Mistakes were made, my R34 Story

[Kinkstaah]

Sorry no - The sandtrap adventure ended the day, happened at the end of the last session. At that time I wasn't hearing any weird noises nor were the brakes shuddering anymore.

It was only when watching the videos that I remembered I had these sounds early on!

[Kinkstaah]

More mistakes!

Welp. I drove into the back of a Territory's tow ball at a roundabout.
Then I scraped my own gate driving back home.
I am not a very good driver

At least the aircon is degassed now, in prep for the engine to come out.
What horrors will unfold next?

[GTSBoy]

Greg, you are the reason you cannot have nice things.

[The Bogan]

2 hours ago, GTSBoy said:

Greg, you are the reason you cannot have nice things.

These things happen

And I believe "we, the people, who modify stuff, and actually use it, cannot have nice things"

It's just a shame that it happened so soon after paint 

I still win the award for quickly destroying newly painted panels I think, as my car came back from the paint shop all nice and shiny, until about 4 hours later when the boot was destroyed by a wayward locker that was blown around by the wind....

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and poorer.....dooh

[Kinkstaah]

Ah yes but were you responsible?

In the time I've had it (just before Christmas) I spun off the track twice and drove into things twice, so four separate incidents.. in two outings.

Luckily I have a full OEM GTR front end to put on which is hopefully not a precursor for further, future, more expensive mistakes to come.

It is some consolation that anyone who would want to buy my Altia bar would have to paint it anyway, the guards, too. (if they can get over the asymmetry).

Hopefully over the weekend I will disassemble and see how badly things are bent. From what it looks like, the headlight has actually just been pushed back and bent the headlight support (which .. somehow... crushed the guard in).

I guess the headlight plastic is strong stuff.

[The Bogan]

34 minutes ago, Kinkstaah said:

Ah yes but were you responsible?

In the time I've had it (just before Christmas) I spun off the track twice and drove into things twice, so four separate incidents.. in two outings.

Luckily I have a full OEM GTR front end to put on which is hopefully not a precursor for further, future, more expensive mistakes to come.

It is some consolation that anyone who would want to buy my Altia bar would have to paint it anyway, the guards, too. (if they can get over the asymmetry).

Hopefully over the weekend I will disassemble and see how badly things are bent. From what it looks like, the headlight has actually just been pushed back and bent the headlight support (which .. somehow... crushed the guard in).

I guess the headlight plastic is strong stuff.

Nah, not really responsible for that little fiasco, but I'm still pissed at myself for writing off my 86, or when I reversed my VX into a pole just before selling it, but, meh, 5hit happens to stuff, all it takes is a slight distraction, and life is full of distractions, and "dooh" moments 

 

[MBS206]

1 hour ago, The Bogan said:

These things happen

And I believe "we, the people, who modify stuff, and actually use it, cannot have nice things"

It's just a shame that it happened so soon after paint 

I still win the award for quickly destroying newly painted panels I think, as my car came back from the paint shop all nice and shiny, until about 4 hours later when the boot was destroyed by a wayward locker that was blown around by the wind....

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and poorer.....dooh

I think it's bound to happen, you finally get it all perfect, and bam, something will happen.

I took a while to get a Commodore rear quarter repaired where a P Plater clipped it. Two days after getting it back, Sarah wiped it out on a concrete pillar in an underground car park... This is why I take forever to repair them, it stretches how long until it gets bent again... 😛