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How long can a popping CV joint last?
On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 12:03:51 PM UTC-6, dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, December 31, 2017 at 10:07:01 PM UTC-10, wrote: > > > > Better still, trade in for a RWD. > > It would probably be a lot cheaper to fix the CV joint - or would it? I have never owned a front wheel drive vehicle before. I don't think I want one either. |
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How long can a popping CV joint last?
On 01/01/2018 09:37 PM, wrote:
> On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 10:27:10 PM UTC-6, The Real Bev wrote: >> On 01/01/2018 07:22 PM, wrote: >> > On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 12:03:51 PM UTC-6, dsi1 wrote: >> >> On Sunday, December 31, 2017 at 10:07:01 PM UTC-10, wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Better still, trade in for a RWD. >> >> >> >> It would probably be a lot cheaper to fix the CV joint - or would it? >> > >> > I have never owned a front wheel drive vehicle before. I don't think I want one either. >> >> I had no trouble pulling out of an icy slightly-uphill parking lot (yes, >> we have those in SoCal -- up in the ski areas) with my Sentra after >> watching a guy with a RWD pickup spin helplessly. Probably just skill, >> right? >> >> OTOH, the most fun I've ever had in a car was driving an S2000 down the >> mountain. > How to get your vehicle unstuck with a 2'' x 4'' Youtube The winch made of two hefty branches and a rope was interesting, but I suspect I'd be totally exhausted from the branch-flipping before the car moved an appreciable distance. I wonder how laying heavy chain (keep 20 feet or so of it in your trunk) down in front of a tire would work. Zigzaggy, not straight out. All we could find was a piece of cardboard. Guess how well that worked :-) -- Cheers, Bev Why do men's hearts beat faster, their knees get weak, their throats become dry and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing? Because she smells like a new truck. |
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How long can a popping CV joint last?
On 1/2/18 1:39 AM, The Real Bev wrote:
I wonder how laying heavy chain > (keep 20 feet or so of it in your trunk) down in front of a tire would > work. Zigzaggy, not straight out. > > When we lived in Ohio in the 1950s, we did that all the time , to just get out of of an icy spot. A heavy chain was also handy for getting pulled out, or pulling someone else. (of course we had real bumpers then ;-) Also, if we had regular tire chains, but did not want to install them on tire, we would lay them out in front (or back) of tires. Again, just to get out of a stuck situation. Did that a few winters ago in Colorado. |
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How long can a popping CV joint last?
On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 11:14:28 AM UTC-6, Retired wrote:
> On 1/2/18 1:39 AM, The Real Bev wrote: > > I wonder how laying heavy chain > > (keep 20 feet or so of it in your trunk) down in front of a tire would > > work. Zigzaggy, not straight out. > > > > > > > When we lived in Ohio in the 1950s, we did that all the time , to just > get out of of an icy spot. > > A heavy chain was also handy for getting pulled out, or pulling > someone else. (of course we had real bumpers then ;-) > > Also, if we had regular tire chains, but did not want to install them > on tire, we would lay them out in front (or back) of tires. Again, > just to get out of a stuck situation. Did that a few winters ago in > Colorado. The Youtube videos about tieing/strapping a piece of two by four wood crossway on a tire/wheel. The tire that is stuck does a 'bunny hop' forward, or backward each time it goes around. |
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How long can a popping CV joint last?
On 01/02/2018 09:14 AM, Retired wrote:
> On 1/2/18 1:39 AM, The Real Bev wrote: > > I wonder how laying heavy chain >> (keep 20 feet or so of it in your trunk) down in front of a tire would >> work. Zigzaggy, not straight out. > > When we lived in Ohio in the 1950s, we did that all the time , to just > get out of of an icy spot. Damn, I'm really proud that I thought of this myself then! > A heavy chain was also handy for getting pulled out, or pulling > someone else. (of course we had real bumpers then ;-) SoCalian here, only theoretical knowledge except when I go skiing. I skidded my 83 Sentra into a snowbank once and was hopelessly stuck. A farmer happened along with a heavy rope with a hook and pulled me out easily. Who knew that I had nice little welded loops on the frame that made this possible? Why don't all cars have nice little welded loops? > Also, if we had regular tire chains, but did not want to install them > on tire, we would lay them out in front (or back) of tires. Again, > just to get out of a stuck situation. Did that a few winters ago in > Colorado. Nobody told me you weren't supposed to drive 45 with chains until it was too late :-( -- Cheers, Bev "By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry.'" -Gary Larson |
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How long can a popping CV joint last?
On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 12:32:16 PM UTC-6, The Real Bev wrote:
> On 01/02/2018 09:14 AM, Retired wrote: > > On 1/2/18 1:39 AM, The Real Bev wrote: > > > > I wonder how laying heavy chain > >> (keep 20 feet or so of it in your trunk) down in front of a tire would > >> work. Zigzaggy, not straight out. > > > > When we lived in Ohio in the 1950s, we did that all the time , to just > > get out of of an icy spot. > > Damn, I'm really proud that I thought of this myself then! > > > A heavy chain was also handy for getting pulled out, or pulling > > someone else. (of course we had real bumpers then ;-) > > SoCalian here, only theoretical knowledge except when I go skiing. I > skidded my 83 Sentra into a snowbank once and was hopelessly stuck. A > farmer happened along with a heavy rope with a hook and pulled me out > easily. Who knew that I had nice little welded loops on the frame that > made this possible? Why don't all cars have nice little welded loops? > > > Also, if we had regular tire chains, but did not want to install them > > on tire, we would lay them out in front (or back) of tires. Again, > > just to get out of a stuck situation. Did that a few winters ago in > > Colorado. > > Nobody told me you weren't supposed to drive 45 with chains until it was > too late :-( > > -- > Cheers, Bev > "By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other > dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry.'" -Gary Larson Excuse My Dust book. A farmer would wet down a stretch of road across his property, Mud. Then when people got their cars stuck, he would charge them a couple of dollars to pull them out of the mud with his Horse and some rope. |
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How long can a popping CV joint last?
On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 5:22:14 PM UTC-10, wrote:
> > I have never owned a front wheel drive vehicle before. I don't think I want one either. It's a terrible thing to live in fear, isn't it? |
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How long can a popping CV joint last?
On 01/03/2018 04:59 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 5:22:14 PM UTC-10, wrote: >> >> I have never owned a front wheel drive vehicle before. I don't think I want one either. Probably easier to put chains on a FWD, but I've never had to put them on a RWD. > It's a terrible thing to live in fear, isn't it? Having driven examples of both, the differences seem less apparent than the differences in the other characteristics. In fact, NONE that I could detect. -- Cheers, Bev "Why put fault tolerance in the OS, when it's already built into the User?" -- Steve Shaw, regarding Win95 |
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