Monday, May 23, 2005


forget that its out of focus.... Posted by Hello
so a bit of story i suppose. sunday i was pissed... thought id go for a drive.... start driving all is fine... just as its about to get dark, on the interstate... BAM rumble rumble... car rolls hard right.. the road is running a jog to the right, so i down shit, break, and throw the wheel to the left to compensate for it... the rumbling is violent i can feel whatever pounding against the floorboards... and i guess i forgot about traffic... so i panic break as the car isnt slowing down or correcting... so i jog it right, then all the way left to break it...... i loose the back end... it fishtalils out away from me, and the car is skidding pretty well out of control towards the left across both lanes of traffic. i slid to a stop with the only the right front tire on the gravel shoulder of the road... everything else is pointing down in the median. i get out to look. turns out i absolutely shredded this tire... smoke is pouring out, ive got huge 60 foot skid marks across the lanes... then i see the tire is so ripped and shredded that its tangled inside the wheel well and caught up on the skirting and ripped that out... 2 pieces of trim came off and were laying in the right hand lane, and the tire was pretty well wrapped around my coil spring, jammed into place.... hence my inability to turn the wheel... smoke is just pouring out from it. it stinks to all shit. i just stare at it.. then i get a blare. some semi comes flying past me by about 8 inches. i shit myself a bit i think... then remember where i am. i walk back to the drivers side and see bald patches on the front tire from the skidding.. but it looks ok.. then i set about on the task of changing a spare tire while inches off the passing lane on the interstate. which turned out to be better than i thought. most people stayed off me. the real fun was in trying to pull the damaged wheel off the hub. with near liquified rubber and steel belts going every which way it was hard to separate what was trim, molding, steel, tire, and assorted debris. the top picture shows you how bad the tire warped around the post. nuts. i guess im glad i didnt snap the suspension off. guess im glad a lot of things didnt happen. and im thankful that i DO know how to drive and handle myself. regardless... i put the spare on and baby-ed her off the interstate, and limped to a service station. i eventually had to get two new front tires installed this morning.. the drivers side was so blemished from the panic stop that the wrench-monkey said it wasnt safe to drive on anymore. so 130 bucks poor-er. ive got new tires. new pictures. and another story to tell.


whats wrong with this picture Posted by Hello