Being a Neon I was surprised it didn’t crack the subframe or something. It wore to the hub, had to replace the whole assembly. The driver’s side tire flew off into the woods, thankfully no one was alongside of me and it wasn’t a residential area.Īfter the initial lurch towards the ground and the car trying to rotate left I somehow got control and managed to drive on the rotor long enough to slow down and get off the road. When I was younger and dumber I kept putting off fixing a bad front wheel bearing in a Dodge Neon until the vibration loosened the lubnuts and the wheel studs snapped off at least 60mph on a badly potholed two lane road.
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I see that there’s a Chevy truck in front with its hazard lights on is that a friend helping the Gladiator driver limp their vehicle off the road? But if the Gladiator driver had time to call a friend, surely they had time to think that, just maybe, driving a vehicle in this state on a public highway is completely idiotic.Īgain, sorry about the lack of informative content. Seriously, there’s got to have been some thought-process that went into this person choosing to - instead of get the vehicle towed - hold desperately to that steering wheel while listening to the Jeep as it grinds against the high-speed highway. That’s the missing answer that I’d like for this article: Why? Still, I have very little understanding how anyone could think driving a car in this condition is somehow the right move over, say, towing it. Replace those wheels, snag a new front bumper, get a new fender flare (those pop off easily for off-road use), probably get a hold of a new wheel liner, and then just have a look at any other steering/suspension bits that look compromised (I bet they’re fine). I bet the Gladiator could be fixed fairly easily. This was on my way back from my daughters Banquet tonight.”Ĭlick on Jeremy’s profile to watch that video, or you can just check out the embedded clip below from boring.cars, who re-posted the video: I have basically no context to provide all I know is that a Texan named Jeremy Price posted this vide to Facebook with just the simple caption: “The shit you see in Houston. But there are times when I just have something weird I want to show you, so that together we can just gawk, possibly drool a little, and then move on with our days. Just watch as sparks fly and confusion abounds.Īs a general rule, when I write an article I try to make sure it’s informative - that it teaches the average reader something new about cars, even if it’s just something small. All I know is that someone drove a severely-damaged Jeep Gladiator pickup on a highway at speeds that I wouldn’t dare approach in many of my fully functional cars - certainly not if they had under-inflated tires, especially if that inflation pressure were zero, and the “tires” were made of just air. Something bizarre happened in Houston, Texas last week, but I’m having a hard time understanding exactly what.
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