Why I didn't get to FITP [blowout pic uploaded!]
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Why I didn't get to FITP [blowout pic uploaded!]
Hi everyone!
Sorry I didn't make it to FITP - I was on my way there when I managed to blow a tyre out (doing 125) on the M25 when I hit a bump, took off and landed too hard on the lowered front suspension. It pushed the piece of wing which holds the wheel arch liner into the tyre cutting it around the edge of the tyre wall!
Luckily I managed to keep hold of it and pulled over to the hard shoulder - I was somewhere in Hertfordshire at the time and didn't really fancy turning up in an RS with 3 15" wheels and one scabby 14" steel!
Oh well - there's always next year!
I'd spent the whole day before getting my audioscape speaker pods and PS2 with screen installed - sod's law!
Hope you all had a good time and I'll see you at the next big event (Ford Fair?).
Cheers,
Andy
Here's the picture of the tyre after the incident:
I've ordered 2 new Yoko's to go on it and I've got my mate re-setting up the suspension (and grinding away most of the inside of the wheelarches!) so that it won't be happening again (next time I'll have to get over 130 on that bump!)
Sorry I didn't make it to FITP - I was on my way there when I managed to blow a tyre out (doing 125) on the M25 when I hit a bump, took off and landed too hard on the lowered front suspension. It pushed the piece of wing which holds the wheel arch liner into the tyre cutting it around the edge of the tyre wall!
Luckily I managed to keep hold of it and pulled over to the hard shoulder - I was somewhere in Hertfordshire at the time and didn't really fancy turning up in an RS with 3 15" wheels and one scabby 14" steel!
Oh well - there's always next year!
I'd spent the whole day before getting my audioscape speaker pods and PS2 with screen installed - sod's law!
Hope you all had a good time and I'll see you at the next big event (Ford Fair?).
Cheers,
Andy
Here's the picture of the tyre after the incident:
I've ordered 2 new Yoko's to go on it and I've got my mate re-setting up the suspension (and grinding away most of the inside of the wheelarches!) so that it won't be happening again (next time I'll have to get over 130 on that bump!)
Last edited by andyhardy on Tue May 20, 2003 6:22 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Why I didn't get to FITP
andyhardy : Luckily I managed to keep hold of it
fookin well lucky, my mate had a blow out doin 65 and he wrote his car off crashing in2 the central reservation!!!
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