Yup.
My car dead... and I wasn't drifting or anything. I was headed out to an vacant industrial lot to get some cool tire spinning on film for my friend's job (multimedia camera work)... the plan was to have our 2 cameras, one mounted in the car, and one on a tripod looking at the car from a distance, to make a 3 minute short.
We were heading around the lot to make sure there was no one around to run into (and we all had FRS radios for our lookouts and what not)... when I come up to a curve that goes around the outer perimeter of the lot. Going about 60, I slow for the turn (which had a rather tall island in the middle). I start to break for the turn and hear a *clunk* noise... suddenly the car starts to plow (something that's never happened before, and i've driven this same corner countless times)... "oh shit" I think, as soemthing has obviously broken... the car is understeering so bad, there's no chance of making the turn... we're going about 45 now... I try to feint drift the car and manage to almost get it to a 45degree angle to the oncoming island... we're at about 40mph now... and the last thought I have before hitting is, "what would happen if I threw it in reverse and floor it?"
!!!!BAM!!!!
We hit the island's curb and land hard almost perfectly in the middle. The island is covered in river rock, and the impact has dug the car in a good 3 inches... only the rear passenger tires is touching solid ground (sitting perfectly atop the curb).
I get out of the car to see how bad my car is, and at first glance, I think it's totalled. The driver's side front wheel is pushed so far back into the wheel well, it had dented in the inner body panel about 3 inches.... lookin inside the car again, the dead pedal is about 3 inches closer to the driver's seat.
brand new TC rod with poly bushings - cracked in 2
lower control arm - bent 45 degrees back
AGX shock - bent about 5 degrees at the threads
sway bar - unknown, but most likely bent
weather liner (in the wheel well) - torn out, found 5 feet from the car
fender - large minor dent where the wheel slammed it
Nice almost new Enkei rim - destroyed
both driver's side tires - destroyed
main suspension mount - bent on the driver's side control arm mount
tie rod & ball - fractured in several spots (believe to be the old-ass stock part that caused all this mess)
we had to get a friend to yank me off the island, since the car was lliterally buried in rocks. We went back to my garage and grabbed spare rims, tires, and tools. Spent the next 4 hours tearing my suspension apart and surveying damage... only way to get the car home would have been to drive backwards alll the way, so I had to get a tow. The guy was really nice tho, didn't laugh at me or anything (to my face at least <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
'> hehee). We DID note that the island was the ONLY thing without sloped curbs in that whole area... go figure.
So with my wedding in a month and 2 days, I can't take the chance of spending all my $ fixing my car when I know there will be surprised unplanned expenses for the wedding (that's how it always works). So my car sits, broken on jack stands in my garage <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
'> I have no $ to fix it....
This means I'm going to miss my free all day track day at the AutoX track, as well as the event my friends had planned for me for my bachelor party at that same track <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
'> it's been a shite weekend for me <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
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No car.
No track day.
No bachelor party.
No $ <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
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All you would-be drifters out there, this happened just ON MY WAY to do a lil drifting... I could have done this EXACT thing hitting a curb drifting, so be prepared for the consequences!
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I'll post damage pix later tonight when I'm done crying <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
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