Hypothetical crash

willd58

willd58

willd58

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Right, say someone was driving home from a motors curry meet and he was with his friend from some silly forum. Anyways, say this guy went to fast round a corner and skidded a fair bit, corrected it, but kept going round and hit his rear drivers side wheel against a curb, like so....



Now, I don't know how fast this guy was going, but the skidding slowed the car right down I think, so it couldnt of been that fast, and the car would appear to look fine apart from a scraped alloy, and the wheel doesn't look unaligned (not unlike a fox's this guy might know)

Anyways, this guys kinda glad hes done it, because hes not been able to get the back end out properly, and now he gets how to, and he did it again on the same drive home to make sure he had learnt his lesson, only this time he successfully power slided and looked awesome. (thats how fine the car looked and felt)

My question is, what should this guy say to a garage if he were to take his car to make sure for certain nothing is messed up as he could be very paranoid, what should they be checking for and how should they check?
 
jonarob said:
The police are one their way to your house. :p
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Why my house, i have nothing to do with this guy, the dude wasnt even breaking the speed limit! :o

Also, mad props to the passenger who was a legend about it all and would testify to anyone he knew that the person was in no way speeding.
 
jonarob said:
So long as you had your seat belts on!
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whats all this about you?! :confused:
But yes they had there seat belts on in this hypothetical knock to the rear drivers side wheel.
 
Lets cut the hypothetical rubbish, its blatantly obvious that it happened. No one is going to start calling you menace of the road or anything. Just get those axels checked and it'll be fine.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Lets cut the hypothetical rubbish, its blatantly obvious that it happened.
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Fair play, it wasn't meant to be taken seriously

Raymond Lin said:
No one is going to start calling you menace of the road or anything.
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I wouldn't expect them to, after all this happned at 1am ish on an empty road.


Raymond Lin said:
Just get those axels checked and it'll be fine.
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Right, how do you ask for this and how much is it guna set me back?
"can you check my axels?" ?
 
The driver in the hypothetical crash shouldn't beat about the bush. Just tell the garage you've smacked the wheel of a curb and can they check for damage...
 
Raymond Lin said:
Lets cut the hypothetical rubbish, its blatantly obvious that it happened.
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Y'think? It's also blatantly obvious he was making it blatantly obvious.

I'd get the damage checked :)
 
You could say that your hypothetical girlfriend might of hypothetically taken the car for a spin late one night and she said she might have hypothetically 'nudged it against a kerb', then proceed to tell the garage that she has an amazing amount of understatement for facts as she once said that she had just bought a few essentials in the sale with your credit card but the credit card bill came to £3k! Hypothetically of course!

Always blame the bird!
 
You kit the Kerb, tut tut ;) , i've been sideways most of this week, sometimes not out of choice, you just need to be selective when you do such things.

Glad you have started to figure it out though, its an important lesson to learn, the more you do it the more chance you have of correcting a problem when the car steps out of line, which when you're pushing it will.

Just tell the garage you kit a kerb, they can't do anything to do, i don't know what you expected them to do / say?

Find yourself a nice flat grass field if possible, i found one last steam rally i went to, never did see that many traction engines that day.

Also don't take it to a monkey garage to do the check / align, they WILL screw it up, its important you fully understand the MX's setting and what changes will do what to the car, you can turn it into a understeer / oversteer machine very very easy if you adjust it wrong, take it to an expert.
 
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I'd say this was the perfect time of year to be 'drifting' because you can take it to the garage and say "I hit a patch of snow mid corner and it sent me spinning" or something along those lines.

Just take it to a garage and ask them to check the suspension and alignment.

Hypothetically, of course.
 
willd58 said:
Right, how do you ask for this and how much is it guna set me back?
"can you check my axels?" ?
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just go in, say you hit a kerb by accident and can you check the car out

dont have to describe what you were doing when you hit said kerb :)
 
a garage isn't going to go running to the fuz - and infact neither is anyone reading posts on a net forum.

Just take it to somewhere to get it looked over, proberbly best to get it in somewhere that does a decent 4 wheel alighnment (won't be cheap if it needs changeing, but will be worth it) get them to check the rear over properly for damage then check alightment and adjust as nessacery

from the pic your mate got some serious tank slap - in a way this weather ain't the best time to practice drifting, makes tank slap a lot more likely, although you can be going slower :) tell him to try and keep the power constant when correcting back, lowering it slightly to catch the tail without heading too far back (oh and look up the drift bible on various video sites....)
 
Go to garage and say this:

"I was driving well beyond my abilities on a public road when I lost control and smacked one of the rear wheels against a kerb. Could you please check the suspension geometry and let me know how much damage I have inflicted"
 
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