Well, typically if you say you're going to drive your truck until the wheels fall off, you were counting on a lot more than 60k miles...




So I went to work and got a new hub assembly and installed it right there on the side of the road..


Got it back together and drove it home. Got up to go to school the next morning and my luck showed its true colors..

 

dude! what the hell did you do!??

 

wtf happend?

 

Ouch.

 

What happened!?!?!?!

 

Okay, you cant just put up pictures like that and not tell us what happened.

WE DEMAND A STORY NOW!

also: I hope no one was hurt in the accident.

 

There was a wreck involving a police officer on a motorcycle and i was avoiding the intersection by cutting through a parking lot to get to my dad's shop to take tools back from fixing the hub assembly.. Well one of the cops directing traffic thought I was avoiding the police and he was yelling and hollaring at me. Well I look his way and he gives me the "c'mere finger" gesture. So as I'm looking at him, and start turning in his direction i found a 2 foot light pole in a 200 ft parking lot..

 

Dang!

 

2 foot light pole... how lame

 

how couldn't u see the 2' light pole? Thats like saying you didn't see the fat kid running for food.. (i can say that since i am fat haha)

 

At least your hub assembly survived

That sucks man, did the cop give you a citation or is he just taking the report?

 

I was paying more attention to the cop then where I was going..

 

Citation? No... He was taking the report. I would of raised some hell if they wrote me a citation for that..

 

did the cop laugh at you i know i would of lol

 

No, he was a complete *******. It was a county cop that was directing the traffic and a city cop who wrote the report. The county cop watched me hit the pole and turned around as if it never happened. When the city cop asked him if what I was saying was true for the report he denied that he had anything to do with it. He said that I must of been paying attention to the wreck that happened.

 

what a scumbag cop. however, you should have bit the bullet and stayed in traffic. i'm think up here it's against the law to cut through a parking lot to avoid a red light or something.

 

I realize this now..

 

That sucks man. Looks like one of those days you should have just stayed in bed.

 

Man that sucks, I know the feeling though. I was leaving the parts house after buying brake pads for my wife's 97 Taurus. Ran through a stop sign and got t boned, totaled the car. Sorry to see this.

 

Luckily mine is not totaled, but insurance isn't covering it so it's coming out of pocket.. and that hurts a lot..

 

OUCH!!! How fast were you going when you hit the pole?

 

15ish.. I wish I would of hit a car, they give some.. concrete poles don't..

 

That sucks for the pole hitting, I can admit to that too. I was in a parking lot and doing a few complete 360 turns to try and figure out what a noise was coming from my front end. While I was only rolling very slow, I was paying too much attention to my drivers side tire with my head out the window looking down.......I didn't see that in my 360 degree turns that I was slowly getting closer to a 4' yellow corner post. Concrete doesn't give at all. My damage was nothing compared to yours though.

How did the hub assembly break in the first place? Nice roadside fix though!!

 

Dang, that sucks dude

 

It needed to be replaced extremely bad, and I kept putting it off and putting it off and it eventually just fell apart.