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Now, if the tire had a boot on it, this would make a lot more sense.
Street-wise maybe, but how is it on the half pipe?
If only it would stop trying to sell pot to kids on the playground, it could be a respectable car
Somewhere there is one angry kid.
I’m picturing it going down the road like this, then suddenly, the skateboard breaks.
Is that a front wheel drive car?
Owner: My car has 8 wheels and yours?
Nice job the tire is doing on the fender there…
Even if the big tire goes flat, the 4 little ones never will.
Isaak: Not on composition wheels, you need urethane to get up any speed…
Kinsak: Count again, that’s only 7.
Looks like the spring broke or strut collapsed, tire stuffed into the fender & subframe on the pavement.
This fix would /just/ be to get the car out of the street without wrecking the tire and subframe, and save a big Official Police Garage tow bill to clear the road. Note it’s near the curb *now*.
I suppose if the wheel were unable to turn, and the force is coming from the rear wheels or someone pushing it, it might work… until the board breaks.
@The Cat
or you turn and it slides off.
@Kinsak
Actually, it is more like 7
Tony Hawk watch out lol
I really don’t get what was broken that the skateboard is fixing… I’m giving it a big thumbs down.
@Mr Obnox
looks like a civic to me, so yeah
drifting r00ls, d00d!
@Smerf
look at the slightly crumpled fender (seam where door meets fender) and how badly the wheel is smooshed up into the fender – in other words, the wheel won’t turn
Note the lack of stub axle nut in the center of the hub: I think the guy had the hub come right off and lost the wheel. The wheel is just sitting on the skateboard, it’s not attached to the car by anything. Spoof picture. That’s why the 800ish pounds of that corner of the car isn’t bending the skateboard (or breaking it).
Turbo Teen takes up skateboarding.
so what happens when you need to turn a corner, Mr. Skateboard Wheel?
It is attached to the axle, look at the disc, it is at the same angle. The skateboard is breaking look at the back right side, part of the wood is breaking. This is front wheel drive. This is something that might get you a few hundred feet. If you pushed it. They probably broke a spring after their cheap ass took a torch to the them to lower it.
@Colt45ws
It is attached to the hub, but not necessarily to the axle/half-shaft or to the suspension. The wheel lugs bolt the wheel to the hub/steering knuckle assembly, with the rotor sandwiched in between. Nothing suggests that the hub is actually attached to anything else on the car.
@Chris
On all the cars I’ve worked on (about a dozen, mostly Japanese, both FWD and RWD), you wouldn’t be able to see the axle nut from the angle that this picture was taken from, especially with the deep rim around the center of the wheel. I’m not saying you’re wrong though.
Do I see chinese characters at the bumper?
Normally, if the skate board leans over to the left like that, it would turn left if moving!
I hate to burst all your bubbles, but when I was a kid, my father had a unit that was designed to do exactly that – big heavy monster that you rolled your car’s flat tire onto and you could then drive with it. I never could figure out why, though, you’d want one of those when it was so much heavier than a spare tire.
As a bonus, his car will now go twice as fast — thanks to the differential doubling his remaining wheel’s speed!
He is just showing up the amount of flex his ride has!
I am surprised as most that the board hasn’t broken, yet. They do make actual heavy duty metal carriers that are made for wheeling a car around a shop, but the wheels can rotate 360 degrees, unlike skateboards that can only go forwards and backwards.
@Colt45ws
if the axle broke and the wheel bearing separated, the disc would stay with the wheel due to the lug nuts.
they wont show the back end, too much blood.
@Bruce
4 on the eskate board, 4 on the car, steering wheel, spare wheel. I count 10.
Prepare for the world’s most epic skateboard trick.
imagine it’s front – wheel drive, there’s someone standing in front of the car and the driver reverses