Bad news, good luck, good news

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My '93 camry wagon was acting kinda wierd lately...scraping over some speed bumps at my school's parking lot, which it should have done fine over, and i didn't know why. i had dropped one of my friends off at her house, which happens to be on a dirt road full of potholes, during the summer and slammed into one of the potholes that i didn't see because of a lack of visibility. i knew something was gonna be messed up, but i didn't know what. turns out the pothole and scraping were related.

Bad news: turns out i had to replace the front left axle.

Good luck: It was only cracked, and it was still usable for like 3 months after the pothole incident, and the auto shop said it could have snapped at any time anywhere, but didn't in that long period.

Good news: it was fixed with no problems and I don't scrape anymore.

That was just a fortunate break for me, because it woulda been real bad had the axle snapped while i was driving. :P

[brink]

Ouch. But don't ya love it when you find out after the fact that you beat the odds and somehow avoided something bad like that?

[InTeReX]

Dag man. Sorry to hear bout that...but glad you got it all fixed with nothing serious happening. I hate potholes!!
I was driving down a dirt road hit a pothole and next thing ya know my car sounded like a damn Tractor or a bi-plane. Busted the pipe coming out of the intake manifold. But i got it fixed $100