Help!!- I span my real car :(

[IceMike]

Just got home from a nites racing, and being tired i was drivin wot i would call like a granny and keeping the revs low. Got almost home and there is a small round about and as i went round it the back end of my focus let go and span 180 around into a kirb. There was a bang but im not sure if it was just from the tire hitting the kirb or wot, i cant tell cos its dark. the kirb was one of them angled ones, and i cant feel any dent marks on the alloy, but wot else should i look out for or try and listen for to see if ive done any damage. i know i should book it into a garage to get checked but i dont have any time this week.

[Battle_axe]

Originally Posted by IceMike

Just got home from a nites racing, and being tired i was drivin wot i would call like a granny and keeping the revs low. Got almost home and there is a small round about and as i went round it the back end of my focus let go and span 180 around into a kirb. There was a bang but im not sure if it was just from the tire hitting the kirb or wot, i cant tell cos its dark. the kirb was one of them angled ones, and i cant feel any dent marks on the alloy, but wot else should i look out for or try and listen for to see if ive done any damage. i know i should book it into a garage to get checked but i dont have any time this week.

get it jacked up and rock the wheel in and out to feel for ant play in the bearings also i would guess you will get a whining sound when driving if you have done more damage

[MikePimlott]

When you spun did you drive it home afterwards ????

[Jonesy]

Dude, what you playing at!

Hope it all works out ok

[IceMike]

Originally Posted by Jonesy

Dude, what you playing at!

Hope it all works out ok

its stupid i was tryin to save money and drive abit more economically, but i was only gettin another 2mpg, bollocks to taht in that future ill wrag its tits off again, seems like a far safer way to drive

[ben]

Check the steering arm isnt bent..
Also the wheel may look undamaged, but if it has been into the curb sideways hard enough it will of bent the wheel from the centre. Making it scrap, nothing you can do to bent it back ( i have got a slight bit of knowledge in the wheel deparment haha!)

I nearly spun the corsa earlier, thought i could beat this lass to the roundabout in actual fact i couldnt, i came into the roundabout pretty much completely sideways at about 40.. then sideways the other way on the way out! Anybody watching would of thought i did it on purpose!
I must remove the shit £35 tyres

[cjm_2008]

Originally Posted by IceMike

bollocks to taht in that future ill wrag its tits off again, seems like a far safer way to drive

good luck with that.

[IceMike]

Originally Posted by MikePimlott

When you spun did you drive it home afterwards ????

yer i drove it home but its less than a mile and it ant the best of roads after all this weather so its hard to tell if the car was handling weird

[matdodd]

Just check the wheel/tyre and hub mate, if you hit it hard it should be easy to see most problems in the light.
Good job by the way It was very wet on the way back you must of been driving the Focus like your buggy!

[matdodd]

O ye you could ask Stan hes a expert at hitting kirbs

[RLGfx]

Originally Posted by matdodd

O ye you could ask Stan hes a expert at hitting kirbs

Polo Power!

Did the window fall down after he hit the kerb? SOOooooo ashamed I missed that...

[bert digler]

Originally Posted by IceMike

Just got home from a nites racing, and being tired i was drivin wot i would call like a granny and keeping the revs low. Got almost home and there is a small round about and as i went round it the back end of my focus let go and span 180 around into a kirb. There was a bang but im not sure if it was just from the tire hitting the kirb or wot, i cant tell cos its dark. the kirb was one of them angled ones, and i cant feel any dent marks on the alloy, but wot else should i look out for or try and listen for to see if ive done any damage. i know i should book it into a garage to get checked but i dont have any time this week.

how the hell did you spin it did you clip the island before spinning and was you doing 80 ffs you gypsey

[matdodd]

Originally Posted by bert digler

ffs you gypsey

You legend

[IceMike]

Originally Posted by bert digler

how the hell did you spin it did you clip the island before spinning and was you doing 80 ffs you gypsey

NO DAD!!!! it was rainin and i was only doin about 15 if that, was a 90deg turn wasnt like a big open round about

[ashleyb4]

Originally Posted by bert digler

how the hell did you spin it did you clip the island before spinning and was you doing 80 ffs you gypsey

Come on you have seen the way mike drives a rc car.

A

[bert digler]

Originally Posted by ashleyb4

Come on you have seen the way mike drives a rc car.

A

15mph my arse i was wraggin the van down the lanes on sheet ice doin fifty ,that day spin i think you was going a bit quicker

[IceMike]

Originally Posted by bert digler

15mph my arse i was wraggin the van down the lanes on sheet ice doin fifty ,that day spin i think you was going a bit quicker

wasnt, for once i was tryin to drive like normal ppl drive. i know y it happened, it wont happen again

[bert digler]

Originally Posted by IceMike

wasnt, for once i was tryin to drive like normal ppl drive. i know y it happened, it wont happen again

seriously mike i would get it checked also get the brakes checked