Ruined a good night!
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Ruined a good night!
So I'm heading back from my girlfriends apt after the philly car show and I have about a 45 minute drive. I get into my town and everything is completely iced over.
So I don't even touch the gas all the way home cause i'm spinning all over the place.
As I pull in the driveway and go around back to turn around like I usually do (moving about 5mph), the truck completely breaks loose and I realize the driveway is a complete sheet of black ice...
There was nothing I could do but watch as I slam the front bumper into my basketball hoop's steel pole.
I had such a good time at the auto show tonight, and this has to happen. I couldn't even back up out of the snow bank and pole because of the ice, I wasn't moving anywhere. The back end was just sliding out toward my roomates 02 Camaro. I can see that the paint is all messed up and there are some cracks and deep scratches on the bumper
As my dad always said: Why the F*CK me?!
Jon
So I don't even touch the gas all the way home cause i'm spinning all over the place.
As I pull in the driveway and go around back to turn around like I usually do (moving about 5mph), the truck completely breaks loose and I realize the driveway is a complete sheet of black ice...
There was nothing I could do but watch as I slam the front bumper into my basketball hoop's steel pole.
I had such a good time at the auto show tonight, and this has to happen. I couldn't even back up out of the snow bank and pole because of the ice, I wasn't moving anywhere. The back end was just sliding out toward my roomates 02 Camaro. I can see that the paint is all messed up and there are some cracks and deep scratches on the bumper
As my dad always said: Why the F*CK me?!
Jon
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Re: Ruined a good night!
Originally posted by LightninSVT
So I'm heading back from my girlfriends apt after the philly car show and I have about a 45 minute drive. I get into my town and everything is completely iced over.
So I don't even touch the gas all the way home cause i'm spinning all over the place.
As I pull in the driveway and go around back to turn around like I usually do (moving about 5mph), the truck completely breaks loose and I realize the driveway is a complete sheet of black ice...
There was nothing I could do but watch as I slam the front bumper into my basketball hoop's steel pole.
I had such a good time at the auto show tonight, and this has to happen. I couldn't even back up out of the snow bank and pole because of the ice, I wasn't moving anywhere. The back end was just sliding out toward my roomates 02 Camaro. I can see that the paint is all messed up and there are some cracks and deep scratches on the bumper
As my dad always said: Why the F*CK me?!
Jon
So I'm heading back from my girlfriends apt after the philly car show and I have about a 45 minute drive. I get into my town and everything is completely iced over.
So I don't even touch the gas all the way home cause i'm spinning all over the place.
As I pull in the driveway and go around back to turn around like I usually do (moving about 5mph), the truck completely breaks loose and I realize the driveway is a complete sheet of black ice...
There was nothing I could do but watch as I slam the front bumper into my basketball hoop's steel pole.
I had such a good time at the auto show tonight, and this has to happen. I couldn't even back up out of the snow bank and pole because of the ice, I wasn't moving anywhere. The back end was just sliding out toward my roomates 02 Camaro. I can see that the paint is all messed up and there are some cracks and deep scratches on the bumper
As my dad always said: Why the F*CK me?!
Jon
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I don’t think I would ever try to drive in snow of any kind with these trucks.. Granted I live in FL, I do have family in Maryland... they gave me a 95 f150 with a 5 speed while I was there a couple years back, to drive around town while I was staying there.
It was about the stressful thing ever... lots of hills, ice, snow and here I am in a stick shift truck...having never driven in snow before... I was worried about damaging it the whole time, I didn’t drive it but a few times, but that was enough for me to know I will never live where it snows.
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It was about the stressful thing ever... lots of hills, ice, snow and here I am in a stick shift truck...having never driven in snow before... I was worried about damaging it the whole time, I didn’t drive it but a few times, but that was enough for me to know I will never live where it snows.
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Dude that's really messed up. Getting all the way home, and then in your own driveway. I think I'm with KONIG on this one. I wouldn't ever want to live where it snows. I've had to drive in it a couple of times, and had some pretty hair raising encounters. Hey, maybe since I don't have hair any more, I'd be OK. LOL
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Well heres the damage this morning, not as bad as I thought but still sucks regardless. I was planning on painting it later on anyway because I had scraped the bottom on a curb, but you could barely see it from eye level. At least I don't need a new bumper.
Jon
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You touched it
. I never do less than $1500.00 damage, to boot my employee did the F-350 the same day and then I hit a water truck a day later in the F-350.
http://www.azloc.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=858
. I never do less than $1500.00 damage, to boot my employee did the F-350 the same day and then I hit a water truck a day later in the F-350.http://www.azloc.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=858