sfar785

he said it wasn't part of the problem, although he has terrible camber wear

deschlong

iTrader: (8)

OP may have stated that, but it is difficult to believe. Better tread = more traction = being able to avoid driving in to stuff. But, I suppose it is speculation on my part.

NOFX

I'd agree about the tires being shitty. I'm worried the OP will put those wheels and tires on their new car.

Those tires are JUNK. They should have been replaced a long time ago. People with tires like that are risking their lives, the lives of the car's occupants and anyone else on the road or even walking down the road (or in a house near the road even!) every time they drive (we had a kid die in his sleep when a drunk ran a stop sign and plowed through a house, but a bad traction issue could have done the same damage).

Remember that your tires are the ONLY thing touching the road. They're the contact when you accellerate, brake and take a turn. They're what give you traction to move forward, enough grip to stop your 2000+ pound car from slamming into the car, tree, building, truck or person in front of you, and enough traction to keep your rear end from spinning out in a turn.

I've lost traction in a left handed turn before. I'm lucky I'm alive. It spun my car out and planted it nose first into a concrete pillar at the base of a light pole. Those things always looked MUCH smaller when I'd drive by them. Turns out they're about three or four feet wide. And my traction issue was on a brand new tire that happened to blow out on the way home. We suspect it had a bubble.

sfar785

That's why I don't understand why people go cheap on tires but they upgrade useless ****

Texas4door

Soo...anyone got a spare shell for this guy?
^^;

NOFX

It wasn't my choice to go with cheap tires or anything. That was Mom's doing. It was only the rears too. My wreck was nine years ago next month. I'm pretty picky for tires now.
He needs to make a WTB thread in the Market Place. He's currently reaching a very small portion of the people on this site that have a car they want to get rid of. A signature that mentions it would be a good idea as well.

Libertariat

Accident stories are always pretty one-sided to make you believe the driver isn't at fault at all.

Realistically, in most accidents the both drivers should be stopping in straight lines minimizing the effect of the accident on both cars. Most of the time, swerving to avoid an accident is the worst way to respond to a potential accident.

Either way, if you had better tires and didn't have the silly toe wear you have your tires might have gripped better preventing the accident and damage to begin with.

We all like modifying our cars, I don't understand why people make our already not-terribly-safe cars even less safe by nod modifying the suspension properly.

Tires = your life. Buy good ones. Your alignment also plays a crucial role in how your car suspension and ultimately your tires behave in accident scenario. Just because your dumped car rides fine on the highway does not mean it's live camber is remotely ideal for good traction.

boggy

iTrader: (1)

It would be better to buy a set of cheap Walmart tires on steelies than to run slick may-pops on dope fly rims. Safety first bro-man.

grumblemarc

iTrader: (4)

Don't worry. I did some speculating as well.

cetcivic

No sweat..as long as u didn't damage the 17" chrome Giovanni wheels

sfar785

i actually have a '95 coupe shell that's stripped but the OP could have it he comes to Oklahoma to get it, clean green title too

~RareP3~

The tire on that was a spare. The rest had new pirellis

~RareP3~

I might take you up on that offer