Beware of bad/old tires on wet roads! I'm okay and no one else was involved, so that's good...

the bad news:

I spun around twice on the 101 and ended up flying through the bushes in the center divide at 60 mph... Really scary. The car held up really well, but the paint job is destroyed, also destroyed my right front strut and knocked off my right mirror....

I had the front strut replaced- but now since its new metal in there, its making a whining noise between 1k-2k rpms... That along with my right mirror was 1000$ then, the car is scratched over 90% of the body and so that is another roughly 7000$ to repaint and refinish! ouch! Thank god for insurance...

Anyways... just thought I'd let ya'll know how much it costs for even minor pain repairs, but at least they'll paint over all those paint chips that I already had

Oh yeah, I'm buying rain resistant new tires and rims... potenza re 730's this time on smith twister wheels. I'm gonna have a new car almost! new paint, new tires, new rims, new right mirror

Be careful out there!
hawaiihs

 

Sorry about that!


But yeah, congratulation with your new tires though.....

 

Ouch

 

hawaiihs: sorry to hear about the wipe-out.

eortiz15: you must have the only jetsam maxima. and I thought I was lucky when I found a starfish!

 

well at least u wont have the crappy paint anymore, but other than that glad ur ok

 

Sucks! Main thing is that you're okay... live to drive another day...

 

geeeeeeeezus this is like a bad time for maximas....we need to hide them in our garages untill summer!

 

Gee I never knew paint jobs cost so much?!!? Does that mean If I wanted to paint my car another color I have to shell out $7000 bucks?!!!? Is there a difference between a factory like finsh and the one done buy a local body shop who quoted me $2500 to paint the car?
Heck macco will paimt the whole car for about $500(sh1ity job though)

 

 

Wish I had a garage....mine sits out in the drive way. But I guess it's better than being parked in the street.

 

Sorry to hear about your car. Glad to hear you are OK though (that is most important).

I agree with you and your comments about bad tires. With my 4th Gen Maxima, I was driving along on a very lightly snow covered road at 30mph and the car just lost control and did a 360. I didn't do anything at all and was going in a straight line at a constant speed. My car had the stock tires with about 19K miles on them (they were about 50% worn out). I luckily didn't hit anything or anyone. Needless to say, I dumped those crappy tires about a week later.