mezzoni
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so i live in CT, we got A LOT of snow, and i was driving home from work sunday afternoon and my car not so happily met its new buddy mr. guard rail while attempting to make a turn. I wasnt going overly fast or driving like a prick either... i was going about 15, had to make a 90* right turn and got on the brakes a bit harder and slightly turned the wheel and i just plowed forward and the ABS kicked in kicking the pedal back and the front wheels wouldnt bite the ground so forward i went...
it had a lot to do with me tires tho, they're touring tires that are rather low on tread and i found out those dont grip well in snow. however i did manage to get the car turned enough so i hit the guard rail and an angle and it just kinda pushed my car off to the side and i got very minimal damage luckily- a good portion of paint off the driver side corner of my front bumper and a nice scuff mark in my corner headlight lens, and no damage anywhere else.
sadly thats only half of the story, i work 30 minutes from home, on a good day, going a little over the speed limit. seeing aas how my girlfriend lives between work and home i just went to her house and spent the night there. i go out to move my car the next morning and i hear a pop, i figured it was just ice breaking... i sit in my car and theres a bunch of cracks running through my windshield. then i get out of the car and i hear the pop again... my fender is binding with my door and i know thats a b*tch to fix cuz i had to do that with my passenger fender back in august. im guessing a tree branch fell on the windshield during the storm and idk about the fender, the only reason i hesitate to say it was when i made contact with the guardrail is because the 2 times i opened the door that day i didnt hear the pop but idk what else it could be from... anyways thats my fun story of the weekend :th_exploding:
it had a lot to do with me tires tho, they're touring tires that are rather low on tread and i found out those dont grip well in snow. however i did manage to get the car turned enough so i hit the guard rail and an angle and it just kinda pushed my car off to the side and i got very minimal damage luckily- a good portion of paint off the driver side corner of my front bumper and a nice scuff mark in my corner headlight lens, and no damage anywhere else.
sadly thats only half of the story, i work 30 minutes from home, on a good day, going a little over the speed limit. seeing aas how my girlfriend lives between work and home i just went to her house and spent the night there. i go out to move my car the next morning and i hear a pop, i figured it was just ice breaking... i sit in my car and theres a bunch of cracks running through my windshield. then i get out of the car and i hear the pop again... my fender is binding with my door and i know thats a b*tch to fix cuz i had to do that with my passenger fender back in august. im guessing a tree branch fell on the windshield during the storm and idk about the fender, the only reason i hesitate to say it was when i made contact with the guardrail is because the 2 times i opened the door that day i didnt hear the pop but idk what else it could be from... anyways thats my fun story of the weekend :th_exploding:
