Little Red Riding Hood breaks a leg 小红帽跛脚记

If your'e a car guy, you know what's a flywheel. Have you experience a Fly Wheel before? My little red riding hood does.

如果你是玩车一族,你大概知道什么是飞轮。但是,你有曾经有尝试过真正的“飞 轮”吗?我的小红帽就试过了。

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So, I was having trouble with rear wheel bearing noise. For few months, I have been keep on breaking new bearings. Within 6 months I've changed up to 3 pairs of bearings on the rear right side, another 2 pairs of bearings on the rear left. Until that day, when I was pushing little red riding hood at 100kph, suddenly the noise disappeared. I saw a very nice little wheel speed passed my side window. I was just having this thought in my mind, who throw this beautiful alloy wheel away, the tire seems very new. The following 1/2 a second, my rear right end sunk into the tarmac and all I can see is heavy fireworks on the floor blasting across the street.
我还记得那段时间后轮常常嗡嗡作响了好几个月,相当肯定是轴承坏了。而且是连续半年后右方换了三对,左后方换了两对。直到有一天,当我还在开着小红100公里时速时,突然间后部静了下来,然后时间仿佛停止了。我看见窗外的景物一切变得缓慢,除了一条很熟悉的轮胎超越了我的车向前冲了出去。那时我还在想是谁这么浪费把这么好的一条轮胎丢了。不到半秒钟,我觉得小红的后半部向下沉,然后接下来就是听着重金属向马路上摩擦的交响乐,看着倒后镜的火花,很是壮观。

I managed to save the car and still drag it to the road side. Off I go look for my missing wheel, and I had to crossed a 4 lane freeway (KL-Seremban Highway right infront of S-Park) and managed to pickup my wheel again some few hundred meters away from where my car stopped. This said that my tire has a really good balancing and low resistance. No wonder this car is/was/probably will be the best fuel economy vehicle. Again, I had to carry the tire to cross a 4 lane freeway, and roll the tire a few hundred meters to reach my car again. I managed to get a road assist from the towing service, and send my car to my magician(usually that's how little red address the mechanic).
到最后,我没有死。幸好还能将小红拖着放着重金属音乐和火花停到路边去,然后我就越过了4车道高速公路,跑个几百米去把我的车胎找回来。从这个距离看来,那轮胎的却是非常好的轮胎。难怪小红是我家里最节省燃料的一辆车。接着,抱着轮胎又越过了4车道回到小红身边。后来我们就小心的把小红拖了回去法师(技师)的道院(汽车维修厂)去施回魂法术(修理)。

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The entire brake hub and wheel detached from the car. Torsion beam(the rear axle) has dropped on the tarmac and dragged fro few hundred meters.
整个刹车轮毂连同车轮一同飞脱。轮轴组织在马路上被拖了好几百米。

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Part of the hub brake assembly has been grind off.
制动器组件外壳也受损

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This is it. The entire incident caused by a weaken spindle. Until I figured out I'm not the first to have this awfully dangerous incident, only I bother to browse the internet. Obviously, the previous owner did not send the car back for recall campaign from the manufacturer as this was a well know manufacturing defect. The spindle position and locking mechanism is flawed. They had issued a recall, but the previous owner obviously did not send the car back to change the flawed spindle. I had no choice but to order new part by myself.
就是这个纺锤惹得祸!上网找一下资料才知道原来我不是第一个遇到这样的危险情形。原来制造商本来就知道纺锤和轴承方面的问题所在,有宣布回收和更换组件,可是上一手车主应该是没有及时将车带回去修理。既然坏了,我也是没有办法只好去买新的回来让法师施法。

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The spindle on the left is what taken out from the other side of the wheel(which hasn't break into half yet). These pictures will do the talking. I don't wanna tell story no more.
左边的纺锤是从另外一边(还没有出事那边)拿出来的。我不想多说,你自己看吧。图片是不会骗人的。

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The original measurement bearing on the left(which hasn't break in to trillion pieces yet). Look at the huge ass size of the right side new bearing that designed for the new spindle!
轴承也是不例外。左边是还没出事那边拆下来的。而右边比头还要大的轴承就是用来搭配新款的纺锤。

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Since the wheels are off, might as well start cleaning and checking on the suspension. I don't know for what reason I took this photo, probably to remind myself I'm going to take off all the good racing stuff from the car, and leave it stock for good.
既然轮胎都拆下来了,顺便来个悬挂系统检查。我也不记得为何拍下了这张照片,依稀记得好像是把这种高性能的悬挂丢了,换回原厂设定。

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After the fixed she's very adorable again, the damage slightly less than 1000. Despite the damage, but it's all good. My little red riding hood.
虽然花了差不多整1000来开坛搞治疗法术,只要小红健康就好了。我的小红帽。

A spinoff story of Trackday with Little Red Riding Hood 小红帽的一次赛车经验
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