SVM 286
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ed
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Tracking check is free, may aswell get it done cos it gets knocked out way easy.
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Robin
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yeah, but its a VAG car, i cant see it being knocked out at 5mph, on full lock, clipping a curb
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SVM 286
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Tracking is very easy to affect with even a low speed bump because the weight of the vehicle has such leverage.
To bend a drive shaft though, you'd need to bend everything else before it first, and essentially write the car off.
If you've got a bent drive shaft, your car won't go, and chances are you're in a coma in the I.C.U. of your nearest hospital aswell.
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Robin
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good point
i battered a curb at 45 degrees, and 35mph, with locked wheels, after sideswiping a pheasent and aquaplaning through a puddle, and i didnt bend anything, tracking was spot on, wheels, tyres, everything, fine
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SVM 286
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SVM 286
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On my way home in my Cavalier from Brands after watching a BTCC round in the summer of 1993, I had to swerve up a kerb onto a few inches of grass that was fitted with a steel and concrete rail, in order to avoid a much nastier accident.
I destroyed the front bumper, the N.S.F. indicator, two wheels, two tyres, the front wing, the back door, the door mirror, the front wheel bearing, the track rod, the roll bar link, and I folded the wishbone IN HALF.
The driveshaft was absolutely undamaged though.
You would have to kill yourself and knock the earth off of it's axis to bend a driveshaft.
[Edited on 16-06-2006 by SVM 286]
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