My introduction turns into a sad Skyline story

[RBN1]

well i was going to post something with a bit of a introduction since its been barely a month since I finally got my R32 GTS-T but unfortunately my post is going to be a bit of a sad one.

Was driving home tonight at 80km/h (the legal limit i might add) and heard a loud bang. Back of the car lurched and the car spun and the back right hand side hits a huge dip on the other side of the road backwards. (this whole incident happens in the blink of an eye)

Anyway getting out of the car its obvious that I had had a blow out. Unfortunately hitting the huge dip on the other side of the road has caused some damage and the wheel is bent at a pretty big angle now

Hopefully nothing else like the HICAS is damaged

Great just got a new clutch put in and this has to happen....

Funny part of the story is that the car following me didn't even stop and help

[Silver-Arrowz]

Sorry to hear dude.

It's ashame how people no longer lend a helping hand. Hope you get it fixed and get back on the road.

[JET-33]

any reason 4 the blowout?

hit somethin...worn tire etc

sounds harsh as, good luck gettin back into it, i myself have been without my 'line for over 5 weeks and im strugglin...need it back..this week they tell me....but who knows

[Gardo]

bad luck deo ...i guess you can be thankfull it wasnt any worse and you came out ok.

i'm guessing a rear wheel blew out? man i'm always paranoid of blowouts, for some reason i'm always driving with 1 hand and thats a big no no if something blows.

damn.

[hippy]

whats a blowout???

i've had a similar bad experience when i fist got the line ... good thing that u are ok ... cost me alot to fix too hehehe ... but u live and learn ... be thankful of that!

[Shell]

a blowout would be when your tyre bursts/pops, hippy.

I'm kinda scared of this happening to me atm, considering the state my tyres are in I need new ones badly ...

welcome deorbit

sorry it wasn't a more happy introduction

[51jay]

Hmmmm!... That's bad luck mate...... however... I'm more than a little surprised to hear that a Skyline becomes uncontrollable after a blowout at 80 kph ???

[predator]

Yup, I've had the same happen in my first car. Obviously a nail embedded in the tyre just decided it wanted to go at that moment. Not much you can do. I was lucky that there weren't too many cars on the road and a wide shoulder. At 70km/hr though its definitely scary when you just don't know what the fug has happened just that you can't steer anymore.

I ended up sliding off and knocking over a small tree. The damage wasn't too bad and i didn't really give a rats about the car too much, but I was pretty lucky. Could have been much worse if there was a big sized tree or I was in the right lane or something with other cars.

btw: You're looking at maybe a thousand or so to get what is damaged repaired (depending of course how bad it is), but at least it wasn't worse and you're on here to tell the story. HICAS isn't that important, if its damaged you can rig it up to do without.

[Baron Bohr]

Happened to me at 105km/h in the middle lane on the western ring road once... Rear tyre - not pleasant at all. Didn't loose control or anything, managed pulled over as soon as I could merge to the emergency stoppign lane - no damage to mechanicals, just the rear mudguard panel of the car damaged where a 36-inch long piece of tyre had delaminated, bent the panel then torn off and was left on the road.

Wouldn't want it to happen in again!

[51jay]

Haven't had a blowout for more than 25 years. Had two about 10 minutes apart whilst doing well over 90 miles an hour in a Triumph 2000 MD PI. No panic....no drama.. just a loud bang followed by a strong but easily controllable pull to the left. Only problem was by the time I had stopped from that speed the inertubes were totally destroyed just a collection of little rubber balls and shreds inside the tyre...........So much for modern suspensions!!!.... maybe it's the HICAS which causes problems

[51jay]

Round about that time my family and friends were in a Falcon station waggon that blew a front tyre at around 100kph.......it did 3 complete rolls ending up on it's roof....they were very lucky to survive. One reason I've always driven imports and never owned a Ford or Holden

Back to Skyline.... it drives and handles so well I just can't believe it turns into an uncontrollable heap of junk if a tyre goes flat.

or ....is the average Skyline driver incompetent???

come on guys......how about some informed comment

[Mick Trainer]

Originally posted by 51jay

Had two about 10 minutes apart whilst doing well over 90 miles an hour in a Triumph 2000 MD PI.  

I am into triumphs and owned a PI which I rebuilt and warmed up. Which Triumph was it a 2500PI or did you put the fuel injection on a 2000?

Mick.

[51jay]

The origional PI was the Mk1 body with 2.5l lucas mechanical fuel injection.

Mine actually my first of 3 or 4 was a Triumph 2000 MD an Aussie Special Edition I believe. It had chromed wire spoke wheels and an MD badge I swapped in the 2500cc PI motor and Injection. Used to piss off a lot of hotty Holdens and Falcons and blew off my mates GTS Monaro (go the V8 power!!)

The Triumph 2000 and 2500 were and still are a very underated car

[Boostzor]

Originally posted by 51jay

   Back to Skyline.... it drives and handles so well I just can't believe it turns into an uncontrollable heap of junk if a tyre goes flat.

   or ....is the average Skyline driver incompetent???

  come on guys......how about some informed comment

Yeh i was thinkin the same thing last time i blew a tyre it was pretty dam subtle and i took my time to pull over (eb falcon) the tyre was shredded, back left tyre, but i didnt do any of this crazy swerving stuff u guys are talking about. I think they design em so that its not suposed to happen cause tyres do blow quite often.

Were u yankin at the steering wheel like a cheerleaders bra or sumfin? was it wet? looks like uve been driving a few years so i wouldnt have expected u to pull a boxhead. Scary stuff if blowouts do that. U mess with ure camber/castor settings at all?

[RBN1]

Wasn't doing anything too fancy. I had just finished going up a hill and was a bit of a turn up ahead. The car ended up pointing towards the other lane after the blowout which is where it all went bad.

Hey either keep the car straight and go into on coming traffic or try and correct before I end up becoming chop suey.

Only reason why I'm alive now is because the Skyline does handle so well!

btw The rear right lower control arm is bent. Apparently around $180 to get another one. Doesn't seem to bad. Hopefully nothing else is stuffed

[hotsky]

deorbit dude, very harsh mate to hear what happened, a blowout is a worst nightmare i think, you cant prepare for it cause it just happens at any time

its bad luck after all the trouble i know you had with you clutch at the cruise, and now this

[chopobo]

worst nightmare i think that can happen is the engine blowing or running out of petrol in the middle of nowhere...

[Tosh]

howdy chopobo

[predator]

I guess the experience varies... Mine was very uncontrollable and wasn't much i can do. The totally handling of the car instantly changed and it was difficult to control. It was hard to tell in mine whether it was the actual wheel blowing first, and when it went up the curb it bent the control arm, or in fact he control arm separated, which in turn caused everything to go pear shaped. All I remember afterwards was all these people seeing whether i was ok, and this huge hissing sound as the air was pissing out.

Was quite a few years ago now, but i still remember it quite well.

[chopobo]

hiya ronin