Learned a little lesson the hard way Saturday
08-20-2012, 03:01 PM
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Learned a little lesson the hard way Saturday
First, backstory: Last fall, being stupid in my car I curbed it and rashed the hell out of two of my wheels (and bent the lips) so I bought two "new" (used) wheels to replace them. I also got tires and had to get them mounted, and I wanted to get it done at Wal-Mart...AND, since they are a non-stock size I had to take two wheels off my car and then take those in along with the tires and two bare wheels.
So, I jacked the car up Friday evening and decided I'd take the wheels off the back since I was planning to also put some polyurethane bushings on the rear swaybar, and I wanted to go ahead and have everything loaded up for the morning.
Saturday morning we head up to wally world, get the tires mounted, do some shopping etc. Come home a couple hours later, I pull around back and this is the sight I'm greeted with:
Yep...my car FELL OFF THE FLIPPING JACK STANDS!
Also I think my Spohn relocation brackets are the only thing that saved the underside of my car, because those hit the ground and kept anything else from making contact. Thank God, because otherwise I'm pretty sure it would have been sitting on the gas tank.
From the looks of it...as it warmed up outside, the jackstands started to sink into the asphalt slightly, and because I was stupid enough to NOT block the front wheels, this combined to allow the jackstand to tip and finally just allow the car to fall off, and it slid about 3 feet on the reloc brackets. Geesh. I just feel very fortunate that 1. there wasn't more damage and 2. I wasn't under the car!
So, I jacked the car up Friday evening and decided I'd take the wheels off the back since I was planning to also put some polyurethane bushings on the rear swaybar, and I wanted to go ahead and have everything loaded up for the morning.
Saturday morning we head up to wally world, get the tires mounted, do some shopping etc. Come home a couple hours later, I pull around back and this is the sight I'm greeted with:
Yep...my car FELL OFF THE FLIPPING JACK STANDS!
Also I think my Spohn relocation brackets are the only thing that saved the underside of my car, because those hit the ground and kept anything else from making contact. Thank God, because otherwise I'm pretty sure it would have been sitting on the gas tank.
From the looks of it...as it warmed up outside, the jackstands started to sink into the asphalt slightly, and because I was stupid enough to NOT block the front wheels, this combined to allow the jackstand to tip and finally just allow the car to fall off, and it slid about 3 feet on the reloc brackets. Geesh. I just feel very fortunate that 1. there wasn't more damage and 2. I wasn't under the car!
