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Old Mar 17, 2003 | 03:11 PM
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F***ing n00b's

I just returned from a customers office and as I was coming out of a parking structure I heard a loud pop or clunk. I was like Sh*t!
Now I knew exactly what it was. My sway bar.

A few weeks back I swapped sway bars with someone. This person does not know how to tighten a nut any better then jacking off in the mirror. He also took my rear cusco strut tower bar. When installing my rear seat he didn't put it back on completely. I can understand this somewhat as putting on the seat back on a sedan does take a little fidgeting. So I let this go and fixed it later when I reinstalled my harness bar.


Now granted I should have been a little less trusting when letting someone work on my car whom I've never met before. But good god man do you really have to do something so half assed that it could have potentially broke something that would have been expensive?

Long story short one of the bolts for the swaybar links was not tightened and the nut came off ultimately loosing the bolt and causing the loud pop I heard.

Dont let anyone you've never worked with work on your car. Plain and simple.


Old Mar 17, 2003 | 03:33 PM
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or you can be like me and watch and hound the person working on your car to get it right.
Old Mar 17, 2003 | 03:38 PM
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Well I was working on his car to get the stock bars off and he was on my car to get the aftermarket ones off. I know I did a good job on his car.

I just went to look at the bolt and that damn thing was torqued like a mother and half of it's threads were stripped! Ummm, if it doesn't screw on easily, there must be a reason for it
Old Mar 17, 2003 | 05:05 PM
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no problems with the front eh?

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Old Mar 17, 2003 | 05:30 PM
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Originally posted by kawshon1
no problems with the front eh?
I'll have to check later tonight :P
Old Mar 17, 2003 | 05:50 PM
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wow that has suck

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Old Mar 17, 2003 | 06:03 PM
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