To tell you the truth, if ANY CAR ENTHUSIAST sold their car to somebody who manages to destroy it in a month, they’d be pissed too… :axe: to all bad drivers.
sil_eightyRPS13 hit the head on the nail with this one, I’d be out to kill whoever destroyed my car after I sold it.
i totally agree with the both of you but was it my fault that the guy or girl cut me off forcing me into the curb and then drove away?
dude you dont exactly have a strong argument…first you hit a parked car because you “slid” (drifted) around a corner and then you get a stunting ticket for fucking around in a resedential area…and now this…at least have the balls to admit youve been fucking around, i bought my car from your buddy to bag and thats what i did i beat the shit out of it and sold it…which is what you should do if you were smart…just my drunken ramble :finga:
i agree save the drifting and fucking around for the track, next thing you know you’ll hit an innocent. i don’t know about you guys but kings park speedway here in regina lets anyone go on the track on tuesdays, a bunch of guys get together and set up pilons and shit, only thing you need is a car and a helmet.
All i have to say is that there are places to slide and places to drive sane. Josh you really shouldn’t slide around evey residential corner, wait for the right time and place and go somewhere no one is. Or even wait for bud park this summer
Come do it in my neighborhood! Rich people here are too busy screwing everyone else’s wife to care about drifting! 
j/k
Bad luck about the car, dude. Have you got an estimate to fix it yet?
no i dont have an estimate yet
rob: werent you the one who suggested to go drifting cause there was no one at the meet and were also sliding with me in the residentials?
and to everyone: you are missing the whole point to this…everyone keeps saying o stop the drifting when I was the one cut off and forced into the curb during normal driving conditions…so why is everyone giving me a hard time?
Everyone fucks up when they first get a sports car, but not everyone learns from their mistakes (i think thats waht people are trying to get at). I know it only took me 2 weeks to get a stunting ticket and my car impounded when i first started driving my car.
PS NO MORE DAMN DRUNKEN POSTS. :roll:
well ok i can see if people are telling me to learn from my mistakes but seriously why give me trouble for someone cutting me off? wut mistake did i make to have this happen?
I believe you turned the key to start the car…that was your problem.
Seriously though, if you have a past history of stunting people will think your next accident will be because you were stunting there. Think about it like this, it’s like crying wolf.
Still sucks to get into an accident, your fault or no. But don’t sell the car…you’re just ironing out the problems with it. 
I said to wait till later and go in an industrial area. Not down road with cars parked on it. and yes i slid a little but nothin crazy. But anyways if you get a list of parts you need i will see what i can do.
IMO from all of your “bad luck” it just seems like you don’t have enough experience for that kind of car, especially the RWD RHD part. Maybe it’d be better to lay off driving it for a bit and concentrate more on something easier to drive for the next little while.
edit> I’m in no way a perfect driver either, but it took a LOT of accidents for me to know my limits. Easiest way to not get in accidents is SLOWING DOWN :? took me awhile to get that one.
Driving a rwd turbo car in the winter isnt always east. It takes experience. You can’t bag the shit out of it when its slippery. I have been cut off countless times, as I am sure everyone has, but our cars havent been driven into trees. Bottom line is, it was a single vehicle accident, and the majority of those are due to the person behind the wheel, not an outside influence.
Josh: Sucks about your car man. If its still drivable, bring it to the shop and we’ll put it on the hoist and give you an estimate. I should have most of the parts to repair the suspension (the stock parts at least)
And my 2 cents:
I’ve been driving for over 10 years, and I’ve only owned 1 FWD. All the others were RWD. Since I’ve been driving, I’ve never gotten into an accident, and I do drive my vehicles “spiritedly” Anyway. Point is, I have always watched other drivers around me to see what they are doing, and I have gotten fairly good at predicting what another driver is going to do by watching their vehicle or the person driving. I’ve been cut off countless number of times, but I’ve been able to avoid possible collisions either by nailing the horn, slowing the hell down, or simply getting into the next lane. I always keep an “escape route” open somewhere so I can avoid something that could happen. My method works because I’ve been driving quite a while now without any problems. (Also being a parts driver for a while) Being working with Sumaru’s for so long, that of course I’ve learned to drive my cars hard, and have had my fun on the streets. Just tonight, I had my truck in an awesome 4-wheel-drift near my house, but I take care to make sure there isn’t anything to possibly hit if the stunt goes wrong, as well as making sure the stunt isn’t too radical that if something went wrong and I hit a curb, the result would be a damaged rim.
Anyway, like I said, that was my 2 cents.
Ya, it’s coming up on 6 years of driving for me, and like Cory said, defensive driving is your best bet.
I’ve been driving since I was 11 (Imagine how big a '89 Lincoln Towncar seems when you’re that age :D… I’m 25 now), and I’ve never been into an accident either. That’s not to say I haven’t had a few close calls or made some mistakes of my own.
I think the cause of most accidents is drivers being caught out by something - whether it is another driver swerving into your lane or sliding on a patch of ice. The point is, as others have said here, to pay attention to as much as you can while you’re driving. No one is perfect, and our minds are totally incapabale of keeping track of absolutely everything going on around us - which is good, because otherwise we’d be totally unable to perform useful tasks.
So, when drivers are approaching your car from any angle, watch their body language and car placement. People, for example, tend to let their car drift slightly towards the direction they’re turning/changing lanes towards. More often than not they’ll look the way they want to go, even if it’s not a shoulder check. If you watch for these cues you’ll often be able to predict what another driver is likely to do before they do.
One other thing I’ve noticed in Edmonton is how terrible people are at sitting in blind spots. If you’re beside someone and you know they can’t see you, speed up or slow down so they can see your car, which they should be less prone to run into then.
If you’re interested in performance driving, I’ll recommend two books to you. One is called “Drive to Survive” by Curt Rich (or let me know the next meet you’re attending, I have it), and any other book that teaches safe motorcycling principles. Why the motorcycle books? Because they often stress the importance of anticipation and accurate vehicle placement to avoid incidents - after all, crashing a motorcycle could well end up in your death, so serious technique is required to avoid this.
One last tip - avoid target fixation. Target fixation is commonly used by police driver trainers to describe looking at an object in the path or intended path of your vehicle. What you need to do in an emergency situation is to look WHERE YOU WANT YOUR VEHICLE TO GO, not at what you are driving towards. Our hands follow our eyes, so if you fixate on something, odds are you’ll hit it - be it a cone, car, or a kid running in the street. Obviously, you have to train yourself not to do this before that knowledge is required. I’m terrible for this, and I’ve been training myself to avoid doing this by using a combination of GT4 and actively practicing on the road.
Other than that - practice practice practice. Especially at a young age, everyone is a terrible driver. It takes experience to learn what other drivers will do and how to react to avoid bad situations. Sorry for the long post.
Yeah target fixation is horrible. I didnt realize how bad I was with it until I tried those drag races in NFSU2. You are going through the trainwards and stuff, if you focus on the train, you will hit it. If you focus on the gap where you need to direct your car into, you’ll make it through.
I could not have said it better. One day i was cruising with my friend and he is driving beside the truck. It is just behind the cab and then the truck decided to change lanes. It was a scary moment. A 21.5 Inch tire commin at you while you are shotgun in a Fiesta. Just take your time and expect the worst from others.
I should think any other car on the road coming within 500 feet of you would be scary in a Fiesta. I’ve noticed those big truck drivers are terrible at shoulder checking and are too agressive. I was following a friend a while back, and this chick in a TrailBlazer decided she was going to change lanes. She didn’t shoulder check, so he lays on the horn to let her know he was there. One problem…
SHE KEPT COMING. She actually FORCED her way into the lane because he was driving a small car and she had a big bloody truck. Anyway, so watch out for those truck drivers because there are some ignorant pricks out there.