car problems
Jun. 21st, 2006 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iamomSo, while my mom was staying with Z last week, she was driving my car and heard a clunk from the front end, then felt a vibration or shimmy coming from the front end while accelerating at speed. She stopped driving the car, and I took it into my local mechanic last Friday who rebalanced a wheel, straightened a slightly bent rim and rotated the tires to fix the problem. He also noticed that my annual Motor Vehicle Inspection was due, so he did that and gave me a new sticker. Problems solved, right?
Wrong. The shimmy remained, and when I took it to my second mechanic (the one I go to for bigger jobs), he found a freaking broken CV joint in the axle. Essentially a broken axle! Not only did my regular mechanic not notice this, but he passed my car's annual inspection with it! What a joke. I won't be going back to their shop again, I'll tell you that much. Yeesh.
Wrong. The shimmy remained, and when I took it to my second mechanic (the one I go to for bigger jobs), he found a freaking broken CV joint in the axle. Essentially a broken axle! Not only did my regular mechanic not notice this, but he passed my car's annual inspection with it! What a joke. I won't be going back to their shop again, I'll tell you that much. Yeesh.
