Flipped my S on Sunday
Glad to see your still in one piece.
10-01-2007, 12:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Jel,Oct 1 2007, 08:13 AM
Although I do like spinach and have gargantuan cajones, that would have been a task too far.
As Carper hints, i rolled mine in January 2003 after driving onto sheet ice, as all 4 wheels lost grip I thought the car would kiss the banking on the other side of the road and I'd have to get a new front bumper.
Imagine my surprise when it rolled up the bank, paused for a second, then rolled over back onto the road, then onto the wheels again.
My only injury was a bruised arse when I got out of the car and slipped onto it. The first person on the scene jumped out of his car shouting "It's OK, I'm a paramediiiiii" Thud! as he fell on his arse too, then one of the people who helped me push it off the road slipped and bashed his chin on the bootlid, chipping his tooth.
Once I'd recovered and phoned around to find out how to reset the fuel cutoff, I went back and drove the car home, roof down through the village
Here's where it happened (this is the day after, when the ice had broken up, but I was travelling towards the camera at 27mph indicated and slid across the road, going up the bank on the left of the pic and ending up with the passenger side in the hedge on the right).
When I got it home, it looked like this (not as impressive as yours):-
Good luck getting it sorted.
10-01-2007, 12:52 AM
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Originally Posted by MarkB,Oct 1 2007, 09:47 AM
My only injury was a bruised arse when I got out of the car and slipped onto it. The first person on the scene jumped out of his car shouting "It's OK, I'm a paramediiiiii" Thud! as he fell on his arse too, then one of the people who helped me push it off the road slipped and bashed his chin on the bootlid, chipping his tooth.
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10-01-2007, 01:02 AM
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made me laugh too
ny rolling story involved skidding off the road in an M3 (no TC) as a result of over exuberance
damage would have been limited to broken lights and a bit of paint
had I not come to rest on a bent sapling
just as I was thinking how lucky I was
my car did a good imitation of an elevator
rose 5 feet in the air and rolled me neatly onto the roof
cue reshell........
ny rolling story involved skidding off the road in an M3 (no TC) as a result of over exuberance
damage would have been limited to broken lights and a bit of paint
had I not come to rest on a bent sapling
just as I was thinking how lucky I was
my car did a good imitation of an elevator
rose 5 feet in the air and rolled me neatly onto the roof
cue reshell........
10-01-2007, 03:17 AM
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that's an example of being unlucky and lucky in the same incident.
my back end went a bit wide on a bend on the way to my parent's house the other night.. it was wet, a 90 degree bend with no grip but i was only doing 10mph and in second.. when i applied gas i had 'considerable oversteer' corrected by a quick back off and a lot of opposite lock
i think i need some new rears but i'm in for my 54k this week so i'll see what Honda tell me
my back end went a bit wide on a bend on the way to my parent's house the other night.. it was wet, a 90 degree bend with no grip but i was only doing 10mph and in second.. when i applied gas i had 'considerable oversteer' corrected by a quick back off and a lot of opposite lock
i think i need some new rears but i'm in for my 54k this week so i'll see what Honda tell me
10-01-2007, 06:48 AM
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..and there was me worried about having to get a new rear bumper!! 
As everyone else has said, glad to hear you got out unharmed (apart from the nettle rash on yer bum!) and hope that the insurance gets sorted out asap for you!!