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[Edited], wheel jammed solid.. at 75mph!
CNorman:
Driving back from sodbury sortout at 5:00 at 75mph all of a sudden the front of the landrover sunk a foot, the rear raised a foot and the back end flew out!
The front passenger side wheel jammed absolutly solid! There was smoke pouring from the wheel and the tyre (BFGoodrich MT) with less than 100 miles on it (2 weeks od) has worn flat like a D!!!
What on eartth could cause that kind of lock up??
Any help appreciated,
Feel lucky to be alive!
Disco-Ron:
Could be something broken in the front axle.... sounds like it was nearly time for an accident...... lucky boy!!
thermidorthelobster:
Bearing collapsed?
beast5680:
i would suspect either the cv joint has failed or the bearings have seized, sounds like you were lucky
i had a bearing fail that would lock a wheel intermittently luckily it locked soild outside my house one day and not steaming down the road as i had been 10 mins earlier
landroverkeith:
:shock: mine did that on the a45 just pass billing whilst towing a car trailer :? not a nice feeling.....
in my case it was a collasped bearing..... even though the idiot aa man swore blind it was the brake caliper seized the trouble i had getting the disco recovered and the trailer was unreal.......
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