Well, I was on my to a friends house to work on the civic when disaster struck. I take off from a light not to hard, and all of a sudden feel this snap. Total lose of control and no braking power. The car jerks hard right and i end up hitting the curb at about 45 MPH at a 40 degree angle. The jolt shakes me up a little, but nothing serious. Get out to see what the hell happened and when I was getting out of the car I knew it wasnt gonna be good. Get out to see my rim sticking out on the left side at a 75 degree angle. Thinking, this cant be good. Go over to inspect the side that hit the curb and take not of the tire all over my fender causing the door to come into contact with the fender when the passenger door is opened. Decided to have to towed which cost me 80$ . After taking a closer look at it I come to realize that the nut had come off the LCA causing the axle to break lose. This is what caused the lose of control. Go to inspect the side that hit the curb and the LCA on the right was bent. So all in all, casualties include: Right LCA, left axle, est. 1000$ in body and paint damage, and a 475$ spoon wheel. Bad day? Tell me about it.

EDIT: Pics soon to come!!!


[Modified by SlowazzGSR, 6:04 AM 1/12/2003]

 

dude..... that sucks all that **** just for a damn bolt........ Please tell me you had the bolt torqued PLEASE!! or you deserve a good

 

I think the incident was enough bro.

Sorry to hear though

 

Are you talking about the crown nut, that goes on the lower balljoint, that's suposed to have a cotter pin in it?

 

Yep, I recently got this car about 4 months ago and found out today the hard way that the previous owner did not have a cotter pin in it. Sucks for me but its all good. My spoon rim held up pretty damn well for hiting the curb at 45 MPH. Not as bad as thought it was gonna be but a 1500$ booboo atleast. Body damage is not bad enough to keep me from driving the car, but it does look like ***. *sighs

 

Dang that sucks, but at least the money you got for christmas will come in handy. I guess I won't see the Turbo R you wanted to build

 

sorry... poor car....

hehehe.. had to show you of pic of when the curb jumped out at me



hehe...j/k.... it wasn't me. my bf bought the rim like that....

 

just curiouse. why did he buy a rim like that?
- treasure?

 

sense

 

is this the same car that you traded for when you ripped off another ht member?
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=374154
oh well you deserve it


[Modified by Steady, 12:45 PM 1/12/2003]

 

Ahhh, the previously hydrolocked GSR. Not cool.

 

that's some bullshit man!! to you!!!!!

 

Just be lucky that it could of been worse. You could of been on the fwy doing 70+ mph with other traffic.

 

what goes around comes around

 

somewhere it says u have to tell the interested buyer the car's past to the best of your knowledge. u didn't do that. drew does have rights in small claims court.

 

HAHA! You *****!

Hope you don't go selling the car you have right now in mint condition. That's a whacked thing to do... and I mean that. Jerk.

 

At least it didn't hydrolock first and bend a few valves before you lost control and hit a curb

 

I guess you got what was coming to you Slowass GSR...I'm glad you hit that curb..

 

So your're the one that ripped Andrew off. Shame you didnt completely total the car. You without a doubt do not deserve his hatch.

 

your an ******* dumbass, i hope you wreck your car and die. leading some one(hydrolocked GSR) on like that isnt cool, you **** nut!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

That's ****** enough, people. The beef is between Andrew and Tim: your opinion is not merited nor has it been solicited. The man fucked up his spoon rim, suspension, body and paint and has to pay for it. Does anyone really think things like this happen on accident? Everything comes around and he's reaping his actions.
It's no more appropriate to bash a dude who knows he did something wrong than what he did/didn't do.

It's Karma's job to repay people. Keep your mouth shut if you don't have anything to contribute to the thread.

Watch for a lock, coming soon to a thread near you.

 

hey, no need to go that far. no matter what (and a lot has gone down with that trade - i wish i never did it), i wouldnt wish death upon anyone.

as for the cotter pin, i dont know why that came out. i will say this - the car was lowered and lowered correctly, and i drove it for a year - no problems. i never touched the cotter pin on the LCA's! tim had come to pick it up and had drove it all the way to texas with no problems. 4 months in, the LCA fell out. my guess (and it's only a guess) is that something wasnt properly torqued down after it was worked on.

 

Ripping off another HT member

 

interesting. very very interesting. down goes another hatch.

 

this took an interesting turn. But like Archidictus said, it's nobody's business but theirs. Just make sure you don't do business and warn others what you have learned