Originally posted by ThePerfectShiftWell, I was driving home from work when it started pouring. I was talking to my fiancee on the phone and told her I had to go because it wasn't safe to be driving while on the phone... I got five miles down the road and came up to a very broad right hand turn in a three lane road, (Nova for locals of Daytona). I recently put two new tires on the front and put the poorer of the two on the back. Also recently my power steering belt came off so I've been muscling it for a couple days. While going around the corner the ass end swung out to the right, I calmly attempted to catch it and straighten up but my nearly bald rear tires and lack of power steering wouldn't allow it. By the time I was spun 180* I could only attempt to get the car away from oncoming traffic and turned the wheel to the left to get the car to the right side of the road. I ended up hitting a curb which ripped my wheel off the hub, disc brakes still attached to the rim and the car was sent flying onto the sidewalk (facing the people who were just behind me). When the vehicle finally came to a painful, crashing stop all I could scream was "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!" When I stepped out of the Eclipse, and regained my balance and got out of slow motion, I initially couldn't find my rear left wheel(not realizing it was wedged under the rear end of my car) and my intake filter was in the middle of the road. Luckily where I wrecked was a construction site. (I hit four of the wooden stakes holding up the mesh barrier) Amazingly the body didn't take much damage at all, however the curb tore my rear suspension on both sides up pretty bad. I haven't had the chance to investigate the front suspension or oil pan, radiator, etc. Here are the photos:
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http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/75/l_3186415759c04629a0b3d0135 4ead402.jpg ThePerfectShift is now accepting donations: monetary or suspension parts. lol. For now I will be driving my fiancees Grand Marquis but my homeboy is going to sell me a T-Bird he just picked up cheap so I'm gonna grab that for a grand. It's actually pretty sweet.. leather seats, power windows, keyless entry...........V8.............Working and non-leaking sunroof, ample trunk space..............V8............ Can you tell I'm excited about the extra 4 cylinders? I will not be getting rid of the Eclipse so there will be no part-out. The T-Bird will just give me the opportunity to fix the Eclipse correctly and give me time to afford some suspension upgrades I've been wanting. No need to replace stock parts with stock parts when I want to upgrade them anyway.
