Buy a Rover and..........

[Hulio]

this happens






10 years an a valver and nothing really major.....I buy a 'sensible' car and this......

The moral of the story?

Dont let anybody tell you to go buy a sensible car!!!!!!

[Lunner]

You brought the 'wrong' sensible car lol

Love my vectra....its everything the clio isn't lol

[schakal]

wow thats seriously scary
not that its an excuse for a ball joint to come off like that but
were you taking the corner a little fast ??

[an02rew]

buy a sensible car, think you have to drive it sensible aswell

[cooper]

yea but its a rover, y u think they went out of business

[Hulio]

The reason this happened is that a circlip was not replaced on the nut, that holds the bolt, that holds the lower wishbone and balljoint onto the hub.

As you can see in the picture it has a new cv boot (the reason that the bolt was removed) and a hole were the bolt should be.

This is a known problem on honda's (the rover 400 and 45's have honda running gear) and this is the reason that I wouldn't buy a honda civic or accord of this era now either. BMW's for instance have two bolts holding this bit on so that this stands less of a chance of happening.

I was going 10mph pulling away from lights in a straight line when this happened.

I had however, just made a 200 mile round trip to bristol on the motorway............

[leeshez]

that is bad.

[titcharoony]

ur lucky that didnt happen in a two centre, that could of been embarrassing...