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

[ewanhopkins@hotmail.com (Ewan Hopkins)]

My Storm lost a rear bearing in the same way, just went with no warning on 
the motorway - felt really wierd.
My wife had a MKI Golf diesel a few years ago which did the same thing not 
long after she bought it, except that the rear wheel came right off! 
Fortunately she was doing < 10mph at the time so there was no real damage. 
Unbelievably, the brake shoes survived unscathed so a replacement stub axle 
& drum/bearings fixed it.

Ewan Hopkins
'85 Storm 2.0
'86 GT 1.8
'87 GT 1.6


>From: Mash <type53@yahoo.com>
>To: Marc Peterson <mpeters6@rochester.rr.com>, scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: My scirocco tried to kill me!!! (long)
>Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:20:50 -0800 (PST)
>
>--- 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.
>
>?????
>
>
>=====
>Mark Peele
>1985 Scirocco, 1982 Scirocco, 1981 Scirocco, 1978 Scirocco, 1987 Golf GT
>http://www.scirocco2.de/mark.htm
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