Hypothetical crash help

[willd58]

Right, say someone was driving home from meeting some friends, say this guy went to fast round a corner (edit - but in no way broke any speed limits, it was black ice on the road that caused the skid and not pure speed because he wasn't going that fast) and skidded a fair bit, corrected it, but kept going round and hit his rear drivers side wheel against a curb, like so....

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Now, I don't know how fast this guy was going, but the skidding slowed the car right down I think, so it couldnt of been that fast, and the car would appear to look fine apart from a scraped alloy, and the wheel doesn't look unaligned

Anyways, this guys kinda glad hes done it, because hes not been able to get the back end out properly, and now he gets how to with the help of people who explained how to do it , and he did it again on the same drive home, on a private bit of land he owns, to make sure he had learnt his lesson, only this time he successfully power slided because he now knew what it was all about, and it worked a treat . (thats a testament to how fine the car looked and felt)

My question is, what should this guy say to a garage if he were to take his car to make sure for certain nothing is messed up as he could be very paranoid, what should they be checking for and how should they check?

Edited by willd58 on Friday 26th January 02:52

[willd58]

bob1179 said:

I do like the picture though.

I think we should all make more of an effort to put in graphical representations of our cock-ups, arguments and other things in which a nice drawing would come in handy.

good, im glad my mad paint skills are finally paying off.

Neil_Bolton said:

Hypothetically, I would be suggesting that your friend trot down to his hypothetically local ProTyre branch and get them to check it over, explaining said hypothetical incident.

Hypothetically, we all do this at some point. Hypothetically, I had a friend who did this once. In a FWD car into a tyre wall.

Hypothetically, I could go through lots of said friends incidents, but it all counts towards learning

Hypothetically, your friend needs a roundabout with a clear view of exit, and some speed

Yea, gotta learn somehow eh. This protyre place? is it the only place worth going to, can you recomend anyone else around the fishponds area?

[willd58]

Ah sweet, where abouts are they located then, a quick Google brings up
www.protyre.co.uk/bristol.html
Which isn't a website and im having difficulty getting there postcode.

[willd58]

Just found there number on the web and got there post code, thanks Glen, ill head there after breakfast.

£50ish for a proper inspection

Edited by willd58 on Friday 26th January 15:42

[willd58]

Just got back, £40 to get it checked and then realigned, bargain for my first crash I think.
All the red numbers are now green basically, so im well happy, thanks guys, appreciate your advice, not that iv been anywhere else but Protyre were certainly very good at doing what they did I think.