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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stealth on February 16, 2005, 09:08:31 pm

Title: My car :(
Post by: Stealth on February 16, 2005, 09:08:31 pm
i'm pulling out of a gas station, going about 5 mph heading toward the street (going through the parking lot) and suddenly the car just scrapes to a stop.  at first i thought someone hit me, then i thought i'd gone into a hole.  i got out, looked at the back of the car... the back left side is as high as my chest.  i walk around to the front right:  it's sitting on the ground

(http://www.3dactionplanet.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/hostedpictures/cartrouble/bagged6.jpg)

if you can't see... the wheel is resting between the ground and the wheel well (plastic).  i didn't take a picture, but behind the wheel the lower A-Arm (suspension) is on the ground.  i'd lost my front right bearing :(

(http://www.3dactionplanet.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/hostedpictures/cartrouble/bagged5.jpg)

now towing a car like this is tricky, because you have to pull it onto the flatbed tow truck from the back, but with a car this long (18 feet, 8 inches) if you raise the already high back-end up, the front bumper (all chrome) will scrape.  and there's nothing worse than scraped chrome :(

anyway, since it no longer has the bearing, as soon as the car began to be pulled back onto the tow truck's bed, the wheel turned half around, and i almost s**t a brick.

(http://www.3dactionplanet.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/hostedpictures/cartrouble/towed4.jpg)
(http://www.3dactionplanet.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/hostedpictures/cartrouble/towed3.jpg)
(http://www.3dactionplanet.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/hostedpictures/cartrouble/towed2.jpg)
(http://www.3dactionplanet.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/hostedpictures/cartrouble/towed5.jpg)

so yeah.  there goes tomorrow morning.  a good 2 hours and $50 or so gone, that is if the lower control arm isn't damaged too :sigh:


now i'm just glad this didn't happen on the highway, because i would've been in deep trouble if this had happened at 85 miles per hour :-/
Title: My car :(
Post by: StratComm on February 16, 2005, 09:15:30 pm
Looks like you'll be in for a new tire too; being compressed against the well like that doesn't look to have been too good for it.  Tough luck dude.
Title: My car :(
Post by: Corsair on February 16, 2005, 09:35:13 pm
that's too bad man... didn't your car get banged up in an accident a few months ago? that's just unlucky...
Title: My car :(
Post by: Stealth on February 16, 2005, 10:02:35 pm
you mean when i got driven off the road, and i swerved across an 8 lane, two way highway?  yeah.  that too :p  in fact, since it was the front right tire that slammed against the curb (when i got in the 'accident'), i think that may have been one of the reasons behind what happened today :-/

it's been througha  lot :-/
Title: My car :(
Post by: Corsair on February 16, 2005, 10:14:27 pm
Yeah, that was the incident I was thinking of.
Title: My car :(
Post by: Taristin on February 16, 2005, 10:15:42 pm
Mexicans pay alot to have their caddy's dropped like that. ;)

Sorry to see it. I saw that happen to a brand new mercedes once, but the entire axel actually broke loose and was about 30 feet from the car. Was an old lady driving it...
Title: My car :(
Post by: Stealth on February 16, 2005, 10:16:07 pm
yeah, i wonder if i still have that Flash thing i made for it.  i'm sure i do, somewhere :p
Title: My car :(
Post by: Stealth on February 16, 2005, 10:17:05 pm
Raa:  hehe yeah i thought that, which is why i took a series of pictures which i sent to my buddys on AIM (that are hispanic/mexican):

http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/hostedpictures/cartrouble/bagged.html
i was like "dude.  i bagged my cadillac today!".  and i got a lot of "no way!" and "badass!" responses :p
Title: My car :(
Post by: StratComm on February 16, 2005, 10:20:41 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth
yeah, i wonder if i still have that Flash thing i made for it.  i'm sure i do, somewhere :p


That was f'ing hilarious, btw.  Unfortunate for you I know, but the fact that you went from angry as hell to making a flash of it is pretty damned funny.
Title: My car :(
Post by: Taristin on February 16, 2005, 10:27:06 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth
Raa:  hehe yeah i thought that, which is why i took a series of pictures which i sent to my buddys on AIM (that are hispanic/mexican):

http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/stealth/hostedpictures/cartrouble/bagged.html
i was like "dude.  i bagged my cadillac today!".  and i got a lot of "no way!" and "badass!" responses :p


I suspected as much. :p It looks like it was slammed. :p  Now see if you can photoshop it so the front end is 3 feet in the air, and show em' again. ;)
Title: My car :(
Post by: Ford Prefect on February 16, 2005, 10:35:08 pm
Man, that sucks. My English teacher drove his Jag over a drive shaft from a UPS truck on the highway, and now he has to drive a Focus until it's repaired.
Title: My car :(
Post by: Taristin on February 16, 2005, 10:40:29 pm
haha. the ford fuctus! P.O.S. that thing... :p
Title: My car :(
Post by: Stealth on February 16, 2005, 10:43:40 pm
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Originally posted by StratComm


That was f'ing hilarious, btw.  Unfortunate for you I know, but the fact that you went from angry as hell to making a flash of it is pretty damned funny.


hehe yeah well i was still mad as hell, just not quite, cause i'd seen a movie, and calmed down a little, and the best way to explain it to people was to just spend 10 minutes and make a little animation, instead of explaining to two dozen people and having them ask questions.  same goes for the officer that came to our house when i reported it :D