My scirocco tried to kill me!!! (long)

[type53@yahoo.com (Mash)]

--- Marc Peterson <mpeters6@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> Remember when, many moons ago, I was praising my
> Scirocco.  I was saying how
> great it was, how reliable it was after it got some
> much needed TLC?
> 
> No?
> 
> Well, I take it all back.

> Two days later, on the way home on hte highway at 65
> mph, I hear a strange
> squeaking sound, which progressed into a grinding,
> scraping noise within a
> mile.  Then the rear of the car starts violently
> slamming side to side, to
> the point that I can barely control it.  I slow down
> to 40, which is more
> manageable, but still very unsettling.
> 
> Get home, jack up the rear, notice that the rear
> drivers wheel is hanging
> there at a funny angle.  Grab the wheel and notice
> that its not really
> connected to anything anymore.  Pull the wheel,
> notice that the dust cap is
> gone, the lock ring on the nut is gone, and the
> outer bearing is missing.
> MISSING!   Pull the cotter pin, and the drum falls
> off in my hand.  The
> inner bearing is loaded up with metal shavings but
> its still intact.  The
> outer bearing inner race has been ground down to the
> stub axle, the outer
> race is totally missing, and the bearings, who knows
> where they are.
> Probably all over I-590.
> 
> I can thank that little cotter pin for saving my
> life.
> 
> I'm now driving my Jetta again.  It doesn't have
> snow tires, but it also
> doesn't want me dead either.
> 
> Marc
> Bad Scirocco...Bad!

How did that happen, did you ever open up the rear
drums? Weird, in 24.5 years of driving Sciroccos,I've
never seen anything like that.

?????


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Mark Peele
1985 Scirocco, 1982 Scirocco, 1981 Scirocco, 1978 Scirocco, 1987 Golf GT
http://www.scirocco2.de/mark.htm
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