FML Cobra is down atm. I miss her already

[XtremeAceX]

Hey, I was on my way back to Calgary from Salmon Arm the other weekend, ended up running into some trouble on the way back. Had a brake caliper bolt come out, which didn't impress me due to there being red loc-tite on the bolt and the bolts were torqued in. The caliper jumped up into the rim when I hit the brakes. Snapped the brake caliper mounting bolt as well. Just figured i'd share some pictures of the damage and a bit of the story.

This all ended up happening just a bit past Lake Louise, had to tow the car back, ended up costing me $625 for the tow back to Calgary. We were on our way back from camping out at the lake, so when it all happened, as we were waiting a couple hours for the tow truck we decided to pull out a few lawn chairs and just start drinkin on the side of the highway :beer:.

Parts have been ordered, bought them through the work cash account, so it came out to be $78.61 for the mounting bracket, and $19.82 for new mounting bolts.

Anyways here's the pictures.

 

[SVT2122]

Damn that sucks, same thing happened to my buddies lightning. What are you going to do about the wheel?

 

[03cobra#694]

Ouch!!Is this the piece that the bolt came from?Cause those suckers are usually really tight!
Love the 2x4 trick to get the jack under there,i made some small ramps out of 2x10`s.

 

[XtremeAceX]

Haha, hell yea, those 2x4's make life EASY compared to trying to put it up without. For the wheel, right now i'm not gonna do anything about it because it's not gouged deep by any means, moreso just shaved a bunch of aluminum off and is stuck in the caliper like a die grinder bit does with aluminum. Just want her back on the road for now, but i'll either replace the rim or see if I can get it polished out at work afterwards. Wouldn't be much to polish the rim, we polish semi rims for like $60 a rim.

And yea, the bolt that came out was from that mounting bracket.. and I torqued the absolute hell out of her when I installed it, along with red loc-tite *shrug*

 

[KINGCOBRA86]

that sucks get some simple green and scrub ur inner fender wells asap

 

[98 svt]

Holy hell! That's terrible.

Keep my fingers crossed that it never happens to me.

 

[XtremeAceX]

that sucks get some simple green and scrub ur inner fender wells asap

No kidding man! thing looks like crap right now .. was pouring the whole way back behind the tow truck.

I was wondering what I could use on them that'd work well, i'll give that a try!

 

[Fat-cat]

Ohhh dude that sucks.. next time i have my wheels off im checking to make sure they are tight.. good to see not to much dmg was done though

 

[Chris _Scott]

my car has been on jackstands for the past 2-3 weeks..and its absolutely killing mee!!

One night I just straight up sat in my car for like 5-10 minutes and it felt sooo good!

hope you get it back on the road soon

 

[supercarkiller]

ouuuucchh that sucks man!

 

[MountainDew]

What up with sonic blue verts sucking? lol Mine is always giving me hell

 

[carnut726]

check your rim cause it looks like it has a crack...

 

[M3xpress]

That sucks, hope you gettting moving soon.

 

[XtremeAceX]

Thanks guys,

So .. I picked up all my parts today, I had a gut feeling when I ordered all of it about this .. sure as shit, wrong parts!! :bored: So they actually looked up the vin this time, and ordered me the correct parts .. hope they come in pretty soon.

and omg man .. I did the exact same thing just the other night .. got in, closed the door, and just enjoyed it for a few haha.

my car has been on jackstands for the past 2-3 weeks..and its absolutely killing mee!!

One night I just straight up sat in my car for like 5-10 minutes and it felt sooo good!

hope you get it back on the road soon

 

[GeoffGT]

sorry about your luck man... i have a feeling it's going to change though... make sure you mix some water in with the simple green if you take that other poster's advise. nice car and good luck!

 

[19mustang95]

i had the same thing happen, but i think it was my own fault because i think i forgot to torque the bolt down fully... I was lucky enough to only have the bolt fall out and cause no other real damage. I even drove it home from work(4 miles) without touching the brake the entire way.

 

[19Mystic96]

i had the same thing happen, but i think it was my own fault because i think i forgot to torque the bolt down fully... I was lucky enough to only have the bolt fall out and cause no other real damage. I even drove it home from work(4 miles) without touching the brake the entire way.

+1.. happened to me too.. and luckly, i didnt break my bracket.. good luck with the fix!

 

[CobraBob]

What a shame! Could have been worse. And, yes, best of luck with the fix. You have a gorgeous car there!

 

[Sonic605hp]

damn

 

[straightliner1]

One night I just straight up sat in my car for like 5-10 minutes and it felt sooo good!

LOL! I thought I was the only one that did this! My pride and joy had been out of service for 5~ years.