The day I was driving my Green 93 around a corner at 60mph and hearing the RH Lower balljoint snap-immediate loss of control-both of car and bladder/bowels-as I realized I was heading for a 5' deep ditch!
Got onto the binders and got her stopped about a foot from the edge, at the cost of the lower control arm, wheel and various body parts-next step-get a tow truck to winch it up onto a flatbed-more damage to car!
All this 2 days after I took it to a Ford dealership to have it checked out for a funny noise from the right front of the car! I will never trust the service dept of that particular dealer again -they do have an awesome parts guy that helps the SCCoIA out quite a bit, though
The insurance co forked out $3800 for the repairs-no choice on their part cause the finance company told them either fix it, or pay them off and buy me another Bird-they figured it was cheaper to fix it!
Got onto the binders and got her stopped about a foot from the edge, at the cost of the lower control arm, wheel and various body parts-next step-get a tow truck to winch it up onto a flatbed-more damage to car!
All this 2 days after I took it to a Ford dealership to have it checked out for a funny noise from the right front of the car! I will never trust the service dept of that particular dealer again -they do have an awesome parts guy that helps the SCCoIA out quite a bit, though
The insurance co forked out $3800 for the repairs-no choice on their part cause the finance company told them either fix it, or pay them off and buy me another Bird-they figured it was cheaper to fix it!