The Official Canadian Spotted Thread
12-15-2016, 12:31 PM
#2851
Race Car
^^^ This. Plus it allows you to increase your rim collection!
12-15-2016, 08:35 PM
#2852
Heard it made it on RL, figure I should share the story.
Here goes:
Here goes:
- Car sat at parents while I was away on vacation, so it was left on summers
- Car just swapped into winters at my parents so that I can move it back to my own place when its nicer out
- This was just 2 minutes from home, and another minute away from the gas station I needed to get to
- It hasn't even started snowing terribly yet; can tell from the accumulated snow
- Inattentive driver slammed on brakes and panic-swerved into my lane to avoid another car that was at the stop sign
- About a years worth of F-bombs were dropped
- Driver was an asian female who just got her G2 back in October
- I f*cking hate the idiot drivers we have in Markham
12-15-2016, 09:51 PM
#2853
Heard it made it on RL, figure I should share the story.
Here goes:
Here goes:
- Car sat at parents while I was away on vacation, so it was left on summers
- Car just swapped into winters at my parents so that I can move it back to my own place when its nicer out
- This was just 2 minutes from home, and another minute away from the gas station I needed to get to
- It hasn't even started snowing terribly yet; can tell from the accumulated snow
- Inattentive driver slammed on brakes and panic-swerved into my lane to avoid another car that was at the stop sign
- About a years worth of F-bombs were dropped
- Driver was an asian female who just got her G2 back in October
- I f*cking hate the idiot drivers we have in Markham
12-15-2016, 10:59 PM
#2854
Drifting
All seasons are pretty useless as demonstrated today when it snowed like 4" in about an hour and I had 4 cars backed up on a hill on my way home. Anyone with actual snow tires got by no problem
I believe there is a higher incidence of accidents in the summer than winter. People "generally" drive more cautiously in the winter. Its people like my idiot brother in law who say that all seasons are fine for him because "i am such a better driver than any one else"
12-16-2016, 12:24 AM
#2855
Drifting
You can get by on all season tires and do just fine but all season tires are not all the same compound / tread pattern etc.
Having worked for a global manufacturer for 8 years the reality is the average vehicle comes off the line riding on crap! OEM's use their RFQ buying power to drive down costs to the point that suppliers are forced to provide inferior rubber compounds and tread designs to realize any type of profit on the contracts.
The hope is that the trade up occurs when you stick to the same brand on the replacements but jump up the ladder expense wise on the superior model vs the factory installed tire.
Having worked for a global manufacturer for 8 years the reality is the average vehicle comes off the line riding on crap! OEM's use their RFQ buying power to drive down costs to the point that suppliers are forced to provide inferior rubber compounds and tread designs to realize any type of profit on the contracts.
The hope is that the trade up occurs when you stick to the same brand on the replacements but jump up the ladder expense wise on the superior model vs the factory installed tire.
12-16-2016, 02:07 AM
#2857
Nordschleife Master
damn , so sorry man.
is this your 2nd gt4 that has been in a collision???
is this your 2nd gt4 that has been in a collision???
Heard it made it on RL, figure I should share the story.
Here goes:
Here goes:
- Car sat at parents while I was away on vacation, so it was left on summers
- Car just swapped into winters at my parents so that I can move it back to my own place when its nicer out
- This was just 2 minutes from home, and another minute away from the gas station I needed to get to
- It hasn't even started snowing terribly yet; can tell from the accumulated snow
- Inattentive driver slammed on brakes and panic-swerved into my lane to avoid another car that was at the stop sign
- About a years worth of F-bombs were dropped
- Driver was an asian female who just got her G2 back in October
- I f*cking hate the idiot drivers we have in Markham
Last edited by myw; 12-16-2016 at 02:29 AM.
12-16-2016, 10:41 AM
#2858
Rennlist Member
Heard it made it on RL, figure I should share the story.
Here goes:
Here goes:
- Car sat at parents while I was away on vacation, so it was left on summers
- Car just swapped into winters at my parents so that I can move it back to my own place when its nicer out
- This was just 2 minutes from home, and another minute away from the gas station I needed to get to
- It hasn't even started snowing terribly yet; can tell from the accumulated snow
- Inattentive driver slammed on brakes and panic-swerved into my lane to avoid another car that was at the stop sign
- About a years worth of F-bombs were dropped
- Driver was an asian female who just got her G2 back in October
- I f*cking hate the idiot drivers we have in Markham
12-16-2016, 11:14 AM
#2859
Drifting
12-16-2016, 12:17 PM
#2860
Thanks..sucks but I've accepted its just a car. Testing @ Bogie round 2....
If it was a new GT4 and it got into an accident again, I would have lost it ...the second time makes it slightly easier to accept.
I pretty much accept it as fate. Right before the accident, I pulled over on the street so I could fiddle with some of the TPMS stuff..then had to stop some more to take a call. Any change/exclusion of these events would have made altered my timing at the intersection; 10-15 seconds changes your life.
If it was a new GT4 and it got into an accident again, I would have lost it ...the second time makes it slightly easier to accept.
I pretty much accept it as fate. Right before the accident, I pulled over on the street so I could fiddle with some of the TPMS stuff..then had to stop some more to take a call. Any change/exclusion of these events would have made altered my timing at the intersection; 10-15 seconds changes your life.
12-16-2016, 12:58 PM
#2861
Advanced
Thanks..sucks but I've accepted its just a car. Testing @ Bogie round 2....
If it was a new GT4 and it got into an accident again, I would have lost it ...the second time makes it slightly easier to accept.
I pretty much accept it as fate. Right before the accident, I pulled over on the street so I could fiddle with some of the TPMS stuff..then had to stop some more to take a call. Any change/exclusion of these events would have made altered my timing at the intersection; 10-15 seconds changes your life.
If it was a new GT4 and it got into an accident again, I would have lost it ...the second time makes it slightly easier to accept.
I pretty much accept it as fate. Right before the accident, I pulled over on the street so I could fiddle with some of the TPMS stuff..then had to stop some more to take a call. Any change/exclusion of these events would have made altered my timing at the intersection; 10-15 seconds changes your life.
For what it's worth, I'd check to see if that other driver even has insurance coverage, and see if her daddy's rich
I recognize that street, that's not even Markham that's Scarlem. I avoid that area like the plague.
12-16-2016, 04:22 PM
#2862
Burning Brakes
My Targa with snows is a great winter driver, but you are right about all the other idiot drivers on the road that you have no control over. I know it's a cliche about Asian young female drivers, but there was this one beautiful girl that would come to all the Ferrari dealer events with a 458 Speciale (I was behind her at Mosport once) and she could drive!
12-16-2016, 08:25 PM
#2863
Nordschleife Master
My Targa with snows is a great winter driver, but you are right about all the other idiot drivers on the road that you have no control over. I know it's a cliche about Asian young female drivers, but there was this one beautiful girl that would come to all the Ferrari dealer events with a 458 Speciale (I was behind her at Mosport once) and she could drive!
12-17-2016, 12:57 AM
#2865
Three Wheelin'
Saw a guy yesterday on King east in a sport ute pass on the right at a marked and flashing pedestrian crossing.
He noticed that he was about to hit 4 people and swerved up onto the sidewalk narrowly missing a telephone pole.
Thankfully it was empty but WTF is up with licensed drivers!!!!
He noticed that he was about to hit 4 people and swerved up onto the sidewalk narrowly missing a telephone pole.
Thankfully it was empty but WTF is up with licensed drivers!!!!