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wrecked my WRX tonight :( **UPDATED WITH PICS**

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Originally posted by: jntdesign
I admit, i got a little too cocky with the AWD...but I wasn't being extremely crazy.

I took the turn (90 degree, left) at average dry pavement speeds.

I'll get some pics up, maybe tonight after I finish my self-appraisal for work.
Some lessons in life are hard, sorry you had to learn it the hard way, but yah you have to go at snow condition speed, think of that concrete block as some poor sapp walking in his winter coat not even seeing you coming. I have very aggresive winter tires on my truck but no matter how badazz they are ice will always beat the $h!t out of us until we can hover over it 😉

 
I feel sorry for the car.

at least if you're going to tool around going fast, go out to an empty parking lot. Your inner rally racer will enjoy driving the car tomorrow.
 
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Isn't this the THIRD ATOT member who's wrecked their WRX in the past year? What's the deal with these cars?

people have some fantasy that AWD helps you turn and brake.

Heh, nope! That's what traction control and ABS are for!

If you're too insane a driver, all the computer hand holding in the world can't help you.

 
Originally posted by: Rent
I feel sorry for the car.

at least if you're going to tool around going fast, go out to an empty parking lot. Your inner rally racer will enjoy driving the car tomorrow.

1. i wasn't "tooling around going fast" I went a little too fast and freaked out

2. the area has NO homes in it...all new construction, blocks from civilization (and my house)
 
HAHAHA! You wrecked!! Thats funny!

"Look at me! I have an AWD WRX! I can do ANYTHING!"
*drives stupidly and wrecks*

BWAHAHAHAH!
 
Originally posted by: OS
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Isn't this the THIRD ATOT member who's wrecked their WRX in the past year? What's the deal with these cars?

people have some fantasy that AWD helps you turn and brake.

Heh, nope! That's what traction control and ABS are for!

If you're too insane a driver, all the computer hand holding in the world can't help you.

well, if you turn off the game console, you're no longer an insane driver.
 
Originally posted by: Shockwave
SHMAH SHMAH SHMAH I'm a dipshit!! Thats funny!

"Look at me! I didn't read the post, just the title"
*makes self look like retard*

 
Originally posted by: Shockwave
HAHAHA! You wrecked!! Thats funny!

"Look at me! I have an AWD WRX! I can do ANYTHING!"
*drives stupidly and wrecks*

BWAHAHAHAH!

Damn you're stupid. Can I get a confirmed?
 
Originally posted by: jntdesign
Originally posted by: Rent
I feel sorry for the car.

at least if you're going to tool around going fast, go out to an empty parking lot. Your inner rally racer will enjoy driving the car tomorrow.

1. i wasn't "tooling around going fast" I went a little too fast and freaked out

2. the area has NO homes in it...all new construction, blocks from civilization (and my house)

Uh, YES you were or you wouldn't have fvcked up your car with your crappy driving skills.

Have fun getting it repaired. WRX fanboys are idiots.
 
Originally posted by: jntdesign
Originally posted by: Shockwave
SHMAH SHMAH SHMAH I'm a dipshit!! Thats funny!

"Look at me! I didn't read the post, just the title"
*makes self look like retard*

Regardless of how he said it, he's pretty much correct. If you were going fast enough to "hop(ped) a curb and hit a giant concret piece of sewer" you were going way too fast for conditions & you were to blame.

Regardless, it's just a car & you're (apparently) fine.

Consider it a lesson & life goes on (with slightly raised insurance rates).

Viper GTS
 
Originally posted by: jntdesign
it's not too bad, but i'm still upset

i lost control around a corner (in the snow)
hopped a curb and hit a giant concret piece of sewer (construction area)

Going up the curb and bouncing off of it is what did the most damage.
But hitting the concrete thing smashed in the front bumper and crumpled the right fender.

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Those pics != wrecked WRX
Change title to "damaged my WRX tonight"
 
Originally posted by: LAUST
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Isn't this the THIRD ATOT member who's wrecked their WRX in the past year? What's the deal with these cars?

people have some fantasy that AWD helps you turn and brake.

Heh, nope! That's what traction control and ABS are for!
Good to know someone knows what ABS is really for.. people who think it helps you stop better on ICE are morons, if people were only educated it's to help you steer WHILE braking, but the DOT's across the whole US only care that you know what the red octigon sign mean. They could care less if you really knew how to manage an automobile.

Back in 1998 we had a 68 car pile up on I-25 here in denver, over 80% of the cars involved had ABS, but they all just locked em up and hoped for the best.

If they all had ABS how did they lock up there brakes. Oh and in theory ABS should give a car a shorter stopping distance.

 
:Q 🙁 🙁


btw, a soccer mom in a minivan backed into me in a parking lot 3 weeks ago. Entirely her fault, I was found 0% at fault. Not to thread-hijack, but just give a better idea of what it will cost to fix jntdesign's damages, this cost just over $2k to fix. Probably because I went to the best and most expensive body shop in town, but hey, not one single dime is coming out of my pocket (not even for deductible or rental car) and the law entitles me to pre-loss condition, which I got.

Originally posted by: Rent
Uh, YES you were or you wouldn't have fvcked up your car with your crappy driving skills.

Have fun getting it repaired. WRX fanboys are idiots.
Drive your early '80s V6 Camaro back to your trailer park, asshole. :|
 
jnt, its YOUR fault you wrecked. Your a dumbass who thinks AWD on a WRX is Gods gift to roads. And you tought you had some uber Andretti driving skills.
Welcome to real life. Edit my post and laugh all you want, fact is YOU were driving too fast for conditions most likely because YOU were overconfident in your car and your abilities.

So play with qoutes all you want, doesnt change the fact your a asstard.
 
Originally posted by: Spencer278
Originally posted by: LAUST
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Isn't this the THIRD ATOT member who's wrecked their WRX in the past year? What's the deal with these cars?

people have some fantasy that AWD helps you turn and brake.

Heh, nope! That's what traction control and ABS are for!
Good to know someone knows what ABS is really for.. people who think it helps you stop better on ICE are morons, if people were only educated it's to help you steer WHILE braking, but the DOT's across the whole US only care that you know what the red octigon sign mean. They could care less if you really knew how to manage an automobile.

Back in 1998 we had a 68 car pile up on I-25 here in denver, over 80% of the cars involved had ABS, but they all just locked em up and hoped for the best.

If they all had ABS how did they lock up there brakes. Oh and in theory ABS should give a car a shorter stopping distance.


um, stopping power is always ultimately limited by how much traction you have between the tire and ground. It doesn't matter how over engineered your ABS/braking system is, rubber on ice is still going to slide. There is no magic involved.
 
I never said i was the best drives. Fact is, I wasn't driving andretti style.

I may have had too much confidence in my car, but i was NOT out fvcking around in the snow.

If anyone is an asstard, it's you. You troll these forums waiting for people to insult. Grow a fvcking penis you vaginal sap.
 
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