scary situation today

[ehummelman]

I noticed some faint clunking over bumps this morning and thought maybe my ball joints or tie rod ends were starting to go. After dropping off my daughter at school I reversed out of my spot and heard a nasty metallic growl when turning the wheel. Moving forward again it sounded fine. I went straight to my favorite alignment guy and had him put it up on the lift. Turns out the upper bolt holding the caliper to the bracket was gone and the lower bolt was not even finger tight. You could just flop the caliper around with your hand. WTF?? The two bolts were drilled for safety wire but obviously not wired. I'm assuming no Loctite either since they just backed themselves out. Time to invest in some safety wire pliers for me. That was enough of a scare.