Man, glad your OK dreem1er. This reminds me that I need to get off the stock tires asap. I was sliding around quite a bit on the turnpike just last week in the rain and I was only going about 60.

 

@ vincethe1

I was just kidding about the AWD thing.

But still, Id rather have control of all four wheels rather than having the rears just going along for the ride...sideways

 

Talking about driving in the rain ... ppl here in Nor Cal drive like 80 YR-old-grandma at 50 MPH everytime there is a little sprinkle out there ... LOL ...

For us east coast transplant, rain here is nothing and those drivers driving me nuts ...

 

Definitely get rid of the stock Michelins, they're garbage. I recommend Michelin Pilot Exalto A/S and Goodyear F1 GS-D3s. Both great all weather tires, and definitely avoid driving when your tires are bald, sheesh... glad you're safe though. It happens. While I was on a mountain pass in my old Integra, my tires were still new but the outside rear caught on some gravel and caused the car to slide into the side of the mountain. Sounds pretty similar damage wise to what happened to your car. Good luck, I know it sucks especially when it happens to your TL but hopefully you'll be able to laugh it off months later as a lesson learned. I only had liability so I decided to sell my car after that....

Heh.... I'm one of those people who drive 60 or less when it rains, I'm more worried about other people and poor visibility though.

 

my net at home is still messed up.....i'm gonna try and take some pics and upload em while i'm at school....most likey have some pics up tomorrow....

 

Same thing happened to me but with new tires i started to hydroplane right when i caught traction spun me around my luck i regained my control and went on my mary little way.


Good thing your ok cars can be fixed.

 

Sorry for the mess up car, but glad you are ok! Just take it as a lesson and learn from it.

 

yea it's cool, no hard feelings lol

 

you are right. your car ... is whoa.. sorry to hear bout it.. my paint job is easy to fix.. but u have to do a lot of body work...>_<

 

The combination of batman thrusting..and the signs popping up and down is just too funny!

Wish we could have seen some pics...would have set a more serious tone.

 

wow i forgot about the pics....i'll take some tomorrow and post em up...

 

ok so only been like a year but i'm getting the car fixed, because a kid in a accord rearended me. A group of kids stole one of subway's $5 foot long 15' banners and ran across the street in front of my car. I stopped, and the kid behind me didn't, he hit me doing like 20-30, all 4 airbags went off in his car. And it cuased enough damage to my car to repair the whole rear

i know i never put up pics, and i'm gonna snap some now and post em up in a few, for real this time

 

wow. you drove around with all that damage?

 

yup...car drove perfect, and all the lights worked so i never got pulled for it...

 

alright so my cam is acting special right now, and its not connecting to the computer, but i did take the pics here are some from how it used to look

 

 

 

very nice man....but damn that thing is ridin high in the front especially...what size wheels are those?....and way to rep AM's...

 

no pics of the damage? but seriously u need to close that wheel gap up.

 

haha...hey Tom check us out with our HDR avatar pics...lol...thanx to Brian...

 

yup. he got some nice shots of our cars.

 

damn that sucks. well at least your ok

 

damn is this a 4x4 TL?? lol j/k
lower your car ASAP

 

First things first - I'm glad you are still alive and no one was hurt in the accident.

Now onto grown up talk. Your reckless driving could have not only killed you but someone else.

We had our first major rain here in 6 months and you guested it bunch of morons driving like you put a lot of people into the ditch and off to the hospital. It's rain, I cannot imagine how you'd drive in snow.

People need to slow down in the rain it's really that simple. Same thing with any type of bad weather. Best to arrive a few minutes later than crash your car. Hopefully you learned your lesson.

 

where did u spin out? 826?

 

Speeding in the rain is a pretty bad idea. Glad to hear you came out alright. This situation reminds me of when my parents totalled their 99 Camry... Going W on the 60 freeway just before the 71 junction, there was an existing accident and then my parents were picking up speed in the carpool lane and at 60mph the car hydroplanes and spins out across all the lanes going head first into a semi, then turning to the drivers side crushin the pillar in then to the passenger side bending the door frame. Parents came out of it without any injuries, except for the small laseration on my dad's cheek. Shit was crazy damage.

And Rob, I agree with you, but don't be so harsh. Mistakes happen. And since I'm assuming by what you have said being it rained after a long time, its the worse time to be going fast since all the oil from the asphalt is going to be on the road making it slippery. No matter how well you know your car or how well it handles or even how great of a driver you are, don't speed in the rain, especially after a dry spell.

 

on the julia tuttle causeway coming back from the beach

 

i don't speed on bald tires anymore

 

Slowing down in the rain would be a start... learning to drive might be the second thing. Clearly you are not capable of driving a vehicle in bad weather, which leads me to believe you haven't properly been taught to drive at all. Blaming your tires is just lame. Had you slowed down you wouldn't have hydroplaned.

EVERYONE knows to slow down in bad conditions. Imagine you killed someones wife in your foolishness?

Your 23 you have a lot of living to do. The last thing you want is to live knowing your stupidness killed someone.

 

Sounds like the same exact scenario as what happened to me when I had my accident in my TSX. Turned out to be $14,000 in damage...

 

Omg dude shut up. This thread is over a year old, your scolding just makes YOU look stupid.

 

haha 02type-s... i agree. lol

 

Dido!

 

and cali ppl are terrified of driving when its raining, my cuzin was freaking it out when i was going the speed limit during a shower.. it rains ALL THE TIME here in miami, ppl are used to it and sometimes get too comfortable

 

I live in Cali, i don't care if its raining. I still drive with the flow of traffic, whether it be 60 mph or 80mph (usually depending on how hard its raining).

 

thanks...

 

you live here so you know what the rain is like when it gets bad...i didn't even needed my whipers more for the car that was in front of me, because there was barelyany rain, i just hit a pocket of water on the road, and the car didn't pull to any side or anything all four tires just came loose

 

damn that sucks, and i got lucky that i was able to turn the car from the divide of the off ramps, because i might not be here right now if i hadn't. and my damage wasn't that much because the car only hit doing like 20 and hit the rear bumper first

 

o and i'm really working on the pics, my pc is not recognizing the cam, so i've been playing with it trying to get it to work

 

So whats the situation as of now? Did you end up getting it fixed?