Clunk, pop, stop.

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Wed 6 Aug 2008 15:17
Clunk, pop, stop. - FotheringtonThomas
A car (newish small Renolt) passed quickly by in a 30 limit, around a sharp blind 90 degree LH turn, out of sight.

Clunk! POP!! Silence.

A quick jog around the corner revealed that matey had oversteered, hit the kerb, come back off the pavement onto the road, swerved around a parked car, and stopped, again partially on the pavement.

A youth was just getting out.

It was his car.

It had a chewed up (rim damage) & probably scrap nearside front alloy.

It hav a very dubious looking tyre, pinched by the impact.

Smoke and small flakes of stuff billowed from the drivers door as he emerged.

On opening the passenger door, the outside of the seat was seen to be ripped along the side at upper arm level, and a flaccid airbag waved folornly in the breeze. Rather more smoke from the explosion and more bits of stuff billowed out, it looked as though he smoked 80 a day.


That'll learn 'im. He wouldn't change the tyre on the spot, but drove off after being exhorted to take it easy on that tyre.

Pah.
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Wed 6 Aug 2008 15:27
Clunk, pop, stop. - Ben 10
And?????
Maybe he only changed one shock,spring,brake pad,tyre since its last inspection ;-)

Oh no! sorry chaps. I've let off the starting gun again!
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Wed 6 Aug 2008 15:30
Clunk, pop, stop. - skorpio
Maybe he only changed one shock spring brake pad tyre since its last inspection ;-)
Oh no! sorry chaps. I've let off the starting gun again!

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Stop, you're making me laugh so much I nearly choked on me licquorice stick!

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Wed 6 Aug 2008 15:35
Clunk, pop, stop. - Lud
Heh heh heh...

:o}
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Wed 6 Aug 2008 16:48
Clunk, pop, stop. - FotheringtonThomas
Maybe he only changed


Maybe he, also, was was a ;-)
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Wed 6 Aug 2008 19:57
Clunk, pop, stop. - jase1
How did the airbag go off if he didn't hit anything?
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Wed 6 Aug 2008 20:52
Clunk, pop, stop. - jbif
How did the airbag go off if he didn't hit anything?

In that case, how did he come to a halt?

clue: search for the word "hit" in FT's post.

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Wed 6 Aug 2008 21:45
Clunk, pop, stop. - jase1
He hit the kerb, but still had enough forward momentum to swerve around a parked car.

Should never have been enough to set the bag off.
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Thu 7 Aug 2008 00:18
Clunk, pop, stop. - FotheringtonThomas
I assume that there's some sort of accelerometer, or maybe a cruder device, that detects such a "clunk". There's not much distance between the outside of the door and the outside of the passenger, so fast acting protection seems a good idea! Old Matey will've got a decent sized bill, anyway.
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Thu 7 Aug 2008 22:52
Clunk, pop, stop. - craneboy
That tyre will be straight on ebay as "decent part worn"
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Thu 7 Aug 2008 22:53
Clunk, pop, stop. - Pugugly
And another fisherman's tale at wherever these types meet.
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