So there I am driving home from school this afternoon on the NJ turnpike. I'm doing about 75 (nothing illegal) in the left lane when all of a sudden I realize there is a little extra noise in the cabin. I check the windows, they're all up. I check the sunroof, it's closed. I turn off the radio, that noise is still there. Then all of a sudden BAAM, I ran something over. I look in my rear-view mirror to see what it was and I see my front lip go under another car and the jump about 6 feet into the air traveling about 75 mph. I'm in total shock. I pulled over to see if there was any damage and from what I saw in my mirror there wasn't an accident as a result of this. I just thank god that there wasn't a major accident or anything that resulted from this.

As far as the lip being secure. I've had no problems with it since I put it on sometime late last year.

 

im glad nothing catastrophic came from it


can we see pics of the mangled lip??

 

the mangled lip is somewhere that I don't know ... I was traveling at 75 mph and so was everyone else and I ended up in the middle lane, so I weighed my options - option 1) back up while on the shoulder and try and jump out into the middle lane to get it 2) say **** it and just move on

I chose option 2

 

oh, well man i'm sorry to hear that. any idea how it fell off? was it taped/bolted on too?

 

Most would be angry at this, good to see you have a sense of humor about the subjet. I would have chosen option 2 as well if I was on a highway. Hopefully ill never have to make that choice and my front lip just stays in place.

 

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ight=front+lip

 

Those were the times though...when Maxima.org used to be a community of supportive Maxima owners. Now, it's just a battle of wits and power. (Much love to kEvIn-G though )

 

no but I hit a can of beans at 80 and thought it ripped off

 

the only thing you can do is laugh and hope no one gets hurt ... i'm sure i'm not going to be getting a new one right away like craig did, but i'll get a new one in the near future

 

Bastards like YOU...cause me a cracked ninja kit, and a busted windshield. SOMEONES front lip hit me on the freeway and at 80+mph impact it isnt pretty. But yeah, sorry to hear about your loss, and i know its accidental. But yeah, mebby we need to find a better way to stick it on.

 

ure car didn't look too pretty after that

 

****, a semi ran your lip over and it was still fine? I hit a little pot hole and a huge chunk of it just cracked off right in the middle.

Andrei

 

Conrad, how did you have it mounted(held on)???

 

i never got around to putting 3M tape on (but from what i've read, it would've started to become faulty anyway) i had like 5 screws holding it on tighter than a 12 year old

 

oh well there is the problem...you should have gone with the 13 year old...much stronger

 

I knew that was coming