+1000. Very much in agreement with you dude. In all honesty I think it's because it's the weekend that we have relatively few posts along the line of "you're too crap/young/stupid/inexperienced/etc. to handle the evo". Now the caveat here is that I assume that the guy wasn't drifting in front of a school or something ****-brained like that. Accidents happen and that's that. The very best thing is to learn from them and use the knowledge to reduce the chance of reoccurance or similar occurances.

LoCo4 - agreed. However, on public roads situations like this tend to require a little luck also. Not having a go at anybody in particular and all credits to you for saving it. But from personal experience, lady luck needs to be cooperative in such circumstances. Care and skills can not be subsituted, that much is certain always.

 

I agree....luck has a lot to do with it. But when you are staring a guardrail in the face (literallly), skill and experience comes in to play.

 

This is all I was saying. How many of you have gotten into water and have gone sidways in these cars. I know I have. You stay on the gas, maybe give it more to keep the rears spinning. What happens when you let off the throttle? The car grabs traction fast and goes wherever the front end is pointed, usually not a good situatuation because you have corrected the steering input to some degree whether you realize it or not. Its obvious this is what happened here. He overcorrected again...and slid into trees on the opposite side of the first impact.

Not trying to be jerk....its just what happened.

 

dude that sucks least you're ok... I can't believe you hit trees on 3 of the 4 sides of the car.

 

thanks for the comments guyzz

 

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Worf just sounds so concerned!!!! Glad you are alright man! Those situations can suck big time! I say keep your wing just to spite him! He can go to the for sale section! I know the EVO is an amazing, but no vehicle can forsee this happening and you should always be careful in all types of weather. I know you did not see that coming, but again I'm glad you are alright man! Be careful out there!

 

Just to add to that, the airbag sensors contain mercury. If the mercury is "upset" to a predetermined amount then the airbag is deployed, which would obviously be determined by the g-forces that are acting on the car during a collision. There have been causes though, which I have personally investigated, where a person runs over a parking space curb and the airbags have deployed. It was due to the mercury content of the sensor being near the location of impact and force acting upwards from running over the curb that set off the airbags.

No one probably cares but, thought I would put that out there.

 

By the looks of the damage it would appear to be a total loss. That though is dependent upon the amount of miles on the car. Insurance companies will not total a vehicle until the repairs reach 80% of the value.

If they do total the car I would be interested in buying it from you. There will be some sort of salvage value of the car that the insurance company can tell you. Don't be surprised when you see how little salvage value the car has. The insurance companies don't see it as an Evolution, they see it as a Lancer.

Again let me know.

 

Yeah its total loss.. they r sending me a check for it =o

 

oh its totalled...i did half that to the front end and mine cost 11,000 to fix. Sorry that happened.

 

Very true. However, if your rear managed to get on the grass or you are near the outer edge of the road, there's little you can do. If the sideways action is enough to get a wheel or two onto the grass/ off the road recovery is very dependent on the actual situation as well as your skills. (I suppose I try to keep it more away form the edges in the wet.) Schumacher had an incident not unlike this earlier this year, he was on his way out of a corner. Had his foot on the gas and runs slightly wide over the edge of the track - like he's done 1000 times before - but this time it just went a little too wide and soon enough he had 4 wheels on the grass and buggered his car on a mound of earth. In all cases, lifting off significantly is probably only marginally better than actually braking. What you're saying is correct, what I'm trying to say is that it's not really possible to save it everytime...

 

True, some situations aren't recoverable, you're right, especially when varying surfaces are involved.. but an F1 car is a bad example. Those tires are meant for ultimate grip. If that grip is exceeded, they break loose catastrophically and cannot regain unless the planets realign or the fat lady sings about pigs flying out of hell because it's too cold. Look at NASCAR for instance. Everyone has seen it happen, once they lose that last .001% of traction it's all over. Street tires are MUCH more forgiving and have a massive slip angle in comparison, that's why they squeal and squish so much. So a street car is worlds easier to recover than a race car. I'm not saying you're wrong, just pointing out the extreme differences in your analogy.

 

remind me never to buy white

 

is it just me or does every single evo wreck look a thousand times worst than any other car?