Hypothetical crash help

[willd58]

Right, say someone was driving home from meeting some friends, say this guy went to fast round a corner (edit - but in no way broke any speed limits, it was black ice on the road that caused the skid and not pure speed because he wasn't going that fast) and skidded a fair bit, corrected it, but kept going round and hit his rear drivers side wheel against a curb, like so....

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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

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 with the help of people who explained how to do it , and he did it again on the same drive home, on a private bit of land he owns, to make sure he had learnt his lesson, only this time he successfully power slided because he now knew what it was all about, and it worked a treat . (thats a testament to 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?

Edited by willd58 on Friday 26th January 02:52

[bob1179]

Just tell the garage you kerbed the rear wheel of your car, ahem, I mean the guy driving the hypothetical car hypothetically kerbed the hypothetical rear wheel against the hypothetical kerb.

They would (hypothetically) need to check the rear wheel alignment, check for any cracking in the alloy wheel and any tyre damage, if it was quite a hard knock, also have a quick look at the rear suspension for any damage.

All this hypothetical so it should be alright.

[antony moxey]

Tell the garage you shanked it round a corner and hit the kerb. WTF is it to do with them why you were doing what you were doing, they're only there to fix things not pass judgement so tell the truth.

[bob1179]

I do like the picture though.

I think we should all make more of an effort to put in graphical representations of our cock-ups, arguments and other things in which a nice drawing would come in handy.

[mechsympathy]

bob1179 said:

I do like the picture though.

I think we should all make more of an effort to put in graphical representations of our cock-ups, arguments and other things in which a nice drawing would come in handy.

And the guy with the hypothetical dinged alloy should get it checked very thoroughly. A friend of mine did the same in a car that might be similar to this hypothetical car and only found the crack after the handling went completely to pot when the spoke snapped. If you, er, your hypothetical mate want a spare alloy I'm sure he'll share a set from ebay

[Moose.]

Hypothetically speaking, the rear suspension of MX5s is quite sensitive to alignment. So make sure you tell the garage that you hypothetically hit a curve side on so they will check it's all ok. Wouldn't want to hypothetically have another crash due to an unaligned rear end

[Neil_Bolton]

Hypothetically, I would be suggesting that your friend trot down to his hypothetically local ProTyre branch and get them to check it over, explaining said hypothetical incident.

Hypothetically, we all do this at some point. Hypothetically, I had a friend who did this once. In a FWD car into a tyre wall.

Hypothetically, I could go through lots of said friends incidents, but it all counts towards learning

Hypothetically, your friend needs a roundabout with a clear view of exit, and some speed

Edited by Neil_Bolton on Friday 26th January 10:50

[willd58]

bob1179 said:

I do like the picture though.

I think we should all make more of an effort to put in graphical representations of our cock-ups, arguments and other things in which a nice drawing would come in handy.

good, im glad my mad paint skills are finally paying off.

Neil_Bolton said:

Hypothetically, I would be suggesting that your friend trot down to his hypothetically local ProTyre branch and get them to check it over, explaining said hypothetical incident.

Hypothetically, we all do this at some point. Hypothetically, I had a friend who did this once. In a FWD car into a tyre wall.

Hypothetically, I could go through lots of said friends incidents, but it all counts towards learning

Hypothetically, your friend needs a roundabout with a clear view of exit, and some speed

Yea, gotta learn somehow eh. This protyre place? is it the only place worth going to, can you recomend anyone else around the fishponds area?

[Neil_Bolton]

willd58 said:

bob1179 said:

I do like the picture though.

I think we should all make more of an effort to put in graphical representations of our cock-ups, arguments and other things in which a nice drawing would come in handy.

good, im glad my mad paint skills are finally paying off.

Neil_Bolton said:

Hypothetically, I would be suggesting that your friend trot down to his hypothetically local ProTyre branch and get them to check it over, explaining said hypothetical incident.

Hypothetically, we all do this at some point. Hypothetically, I had a friend who did this once. In a FWD car into a tyre wall.

Hypothetically, I could go through lots of said friends incidents, but it all counts towards learning

Hypothetically, your friend needs a roundabout with a clear view of exit, and some speed

Yea, gotta learn somehow eh. This protyre place? is it the only place worth going to, can you recomend anyone else around the fishponds area?

Pretty much everyone here will recommend them - inc. the likes of Daz and PDV6 who are very tectchy about who gets to fondle their prized possesions...

They have the most up to date alignment rigs, and give you a print out, talk to you etc...

[mechsympathy]

Neil_Bolton said:

Pretty much everyone here will recommend them - inc. the likes of Daz and PDV6 who are very tectchy about who gets to fondle their prized possesions...

They have the most up to date alignment rigs, and give you a print out, talk to you etc...

[willd58]

Ah sweet, where abouts are they located then, a quick Google brings up
www.protyre.co.uk/bristol.html
Which isn't a website and im having difficulty getting there postcode.

[GlenMH]

A quick search on Yell showed Protyre to be here:


27-31, Church Road, Lawrence Hill, Bristol, Avon BS5 9JJ

Can any of the regulars point out if this is the right branch?

Glen

[willd58]

Just found there number on the web and got there post code, thanks Glen, ill head there after breakfast.

£50ish for a proper inspection

Edited by willd58 on Friday 26th January 15:42

[pdV6]

GlenMH said:

A quick search on Yell showed Protyre to be here:


27-31, Church Road, Lawrence Hill, Bristol, Avon BS5 9JJ

Can any of the regulars point out if this is the right branch?

Glen

Used to be the Renault dealership

[splodge s4]

Neil_Bolton said:

They have the most up to date alignment rigs, and give you a print out, talk to you etc...

& they dont mind you driving your car in & hanging around watching instead of handing your keys over to someone you've never met, no screams of stand back out the way for health & safety sh#te...

[neil_cardiff]

splodge s4 said:

Neil_Bolton said:

They have the most up to date alignment rigs, and give you a print out, talk to you etc...

& they dont mind you driving your car in & hanging around watching instead of handing your keys over to someone you've never met, no screams of stand back out the way for health & safety sh#te...

Exactly, which is nice, becuase the chaps ware usually chatty, and happy, where possible, to set up the suspension geometry to your request - for example they were happy to add extra camber to the Golf to make it a bit dartier and grippier, and didn't moan a bit

The Beemer will go down there at some point

[willd58]

Just got back, £40 to get it checked and then realigned, bargain for my first crash I think.
All the red numbers are now green basically, so im well happy, thanks guys, appreciate your advice, not that iv been anywhere else but Protyre were certainly very good at doing what they did I think.