j9chan

Hi guys!

It was snowing and definitely icy here in Waterloo today. As I was getting home, I was slowing down and trying to turn right into the parking lot of my apartment. But it turns out there was a big patch of solid ice there! I was actually going very slow at the time already (about 15km/h?), but the car wouldn't stop cuz I was on a patch of solid ice!! So it went on skidding, tires locked up, and my tail went sideways swinging to the right. This all happened very slowly, like in slow motion, but I couldn't do anything to help it cuz the car's on pure ice. I was like "ahhhhh... sh**********t..." By the way, I had winter tires already.

So what happened was my right rear wheel eventually went sideway against the curb, and the car bounced back (again, slow motion!) and eventually came to a stop.

Even though the wheel didn't bang the curb very hard, I'm a little concern as to whether any damage might've happened. Anybody got any insight into this? By the way, I just put in a lower rear tie bar yesterday... I wonder if it would help transfer the force of impact to the other side? Heheh... Thanks guys.

kwikb16a2

hard to say if u screwed anything......go on the highway and see if u notice and vibrations or noises. thats if there is no visual damge

j9chan

Yeah, there's no visual damage that I could see... I hope it just banged the rubber part of my tire...

FiveSpeed

ahh, youll prolly be fine.. ive had bumps where there were visible scratches but there were no problems, and if you were goin as slow as you say you were, you should be A-OK