Whats the scariest thing that happened with you and your Celica? Options

[nics]

A cop hit me...

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otherwise 2 oversteers..

lift off oversteer downhill in a canyon run. 1dry and 1 wet.

no damage except from the cop car

[razor7]

There's a turn by my house that's banked really nicely, but is practically a 90 degree turn. You can't tell that it's like that till you're right on top of it as well. I was on my way to pick up a CDJ (I used to spin Minimal Tech/Deep House) and passed up a slow driver in the far right lane. There's also a 530, some infinity, and a civic all surrounding me with about 20-50 feet in between us.

I was on the inside lane, took it at 83 (40 is around the normal people take it at) and didn't take it correctly. I realized that my entry was too fast when I saw my lane make a sudden turn to the right, so I hit the brakes and continued to try and get through the turn. I got through about 60% before my crap tires lost traction (cooper touring) and my back end spun wide. I corrected, but was too hard on the brakes and got it to lose more traction while it slid to the right and spun me all the way around. I remember looking the 530 driver in the eyes, him giving me this perplexed and scared look. I then missed the other cars by a safe distance and slid into a guard rail at about 20. Since I still had the wheel turned to the left, my front passenger tire hit the railing causing me to bounce off a little. I sat there, shooken up, and decided to at least get the car off of the off ramp, so I started it back up, put it in gear, and turned it around. To my surprise, it drove pretty well, just had an alignment issue, so I decided to pull into a parking lot to check it out.

Thanks to my wheel being turned, I saved all damage to my door and quarter panel; all the damage was sustained in the tire and passenger fender. I freaked out when I saw it, but honestly it's just a 12" crease and bubble in the lip with no damage to the paint, you can't even notice it unless it's pointed out. Unfortunately when I pulled away I scraped the quarter panel on the rail and burned some of the paint, but it's an easy fix with a little work and blending.

It was a crappy moment indeed, I got a quote for $3,000 to get it fixed up by Cal West. They are supposed to be the best around, but I got orange peel on my paint after they fixed it from the drunk driver who ran into it when parked. I actually have some friends that work at BMW who do body work on ferraris and lambos who said they'll do it for pretty cheap, just need to find a good couple days.

These pictures were taken after the accident. As you can see, I really really really got lucky in how I hit that rail.





Oh, and I never got the CDJ, the guy never showed...

-TC

This post has been edited by razor7: Aug 12, 2009 - 2:16 AM

[screamingchicken]

This is easy, since I've only had my Celica a week:


bought the car with bad tires, I was driving on a wet mountain road I'd never been on before, came up upon a sharp blind curve. Well... I didn't realize how sharp it was, so I downshifted to power around the curve (this car is too much fun to drive), and then I saw it. Much more of a curve then it looked, and I was heading right towards a bunch of big rocks some rich guy put out front of his property (so people would run into them, said the tow truck driver). I tried to brake, but the wheels locked up, and I went right into one of the rocks. Ouch. Good news is it will be back on the road in a few weeks.

[richee3]

First things first...



Crappy cell phone picture. The girl on the right looks better in person, the girl on the left looks much, much worse.

I went to a movie one night and these two girls happened to be there. I'm not really friends with either of them, but I know them. My movie got out at 12:30 in the morning, and as I walked to my car, I didn't know they were behind me. Just as I put my key in my door to unlock my car, the girl on the right grabbed my ribs, trying to tickle me. I seriously thought I was getting mugged, so I threw my left elbow back as hard as I could, seriously looking to knock somebody out or at least buy some time. As I made contact, I turned around and leaned up against my car, and I saw the girl on the right laying on the ground holding her eye. I say my car key laying on the ground, so I thought I never got it in the lock and dropped it. Here's the scary part... While I was making Brianna feel better, I saw the girl on the left get in my car and try to take it!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She grabbed my key from the ground and was trying to steal my car!!! Lucky me, when I turned around though, my fat butt broke the key off in the door so she couldn't take it anywhere. I was s***ing bricks though when I saw her in my car. Scary.

Man, there have been some terrible things happen in Celicas... I'm disappointed to see that there have been this many posts in this thread.

[SwissFerdi]

...some girl tried to steal your car? That's crazy.

[Rymaster]

Note to self: Take no turns at 60mph while it's sleeting.


Slid into the next lane. I would've been fine but a van was in the oncoming lane, so I swerved to avoid the head on collision and slid on the sleet, hit a tree on the front right of the car, did a 180 and hit another tree with my driver's door. Was prolly traveling around 35ish when I impacted. Fun Fun, hehe

This post has been edited by Rymaster: Aug 12, 2009 - 11:28 PM

[richee3]

...some girl tried to steal your car? That's crazy.

I know who she is, but still... I can't even describe her. She never shuts up. She's always asking me to go on a date with her. She's 17 and already had 2 miscarriages. And when I saw her in my car, I seriously freaked out. Thank god she's too slow to even figure out how to start a 5 speed. I guess I'm really lucky that this is the scariest thing that has ever happened to me and my Celi But the deer coming through my driver's side window was a close second.

Note to self: Take no turns at 60mph while it's sleeting.

.......

Slid into the next lane. I would've been fine but a van was in the oncoming lane, so I swerved to avoid the head on collision and slid on the sleet, hit a tree on the front right of the car, did a 180 and hit another tree with my driver's door. Was prolly traveling around 35ish when I impacted. Fun Fun, hehe

Ouch.... Doesn't quite sound like fun

This post has been edited by richee3: Aug 13, 2009 - 9:53 AM

[mmmchocolate]

a couple of nights ago i was at my friends just watching movies, and i fell asleep. at like 12am. my friend then woke me up at 130am saying there was 3 cars parked around my car. so i go look out the window and sure enough there was a civic, neon, and integra. there were probably 8 guys that got out and were walking around my car, looking at it and just talking. they were there for like 5 minutes and the entire time i was ****ting bricks. then they left and nothing happened. but i am NEVER going back to his house. ive never been so scared-for my celica that is-

they could have been admiring it or it was the previous owner or some gang wanting to steal my red steering wheel cover that is UBER ghetto. either way. i hope that never happens again!

[mafix]

worst thing i've had happen was at 110mph around a turn...sideways. first FWD i've ever been in that fishtailed.

[SwissFerdi]

a couple of nights ago i was at my friends just watching movies, and i fell asleep. at like 12am. my friend then woke me up at 130am saying there was 3 cars parked around my car. so i go look out the window and sure enough there was a civic, neon, and integra. there were probably 8 guys that got out and were walking around my car, looking at it and just talking. they were there for like 5 minutes and the entire time i was ****ting bricks. then they left and nothing happened. but i am NEVER going back to his house. ive never been so scared-for my celica that is-

they could have been admiring it or it was the previous owner or some gang wanting to steal my red steering wheel cover that is UBER ghetto. either way. i hope that never happens again!

I would've grabbed a bat and started swinging. That's weird as hell.

[95CelicaST]

My experience was a couple years ago. It was in December, and I was heading to work. Where I lived at the time it was much faster for me to drive the backroads, so this one particular cold winter morning, I was driving to work, when all of a sudden 3 or 4 horses ran out in front of me. I slammed on the brakes and locked the wheels up and missed the last horse by a few inches. It's hoof was over the hood of my car as I slid past them. I slid to a stop and got out to look for the horses, and they were gone.

Better than this happening.

[trdproven]

when my car was auto, and I got it back from the paint booth, the tranny was acting crazy. It wouldn't shift correctly, it wouldn't shift sometimes, or it would miss 2nd gear or it would go into neutral while driving. but thats all in the past with the manual conversion.

[easternpiro1]

here is my goodbye thread lol i was so dejected....ninja turtle #1 dead




but the GOOD NEWS IS.... im back! sorta.... lol



This post has been edited by easternpiro1: Aug 16, 2009 - 11:50 AM

[96bluevert]

worst thing i've had happen was at 110mph around a turn...sideways. first FWD i've ever been in that fishtailed.

It's really not that difficult to fishtail a FWD car, happened to me in my Oldsmobile taking a turn too fast. In a hurry+ rain= don't mix.

I don't know that you guys should be posting the speeds you were going in this thread. Doesn't really make the 6gc scene or this site look good.

[SwissFerdi]

Well, he's pretty much an idiot for driving 110 on what I'm assuming is a), a public road, and b), a place where a car shouldn't be driven at that speed anyway.

[Euphoria]

Was driving in heavy fog at the speed limit but obviously too fast for the conditions just before the corner I see HUGE tree blocking the whole road, both sides, I couldn't even see over the top of it, anyway I locked up and was going slowly towards it and I couldn't do anything other than go straight into it, probably hit it at about 5-10kph, I had about 10 metres to stop lol.

other than that, have had the odd oversteer moment, hit oil once. Celicas stock are quite a safe car and are pretty hard to get into oversteer but it still happens.

[mafix]

yes i was driving that speed where i shouldn't have been. it was very early in the morning and nobody to be seen. you guys don't know me too well but i have damn close to a fully built car. i noramlly don't do things like the above but it was one of those times i wasn't thinking. at any rate this was in dry weather at a moderate temperature.

[reclaimerx1]

when i had my '93 st i was going to UTI in Illinois i was on my way back from bestbuy. as i was heading north on a boulevard in the number two lane when someone heading south decided to turn left. and instead of looking right for traffic he looked left, and started to pull out. about fifty feet from him i slam on my brakes locking all four wheels up and sliding into him at about 40-45 mph. after the impact the first thing i remember was not being able to breath and then i realized that my steering wheel looked weird, and then it hit me, HOLY SH*T I WAS JUST IN A CRASH. after i turn my car off, yes it was still running and popped out of fourth, i roll out of the seat and shakily stand up i see that when i hit the other guy i pushed his car 15 feet up a curb and into a street sign... yea my car totaled his car, which was a '99 sonata, totaled. i never want to go through that again. oh and the guy i hit was fine except for a broken nose, i was just shaken up but ok.

the other one i have takes place in Illinois again this time with my '97 st, i was leaving a parking lot at night onto a main road, when the traffic cleared i pulled up to see if anyone was coming but it was hard to see past the car that was next to me turning left so i kept creeping forward and didnt see anything so i started to pull out when out of the corner of my eye i see a light, fu*k, as i look to my left i see in slow motion a motorcycle, triumph? touring type bike, hit my driver front wheel and the bike bucks them off the driver of the bike lands on my hood and his, girlfriend/wife i dont know, flew over him and landed in front of my car. i had to crawl out my driver window because the bike was pinning my door shut to see if they were ok, they were fine just a few scrapes. i still have the car needed to have the rim refurbished, the fender, wheel well liner replaced and an alignment done.

those would have to be the two scariest things that have happened to me

[ajmorris1977]

some woman pulled a u-turn in front of me while i was doing about 55 mph, not very scary except i saw her 8 year old little girl looking out the back window at me as i realized there was no way i was going to miss her.....





but i didn't mind too much after as it lead to my rebuild to what it is today.

[lilgreenyoda]

I'd say it was the time a Dodge Durango almost ramped on top of my driver side... with me in it. But he hit a tree at the last minute. I bout **** a purple brick sideways.