black ice

glasjaw · Post by **glasjaw** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:57 pm

So driving to a party last night, going around a 45* turn which evidentally was covered in ice, i just slid and hit the 4 inch curb with both my left tires at the same time. My rims just looked a little dirty so i thought nothing of it. Then this morning i looked and where they hit its pretty chewed up, but even at that i was relieved cuz i thought part of the body was hit but as soon as i started to drive it i noticed the steering wheel shaking pretty good the whole way home. It's too cold to look at it right now, but any ideas on what thats from?

TomZ · Post by **TomZ** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:01 pm

wheel/suspension damage. Bent rim, damaged tire, bent suspension pieces, worst case: frame damage.

Frizbe · Post by **Frizbe** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 7:00 pm

I did the same thing in my dad's Hyundai, I hit a curb after hydroplaning (pinched an plastic inbetween the rim and curb, when I hit the curb it sharted and sent blue plastic flying everywhere, scared the fuck outta me, thought I broke the rim) we only needed a re-alinement, but it was only with the right front.

absolutboost · Post by **absolutboost** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:52 pm

I hit a curb in my old car and I bent the control arm.

unsuper man · Post by **unsuper man** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:09 pm

i bent the subframe on my old saturn.

LourdeK · Post by **LourdeK** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:32 pm

how fast did you hit it?

if you're *really* lucky, you might have just messed up the alignment badly, but like everyone else said, it may be worse than that

glasjaw · Post by **glasjaw** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 5:31 pm

it was no more than 15mph