I was running late for work today. So I was running 110mph down a fairly hilly road, and my car was hit by a pretty hard wind gust.. It pushed me out of my lane and into the grass. I get the car back road bound (90mph) and begin to slow.

I'm hearing a loud rubber on plastic grinding/whinning noise. I stop and go to the passenger driver side wheel well and find the front peice that goes underneath the right side nose/fog light, and front part of the wheel well, has wrapped itself up behind my tire.

Is there a history of these peices falling off during moderate extreme speeds? Or was it the wind gust that did it?

I've now got a large hole in the panel, which I hope won't hurt anything

 

It sounds like your wheel hopped and took out the splash guard...

 

you hit the curb, or if there was no curb-your tire dug into the soft mud & subsequently your front corner dug in & ripped?

 

that thing is held in place with a screw and a pop-thing. so either the screw was missing and/or the pop-thing failed, or max_tl is correct and when you managed to get into the grass, your car dug in or skimmed something and it ripped out.

i seriously doubt it was the high speeds. saving you the typical "why are you going 110" statements, you would have to have been going SO fast that you literally rip a screw out of its threads and pull apart that pop-thing. you must have hit something.

 

The splash guard did the same thing with my 4th gen. Kinda weird but a $30 fix.

~THT

 

$30 fix from a junkyard or dealership? j/w the part #

 

From Jerry Rome Nissan. PN is 64838-40500

~THT

 

mine got pulled out of place by going thru snow, i havent replaced it yet, just stuck it back up ,a dn all is good now

 

slow down...

 

Why where you doing 110Mph for.........especially on a hilly area.....

 

you were going too slow, next time go about 20mph faster, and the guard should hook a little better to your z rated tires and rip completely off, and you can just keep rolling.....

 

110MPH: I was being silly, trying to get to work on time. No good reason, for sure.

I didnt hit anything, and the grass was wet from rain. I never felt a shake aside from the wind gust. Seems like something bellow just failed. I did notice with closer inspection that the front bumper had been painted. You think its possible some of the screws weren't put back in place?