Why? Because I lost one on a trip, and had to limp home on three cylinders once.

Will it happen again? No fucking way.. not to ME! :)

Mathias Rios > McMike 01/25/2014 at 11:45

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Oh that's a clever one. How on earth did the plug lead fall out? That must've been no fun, missing a cylinder :(

McMike > Mathias Rios 01/25/2014 at 11:49

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Lost, as in "failed"

The Vanagon has some pretty unique plug boots, and I can only get them via mail. No way Butch and Frankie Lee have them on the shelf when I limp into town 200 miles from home.

. . > signintokinjalol 01/25/2014 at 13:02

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Race tracks are made for fast driving, but that was on a public road.

signintokinjalol > . . 01/25/2014 at 13:04

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Who says he was driving fast? You don't have to drive fast at all to get oversteer in the snow.

. . > signintokinjalol 01/25/2014 at 13:21

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You would have to be driving above your skill level to get into that situation in the first place. That's one. Also, driving down a mountain without fully functioning brakes is pretty idiotic.

mrazekan > Mathias Rios 01/25/2014 at 13:43

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I'd have to agree. I was looking to pick some up myself but the horror stories of the cheap eBay rotors grenading kept piling up. Found a set of Zimmerman rotors on CL and could not be happier.