I was doing some spirited driving last night down a curvy road that I have fun on all of the time...Well it was dark and I was trying to stay in my lane. The curve was nice and wide, and I came in doing about 65mph, while taking it on the inside. I turned the wheel a little more, lost traction and began to slide...then my dumbass hit the brakes. I immediately was thrown in a straight line towards the curb....All I have to say is I should have taken that turn a little wider. I hit the curb doing approximately 55-60mph...I broke my front drivers side rim, and blew out the sidewall of the back drivers side tire as well as curbing that rim pretty good.

Damage done...1 shattered rota slipstream, 1 curbed slipstream, and 2 blown tires. The frame, engine, radiator, everything...is straight. But the alignment is obviously fucked....yay!!! More money for me to spend.

Curbed rota with blown out sidewall....



Sorry for the dark pics...here is a shattered slipstream...



All I have to say is I'm glad that was a rota and not a $400 Spoon rim....hahaha

 

damn, that sucks. lol, i'm with you on the "i'm glad it wasn't a SW388" thing!!! that would be 800 dollars down the drain instead of like...300. are you just going to replace the two or go with a new style of wheel?


EDIT: Oh and umm...I am by no means an experienced driver. So what should one have done in that situation??


[Modified by VTEC_boi, 4:02 PM 10/6/2002]

 

I can't see anything in the pics man. I fixed them for ya:

 

The one that is curbed, well I'm just going to keep that one...battle scars...good for big bullshitting stories.lol

The other one will be replaced with another bronze rota.

 

thanks man

 

wow, you are really fortunate to not have something else damaged.

sorry to hear though.


[Modified by Tweakmeister, 4:52 PM 10/6/2002]

 

Are you sure you didn't bend a control arm or something?

I doubt that the wheels are the only thing damaged.

 

Sorry to hear that man.

 

He mentioned the alignment is fuxored.

 

ouch

 

 

You could make a cool wall clock out of that...

 

Ouch, could have been worse though.

 

Ouch...

 

yeah. it could of been a lot worse.

 

if they were real spoon they wouldn't have broken
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just kidding

 

Yeesh, I hope we learned more than that after this little episode.

-231, who's just glad nobody got hurt.

 

 

ouch.

you're very luck you have no frame damage. had they been stronger forged rims, you might have had frame damage.

cast rims 0WNZ j00 when hitting curbs


[Modified by disordeR, 3:10 PM 10/6/2002]

 

yeah that was a little sarcasm. The place where this happened is in a pretty remote location at night. Industrial are where no cars came through the whole time I was waiting on my friends to get there.

 

cool jdm ninja stars......

 

hehe, I'm trying to keep this from happening to me if I'm ever in a similar situation

 

You should wear that on a big gold chain, fronting like it's a spoonie.

 

u are lucky, when my R hit the curb at 70mph, it broke the front passenger wheel, bent the rear wheel, axle, spindle, shock, bent the subframe, fender , cracke the inner fender well and cost the ins company about $10,000 to fix

 

Slow in fast out. Take it to the track too.

what can you do? you modulate the rotation of your car with the gas pedal. the more you lift off the gas pedal the more you'll rotate. generally touching the brake pedal while IN the turn is a no no. trail braking can be used to your advantage, but lets not talk about that. if you feel your car start to rotate, mash on the gas pedal for understeer. it'll cause your car to "push" rather then oversteer.