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  1. #1 Can anyone enhance this image? 
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    A friend of mine had a brake shoe from an 18 wheeler come off and hit her car. Done all kinds of damage to the front bumper and radiator. She couldnt get the driver to stop. She was able to snap a pic of the license plate but it's not very clear. Can anyone enhance the image and try to make out the tag number and stare? Thanks.


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    lmfao that was a good one stocker

    Hey THE BIG AL ill send it over to my brother he owns a local photography company and is a wiz with digital image stuff. He is super busy but ill try to see if he can help and let you know.

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    I hate to say it, but it's far, far more likely that the truck driver hit something in the road and kicked it up into her car rather than a piece of his brake system coming off like that.

    That being said, those are Maine plates. Which probably 90% of fleet trailers have for tax reasons.
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    Not by my desktop, which has all the tools for this kinda job. I can try when I get back to it after easter...
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    being a truck driver and have seen what the trucks brakes look like, for 1, they are huge, 2, no way a brake shoe is coming out.

    yes trucks have drum brakes all around. the shoe is like 5 inches wide and a 12 inch 1/2 circle. if a brake pad came up off the road and hit her car its not off the tractor trailer, thats for damn sure. its wheels may have kicked it up, and in most states the truck nor the driver is responsible for your damage.

    now if something fell off the truck and hit your car, the truck is at fault 100% of the time.


    truck brake shoes



    the drum on. really no way for the shoes to come out of there.




    some trucks are getting caliper rotor brakes but those are also huge and i cant see it come free and come out either.

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    Yet again Scottydoggs is droppin knowledge on us only this time its tractor-trailer/semi stuff :-)

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    No luck with my brother in law enhancing it. Sorry man

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    I work at a Freightliner dealership. If a brake shoe came off a trailer (I'm positive it didn't), most common size is 7" (W) x 16.5" (L). A wheel hitting that at speed would cause some major damage or a blow out. I've never seen a shoe fall off, or near falling off in all my years at the shop. As others have mentioned, they were probably hit by some debris from a passenger vehicle. Just to put this into perspective, a brake shoe with a worn lining (on a truck) is about 15lbs. Closer to 20lbs if it's relatively new. A truck brake drum encloses the circumference and the front, the rear will have a brake spider, parts of the axle, and other misc things making it near impossible to fall out.

    Best of luck with the claim... We're into the disc brakes now as well, those things are built like Brembos, nothing is falling out of those calipers.
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    Long story short, the wheel (not the tire, the wheel) of the semi would have to come off, then the drum would have to come off, THEN the brake shoe MIGHT come off..
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    and I'm pretty sure that "enhancing an image" (like you see on the FBI shows) is fiction. You can't make something from nothing.
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    Hey I've watched plenty of that show CSI, they take a blurry mess and make it crystal clear. So it's got to be possible.

    Lol they also say you can kill people in a pool by sticking 12v car battery jumpers in the water.... Yeah
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    I'm sure it exist but probably not to the everyday joe.


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    Quote Originally Posted by REDCOMPG View Post
    I'm sure it exist but probably not to the everyday joe.
    What makes you sure?
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    Quote Originally Posted by bobc455 View Post
    What makes you sure?
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    You guys missed the most important detail in OP question.
    "Her" - woman driver. Nuff said
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