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only a small bang but it really shook my up after inspection i have curbed my front wheels and buckled a rear wheel and mangled tyres, the impact sounded like there was alot more damage will no monday weva there is any axil damage. 
I'm afraid the MR2 is not too forgiving, if you learn out of this spend good money on good tyres before any other mods!(do Mk3's have staggered sizes like the Mk2's?)tonigmr2 wrote:Ice/grease unlikely I'm afraid it's probably just down to some crap tyres and a bit too much welly.
Glad to hear you are OK, harsh but think of it as a learning experience.
T
Very cold last night judging by all the gritters I spotted on my travels home from work! Having said that I couldn't agree more regarding the need for some good quality tyres. Bad weather or not! 
tonigmr2 wrote:Ice/grease unlikely I'm afraid it's probably just down to some crap tyres and a bit too much welly.
always ice/diesel/oil/etc on the road whenever anyone crashes *cough*- it's surprisingly easy to get the rear end out on the relatively underpowered Mk3 - I seem to manage it every night leaving work (blind junction, so I can't hang about otherwise I might get t-boned by someone), and it's especially easy at this time of year - cold tyres, damp air, extremely cold road surfaces all add up to mean very little grip when you first start your journey.(standard there is a 30mm stagger in width on the pre '03 cars, I forget what it is on post '03)essexgirlracer wrote:what a bad end to a wicked cruise last night in chelmsford, was one of the last cars 2 leave the car park, just left and was drivin down the road, went round riund about fine drivin straight doin 20 or 30, hit some ice and grease, my car started snakin across two lanes, did 360 spin, hit central reservation rear end spun round and smart the concrete kerb then stop, was sittin across 2 lanes of traffic, checked my sis was ok jumped out my car started throwin up and couldnt breath, luckly one of my v good mates was few cars behind and he moved my car into a car park, where i left it over night.
was gettin tyre prices told my brand they told m,e they were v cheap budget tyres so not surprised i lost it, think i will get some decent ones, can anyone recommend some? well i need 2 buy a new wheel to my poor lensos
Hope the damage is easily fixable and you're ok.- forgot to add - you may well find that the rear track control arm(s) is bent and needs replacing, but that's cheap enough, and potentially the same goes for the front track rods depending on how hard you clouted the kerb.(Jap GT300) over on MR2ROC if you need bits, as he'll very likely have them in or know where to get them at a decent price."I was putting my foot down way too much to catch up with the other cars, and suddenly hit a patch of TARMAC!"'Essexgirlracer' says it all. 
willies wrote:Sorry, but the fact you call yourself
-*- Mk2 Turbo Rev2 -*- Mk1 NA -*- Mk2 Turbo Rev 3 = all gone!"Cruisey, Sporty, more innovation, more adult. A Man In Dandism. Powered mid-ship specialty."DannyW wrote:Some people on here make me sick, when you crash your cars i'll be sure to jump straight in and tell you how stupid you were!
Toys.. everywhere! Careful where you step, folks.single person call her stupid, nor anything even remotely close.driver error than ice/grease/a disturbance in the force.L0rdMike wrote:If I crash my car I think I can be responcible enough to admit it was my fault.
I can tell you now that every time the back end of my car has come out it has been down to one thing and one thing only:(too much throttle, too much speed, too agressive with the wheel < pick one.)Nige wrote:Anyone else want to have a twist of the knife?
'knife twisting' going on - merely some honesty. Wonder if people would be leaping to the defence if the original poster had been male? .L0rdMike wrote:If I crash my car I think I can be responcible enough to admit it was my fault.
You don't have to be pushing it all that hard to get the back out should you hit ice and I would bet vast numbers from this site would struggle to gain control in such a case 
After all we're only human, well some of us at least. I've had my doubts about that Mark Edwards fello for some time now! (he eats tent pegs for god sake!) 
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Hope you get the car sorted Maz, and buy some good tyres! 
Nige wrote:willies wrote:Sorry, but the fact you call yourself
Nice to see some compassion on here for a fellow MR2 owner in an accident.
We all make mistakes, so I doubt if she'll do the same manouvre again.
Anyone else want to have a twist of the knife?
You have to admit that it clearly doesn't stack up - driving sensibly at 20mph in a straight line and then suddenly snaking all over the road and doing a complete 360 spin into the crash barrier doesn't add up!'open plan' carpark at work over Christmas (yes, had to work :/) purposely doing >30 whilst being silly with throttle & handbrake, even in those conditions I struggled to turn the car through a full 360! Even under these circumstances I *do* feel sorry for her, we've all been silly at the wrong moment, some of us are luckier than others though and get away with it. But the point the others are making is why not just come clean about how it happened, people would be far more compassionate if they could see the person admitted to a mistake and now had to deal with their loss.- "I was trundling along at 29mph and suddenly hit some frozen black diesel, for some unknown reason my turbo then generated full boost and I rolled the car 9 times, slid on my roof for 2 miles before coming to rest in a ditch. Pesky ice!"