Half hour repair turned into three days
My beautiful lady hates Michigan. I hit the gnarliest pot hole last week and ever since then my front end was wobbling. I called a mechanic because I was convinced I just needed an alignment. They were going to charge me $150 to test drive it and $160 if it needed the alignment. After I told my mom she crawled under the car and found this mf loose.
So day one I bought new sway bar links and crawled under the car. No amount of penetration oil or force could get this bolt off. I don’t even know what that top nut? Is.
Day two after work I went at it again. I had cut one of the bushings off and tried to use a dremel to cut through the bolt. I gave up after a few hours and called a mobile mechanic to see if he could come just cut the bolt off. He didn’t show up until midnight and said he couldn’t do anything because the tire wasn’t off, and he’d just come back in the morning.
Day three I woke up earlier than I usually do and waited for hours. It was getting time to when I had to leave for work so I called him and he said “oh are you ready for me to come over?”. Idk why I just assumed he would show up. I told him not to come cause I was gunna try one more time. On my way to work I bought the cheapest hack saw (you can see it in the last pic next to my tire. That things cooked). When I got out I took the tire off (should have done that in the first place but I was lazy) and started sawing. It took like two hours to get through it but it finally exploded off and I got the new part on in ten minutes.
Now I just have to do the other side…
TLDR: I ghosted two mechanics because I did it the hard way