Dr. Z
05-04-2008, 00:55
...crashing my MR2!
Not sure exactly what happened, was coming around a bend in the wet at about 35mph (40mph limit dual carriageway) and the steering went extremely light. End result was something that FELT like understeer right up until the armco sorted out my change of direction.
Turns out that the UJ or rack has somehow become discombobulated causing a loss of a certain amount of steering, leading to my armco moment.
~30mph into some armco. I'm a bit sore.
Thing is, I'll freely admit (on here) that I have seen people with identical cars do double the speed limit around that bend with no troubles, and 1.5x the limit in the wet. I decide to take it nice and slow and I get rewarded like this.
The real kicker is that for the past 3 days I have been working on all the bits of the car that weren't quite right - so I have sorted out the leak, refitted loads of loose trim and stuff, fixed a knocking from the suspension etc etc. :'(
Absolutely gutted, but at least I lived through it to tell the tale. :|
Kaiowas, expect a message or two from me in the next couple of days re spares ;)
Not sure exactly what happened, was coming around a bend in the wet at about 35mph (40mph limit dual carriageway) and the steering went extremely light. End result was something that FELT like understeer right up until the armco sorted out my change of direction.
Turns out that the UJ or rack has somehow become discombobulated causing a loss of a certain amount of steering, leading to my armco moment.
~30mph into some armco. I'm a bit sore.
Thing is, I'll freely admit (on here) that I have seen people with identical cars do double the speed limit around that bend with no troubles, and 1.5x the limit in the wet. I decide to take it nice and slow and I get rewarded like this.
The real kicker is that for the past 3 days I have been working on all the bits of the car that weren't quite right - so I have sorted out the leak, refitted loads of loose trim and stuff, fixed a knocking from the suspension etc etc. :'(
Absolutely gutted, but at least I lived through it to tell the tale. :|
Kaiowas, expect a message or two from me in the next couple of days re spares ;)