echelon6
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I'm admittedly a pretty bad driver, still.
Tonight I was driving and I smashed my rs4 into a concrete wall at probably 40mph
But not like what you think, I actually smashed it into the side of the wall, onto the edge where the wall ends
i.e.
wall
====== <-- [:::] rs4
But there's more. I hit it such that the right 20% of my car absorbed all of it. As a result, my right front arm snapped right off, I have a shattered fuel tank, and my tuned pipe is mangled. Also the right front wheel's outdrive is bent, I have several bent dogbones and bent screws here and there.
Now, a reasonable person in my position would replace the three parts I mentioned above as well as the misc parts such as bent screws etc. But being on a student budget I've decided to fix what I can using what I have available.
For the front arms, I've CA glued it back together. Now it seems like the CA joint is even stronger than the rest of the arm lol.
I will carefully hammer my tuned pipe back into shape (the manifold is mangled actually, the tuned pipe is alright, except the stinger snapped off, which is fine, I will attempt to glue that back on somehow... there's always a way
)
And for the misc screws / dogbones etc, I'll do what I've always done: using a vice to hold it down, carefully hammer it back into straightness again, as far as the naked eye can detect.
Being my basher car, and I never race or do anything competitive, I have no need to have a mechanically perfect rig.
The only thing I can't fix is the snapped fuel tank. I THINK I can CA glue the cracks back together, but I suspect that any future little bump will cause the crakcs to reopen so that's not worth my trouble, and since fuel isn't exactly cheap.
So the repair bill comes to $23 AUD for the fuel tank
Plus my labour which I value to be $400/hr
Ahh well such is the hobby.
Tonight I was driving and I smashed my rs4 into a concrete wall at probably 40mph
But not like what you think, I actually smashed it into the side of the wall, onto the edge where the wall ends
i.e.
wall
====== <-- [:::] rs4
But there's more. I hit it such that the right 20% of my car absorbed all of it. As a result, my right front arm snapped right off, I have a shattered fuel tank, and my tuned pipe is mangled. Also the right front wheel's outdrive is bent, I have several bent dogbones and bent screws here and there.
Now, a reasonable person in my position would replace the three parts I mentioned above as well as the misc parts such as bent screws etc. But being on a student budget I've decided to fix what I can using what I have available.
For the front arms, I've CA glued it back together. Now it seems like the CA joint is even stronger than the rest of the arm lol.
I will carefully hammer my tuned pipe back into shape (the manifold is mangled actually, the tuned pipe is alright, except the stinger snapped off, which is fine, I will attempt to glue that back on somehow... there's always a way
)And for the misc screws / dogbones etc, I'll do what I've always done: using a vice to hold it down, carefully hammer it back into straightness again, as far as the naked eye can detect.
Being my basher car, and I never race or do anything competitive, I have no need to have a mechanically perfect rig.
The only thing I can't fix is the snapped fuel tank. I THINK I can CA glue the cracks back together, but I suspect that any future little bump will cause the crakcs to reopen so that's not worth my trouble, and since fuel isn't exactly cheap.
So the repair bill comes to $23 AUD for the fuel tank
Plus my labour which I value to be $400/hr
Ahh well such is the hobby.
