MistahYebba
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- June 29, 2015
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- City, State
- Clearwater, Florida
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2005 Ford Explorer XLT
So...
very dangerous situation happened today on my way to work.
I hit a pretty decent bump... really not THAT big; but big enough to feel it and maybe give the females a little boob jiggle.. (haha..)
Well..
The bump made the front right end of my car emit a loud pop sound.
I didn't think too much of it except that it was an ugly sound that made me cringe thinking about the health of my truck...
but then I looked in my rear view and I swear I saw something traveling at a high speed as if it came off of my car and bounced down the road.
So that concerned me..
I drove for like 10 minutes honestly not worried about it at all. I was thinking of all the different things it could have been that flew off of my car..
"Maybe some sort of bouncy rubber ball that acts as some component of the suspension?"
"Maybe I hit a bouncy ball a child left on the road?"
Those were the thoughts that ran through my head.
When I finally got to work; I had to turn in to the parking lot. I was going maybe 40 MPH and there was a car behind me going probably faster than that...
I felt pressured to take the turn quite fast in an effort to not get rear-ended.. and do keep in mind that it was raining all morning and the roads were wet.
Anyway; I go to turn in and got all sorts of slipped across the slight incline to pull into the parking lot. It honestly felt like my ball socket snapped and that my whole front end fell to the ground..
but the whole slippage scenario from start to end was only like 5 seconds so it went by quick..
Needless to say I was a little shook up and drove very slowly and cautiously to a parking spot so I could just get into the office.
I only glanced at my front right tire and nothing seemed out of the ordinary from the outside. It was straight and it seemed fine..
I reversed into my spot (albeit very slowly) just fine with no pops or bangs or slips or anything..
I'm just concerned about driving away for my lunch break and my front end giving out while I'm going 80 on the freeway, so please let me know what this could have happen?
Did I simply hydroplane from trying to turn so fast and mistaked it for my front-end giving out because I "saw" that black thing bouncing down the road after I heard a pop?
Or was I just tripping (I was high) and putting pieces to a puzzle together that weren't even existent?
Share some ideas so I don't walk outside with a broken truck and have no clue what to diagnose..
very dangerous situation happened today on my way to work.
I hit a pretty decent bump... really not THAT big; but big enough to feel it and maybe give the females a little boob jiggle.. (haha..)
Well..
The bump made the front right end of my car emit a loud pop sound.
I didn't think too much of it except that it was an ugly sound that made me cringe thinking about the health of my truck...
but then I looked in my rear view and I swear I saw something traveling at a high speed as if it came off of my car and bounced down the road.
So that concerned me..
I drove for like 10 minutes honestly not worried about it at all. I was thinking of all the different things it could have been that flew off of my car..
"Maybe some sort of bouncy rubber ball that acts as some component of the suspension?"
"Maybe I hit a bouncy ball a child left on the road?"
Those were the thoughts that ran through my head.
When I finally got to work; I had to turn in to the parking lot. I was going maybe 40 MPH and there was a car behind me going probably faster than that...
I felt pressured to take the turn quite fast in an effort to not get rear-ended.. and do keep in mind that it was raining all morning and the roads were wet.
Anyway; I go to turn in and got all sorts of slipped across the slight incline to pull into the parking lot. It honestly felt like my ball socket snapped and that my whole front end fell to the ground..
but the whole slippage scenario from start to end was only like 5 seconds so it went by quick..
Needless to say I was a little shook up and drove very slowly and cautiously to a parking spot so I could just get into the office.
I only glanced at my front right tire and nothing seemed out of the ordinary from the outside. It was straight and it seemed fine..
I reversed into my spot (albeit very slowly) just fine with no pops or bangs or slips or anything..
I'm just concerned about driving away for my lunch break and my front end giving out while I'm going 80 on the freeway, so please let me know what this could have happen?
Did I simply hydroplane from trying to turn so fast and mistaked it for my front-end giving out because I "saw" that black thing bouncing down the road after I heard a pop?
Or was I just tripping (I was high) and putting pieces to a puzzle together that weren't even existent?
Share some ideas so I don't walk outside with a broken truck and have no clue what to diagnose..