Travelling down on wed. nite, with some heavy rain on the roads, doing my own thing...
Long story short, made a nice right turn, car in front cut into my lane, turned more to the right to avoid, car wasn't happy, decided to chop my head off... It became a fish in the rain... Over steer to the right, countered, left go of throttle, front end suddenly regained grip, violently swung over to the left, countered, even more energy swung the car right again, spun the car, brakes were of no use cos the car was already aquaplanning, held onto the steering and prayed, WHAM! hit the kerb on the right rear wheel and again on the front right wheel. (I guess they made DSC for a reason..haha)
(For a simple lookie at what happened, CLICK HERE )
Made a last prayer that nothing's wrong with the car... (with thoughts of broken rods and everything in my mind) in case u guys are wondering, i'm pretty much fine cept for a bit of shock... But not that bad really... Oh well......
Switched on the hazard lamps, killed the engine,
Got out of the car to inspect the damage, front lip popped out, rear right wheel was heavily dented, front right wheel had a Deep Dent size of a 50cent coin...
But amazingly, everything else was fine. No dents on the bodywork, nothing. Car was still running fine. My Initial D moment into the kerb i guess...
Picked up the front lip, threw it into the boot and drove off to a more empty road. Got out again to inspect the car, managed to pop the front lip back in...
What a night~!!!
Drove off, rear end made funny knocking sounds. Next day morning , swapped the spare tyre over and did some temp. repairs to the rims.
The damage was mainly to the rims. 2 rims were dented. 1 of them was dented beyond repair, about 1/4 of the rim was dented in. The other 1 was knocked back for temp. use.
But, BIG THANKS to forum member Ninja07, really really BIG Thanks! Met up with him the next day, and bought some E30 rims off him. (E30 rims are really really really hard to come by... trust me on that)
So, today, went to fix the new rims in. 17". Some rubbing on full lock, but everything else was OK. Really appreciate ur help Ninja07! Sorry for the urgency...
This morning (Sat.) went down to J4C to get the car checked and swap the rims. Everything seems ok and alignment was done once again. First time i got to see the undercarriage of the car. Interesting stuff. The new rims gives the car a very different look. Guess i'll get used to it.
Front lip i'm not too bothered becos a week ago i have already ordered the IS front lips and side skirts. So no biggie banging those up. Gonna drive the car abit more the next few days to access if anything else might be wrong. So far, it seems ok.
Some pics of the car going to the clinic to get an MC...
Going in... U can see the dirty tyres after the car danced ballet on the road...
Afterwhich, i went off for lunch... and came back, saw the car already lifted up with the new rims attached...
Took some shots of the undercarriage (since i've never seen it b4)
Point of impact hit this area first...
Everything looking OK from the outside, proceed to do the alignment to check the camber of the car
So far so good... nothing seems to be wrong hopefully... Gonna run it awhile and listen out for any funny sounds... hopefully there will not be any.... Big thanks to the nice ppl at J4C and the folks at the alignment shop as well.
From
Big jump from 14" to 17"
not to everyone's taste i know but, what the hey...
At least i'll have my IS front lip and sideskirts to help out with the look... 2 more months to wait for the shipping...arrhh
time to get my rear lights tinted i guess...
Long story short, made a nice right turn, car in front cut into my lane, turned more to the right to avoid, car wasn't happy, decided to chop my head off... It became a fish in the rain... Over steer to the right, countered, left go of throttle, front end suddenly regained grip, violently swung over to the left, countered, even more energy swung the car right again, spun the car, brakes were of no use cos the car was already aquaplanning, held onto the steering and prayed, WHAM! hit the kerb on the right rear wheel and again on the front right wheel. (I guess they made DSC for a reason..haha)
(For a simple lookie at what happened, CLICK HERE )
Made a last prayer that nothing's wrong with the car... (with thoughts of broken rods and everything in my mind) in case u guys are wondering, i'm pretty much fine cept for a bit of shock... But not that bad really... Oh well......
Switched on the hazard lamps, killed the engine,
Got out of the car to inspect the damage, front lip popped out, rear right wheel was heavily dented, front right wheel had a Deep Dent size of a 50cent coin...
But amazingly, everything else was fine. No dents on the bodywork, nothing. Car was still running fine. My Initial D moment into the kerb i guess...
Picked up the front lip, threw it into the boot and drove off to a more empty road. Got out again to inspect the car, managed to pop the front lip back in...
What a night~!!!
Drove off, rear end made funny knocking sounds. Next day morning , swapped the spare tyre over and did some temp. repairs to the rims.
The damage was mainly to the rims. 2 rims were dented. 1 of them was dented beyond repair, about 1/4 of the rim was dented in. The other 1 was knocked back for temp. use.
But, BIG THANKS to forum member Ninja07, really really BIG Thanks! Met up with him the next day, and bought some E30 rims off him. (E30 rims are really really really hard to come by... trust me on that)
So, today, went to fix the new rims in. 17". Some rubbing on full lock, but everything else was OK. Really appreciate ur help Ninja07! Sorry for the urgency...
This morning (Sat.) went down to J4C to get the car checked and swap the rims. Everything seems ok and alignment was done once again. First time i got to see the undercarriage of the car. Interesting stuff. The new rims gives the car a very different look. Guess i'll get used to it.
Front lip i'm not too bothered becos a week ago i have already ordered the IS front lips and side skirts. So no biggie banging those up. Gonna drive the car abit more the next few days to access if anything else might be wrong. So far, it seems ok.
Some pics of the car going to the clinic to get an MC...
Going in... U can see the dirty tyres after the car danced ballet on the road...
Afterwhich, i went off for lunch... and came back, saw the car already lifted up with the new rims attached...
Took some shots of the undercarriage (since i've never seen it b4)
Point of impact hit this area first...
Everything looking OK from the outside, proceed to do the alignment to check the camber of the car
So far so good... nothing seems to be wrong hopefully... Gonna run it awhile and listen out for any funny sounds... hopefully there will not be any.... Big thanks to the nice ppl at J4C and the folks at the alignment shop as well.
From
Big jump from 14" to 17"
not to everyone's taste i know but, what the hey...
At least i'll have my IS front lip and sideskirts to help out with the look... 2 more months to wait for the shipping...arrhh
time to get my rear lights tinted i guess...
