07-06-2012, 01:11 PM
Went out for a drive today and have just nearly died cos my car is so low.
Was flying up one of my favorite roads outside Taplow that Ive not been up in a while. Its NSL/De-restricted so you can imagine the speeds I was doing.
I was braking at the end of one of the straights for a corner and noticed that half of my side of the road had sunken away by several inches. I couldn't swerve round it because it was just on the entrance to a blind corner.
Anyway I had to go over it, the car dropped into it with a massive thud (thought Id cracked the sump) but preceded to slide for about 10 meters on the underside of the car at the front so neither front wheel was making any useful contact with the road and I couldn't turn in.
Eventually slid off the road and thought Id lost half my front bumper as I went up the banking but so glad the banking went up and not down as it meant I could turn. Sheer fluke that my car isn't wearing a tree shaped hole now.
Proper brown trouser moment.
Dosent appear to be any actual damage to the car somehow.
Im gonna have to wind the coilovers up when it stops raining. I know she looks stunning at this height but I nearly had a heart attack.
Was flying up one of my favorite roads outside Taplow that Ive not been up in a while. Its NSL/De-restricted so you can imagine the speeds I was doing.
I was braking at the end of one of the straights for a corner and noticed that half of my side of the road had sunken away by several inches. I couldn't swerve round it because it was just on the entrance to a blind corner.
Anyway I had to go over it, the car dropped into it with a massive thud (thought Id cracked the sump) but preceded to slide for about 10 meters on the underside of the car at the front so neither front wheel was making any useful contact with the road and I couldn't turn in.
Eventually slid off the road and thought Id lost half my front bumper as I went up the banking but so glad the banking went up and not down as it meant I could turn. Sheer fluke that my car isn't wearing a tree shaped hole now.
Proper brown trouser moment.
Dosent appear to be any actual damage to the car somehow.
Im gonna have to wind the coilovers up when it stops raining. I know she looks stunning at this height but I nearly had a heart attack.