So, I went to install my nitrous lines under the car today. Jacked up the car from the front and put a jack stand under it. Jacked it up from the rear and this is what happened!

Literally everything is as it should be. All lug nuts are still on and everything!



The Ball joint bolt was freakin missing! The codding pin was gone as well as the nut! How long was this like that? I don't know! Scary considering i had a road trip tomorrow to AL. Thanks to Shin (CarbonIS), we went to the hardware store and got a replacement nut and codding pin!

 

Lucky u!!!
Imaging if you were driving the car!!
God, I better go check mine since I got 63K miles on it already!

 

Yeah I just hit 65K

 

Oh wow, good thing you caught it before your road trip and that nothing happened to you while driving.

 

What the? Is this a common problem w/ the 2GS?????

 

whoa man. definitely glad you caught that before your trip.

 

Time to jack up the car!

 

Nice catch that would have been messed up.

 

That would have not been a good experience for a road trip and something major happens on your way.

 

Its good to have my mechanic check that out every oil change. Knowing me I get used to the subtle changes that become huge.

 

300 or 400? Have you had any rear suspention work done recently?

 

300, about 4 months ago but I torqued everything down to spec. but I reused my old codding pin which after some research today learned that we are not supposed to reuse them

 

glad you caught that man....we want you to arrive safe.

 

It's a cotter pin. I had that happen to me in my old Honda Accord doing 80 MPH on the highway. I was attempting to get off my exit, but my car did not want to turn... it just continued to go straight??? Could have been much worse...

 

Wow. You got lucky.