Can someone help me, my car was recently shot at as i was driving down a bad block. After i called the police and made a report i noticed that the abs light and engine light is on now. There was a bullet that hit a wire behind the driver fender. I need to find out what is the name of the wire and can i replace it? Help pleasee

 

at a guess it would be the abs sensor that connects from top of fender to the hub
in theory you should be able to strip the cable back and rejoin the wires
if you post pictures i could check exactly for you
better the car gets shot than you though!

 

Sorry I can't help you but you should win some sort of prize for the most unique technical issue!

 

At least the fault location was easy to find.
Were you escaping or just passing by?

 

wow, unique fault cause for sure, glad you're ok and hope we can help

 

dre, let me know where specifically the wire is and what color the wire is that was damaged. I can then give you a better idea of what the wire does.

As for fixing it, I would tell you to find some stuff called "Raychem-070" or "Raychem-050" (050 stuff is slightly smaller in diameter than the 070 stuff, otherwise they are identical). This is shrink wrap on steroids. I use it at work to survive a nuclear reactor meltdown. yes, it is that good. If you can access the wire bundle that was damaged, all you would need to do is to peel back about 6 inches of the wrapping on the bundle in question, slide on a 3" piece of this shrink wrap I mentioned above, join the two ends back together, and then slide this shrink wrap over the wire and shrink it down. The big benefit that this stuff has over normal shrink wrap is that the Raychem has a glue on the inside that after you shrink it down, the glue seals the ends and therefore you will not have any water intrusion into the soldered area (where you joined the two wires). This will make the wire effectively just like knew. If you have multiple wires that were damaged, you can repeat this on each wire.

 

You can also get the Raychem and a couple of other brands in butt splice format with embedded solder. Heat the joint with a heat gun and the solder melts, the wrap shrinks, and the glue melts. Single operation.

 

"In west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground is where I spent most of my days
Chillin out, maxin, relaxing all cool,
And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys who were up to no good
Started making trouble in my neighborhood"

Glad your ok though, That must've been a movie scene in the making.