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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tess Anderson on February 09, 2014, 09:53:35 PM

Title: DUmmy "NYC_SKP" in a minor car accident Thursday
Post by: Tess Anderson on February 09, 2014, 09:53:35 PM
The OP is just DUmmy "malaise" hearing about bad weather in the west:

http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/10024471481

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Sun Feb 9, 2014, 06:32 PM

 malaise (115,108 posts)


Oh shite - major storms in the West


 Mudslides in SF - avalanche in Oregon. a foot of rain in Northern California.
ABC news.

but Skippy brings the drama:

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Response to malaise (Original post)

Sun Feb 9, 2014, 06:39 PM

 NYC_SKP (57,471 posts)

3. I went into a slide on Thursday, thought I was gonna die.


Highway 17 San Jose toward the coast.

Forced into the center concrete divider by a driver who was forced into me.

Ruined a wheel, gash in my dome, blood dripping while I changed tires to the sorry ass spare but didn't hit anyone or anything other than that big concrete divider, which as it turns out is really well designed.
 
No body damage to the car, little bit to me.

Was only five minutes late to my appointment in Rio Del Mar!

Then spent the rest of the day finding a wheel and tire to match original factory spec.

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Response to xiamiam (Reply #9)

Sun Feb 9, 2014, 07:39 PM

 NYC_SKP (57,471 posts)

17. I was lucky for the divider, and that there was a nice turnout just where I needed one.


I would not likely have gone into oncoming traffic, but can't be sure. That divider has saved some lives, dozens if not hundreds.
 
I lost traction and the traction control and my actions probably worked against one another, in the end I glanced the divider with some force, enough to gash my scalp.
 
But the damage was limited to the wheels, no part of the body of my car hit the concrete.
 
Post impact I pictured a totaled car with fender and bumper and front end damage. I got off the highway and quickly put the little spare on and drove away, still bleeding from my head wound.
 
I learned that with the donut spare on, the car doesn't perform well- the traction control constantly engages and I worried that this would be a lasting problem that would need major attention.
 
I had to drive a couple hundred miles to find a replacement wheel and once I had it on the traction problem was gone.
 
$120 for the new wheel and tire, $20 more to mount, and you'd never known it happened.
 
Except the gash.

Drive safely, and check your spare for air pressure (mine was at half the pressure it should have had, the car is 2007 model year)
 

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Response to warrior1 (Reply #15)

Sun Feb 9, 2014, 07:41 PM

 NYC_SKP (57,471 posts)

19. Thanks. I learned a few things, like check your spare tire for air pressure!


That sucker was low!


wait . . . he just learned THAT?
Title: Re: DUmmy "NYC_SKP" in a minor car accident Thursday
Post by: thundley4 on February 09, 2014, 10:28:08 PM
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Forced into the center concrete divider by a driver who was forced into me.

Ruined a wheel, gash in my dome, blood dripping while I changed tires to the sorry ass spare but didn't hit anyone or anything other than that big concrete divider, which as it turns out is really well designed.

Post impact I pictured a totaled car with fender and bumper and front end damage. I got off the highway and quickly put the little spare on and drove away, still bleeding from my head wound.

Sounds like sped away from an accident with property damage at the least.
Title: Re: DUmmy "NYC_SKP" in a minor car accident Thursday
Post by: diesel driver on February 10, 2014, 02:30:38 AM
I don't know about Skippy, but MY car has a button you push to turn the traction control on and off.

It's called "4WD".   :lmao:
Title: Re: DUmmy "NYC_SKP" in a minor car accident Thursday
Post by: BlueStateSaint on February 10, 2014, 04:23:07 AM
I don't know about Skippy, but MY car has a button you push to turn the traction control on and off.

It's called "4WD".   :lmao:

I can activate the 4WD below 25 mph, and I can also deactivate the traction control, but they're two different buttons . . .
Title: Re: DUmmy "NYC_SKP" in a minor car accident Thursday
Post by: franksolich on February 10, 2014, 07:47:03 AM
Oh my.

 :busted:
Title: Re: DUmmy "NYC_SKP" in a minor car accident Thursday
Post by: Dori on February 10, 2014, 08:42:04 AM
Californians can't drive in the rain.  I don't know what they would do if they had to deal with ice and snow. 





Title: Re: DUmmy "NYC_SKP" in a minor car accident Thursday
Post by: JohnnyReb on February 10, 2014, 09:01:37 AM
Californians can't drive in the rain.  I don't know what they would do if they had to deal with ice and snow


It's white flakes.....they'd snort it.
Title: Re: DUmmy "NYC_SKP" in a minor car accident Thursday
Post by: GOP Congress on February 10, 2014, 02:34:03 PM
Once  my car is fixed I'll be back to posting. Sorry for the delay.
Title: Re: DUmmy "NYC_SKP" in a minor car accident Thursday
Post by: NHSparky on February 10, 2014, 06:12:11 PM
Californians can't drive in the rain PERIOD.  I don't know what they would do if they had to deal with ice and snow. 


FIFY.  Sadly, time was that wasn't the case.  And dealing with ice and snow?  Look at all the dipshits who drive from LA to Big Bear or Wrightwood in their shorts and act SURPRISED when they can't get up Rim of the World, etc., without 4X4 and chains.
Title: Re: DUmmy "NYC_SKP" in a minor car accident Thursday
Post by: JLO on February 10, 2014, 06:16:57 PM
It's white flakes.....they'd snort it.

 :lol: