WARNING! SLOW DOWN, This can happen to anyone.

[Johnnynz]

Glad to hear your ok ray, shitty circumstances but full of win because no one was hurt!

[RAYDEO]

Just heard that it was insured for over 4k. Small consolation considering you couldn't sell it for anywhere near that.

[Guest]

Sounds more like a component failure

You said the steering went light - so either

A, you were airborne and lost traction that way - not likey if speed was low

B, a comonent failed making the steering go light

Just for interest, were was ya GF at the time

Glad you both all good tho !

[ODB]

 Ichi Ban said:

Just for interest, were was ya GF at the time

I see where you are going with this.....

Hey....where did pedobear go???? That was strictly for lols!

[Guest]

dam thats sad.

the exact same thing happened to me when i was 18, on a very similar looking corner.

My car at the time had good quality 215 tyres on and i would go around this corner everyday as it was 2 corners away from home. I borrowed my aunts 1300 corrola to pick up my parents from the airport as mine was broken.

went around the corner under the speed limit but obviously faster than the little 13" cheap tyres could handle. the rear lost traction and due to lack of experience i sent the car spinning down a bank through a wall.

Its a lesson to be learned about wheel/tyre choice and taking it easy in an unfamilar car.

glad you guys are ok.

[petrolheadjman]

good to hear you are ok ray, still not a fun thing to go through

[kwikaus]

glad to here you are ok and no one was hurt in any way. Hope you dont cop a fine because of it to, as you weren't speeding or doing anything stupid, sometimes accidents do happen.

[EJ20T]

its great you guys came out ok, im surprised the nismo steering wheel didnt save you from the crash, that adds atleast 10 handling points haha

[Pelvin]

Dude glad you and the mrs are safe, woulda sucked if there were injuring.

f***ING LOVE YOUR CAR [the RA]

[Firenza]

 Pelvin said:

Dude glad you and the mrs are safe, woulda sucked if there were injuring.

f***ING LOVE YOUR CAR

Yea, those Bluebirds are SICK!!

Good Luck Raydeo, I did something similar but due to a mechanical prob and it shook me up for days....

[Pelvin]

 Firenza']

[quote name='Pelvin said:

Dude glad you and the mrs are safe, woulda sucked if there were injuring.

f***ING LOVE YOUR CAR

/quote]

Yea, those Bluebirds are SICK!!

Good Luck Raydeo, I did something similar but due to a mechanical prob and it shook me up for days....

You know i meant the RA

[Shale]

Upside-downers are terrifying... just as much for passengers (been there done that). Very lucky you were going fairly slowly or you'd have some epic whiplash and seatbelt bruises to say the very least

Props to you for posting this up Ray. Hopefully the wanking will stop and people can see this for what it is - a sage warning that no one is immune. IMO let the police dissect the event, dear forum, and take this the way it was intended.

[gazzy2000]

i had an accident once.

[Pelvin]

 gazzy2000 said:

i had an accident once.

Me too, im SO MUCH MORE cautious on corners now ... esp when wet

[mattapo]

accidents happen, we learn from them, that does not give anyone the rite to jump to conclusions. The police will look at the facts and decide what needs to happen.

[caspros]

 gazzy2000 said:

i had an accident once.

I did too. My parents 3 month old car. That I took without them knowing. That I crashed into Peter Jackson's house. That I totaled. That they had to prosecute me for theft so they could get insurance. Good times.

[gazzy2000]

 caspros']

[quote name='gazzy2000 said:

i had an accident once.

/quote]

I did too. My parents 3 month old car. That I took without them knowing. That I crashed into Peter Jackson's house. That I totaled. That they had to prosecute me for theft so they could get insurance. Good times.

now THATS a good story to tell did you meet him?

[caspros]

 gazzy2000']

[quote name='gazzy2000 said:

i had an accident once.

/quote]

I did too. My parents 3 month old car. That I took without them knowing. That I crashed into Peter Jackson's house. That I totaled. That they had to prosecute me for theft so they could get insurance. Good times.

now THATS a good story to tell did you meet him?

I didn't, but I broke his brick fence, and put a crack all along it. It's still there around the bays in Wgtn ! I did get to do community service, teaching kids how to play basketball at summer school. With a guy who put a cops head through a window. I volunteered to do it again the next year it was so much fun. They said no, as I couldn't actually play basketball.

[Joker]

lmao mrwirelass cool story bra!

YOU SHOULD TELL THAT AT PARTIES HAHAHAHA

[kamineko]

thread purged.

i CBF messaging all of you. keep your personal spats OFF the forum, continue and temp bans will be handed out.

simple as. drive safe

[deathz0r]

 caspros']

[quote name='gazzy2000 said:

i had an accident once.

/quote]

I did too. My parents 3 month old car. That I took without them knowing. That I crashed into Peter Jackson's house. That I totaled. That they had to prosecute me for theft so they could get insurance. Good times.

now THATS a good story to tell did you meet him?

I didn't, but I broke his brick fence, and put a crack all along it. It's still there around the bays in Wgtn ! I did get to do community service, teaching kids how to play basketball at summer school. With a guy who put a cops head through a window. I volunteered to do it again the next year it was so much fun. They said no, as I couldn't actually play basketball.

Haha he's a pretty odd guy ol PJ. And I think I know exactly where you hit it hahahahaha. CLASSIC.

[gazzy2000]

when i lived in Blenheim years ago... on a country road i was 1st on the sceen when some mates in a RX4 slid sideways at 200Kph into a power pole after failing to take a easy corner and over correcting.. split the RX4 in 3 and the engine was found smouldering in a paddock 200m away.

Two died.. 1 lived, Speedo was found stuck with the needle off the clock.

i was in a ghey datsun 180b SSS coupe that had real bad wheel balance and cudnt go over 120 with out rattling the car to bits lol

Mattapo will know the road, the one going up to the dam/lake past Wairau hospital.

still got pics of the car in bits at the towys garage

[gazzy2000]

 gazzy2000 said:

when i lived in Blenheim years ago... on a country road i was 1st on the sceen when some mates in a RX4 slid sideways at 200Kph into a power pole after failing to take a easy corner and over correcting.. split the RX4 in 3 and the engine was found smouldering in a paddock 200m away.

Two died.. 1 lived, Speedo was found stuck with the needle off the clock.

i was in a ghey datsun 180b SSS coupe that had real bad wheel balance and cudnt go over 120 with out rattling the car to bits lol

Mattapo will know the road, the one going up to the dam/lake past Wairau hospital.

still got pics of the car in bits at the towys garage

here

The guy in the back lived, two in the front were smoked!

[QIK_KAS]

lol caspros that really did make me lol

[caspros]

 QIK_KAS said:

lol caspros that really did make me lol

It does in reflection. But at the time, seeing my Mum's tears as the cops bought me home, that kinda changed things in regards to how I drove. Didn't stop me being a complete pratt though.