Yeah my car mechanic told me that some cars/manufacturers have exactly this design flaw where the end of the broken spring slides out and pierces the tire. He mentioned that also BMWs do this. I previously had a VW Golf and had broken springs like 4 times (used to drive a lot on unpaved country and forest roads for work) which luckily doesn’t do this. The rest of the spring stays in and sometimes we only noticed a spring was broken again during inspection. Sometimes I heard the broken part rattle while driving on uneven terrain.
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froh42@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I know, shitpost.
But: A few years ago the front right spring broke on my Peugeot 307 van, dug itself into the tire and ripped of the tire when I tried to. move the car. (It was parked when it happened)
Two hours before I had driven that van on the Autobahn at its vmax of about 180kph (about 110mph)
Ripping off the front tire would NOT have been a fun situation.
hollunder@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
While it’s a shitpost, it is entirely real. Pulled this from my neighborhood FB group.
Terrifying