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I am headed home on Sat night doing about 80 on my Accord Coupe.
Little Bambi decides to jump out in front of me. I veer right and the
car starts fishtailing. I tried controlling it but ended up doing a
complete 270 with car pointed the wrong way and smoke everywhere.

Someone was looking out for me because traffic was at least a mile
away. I immediately straightened the car and drove off. When I got
home 10min later it was still smelling of burnt rubber.

Question:

Car seems to be driving fine but should I be checking it out for
anything?

What possible damage could I have done?

Who cares about you, I'm glad the deer is OK.





"If life were like a box of chocolates, everyone would be black and expire in 2
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"Speedy Gonzales" <agarbati@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I am headed home on Sat night doing about 80 on my Accord Coupe.
> Little Bambi decides to jump out in front of me. I veer right and the
> car starts fishtailing. I tried controlling it but ended up doing a
> complete 270 with car pointed the wrong way and smoke everywhere.
>
> Someone was looking out for me because traffic was at least a mile
> away. I immediately straightened the car and drove off. When I got
> home 10min later it was still smelling of burnt rubber.
>
> Question:
>
> Car seems to be driving fine but should I be checking it out for
> anything?
>
> What possible damage could I have done?

Check the tires for flat spots.

"Speedy Gonzales" <agarbati@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:949da31e.0401190759.343eeeff@posting.google.c om...
> I am headed home on Sat night doing about 80 on my Accord Coupe.
> Little Bambi decides to jump out in front of me. I veer right and the
> car starts fishtailing. I tried controlling it but ended up doing a
> complete 270 with car pointed the wrong way and smoke everywhere.
>
> Someone was looking out for me because traffic was at least a mile
> away. I immediately straightened the car and drove off. When I got
> home 10min later it was still smelling of burnt rubber.
>
> Question:
>
> Car seems to be driving fine but should I be checking it out for
> anything?
>
> What possible damage could I have done?

None at all

other than might have taken a couple of thousand miles off the tires and a
new pair of underware,nothing else......didnt think a fwd would do
that!!!!!!!!!!

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:11:52 +0000 (UTC), "Me" <me@myhouse.com> wrote:

>
>"Speedy Gonzales" <agarbati@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:949da31e.0401190759.343eeeff@posting.google. com...
>> I am headed home on Sat night doing about 80 on my Accord Coupe.
>> Little Bambi decides to jump out in front of me. I veer right and the
>> car starts fishtailing. I tried controlling it but ended up doing a
>> complete 270 with car pointed the wrong way and smoke everywhere.
>>
>> Someone was looking out for me because traffic was at least a mile
>> away. I immediately straightened the car and drove off. When I got
>> home 10min later it was still smelling of burnt rubber.
>>
>> Question:
>>
>> Car seems to be driving fine but should I be checking it out for
>> anything?
>>
>> What possible damage could I have done?
>
>None at all

As long as you didn't hit a curb or anything, should be OK. The tires
might have a little flat spot, but if you don't feel or hear anything
unusual form them, they are OK too. You certainly would have done a
lot more damage if you had nailed Bambi.

"Speedy Gonzales" <agarbati@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:949da31e.0401190759.343eeeff@posting.google.c om...
> I am headed home on Sat night doing about 80 on my Accord Coupe.
> Little Bambi decides to jump out in front of me. I veer right and the
> car starts fishtailing. I tried controlling it but ended up doing a
> complete 270 with car pointed the wrong way and smoke everywhere.

Just curious, when you steered to the side, did you let go the gas pedal at
the same time?
If you did, that most probably made the front end slow down and, combined
with the sudden change of direction, the car spun.

"Paul Bielec" <me@no.spam> wrote in message news:<bujdsn$ao4$1@dns3.cae.ca>...

> Just curious, when you steered to the side, did you let go the gas pedal at
> the same time?
> If you did, that most probably made the front end slow down and, combined
> with the sudden change of direction, the car spun.

I'm not sure but that could have been the sequence of events.

On 19 Jan 2004 07:59:24 -0800, agarbati@yahoo.com (Speedy Gonzales) wrote:

|I am headed home on Sat night doing about 80 on my Accord Coupe.
|Little Bambi decides to jump out in front of me. I veer right and the
|car starts fishtailing. I tried controlling it but ended up doing a
|complete 270 with car pointed the wrong way and smoke everywhere.
|
|Someone was looking out for me because traffic was at least a mile
|away. I immediately straightened the car and drove off. When I got
|home 10min later it was still smelling of burnt rubber.
|
|Question:
|
|Car seems to be driving fine but should I be checking it out for
|anything?
|
|What possible damage could I have done?

Damage????

A lot of us do that every weekend for FUN!

Honda knows this and designs cars accordingly.
The car can handle it, just work on your technique.
For example, the spin should terminate with a seamless drive-off, as though you
do that every day at about this time.
270 degrees means failure to complete a correct 360. Deduct points.
Extra points if you can pat Bambi on the head as you go by.

Rex in Fort Worth

Rex B wrote:
>
> Honda knows this and designs cars accordingly.
> The car can handle it, just work on your technique.
> For example, the spin should terminate with a seamless drive-off, as though you
> do that every day at about this time.
> 270 degrees means failure to complete a correct 360. Deduct points.

I managed a 360 in a Nissan once, but it was on ice, so I had a little
help. ;-)

--
Mike Smith