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PostPosted: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 2:29 +0000 
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So lets play a game. Lets say it's early morning, Heavy rain and you decide to try drift your car round the corner at your housing estate. hyperthetically speaking you skid and go onto a crub and into a tree with the front right.

So you take your car to your dive way and look at it. Here's what you see.
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What parts do you think needs to be replaced. hyperthetically speaking ;) :'( :'(

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PostPosted: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 3:03 +0000 
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You don't wanna do that. Drifting in a housing estate?!? That's not just bad boy behaviour, but :twisted:
Remember the rally-driving course in Monaghan. You never approach a bend with exccessive speed as this is the result. Speed comes after your car is lined up into the bend, not before.
PS only 1 part needed to fix this. New driver. :lol:

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PostPosted: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 3:40 +0000 
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OOoops crunchy.... :oops:
Sorry to see man :evil: . Just remember you're no Lewis Hamilton and try NEVER to make the same mistake twice...life is a learning curve !

Hope you get fixed up soon and get back out there zooming.....safely....!!

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PostPosted: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 4:15 +0000 
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Hypothetically speaking it would probably cost a fair bit ot time and money to put right....but thankfully it's only a game. I mean, for this to happen I wonder what speed the driver would have to be doing - probably in excess of the limit for a built up area (and not to mention the old addage "slow in, fast out" when taking a bend). I would say much more of this game would lead to a the council putting in hypothetical speed bumps, and maybe even the RSA calling for speed cameras, in housing estates. :shock:


Hope it gets sorted out as painlessly as possible!


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In reality I believe you skided to avoid a dog that came out of nowwhere. Ring your insurance company and get a decent garage to sort it out.

Or else replace the whole corner (wing, suspension, wishbones, ball joints and steering rods with a second hand ones).
Then get a new wheel and tyre, if you are taking the hit its not going to be cheap.

Count yourself lucky that there wasn't a child in front of the tree. You got off lightly.


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PostPosted: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 5:12 +0000 
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new/used wishbones,
alignment bolts,
wheel,
tyre,
wing,
possibly the shock,

tie rod looks ok.. no harm in changing the tie rod end while you are at it..


see bottom of this page for bits :
http://www.autolinkmx5.com/suspension-p ... 2-29-c.asp

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PostPosted: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 6:13 +0000 
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Well I would say the stupid idiot wish did this :cry: only did it because he could see for 10 meters all around. And only increased his speed to kick the back out for the corner. Just did it a few seconds early. It wasn't that fast. But The person who we wont mention feels really foolish :( but atleast has a nice big project to keep him off the roads :(

Oh and thanks for the advice.

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PostPosted: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 6:26 +0000 
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Cloggy wrote:
You don't wanna do that. Drifting in a housing estate?!? That's not just bad boy behaviour, but :twisted:
Remember the rally-driving course in Monaghan. You never approach a bend with exccessive speed as this is the result. Speed comes after your car is lined up into the bend, not before.
PS only 1 part needed to fix this. New driver. :lol:



Yes, SADRIVER, listen to your grand-dad and don't do it iagain !

But to try and answer your post, you're best just getting a package deal on some alloys from a scrapper, plus A-Arms, ARB end links and possibly the hub. Give MazdaMeathMan a shout. It's not the end of the world, this stuff is easily fixeable apart from the wheel rims. I'd say even the shocks are okay as there's some flex in their mounts anyway.

Because MX5s are so cheap now, an insurance company would probably write the car off if the damage is > e700

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Ouch, PM sent, Paul

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DaStig wrote:
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Excellent Ollie - They say a picture can save a thousand words......that just about sums it up.


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Jsus D if it had been pissin rain in that story, it probably would'nt have helped - hey don't forget to change the oil fliter when your down there !!

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If you need to borrow any tools for the job PM me. I have a set of spring compressors, ball joint separator, torque wrench and a jig for removing wishbone bushes


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Hard luck man, no biggie I think, parts should be gettable cheaply enough - only hard part will be a matching wheel for the other 4.

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PostPosted: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:35 +0000 
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Update:

I've talk to MazdaMeathMan and he had a look at the car. His thoughts are that the subframe is damaged and the spring.

So I have a few options.

option 1: buy a second green mx5(same spec) off mazdaMeathMan which has damage to the back end. Would coast about 1000 maybe more. And take two cars and produce one.

Option 2:Trade MazdaMeathMan my old car for him to make a one complete car out of the 2 green cars. And buy a black s-spec off him for 1800. (Which I don't have!)

Option 3: go through insurance and lose my No clams discount of 3 years and have the money to replace the car easily.

If I were to choose Option 1. Could I get maybe 4 people to come down and help me change the subframe?

Thanks everyone for the help!

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