★ The AE-202 Project (Continued) ★

yeah i know

Forgot to add Ishaq came last week and while he was here he took my dad for a spin, let's just say when he got back he had a massive smile on his face lol.

 

iv sorted the exhaust leak now, its quite abit quicker now tooo

Haha that's funny Bridgy, and the car is looking friggin sweet Ishaq

thanks kenny

lol, did your Dad never have a fun ride in your cars Bridgy?

theres just that  factor about the AE202

 

gold94corolla wrote:

lol, did your Dad never have a fun ride in your cars Bridgy?

I took him out in my old Volvo s40 t4 and give him a bit of a scare lol, but when your going faster than alot of subaru's etc in a corolla it makes it just that bit more special

Got some new JDM Rims, quite different to what iv had in the past.. alot of mixed opinions about these.

Need a really good clean and polish and hopefully they will be back to their former glory

Heres the specs

Wedsports RS-5
16x7JJ ET45

Front just fit, rear i put on 5mm spacers

I do like them! But they seem a bit too white for the car.

haha, abit too white?

Yeah the color of them is too bright, the rest of your car is pretty dark in comparison!

WOW I really like it! Great choice

But yes, I do agree that the white doesn't really match it. Maybe a silver or grey gunmetal would do it justice.

thanks kenny

i take it, its photoshop time then ?

Had a really bad week this week,

quite lucky / unlucky (whichever way you want to look at it)

Sunday morning on the way to work, tyre blew out at aroun 65-70mph



quite lucky that there was rubber still on the edge, guessing thats what gave me more control and stopped the car from spinning, glad that there was hardly anyone else on the road as the tyre flew back and bounced across all lanes on the motorway, pulled into the hard shoulder and swapped the alloy for a space saver i had in boot. funny thing is that it didnt fit and i had to use spacer behind it to space it out because it was catching on brake caliper carrier..



Got to work all right and then realised how lucky i was,
thought about it like there was the initial shock from the blow then instinct kicked in to keep car straight, got to work all right.

on my lunch break went to go get the alloy checked out and new tyre fitted, they were quite surprised that there was next to no damage to the alloy and all they had to do was to replace the old wheel weights and put a new tyre on, balanced up ok




so that was day 1 over, on the way to work the following day i hear a really bad grinding sound from the passenger wheel, got about 5 mins from work and brakes failed, quite literally foot hit the floor, pumped it and got pressure, then drove again and foot hit the floor. This had happened to me in the past and it was due to the nut on the drive shaft coming loose, so again on my lunch break i took it down to my mates scrapyard to get it checked out, i was running late and left it with him to repair the fault. He phoned me 20mins later to say " you're very very lucky" again im thinking whats gone on today, so i take another break from work and go down to his yard, car was up on ramps and wheel was on the floor with half the hub attached to it.. i couldn't believe what i was seeing , half the outer cv joint had snapped off with the nut attached and the wheel bearing had collapsed.

the wheel bearing is pressed into the hub and should NOT come away like this at all



and the driveshaft, inner CV split and outer thread snapped off

you are very lucky you must been a nice boy this summer

You lucky lucky boy!

i know, very lucky  

Wow definitely a combination of luck and driving skill! Looks like the tire might have been old or defective, never seen one go like that. Were they used/cheap?

they came with the alloys, they looked fine before i put them on too
the brand was a good one too

Wow that is insane! Just glad you're okay man. And the car looks okay too, could've been so much worse. Were the tires old?

thanks kenny, he told me that he replaced them "not long ago"..

Glad to hear your ok after that mate, at least i'm not the only one having a bad week then lol. Oh yeah glad your cars ok too

haha thank you paul, im glad im ok too