well driving home after work last night, turned right at a set of lights, i hear a massive bang.
thinking i hit some massive pot hole, or a tire blew i pulled over, and noticed my rear left wheel right up in the wheel arch, turns out that the rubber bush in the shock slipped out? :nuts: ? and disconnecting the whole suspension (spring and shock) assembley.
so being around the corner from home, i took off the bush still conected to the wheel, and slipped the shock on the pin loosley and limped it home, so im gona need a new bush, so might get a pair of Ployurathane bushes, any one know how much they are? or how this happened? :rant:
lol allthough i didnt mind the look of it being sooo low

awesome! lets see some of the whole car!

sounds like a scary thing to happen.. oh well, just leave it..

What springs were u on?

That's really random!

i always wondered when that would happen to someone

the whole weight of the car supported by one side of a bolt.... stupid desgn really

did it happen on both sides or just that one

Damn.....

Ive had a simmilar experiance, My old TX3, lowered sprigs. went around corner huge bang!

Snapped a K-mac spring and the front dropped about 3 inches into the wheel arch, Scary

its been lowerd about 1.5 innch so its not that low kmac springs, and only the one side has fallen off, i only limped it around the corner, and i wouldnt drive it anymore, its only sitting on the pin loosley. so needs to be fixed asap, so when i get the new bush in, i might put some massive washers that will cover the strut end and not just the bush, to stop it from happening, might do the other bush too while im at it.

at least now u can say its fully sik lowered :D but that sounds pretty freakin dangerous

the whole weight of the car supported by one side of a bolt.... stupid desgn really

Do this happen only to cars that is been made lower only?Like it changed the angle of the part that fell of???

just rang pedders, i cant buy just the bush for it, i have to buy the whole assembley, and they strongley reccomend both sides to even it out :(
and they have to order it in, so my car is off the road for a little while

just rang pedders, i cant buy just the bush for it, i have to buy the whole assembley...Try calling someone else too, it's sometimes good to call a few places.
Doing both sides sounds like a good move.

yeah i might do that, they want 103 for each shock, or 130 each for sports shocks

looking at that pic i couldnt pick out the metal shim, that goes between the bush and the nutt on the bolt? the point being if the bushes go, the metal shim stops the strut loop (bottom of the strut) from sliding over the bolt and becoming detached from the mounting point, all but being hell loose.

i could be mistaken about the shim, i know they are on mine

Id call KMAC.. they will do anything you need.. After all they make it all. id do both sides so you dont have he same issue in 6months..:)

Exact same thing happened to me.. lucky i was close the the suspension centre that put the king springs in. I took it to him and said "not good enough". He fixed it and all good since. Was weird having the mudflap constantly drag along the road lol

just checked the Gregorys and there's definitely a washer between the nut and the shock, if there's no washer the nut is only holding the rubber bush and the shock is free to come off (after all rubber is flexible esp under that kind of pressure)... I'd say whoever replaced the shocks last had some left over parts....

just checked the Gregorys and there's definitely a washer between the nut and the shock, if there's no washer the nut is only holding the rubber bush and the shock is free to come off (after all rubber is flexible esp under that kind of pressure)... I'd say whoever replaced the shocks last had some left over parts....

really? thats interesting, cuz i was thinking, there should be a washer there, to stop this kind of thing from happening. i might check the others. can any one comfirm this with their car? mine is a 98 TF
i have placed a washer covering the shock and the bush, so it wont come out again. but the shock is now damaged so i will have to replace it soon.

really? thats interesting, cuz i was thinking, there should be a washer there, to stop this kind of thing from happening. i might check the others. can any one comfirm this with their car? mine is a 98 TF
i have placed a washer covering the shock and the bush, so it wont come out again. but the shock is now damaged so i will have to replace it soon.

If there was ever a noise in your car to make you soil your jocks.... that would have to be it!!

Good thing it wasn't more serious man... that coulda gotten nasty real quick!!!

I just checked the service manual...and my car... (but I got pedders sports ryder susp) there is def a washer there...... could of had some spare parts when the thing was last worked on.... not good .....

Steve