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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

And in closing, for today

Saw this on the way to work one morning. The "taxi's" right rear wheel had come off, drive shaft and all! And it's not an isolated incidence. This has occurred before, sometimes at high speed on highways. It's mainly cause these goons prefer to save a dime and try to work on their own vehicles, and might reassemble incorrectly, or leave some useless parts out, like a circlip, a couple of bolts (why put back all 8 diff. bolts, when 2 will do?).
This dude was lucky, as it happened as he was rolling off fronm a traffic light, so damage was minimal. And these are the guys striking because of the threat of the proposed Rapid transit route (busses) and who complain cause the Metro Traffic cops leep pulling them off and fining them for unroadwoirthy vehicles.
Although, on that point I must agree, I would rather have them writing themselves off at high speed on the highway.....


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1 comment:

Divemaster GranDad said...

I saw the same thing on the M2 a couple of years ago. I wonder if they just didn't paint the taxi a different colour as the one I saw was red.

The drive shaft had come out in the middle lane and the taxi ground to a halt, with the drive shaft (luckily) hitting the centre barrier and stopping...could have caused a nasty accident if it had bounced over the barrier...

I came back along the same route about an hour later to find that the entire taxi had gone...no doubt they had pushed the drive shaft back into its position and driven off.