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The outside of the wheel with tyre intact!



Rest of the car!



Car is easily fixable, nothing too mega. We were lucky on three counts though! The curb was slanted, if it was vertical we would of gone onto the roof I think!

The back end just missed a curb, think that would of launched us too.

We went over the curb onto some grass, and just missed a big lampost with my side of the car!

No injuries, only a bit of bent metal

 

Glad your all ok pal

 

Holy fuck

 

nice bent rear axle as well you were lucky you did not hit the lampost

 

the front wheels giving way was prop what stoped you from rolling it

 

thats impressive glad the car isn't too bad!

 

More I think about it the more lucky we were!

That whell must of dissapated some serious energy....!

Funny thing was even though its the passenger wheel that was whacked, the edge of the wheel and the tyre overtook us on the drivers side and flew into a bush

 

christ!

What astra is it, gsi?

 

 

Ask martoon for a refund

 

 

Yeah Mk3 Gsi, running SBD 270 Taper Throttle Body Kit, straight cut F25 box, stack dash etc...

It boogies!

 

Fairplay

 

How did he manage that then??

 

And does this impact on the reputation of the MO? What would one expect an alloy to do in this circumstance? Hmm...

 

Need to keep that one!!

 

I'm sure I remember somebody else posting up a MO like that before

We hit the curb sideways doing about 40....

 

I've seen quite a few MO's that have gone like this!!

 

Holy moly

 

but it cannot harm an mo's reputaion that wheel was slammed into a curb at 40mph sideways last time i checked compomotive designed the wheels to go around

 

good the thing the rim did give up...........at 40MPH somethings got to take up the impact and i'd rather it was a rim than the chassis/wishbones/hub etc..

even though there may be some damage under there it wont be anywhere near as bad as if the wheel didnt give up.

 

jesus!

 

Atleast the rest of the car seems relativly intact mate

 

Just going up now to have a look at it in the daylight....

I'll post up the exact damage when I get back!

 

I wasn't slaggin just pointing out.

I haven't seen another wheel fail like this before though!! In my experiance they usally buckle/distort rather than fracturing.

 

Exactally, and I'm sure its not the first car to of ever hit a curb sideways!

Bit odd for the wheel to do that....

 

maybe it's a subconcious threat to make us drive better 'centre of the lane, or no wheels'

 

Seen an MO on a Scooby do EXACTLY the same.

 

Jesus Tim - you don't do things by halves man

 

Seen pics of them wheels like that before.

 

Do you think Compomotive will believe the line "We did it parking up, it just clipped the curb"

 

hushers car sure you was doing 40 he's had more crashes than colin mc rea

 

Shut it slow coach Gus

 

lucky

 

Im going to go take the angle grinder to my rs 7's


I would so put the centre on the living room wall, what a reminder, of if the missus stops you the garage door to remind you as you drive out

 

Shit the bed

Proper job there!

 

Also what tyre were you using?

 

Very lucky

 

jesus, thats nasty. glad its all ok though.

 

I know a lad who had a very smart scooby wagon with brand new 18" (I think) 6 spoke MO's. the rim snapped off the spokes mid drift, the spokes dug into the road leading to crashing and writing the car off.

Thankfully the car was worth plenty in bits. Compomotive offered him a set of wheels at trade price.........