this could have been a much bigger problem
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Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 335
From: Toronto
this could have been a much bigger problem
so the story goes a little like this.
at the end of last year i noticed the CV boot on my driver side was gone. I figured, bah, i'm not driving the car for awhile, F' it, i'll fix it in the spring.
I put the car away.
totally forgot about my little problem.
With new parts arriving daily i figured i better get started on repairs/tuneup. While taking the tire off the other day i noticed the slightest of cracks.
barely noticable to the average person
Concerned knowing the amount of fluid build up around the inside of the rim, i was anixous to see what await on the other side of rim
Didn't think i'd find THIS!
OMG!!!!!
gives me chills to think what might have happened if this sucker blewout at high speed! (i took the car out the previous week up the lakeshore and back home)
anyways, tire replaced, CV boot on order and tuneup 1/2 done
****note to all, check your tires regularly!*******
at the end of last year i noticed the CV boot on my driver side was gone. I figured, bah, i'm not driving the car for awhile, F' it, i'll fix it in the spring.
I put the car away.
totally forgot about my little problem.
With new parts arriving daily i figured i better get started on repairs/tuneup. While taking the tire off the other day i noticed the slightest of cracks.
barely noticable to the average person
Concerned knowing the amount of fluid build up around the inside of the rim, i was anixous to see what await on the other side of rim
Didn't think i'd find THIS!
OMG!!!!!
gives me chills to think what might have happened if this sucker blewout at high speed! (i took the car out the previous week up the lakeshore and back home)
anyways, tire replaced, CV boot on order and tuneup 1/2 done
****note to all, check your tires regularly!*******
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Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 4,816
From: Whitby
WTF, that ***** scary as hell.
Nuubz check your abs speed sensors as well. Mine were coated in the cv boot grease since mine broke last summer as well.
DIY located here https://www.torontointegras.ca/forum...ad.php?t=16263
Nuubz check your abs speed sensors as well. Mine were coated in the cv boot grease since mine broke last summer as well.
DIY located here https://www.torontointegras.ca/forum...ad.php?t=16263
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Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 442
Holy ----, I had the exact same thing happen to me and I have the same tires as you, this happened ot 2 of my tires, once on the road and one i noticed while parked. ------ garbage hercules tires, i only bought them because they came with my rims.
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Posts: 4,146
From: MFE/956
Dude, I had the EXACT same thing happen to mine. I had those same cracks on the inside of one of my tires. And yes I have the same Hercules tires as you. Its too bad only one of them cracked or else I would have replaced all 4. Cant wait to see your car back out and about this season.
