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| Thread ID: 72246 | 2006-09-05 12:24:00 | How much for my latest accident? | george12 (7) | PC World Chat |
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| 482794 | 2006-09-05 12:24:00 | I have just experienced my first car crash. A rather horrible experience. My precious $2.5k Honda Civic has made friends with the curb, sideways (very sideways), at about 50km/h. This is due to a slightly too fast cornering in slightly underestimated rain, combined with some unfortunate over correction (=fishtailing). There was no real IMPACT but it wasn't fun and was pretty jolting. I ended up back on the road, going in the right direction. The net result is that the car is driveable, and with no visually noticable damage, but makes a scraping noise when I move it, especially when turning, and wobbles when going over 50km/h. The wobbling may or may not have been the tire, as I swapped it for the spare and haven't been over 50kmh since (I only drove it home, very slowly). What do you guys reckon the bottom line is. Should I start saving? Consider that I am surrounded by reasonably car-friendly friends who can probably do most or all of the work for free. Thanks in advance |
george12 (7) | ||
| 482795 | 2006-09-05 12:42:00 | proberly bent the suspension arms/struts. get a mechanc to check it first. i've had myself (tho mine was clipping a bank avoiding due to some yaffa driving in the centre of the road round a corner). | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 482796 | 2006-09-05 15:49:00 | Bad luck mate! I still clearly remember my one and only at-fault crash. It was with a car-full of mates heading off to a pub in a remote rural area, running on a gravel road which I'd had little experience of. Was travelling too quick, went up a rise, then a sudden left hand and downhill with opposite camber. We ended up sideways in a ditch. Pitch black moonless night, in the bundaks of Southern Africa. Didn't know what to do, but fortunately a farmer passed by about half an hour later - he went and got some of his hands and they pulled us out. Managed to limp back to our hotel with a broken half-shaft. No bodily harm to anyone so all was ok, except we missed our night out. What a laff! |
Greg (193) | ||
| 482797 | 2006-09-05 21:32:00 | These things happen, not much fun during.... My husbands crashed about 13 vehicles...never hurt anyone else, nor himself. Must have 9 lives. Oh hang on, 13? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 482798 | 2006-09-05 22:28:00 | Kids and their toys these days eh. :groan: | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 482799 | 2006-09-06 05:27:00 | Yeah, it only took 300 hours of working to pay for it at supermarket wages :D | george12 (7) | ||
| 482800 | 2006-09-06 12:34:00 | I crashed once and I haven't driven since. I just can't seem to stay calm at the wheel anymore. Public transport better get better soon :) | trinsic (6945) | ||
| 482801 | 2006-09-07 08:32:00 | Managed to limp back to our hotel with a broken half-shaft. What a laff! Now how did you manage that? A broken half shaft means there is no way of transmitting power to the wheels. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 482802 | 2006-09-07 09:36:00 | proberly bent the suspension arms/struts. get a mechanc to check it first. What tweak'e said- and don't drive it again until you've had it checked! From the sounds of it, you've damaged one or more components of your car that hits the road- do you wanna find out the hard way that your steering/ suspension/ brakes are stuffed? :D |
Sick Puppy (6959) | ||
| 482803 | 2006-09-07 10:13:00 | When I did exactly this more than 33 years ago afterwards my car made a rhythmic whooshing sound and was shimmying down the road wiggling the boot, the half shaft was bent and the back wheel rim was distorted. | zqwerty (97) | ||
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