Yeah i dont know if im the first one here one the site to break an axle but i did i was at the track my 1st run i dumped it at 2grand did not do to well it bogged second pass dumped it at 2500 and snap it ripped out of the joint and broke off of th wheel and fell on the track an then there gos all of my trans fluid on the track im so pissed i got it towed to my house than called chevy and they said that they will pick it up and fix it arg

 

and this is why i do not launch my car. call me the roll racing captain of the year, but i'll be damned if my only transportation is sitting broke in the driveway, waiting on $500+ worth of parts to come in

 

one word WOW

 

its already at the dealer

 

so do you now want to join the ranks of us and the roll racing jedi?

 

I know one of the Redline guys snapped his axles too . . . I don't understand how, I launch my car hard all the time, and I've had it at the dragstrip. Never once had a problem, nothing's ever snapped, broken, or blown up on me, and I abuse the **** out of my car. WTF?

 

Well... I did it.. I had less then 500KM on my car.. It was like 380 or 400 something like that. It's the halfshaft your talking about I assume.. Yea I wasnt doing anything stupid .. I just gave it a little fuel went over a bump had some wheel hop then snap.. It sucks.. Mine came right out of my cv joint.. It sucked..

 

so did the dealer fix urs

 

Funny i think im gonna have 2

 

it usually only takes one trip to the track with your daily driver to turn over to the darkside, the last trip i made was with my 2nd s10 it was an '88 s10 with a crappy paint job a 383 destroked and a built up drivetrain. when i launched it i broke the motor mounts and twisted the frame the first run... i was pissed and on that day i swore i would never launch my daily driver again.

 

You're lucky Chevy will fix it. I don't think they should.

C'mon people. You're racing a car at a track and abusing the crap out of it. It's not a race car. It's intended as a passenger car. I don't think Chevy should have to warranty a car that is being raced and abused to the fullest like that.

I'm not surprised the axle broke under heavy abuse.

 

It is a performance vehicle and should be covered by warranty as one.

If you broke an axle on a geo metro launching it at a track, then I would be more inclined to say "too bad, so sad".

However, the fact is GM can't take special interest in every case and try to prove the failure of a part was caused by abuse.

 

Former friend of mine blew his motor in his Type-R at the track. went 1st.....2nd.....3rd....2nd..boom.

(yes, he was an idiot)

3 people called the dealership before he took it there saying he had it on the track, therefore, bye bye warranty.




Glad they are covering your repair, but I'm sure they don't know where you were when it happened.

 

god damn cheap quality i blew my axles and tranny mounts while going up a hill going into 3rd driving slow! 1000 dollars for the fix due to excesssive tire wear

 

hey you shut the hell up theres always one homo out of the group go drive around in ur cabreo

 

But yeah they covered it no problem and plus it was early so when i broke it there were about 15 people there and i had no tags on and vin covered and the funny thing was they civic i had to run also broke his axle than later that night a wrx popped his trans than an integra popped his trans all the sportcompacts were dropping like flys and the mustang dudes laughed it up

 

Take it easy there, tiger.

 

let me point you back to my earlier post of me being a proud roll-racing jedi lol i seen that **** on a weekly basis for over 10 years

 

even if he wasn't on a track, if he launched the car on the street it shouldn't have happend. I launched my Alero with a 5 speed tranny and 2.4L quad 4 all the time without ever braking an axle.

 

doesn't happen to everyone. just like everytime someone gets shot, they don't die do they?

 

In a year a blew 3 half shafts in my SVT Focus from launching it... none of that in the SS until they come out with beefd up ones...

 

hopefully they wont check the performance logs