wrapped my ms3 around a pole :-/
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For the Guys who want the seats....
Why?
The Drivers obviouosly has a bent frame...Its shot.
Sorry about your wreck man....If you walked away..you are a lucky man considering the point of impact and the Crumple the Leg area took.
Someone was watching over you.
Why?
The Drivers obviouosly has a bent frame...Its shot.
Sorry about your wreck man....If you walked away..you are a lucky man considering the point of impact and the Crumple the Leg area took.
Someone was watching over you.
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Man glad you are okay! The car held up really well, when I saw the door smashed in I though it was going to be worse in the interior side of the door.
As far as the 08 wrx, get the 09 if you go that route, it will save you money trying to make up for the 08s downfalls.
As far as the 08 wrx, get the 09 if you go that route, it will save you money trying to make up for the 08s downfalls.
squidmotion
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i'm glad you are ok... look like the MS3 had to take one for the team!
good luck, keep us posted on what you decide to get!
good luck, keep us posted on what you decide to get!
Wow, glad to hear you are alright... given the damage it's remarkable you walked away. You don't have any flesh wounds but watch out for sore muscles in the next week that kind of impact is bound to have stresed/pulled some things.
As for your next car, fwd, rwd or awd isn't worth a pinch of coon s*** if you're rolling on bald or well worn tires.
Also, AWD doesn't help one brake or corner any better then a fwd or rwd car.
As for your next car, fwd, rwd or awd isn't worth a pinch of coon s*** if you're rolling on bald or well worn tires.
Also, AWD doesn't help one brake or corner any better then a fwd or rwd car.
yea when i got in my accident with my crx, i was so pumped on adrenaline for a long ass time i had no injuries i thought, then bruises showed up later along with my body being sore as s*** for a long ass time, altho by now ( a week later ) you should be fine if no signs of anything have popped up
tiagotiago
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It's good to hear you're ok and that you just walked away with no injuries; even though 40 mph does sound like a "slow" speed, the brutality of such crashes really is surprising, we humans aren't really designed to cope with the violent forces at play at those spees. Car designers/engineers really do pull off miracles with modern day safety, even if we whine about how heavy cars are becoming; in an older car, you wouldn't have been so lucky.
That said, I don't really think that the blame lies in that the car was FWD and "couldn't be controlled", in fact, I think you had enough control to head straight and true into the very thing you desperatly wanted to avoid. Now, I wasn't there and have very little information, compared to all the things you saw and felt so I'm kind of making a wild guess here, but at least from my standpoint, I find it odd that you had a lot of space to have an accident, and yet you specifically smack the driver side door dead on a telephone pole. I suspect you suffered from target fixation, and practically steered into the pole. This is something that happens a lot, our eyes get fixated on what we're about to hit and not at where we want to go, and hand-eye coordination takes over and our hands point us to where our eyes are telling us to go.
I don't want to sound like I'm kicking a man when he's down, but I hope you think about what happened, and don't delude yourself, otherwise you'll end up making the same mistake again and that time you might not be this lucky.
That said, I don't really think that the blame lies in that the car was FWD and "couldn't be controlled", in fact, I think you had enough control to head straight and true into the very thing you desperatly wanted to avoid. Now, I wasn't there and have very little information, compared to all the things you saw and felt so I'm kind of making a wild guess here, but at least from my standpoint, I find it odd that you had a lot of space to have an accident, and yet you specifically smack the driver side door dead on a telephone pole. I suspect you suffered from target fixation, and practically steered into the pole. This is something that happens a lot, our eyes get fixated on what we're about to hit and not at where we want to go, and hand-eye coordination takes over and our hands point us to where our eyes are telling us to go.
I don't want to sound like I'm kicking a man when he's down, but I hope you think about what happened, and don't delude yourself, otherwise you'll end up making the same mistake again and that time you might not be this lucky.
When i totaled my 6, i blamed everything on the car, tire pressure was low, brakes locked up (although i had abs, so they didnt lock up). When it came down to it, i was going way faster than i should have been, and i came to realize that i was inexperienced, and the crash was a result of that.
While you might blame it on the car, because the tires were bare, or they werent winter tires, or because your car is fwd, fact of the matter is, in snow/icy conditions w/ summer tires, you were going to fast around the corner. Im sure theres plenty of people in fwd cars that take that turn on a regular basis and havent been in an accident.
whats important is that your unharmed, noone else was injured, and you have insurance to cover the car.
That's the truth. No matter how it happened, I am amazed at how well the car held up to the accident. I'm glad you're okay because I saw the pictures and was expecting to here something about a hospital visit. It makes me feel 400x better about putting my son in this car.
yeah anyone who has doubts about the safety of this car shouldn't be too concerned. pretty much any new car these days would have similar effects to this kind of accident (if they have side curtain airbags)
also, I do think I was going too fast for the conditions because the road was very wet. I wasn't fixated on the pole either like someone else mentioned. the rear end just came out a little bit and it all just happened so quickly. I did all I could to help the car from spinning out like braking, counter-steering but there was just no way out of it in my situation.
thanks for the condolences everyone. I can't get anymore parts off the car because it's gone. I had to ask the tow yard to take off my license plate because I couldn't get down there because of work.
what's done is done, and now it's time to move on even though I only had the car for 8 months.
also, I do think I was going too fast for the conditions because the road was very wet. I wasn't fixated on the pole either like someone else mentioned. the rear end just came out a little bit and it all just happened so quickly. I did all I could to help the car from spinning out like braking, counter-steering but there was just no way out of it in my situation.
thanks for the condolences everyone. I can't get anymore parts off the car because it's gone. I had to ask the tow yard to take off my license plate because I couldn't get down there because of work.
what's done is done, and now it's time to move on even though I only had the car for 8 months.
FrancoNemo
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my car was a little tail happy around a wet turn. I was only going 40 and the rear end stepped out because of low traction with the stock worn down bridgestones. I tried to counter-steer and straighten the car out, but it was inevitable that I would slide out and there isn't much you can do with a FWD car as far as control is concerned. after the counter-steer had no success the car slid in a little groove in the left side of the road and finally it slammed into a telephone pole on the driver side door.
it's funny because I've had the rear end of this car out on dry pavement and it handles the turn with ease.
here are some aftermath pictures. the first 4 are at the scene of the crash, the rest are at the tow yard.
believe it or not I didn't get hurt at all. it was actually kind of cool now that I think about how the car crashed. the car is definitely very safe.
I just got a call from the insurance guy, it's also totaled. I figured that anyway since there is serious frame damage.
as far as my next car is concerned, it's not going to be front wheel drive. I need to try something more controllable and more consistent. I want to be able to point the car into the turn the way I see fit. I just don't really see how fwd is useful anymore and how it unbalances cars in most cases.
I've been looking at 04-07 wrx/sti's and even 08 wrx's. I've also been playing with the thought of an s2000 but I worry about the practicality of it as far as an all year round car. it might even be just a cheap car and I'll wait til the prices come down on some of the newer cars and get a bike in time for spring/summer.
dude i want you wing!!!
