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.
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. Don’t know where I would have ended if every broken spring had pierced a tire…
so if you try to replace this yourself it turns out you have to jack up BOTH SIDES or the sway bar will be under tension and it will be hard to pull the link out. You can raise or lower the opposite side a bit to get it just right. the dudes on youtube that have a lift might not even think about how the car needs to be lifted evenly. I use arch btw.
I googled it, and it’s terrifying. Bad idea to Google that before bed. Thank you for enlightening me on that. I will never look at the toilet the same way again.
Nah, when it was THIS bad in my personal experience, it was so painful that i just beat my head on the side wall and growling just to make pain stop, yes that food poisoning was THAT painful
I remember when the rumbly tummy pain last hit, I was sure I was done and went to lay down in the empty tub until the pain subsided and then went back to the can for awhile. Call it half-time.
I saw a person irl like this once and only once in my life more than a decade ago. It was wild. I had never seen a leather bag human before. The lady clearly had some sort of tanning addiction or something.
That was me on a mail-chain about an issue that would result in us losing our licence to operate in a certain market if we didn’t have a fix before the end of Easter with the first mail arriving the week before Easter.
That was until I figured out I had to fix the issue though…
Eugh. That feeling is the worst job related one. When you realize that you could’ve handled it within working hours but because you tried to dodge it you end up having to work overtime and mess up the family plans for the holiday…
Now-a-days I make damn sure someone I know is competent has the task assigned to them with ample time to fail and notify me without it leading to an all-nighter.
Well, the first mail arrived Friday afternoon leading up to the Easter week and I looked at it Monday thinking “sucks to be the guy responsible for that” before seeing the ticket pop into my team’s desk. It is a task that takes 3 weeks to implement with a full team so the issue is known by level 2 staff and probably even our CEO. At least we’re told that we have the entire IT department at our disposal, but holy hell, who the fuck comes up with an all-or-nothing deadline of 3 working days?
Someone who fucked up in one way or another. Anything that’s not a security related incident with a CVE entry is bound to be a major oversight by someone. Remember over promising is a fuck up, not business as usual in a healthy organisation.
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