What is the d@mn deal here? I work for a local shop and have seen at leat 5 of these this year, 2 resulting in blown engines. Are they just too damn low? or do people just not know how to drive?
Either cracked from abrupt force or just straight up busted holes in em. WTH?
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I'm going to lean towards people not knowing how to drive.
I'm lowered over 2" all around, no K-brace to protect the pan, the roads around here suck, and I haven't had a single issue in the 6+ years of driving the car...
Yeah but Im in arkansas. Guess its a backwoods redneck issue. lol
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Im gonna go with people trying to drive over things instead of around them.
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Ronin J wrote:Im gonna go with people trying to drive over things instead of around them.
Yeah, and possibly too fast over too big of pot holes.
Just seems to be a reoccurring issue here.
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I've seen it happen to two friends of mine. One was lowered 1.4 inches on the prokit with good shocks. The other was completely stock. The second was the transmission fluid pan though. It's very possible. All depends on luck, or bad luck I should say. I'm lowered and despite my sincerest efforts to avoid doing so, I have bottomed out on several occasions. It's just an inevitability. I believe that bar that runs along the bottom and the thick Catalytic converter have taken the brunt of impacts that would have otherwise resulted in a busted oil/transmission pan.
I had mine go on me i don't even know what happened came home one day and their was a trail of oil. The nice thing is that i'll never forget how to get home now.
Chris A wrote:I had mine go on me i don't even know what happened came home one day and their was a trail of oil. The nice thing is that i'll never forget how to get home now.
A little hansel and gretel goin on there? LOL Glad you didnt ruin yours. Ive seen tooooo many ruined over this.
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Wheelerman420 wrote:Yeah but Im in arkansas. Guess its a backwoods redneck issue. lol
No problems in the backwoods of PA and our roads are destroyed by all the gas drilling. Our subframes are lower than the oil pan, so just regularly bottoming out wouldnt affect it. How ever improper driving over very rough terrain would.
180hp in 1989 or 260hp in 2008, you decide. Quad < Ecotec
Tinkles wrote:Wheelerman420 wrote:Yeah but Im in arkansas. Guess its a backwoods redneck issue. lol
No problems in the backwoods of PA and our roads are destroyed by all the gas drilling. Our subframes are lower than the oil pan, so just regularly bottoming out wouldnt affect it. How ever improper driving over very rough terrain would.
You know now that you mention it, I see this more in the cobalts than in the cavaliers.
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