Hey you feel that?

"Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief" (flynorcal) 01/10/2017 at 02:24 • Filed to: None

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There’s an auto body shop I walk past getting lunch sometimes. I’m guessing center divider in the rain. Ouch.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief 01/10/2017 at 02:47

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The divider would hurt the body more. I tapped a bridge divider that was crookedly placed and it made a mark all over the fender face. Whatever it was it didn’t fly up into the fender and thrash it. Must have been low, very hard and stationary.

Mercedes Streeter > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 01/10/2017 at 07:07

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Indeed. I was in a drive-thru line behind a pretty new iM a couple nights ago. I remembered he took a left out of the parking lot (not abnormal, if you want to eat in your car or eat at Subway you have to turn left) but didn’t think of it. I took a right and got back onto the highway at the only left turn lane.

He tried to turn left back onto the highway from Subway. Somehow he ignored a bunch of “Divided Highway” and “No Left Turn” signs and beached the car at a 30 degree angle on the center divider (a high and sorta wide curb). Not much bumper damage, but the wheels were wrecked and the side skirts had a nasty kink in them.

It always feels weird to see a car in its final moments before a crash.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief 01/10/2017 at 07:09

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I think thats just a hub cap on a steel wheel. If so, they are just plastic, even running over a tree branch or something could screw that up.

Scott > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 01/10/2017 at 07:28

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Nope look again, it clearly is not a hubcap. Take a close look at the first pic, you can see it is bent back from the bead of the tire. In the second picture you can see the ‘spoke’ at about the 4 o’clock position is bent out from the tire. Plastic would break not bend like that. Also you would see a steel wheel behind it, you can see the brake rotor. But it’s a pretty basic Honda Factory wheel. I bet you can get a refurb one for a little over a hundred. Probably their ego is hurt more than anything else, followed possibly by their spine, and then the car.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Scott 01/10/2017 at 07:54

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Oh yeah they definitely had to feel that one then. I am surprised the tire is not shredded though! Also if they hit something hard enough to do that, I would take a good bet that the control arm and other suspension components on that corner are bent to shit.

Vimto > Scott 01/10/2017 at 08:42

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Not to be an ass, but those are 8th gen Civic LX hubcaps. You can see the steel wheel behind them. I think they bend like that because of the metal ring that is pressed in to attach them to the wheel.

Party-vi > Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief 01/10/2017 at 09:18

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A friend of mine called me very late one night and said they hit something near-ish to my house, and asked if I could help them out. In the rain. She ran over a tree limb the size of your arm and it was still stuck on/in her wheel. I was amazed.

McMike > Scott 01/10/2017 at 10:07

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Re: Hubcap

vicali > McMike 01/10/2017 at 11:21

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The valve stem also gives it away..