Slippery When wet gutter incident

Geoff EL 4.0 · 19-01-2008, 11:03 PM

I get to work this morning and one of my work mates who drives the POS xf panivan as his work car, well the story goes that last nite he was driving and he went through a roundabout at "20km/h" and when he turned the wheel the car kept going straight......he hit the gutter. I got pics.he hit the front left wheel and it was bent on a umm i think around 15-20 degree slant towards the car from the impact. The rims is....and you cant get them anymore so on went a set of new GMAX 20" rims, ill pics of that next week i didnt have time today.
Gutter rash

Buff out?

Should be straight

tankclare · 20-01-2008, 12:23 AM

i wanna see the 20s on an xf pano..PICS PICS PICS

Geoff EL 4.0 · 02-02-2008, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by tankclare

i wanna see the 20s on an xf pano..PICS PICS PICS

GOT THEMMM, but now it has different rims.....20s on the front and 22s on the back :evil3: .

Geoff EL 4.0 · 20-01-2008, 12:28 AM

lol they were 20s lol ill get em next sat wen i go to work, oh no i cant im not working dammit(kinda), ill see if i can trace one up.

tankclare · 20-01-2008, 12:34 AM

ok cool whenever you can get a few pics..am interested in seeing how it looks.

kyro_02 · 20-01-2008, 12:57 AM

had a few incidents today in the rain(mate needs new tyres lol), was pulling into a street which had island in middle, and i took it at below my 'average' speed that i'd turn a corner, it keep goin straight .. but was not goin fast enough to hit gutter, front tyres are bald on the inner of tyre which i didn't know :(

Keepleft · 20-01-2008, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by kyro_02

had a few incidents today in the rain(mate needs new tyres lol), was pulling into a street which had island in middle, and i took it at below my 'average' speed that i'd turn a corner, it keep goin straight .. but was not goin fast enough to hit gutter, front tyres are bald on the inner of tyre which i didn't know :(

That'd do it, and when new are added best get an alignment as well.

Slippery roads, slippery roads!

Geoff EL 4.0 · 20-01-2008, 01:12 AM

Yer i put alot of front tyres on cars today well yesterday now and they really needed them in the rain. Oh and tankclare it looks as though i wont be able to get pics untill start of feb when i go back to work( i only work saturdays...school).
Geoff

tapeworm · 20-01-2008, 10:38 AM

lol, extreme wheel damage thread. My mate took my EF Mont which had those original 15'' alloys at the time when he was drunk to go and get food from the local servo and managed to crack the left hand front 3/4 way through and take the tyre off the rim, he clobbered a traffic island. It needed a wheel allignment to put it mildly, haha.

Geoff EL 4.0 · 20-01-2008, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by tapeworm

lol, extreme wheel damage thread. My mate took my EF Mont which had those original 15'' alloys at the time when he was drunk to go and get food from the local servo and managed to crack the left hand front 3/4 way through and take the tyre off the rim, he clobbered a traffic island. It needed a wheel allignment to put it mildly, haha.

After he fixed it yesterday at work, it took about 15-25min for the alignment....there were 3 guys doing it to. He was just lucky for the fact he works at a tyre/rim place and could be fixed in house.