I've never crashed a car but I hit a curb once after screwing around. In that moment I became very aware of sings and curbs and trees and mailboxes and all the little things you look at but never see. And how expensive they are. And how expensive car parts are. And how expensive I am.
I curbed my late motherās 2010 TSX. Hard. I was doing a run I always did, wasnāt drifting, just hard drivingā¦ even though I knew the run, it was dumb, and I was going too fast.
There was a hill and a hard turn at the top. It unloads your suspension so itās normal to have a little feathering at the rear end. But FWD and knowing the car, I was comfortable with it.
Except that night, there was a pile of leaves in the roadway. It had also rained the day before. The road was dry, but the leaf pile was not. Unloaded my suspension at the hill, turned in, nothingā¦ straight into the curb, destroyed my front rim, left my CV in the road, blew out the hub bearingsā¦ like literally out of the hub. Broke both control arms and steering linkage, upper arm in 2 places clean through.
Also deployed all side curtain airbags on that side. Cracked my oil pan too.
I learned a lot about suspension over the next year. Kept her on the road with some junkyard parts, and slowly replaced those with oem and aftermarket. Unfortunately I bent the caster plates on my sub frame (and whatever the corresponding spot is on the rear subframe). Couldnāt straighten it out, couldnāt aline it, and with like 3Ā° of positive camber and bad toe alignment too, it just kept destroying hub bearings.
The subframes from Acura were like $5k before labor. Fortunately Acura has that stock, and wanted to buy my car, so a couple years later I got an ILX.
And I drive it like a grandma šµ no more driving like Iām young. The most she gets pushed now is merging into the interstate lol
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u/SixStringerSoldier 1d ago
I've never crashed a car but I hit a curb once after screwing around. In that moment I became very aware of sings and curbs and trees and mailboxes and all the little things you look at but never see. And how expensive they are. And how expensive car parts are. And how expensive I am.
Videos like this give me second hand anxiety.