Just a Warning: Don't go snow drifting
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Just a Warning: Don't go snow drifting
Well after work me and my friend decided to go have a little fun tonight, well it ended with smacking a curb straight sideways at about 5 or 10 miles per hour. Now my steering wheel is turned about 60* to the left, and my alignment is all messed up. Hope it's just an alignment problem and not something like the axle. Oh yeah, and the night isn't complete without being pulled over by the cops for doing messin around. Atleast he was cool. He did a little powerslid after NOT citing me.
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Rep Power: 0 You know I had the same problem on thursday during the snow storm. But I didn't do it on purpose like you did. I was making a left turn and my car skidded and hit a curb around 5-10mph too. I been driving it. It seems okay, but my steering wheel seems to be turned too. I guess I should get it checked out.
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Rep Power: 0 Well, you gotta figure doing it in about 4 different locations, for about 3 or so hours something had to happen. Atleast I didnt' get a ticket for reckless driving, that coulda made my night hella worse. Think honda will fix it under warrenty, car is 5 months old?
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Rules for Snow Drifting
-If you r doing it in your naibourhood, or just around normal road. make sure u r slow, also pull hand break early so that u over steer. if your front fits its not that big of a deal u will just go over the curb.
-If you wanna have a lot of fun. goto a mall parking or something open and have as much fun as u want in the open.
-make sure there is alot of snow, preferablly fresh, that way your wheels will not accidently hit a dry spot.
-the more snow the better because that way curbs are kinda covered with snow, so they arnt as high and your car might just drift over it instead of into it.
Snow is fun, you have to be carefull though, your car will be fine, just take it to the dealership or something
-If you r doing it in your naibourhood, or just around normal road. make sure u r slow, also pull hand break early so that u over steer. if your front fits its not that big of a deal u will just go over the curb.
-If you wanna have a lot of fun. goto a mall parking or something open and have as much fun as u want in the open.
-make sure there is alot of snow, preferablly fresh, that way your wheels will not accidently hit a dry spot.
-the more snow the better because that way curbs are kinda covered with snow, so they arnt as high and your car might just drift over it instead of into it.
Snow is fun, you have to be carefull though, your car will be fine, just take it to the dealership or something
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Rep Power: 0 ahh me and my friend had so much fun snow driting in a big open parking lot doin 180s soo much good thing thgere were no curbs but it all ends when u get pulled over 4 times in one nite but we just said we were meeting up in this parking lot each time they we went to another state and did it soo much fun i love snow 
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Why didn't you just say you hit the curb while driving. shouldn't honda cover it then?
Why didn't you just say you hit the curb while driving. shouldn't honda cover it then?
No, honda wont cover anything that happened unless its a defect in the car. Like something that goes wrong thats not supposed to happen under normal driving conditions. Driving wrecklessly in snow is not normal conditions anyway 
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ya i go snow drifting all the time is big parking lots and nevr have any problems besides the occassional stall because i forget to press the clutch back down.
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Ah, only had to pay for alignment, thank god it wasn't anything else. I had it all checked out, so no more snow drifting till the next batch of weather hits.
Ah, only had to pay for alignment, thank god it wasn't anything else. I had it all checked out, so no more snow drifting till the next batch of weather hits.
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Rep Power: 0 I doubt it that Honda's warrante includes snow driving and curbing, warrante stands for something that is a problem with the car they will fix, but the accident casued this to happen, unless u come up with a good excuse they will fix it, if its too much go to insurance I'm sure they will cover it. Just lie dude, its better than paying 500 bucks
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Rules for Snow Drifting
--If you wanna have a lot of fun. goto a mall parking or something open and have as much fun as u want in the open.
Rules for Snow Drifting
--If you wanna have a lot of fun. goto a mall parking or something open and have as much fun as u want in the open.
I went snow drifting for a few hours today, it was a lot of fun and I had no close calls. I drifted with a few FWD cars, and 1 AWD. You need to learn how to control your car better, and not lose control and hit a curb..I read way too many posts about people sliding into stuff in the snow from messing around without knowing what they are doing.
