Aight so this weekend... Decided to finally change out rotors and brake pads... Bought em from brake performance.com.. Theres a thread with the pics posted and price of what they cost of ne1 is interested... Ne ways.. So ive never installed brakes/pads/rotors, but knowing me i will not do it on my own cuz ill break my btakes lol.. I had a friend help me and he used to do brakes for a dealership and precision autotune.. Blabla bla.. So we knocked that **** out n an hr n a half.. Break fluid levels were great. Drove 20 miles no noises nothing feeling weak nothin out of the ordinary... Drivin home from my buddys place 12am sun mornin and i hear what sounds like my tire exploded.. I push on the brakes.. Pedal is on the floor.. I was only goin bout 30-25 so didn really have to slow down much.. I get out n look.. Bam calliper is layin on the bottome of my tire rim and my brake hose is jus pouring fluid out... I get the car car towed home check it out the next morning.. Pretty much needs a new brake hose and bolts to mount the calliper to the axel.. I should b good after that...



Top of the calliper where the brake hose was connected



bye bye brake hose



So of course every auto store n the surrounding area doeant have the parts so i gotta wait til after the memorial day weekend to get stuff.. Plus im jus gonna take it to the shop jus for peace of mind..

Sooo.. Human error or mechanical failure??

 

Oh an easy on the grammatical wise cracks... I did this all on my phone while sittin on tha crapper.. Jus a lil fyi..

 

not sure how that happened...the bolts sheering off like that would have been due to over torquing of the bolts...and brake line...not sure how that even would be possible to fray the line unless it cut off when the caliper busted off.

 

Looks like somebody over did it when tightening the bolts

 

human error

and post #2 ftw lmao

 

Yea figured that and yea that bolt musta been iver torqued.. I didnt do that.. That would b the one who helped. I jus ciuldn believe that and im thinkin that brake line got rippied off when the calliper followed the wheel from 25-0mph lol preciate the input.. Ill update later :-)

 

def too tight. Happened to me once except sliders were too loose and one fell out. caused caliper to take a chunk out of every spoke on my 5 spoke mustang wheels

 

Ouch^ .... Well of course my luck would have it.. Bolts had to be ordered through the dealership so day off of work yesterday and like half a day missed today..and a shop thats waiting for my parts that wont open til 8 and the dealer is open at 7 and wat a wonderful waste of time it is :-) everything SHOULD b fixed today but well we shall see how that goes..

 

so the brakes were a big problem, but now i have 2 more that popped up... please feel free to chime in with solutions.... first FIXABLE problem is..
Blinker does not reset its self when i turn the steering wheel after a turn. so for instance. i put the right blinker on and when i turn right, you dont hear the click it makes while you're making the turn, and when you return the steering wheel, it doesnt click the blinker off.. i took off the top of the steering wheel column and the blinker looks like its cracked, or is it supposed to be like that? any advice on that?

Gas Tank... ok so since before i had the O2 Sensor Problem and idle problem i was smelling gas(as i stated before in the other thread) i thought it was from the exhaust fumes, cuz it didn smell like fresh gas... so i figured once i fixed the O2 sensor it would fix it self. nope... when i was fixin my brakes a couple weeks ago my friend who was helping me noteced the smell too, and we looked at the gas tank we could see dripping from the gas lines... sooo.. any one have this problem? looks like it could either be the GAS tank, or maybe Fuel lines? it doesnt look like corrosion of the Gas lines.. but the shop i took it too said that he knows of the Cobalts having problems with the gas tanks, i dont believe that coming from him, but i also haven ever heard of that problem on here either.. soo, any advice on this one? im most likely gonna take it to the shop coming up here, but i wanna know what parts i should buy? im at 78000 miles im really thinkin fuel filters, gas lines, and probly the fuel filter inside the tank since its gota come down anyways.. i really dont see how it could be the gas tank.. lay the suggestions on me guys. preciate the help!

 

I think there was a recall on specific balts for your gas line problem.

 

torque wrench... everytime.

 

you know the mechanic said something about the Gas tank recall cuz he did two in the past.. but i took mine in and they didn say ne thing bout a recall for my car. hmmm... ill check up on that.

 

DAMN good thing that didn't happen in an emergency situation! 0.0

 

^ yea you right bro...

ok sooo after a little bit of searching... (good ol search button) i found this thread.. https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/prob...l-leak-228636/ ..which lead me to call the dealer and i got an appoitnment to get my stuff fixed.. HOPEFULLY FREE of charge ... we shall see.

Now onto finding out bout my blinker switch... BLINKER FLUID LOW??? lol..

 

you'll have to replace the module for the blinker switch

 

Thanks bro.. Kinda figured it would b.. I like the confirmation..
SO FYI.. Fuel pump is covered under that part extended warranty... Its at the dealer gettin fixed now :-)

 

aight so dealer replaced the fuel pump, no more fuel puddles, or gas smell.. car is still runnin nicely.