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#153564 - 14/02/09 01:18 AM Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS
Scotty Offline
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Well...

After driving the RS around today catching up with last minute items I needed to get for tomorrow I felt the house around 8pm and about a 1mile down the road I hear this REALLY loud screeching, grinding sound from the car... honestly it was so loud I pulled straight over and looked under the car as I thought the exhaust had fell off or something.

Just to fill you in... during the week i went to Kwik-fit and had a free brake check done by them... brilliant guys and they told me me my brakes were fine and had about 5000 miles the fronts and the back were new (i had the backs changed when i purchased it not long ago) so come back then... so obviously was happy about that... but with this grinding sound i sound it maybe a wheel wasn't on properly... so, i put the windows down and rolled the car checking the wheels in the mirror and sticking my head out aswell as physically checking them... all were in fine.

After driving along slowly a little more i figured out it was the back nearside (rear passanger)... I remember having a similar noise when my silver focus's bake pads wore away until the metal was grinding against the disc... but i new they were new on te back so obviously there was a more serious issue.

I crawled back home and called the RAC out as i feared for a bigger problem...

At around 10.30pm a really nice guy turns up in an RAC van... looks it over, jacks the car up...

and...

i'll leave you guys to guess what was the problem and how it was fixed...
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#153565 - 14/02/09 02:19 AM Re: Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS [Re: Scotty]
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Sorry to hear you had the problems but good that you got it fixed. By the sounds of it, it was something daft.
Will have a think
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Edited by Micky (14/02/09 02:21 AM)

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#153566 - 14/02/09 07:56 AM Re: Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS [Re: Micky]
Dave_P Offline


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Was it a tool that the Kwik Fit lads had left in the braking mechanicals or something?

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#153567 - 14/02/09 08:23 AM Re: Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS [Re: Dave_P]
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wheel bearing??

though it does sound like it'll be something daft...
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#153568 - 14/02/09 12:23 PM Re: Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS [Re: JJST]
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Loose wheel bearing, tightened the centre hub nut up.
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#153569 - 14/02/09 01:08 PM Re: Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS [Re: Kev]
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Registered: 04/12/08
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Loc: Woking, Surrey
Did he remove a kwickfit monkey that had fallen asleep under your wheel arch?

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#153570 - 14/02/09 06:55 PM Re: Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS [Re: Unclebadger]
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Something with the diff?
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#153571 - 14/02/09 06:58 PM Re: Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS [Re: Squish]
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Brakes had been left untightened
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#153572 - 14/02/09 07:48 PM Re: Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS [Re: Adam08]
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broken hub
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#153573 - 14/02/09 08:03 PM Re: Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS [Re: YellowBadge]
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they left a spanner in there somehow
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#153574 - 14/02/09 08:15 PM Re: Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS [Re: Adam08]
Dave_P Offline


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The Kwik Fit guy had left some of his corned beef and mustard sandwich in there?

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#153575 - 14/02/09 08:21 PM Re: Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS [Re: Dave_P]
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taken the brakes off to check them and not put them back in?
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#153576 - 14/02/09 08:36 PM Re: Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS [Re: Dan_The_Man]
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Quote:

taken the brakes off to check them and not put them back in?




That would be a disaster in an . You'd have to resort to opening the doors and scraping feet on the ground to slow down!

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#153577 - 14/02/09 08:43 PM Re: Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS [Re: Dave_P]
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haha yeah like the Flintstones!
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#153578 - 14/02/09 10:08 PM Re: Had to call RAC out tonight for the RS [Re: Dan_The_Man]
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You had left the handbrake on?
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