QUOTE(epo @ Jul 28 2010, 09:07 PM)
hi bro... after u go i asked arul to join me for lunch, teach him how to update garmin map on his nokia phone... hehehe...
hey bro....coool...next time we go lunch together....hear my scary story...
last nite I experienced something scary.....went for a drive to Shah Alam frm Kajang, suddenly after passing Shah Alam exit at Puchong LDP I heard a weird screeching noise from outside...I ignored it for few minutes coz I thought it was coming from a lorry or an old car behind me....but then its getting louder and I sourced the sounds to be coming from the engine....I was like "oh shoot...not d crank pully..no no no no", then I opened my driver side windows, the sound was not that loud...i closed d window and opened the passenger front windows, then I cud hear the loud screeching sounds coming from the left tyre....1st thing that came across my mind was "My Honda Tak Guna" guy haha...then only Arul came across my mind since I sent my car to him the morning before to do the alignment..might be something wrong somewhere....
I stopped @ d side of d road...called Arul to ask for his help...it was around 2245 last nite....I prayed hard "please Arul dont sleep yet"..he answered and I told him the problem...we came out with a lot of theories of what might have gone wrong....Arul even tried to ask his former technicians friends from Puchong to give a hand..coz im too scared to drive the car back home with that condition...Arul came out with the most accurate theory of what might happened....a small stone got stuck in between the brake pad/calipers which grinds d brake disc causing d screeching/metal grinding sounds...I told Arul...I will let d car cools down, lepak @ my mate house then see what will happen next..
After 4 hours...@ around 230 last nite...I started d engine, praying hard that d damage that I might be doing to d brake will not be that bad in my 40km suicide journey back to Kajang...drove for a few hundred meters...d sounds were still there but then suddenly it was gone....totally gone...all d way back to Kajang...what a relief...
so i think what might happened was..during my journey to Shah Alam...d brake disc n brake pads were hot...therefore they were slightly expanded causing the stone to stuck there for a while...after it cools down..the disc n pad were shrunk therefore allowing d culprit to free itself...sigh....what a relief....
thanks a million to Arul for his help n his probably spot on theory....what do u guys think it might be???