smoked a curb

dylly · 03-04-2003, 01:38 AM

Today I was driving with my buddy in a empty parking lot covered in snow. Pulling 360's with the e-Brake and what-not. When it was time to leave I was driving toward a stop sign about 50 metres away. Going 40 km/hr I failed to see a snow covered 1ft high curb that turned in to a 10 ft wide pointless platform. My civic made a horrible clunking sound upon impact then we hopped right over. I got out to assess the damage and miracuoulsy there was barely a scratch under the front bumper. The underbody plastic was ripped off though. The car still ran fine until I tried to steer and and now it feels like auto steering when its supposed to be armstrong steering. But it isn't responsive enough when I turn the wheel. Is this just my alignment or something much worse???

GTi-VR6_A3 · 03-04-2003, 01:50 AM

a snow rally civic... i love the idea. id work to make your car into sucha vehicle if i were you. as for the steering you should go to a shop to look at your alignment. hitting curbs is one of the biggest cause of bad allignment.

-GTi-VR6_A3

crxlvr · 03-04-2003, 07:27 AM

yea dont take a slight bump to a curb lightly, at 10mph my friend had over $800-$900 in damage to suspension parts.

Melt · 03-04-2003, 09:09 AM

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Originally posted by crxlvr
yea dont take a slight bump to a curb lightly, at 10mph my friend had over $800-$900 in damage to suspension parts.

hmm ... so thats why my friends camry pulled to the right soo much after we hit a speed bump goin like 60.

Dx18704 · 03-04-2003, 09:42 AM

I hit a speed bump goin about 15 when it was icey out i didnt even see it cause i was high.....and i slid the car sideways forever it was scary and funny at the same time cause it was on a private road thank god

Ace$nyper · 03-06-2003, 11:40 PM

I hit a curb once at like 5mph and ruined one of my 2 week old spoons bent as hell needed new one =(

nemo_wolf · 03-07-2003, 10:31 AM

fragin speed bumps ... we could all do with out ...

tanas · 03-07-2003, 04:59 PM

My bro hit a curb at like 40 (missed a turn) cracked a rim and jacked his alignment. He still hasn't gotten the laignment fixed and it's been over a month.

civicHBsi91 · 03-07-2003, 06:58 PM

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I hit a curb once at like 5mph and ruined one of my 2 week old spoons bent as hell needed new one =(

if that happend to me i seriously think i would cry thats like what 400 bucks or something?

Ace$nyper · 03-07-2003, 08:22 PM

It was more then that like 430 I nearly did cry.

nemo_wolf · 03-08-2003, 12:41 PM

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Originally posted by Ace$nyper
It was more then that like 430 I nearly did cry.

why not send it back and say it was damaged in shipping?

VelocityCivic91 · 03-08-2003, 01:37 PM

Yeah, curb smashing sucks. I did it in my 91 Civic hatch. I also got it on video, but I dont know how to post that.

I just got my new digital camera. It does video (no sound) and takes still pics. Me and 2 of my friends decided to go to our high school that we graduated from and take some pics with my new camera. Well, I thought that was a little boring, and I told my friends to go to the bus loop. We got there and I start doing laps around the bus loop. I figured out how to get the rear end of my car to slide around on this one wide turn. I told my friend to take some video of me. So he did, and on this one turn, I took it too wide, and on the other side of the road, there was a curb. I was going about 45mph. I saw it getting closer and closer, so instead of nailing the breaks, I slammed the gas, hopping to power out of the turn and just miss it. That did not work, and I slammed right into the curb. Damage done: 1 cracked radious rod, 1 bent 16" ICW rim, 1 bent spindel, the right side of the K-member was bent to shit and 1 broken axel. Also ripped the fender off. Oh, and the entire right side wheel was bent at a 45 degree when looked at from the front of the car.

If anyone knows how to post video, let me know, or I can e-mail it to someone that knows how to do it. Sorry bout making it long.

90civicrider · 03-08-2003, 01:46 PM

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Originally posted by VelocityCivic91

If anyone knows how to post video, let me know, or I can e-mail it to someone that knows how to do it. Sorry bout making it long.

I can post videos,
you can send it to me through:
AIM: c90civicrider
MSN: [email protected]

MyFirst4G · 03-08-2003, 11:10 PM

Yo, u fuked up ur car, but in the video that i saw, there was NO SNOW!!! and you said u did this in a parking lot, and it looks like a neighborhood back street....... was this two seperate times?

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