I was driving home in my 88 GT Fiero on Wednesday night. It was a stretch of two lane highway with a 50mph limit and I was doing 50mph, when the steering started shimmying and vibrating, followed by an almighty bang. I went to brake but the pedal went to the floor and the dash light came on.
I shifted to neutral and steered onto the verge as the traffic slowed for an intersection, where I called my husband. The positioning of the car when he got there was a bit precarious but to make matters worse a quick inspection of front brakes revealed nothing on the drivers side but the heavy traffic on the passenger side meant he couldn't safely investigate on the road side.
We called the recovery company and after a few hours got the Fiero home on a transporter.
Yesterday morning was the first opportunity my husband had to pull the wheel off and see what was going on. We both got a real shock that we still haven't got over.
We have no idea what caused this.
I would like to add that it was only 10 months ago we replaced all the pads, discs, pad pins and the slider pins were removed, cleaned and regreased.
Now the next question is - what do I replace them with? Do I just go for remanufactured or consider an upgrade? She's now off the road for however long this takes - I have bought another little runaround to get me to and from work on a daily basis - boy I'm gonna miss driving my GT!!!!