Close call!

[631twentyeighteye]

Was driving down a road doing 55 today, only to see a big rock (8 inch diameter) sitting in the middle of my lane. The fool behind me was tailgating me and i could go into the oncoming lane because of traffic.. so i was forced to smash over it. Front lip has a little gash in it, bent some heat wrap into the driveshaft that i bent back, and took a little chunk of my diff case with it. Overall, it went MUCH better than i was anticipating. It sounded like a nuke went off inside the car. No leaking fluids and it drives perfectly normal. Anybody else get caught in a similarly horrible incident?

[Stohlen]

I woulda got rearended. At least then insurance would have paid to fix everything... because I wouldn't continue to run that diff.

[Pig Farmer]

The same thing happened to my sister's A4 a few weeks ago. What she thought was a retread turned out to be a large piece of steel. She described the sound in a similar fashion... Like a bomb went off under the car. The piece of steel ripped off her exhaust, the whole differential and the gas tank. $22k in damage. It's a miracle the car didn't catch on fire.

[631twentyeighteye]

Drives fine otherwise i'd agree with you. Drove it hard right after it happened and everything is perfect. It'll be fine.

[ShocknAwe]

Yup. Piece of aluminum gutterwork in the road, thought it was cardboard until it was too late. Gouged the bumper but that's it. Broke up under the car, definitely sounded like a bomb went off under there.

[bogart]

piece of re-tread. guy in a VW in front of me didn't even flinch, so by the time I got to it I was right on top of it. had enough time to get it between my wheels, but it destroyed my front lip and felt like my car lifted up off the road.

[SGM <3]

I was in my friends GT2 when we hit a large chunk of rock in the middle of a construction zone, it luckily only made a giant hole in his bumper and scraped his undersides though. He ended up getting money from the construction company for 'poor cleanup' or something like that.

[benz135i]

Was driving on the parkway and ran over a section of steel guard rail in my MINI that had fallen off a DOT highway truck. Several other cars were pulled over with some level of damage as well as the DOT truck that dropped it. It tore a hole in my each of my left side tires and damaged the driver's side wheels. Luckily the DOT's insurance paid for the 2 new tires and wheels in full.

[froop]

I was coming off a motorway onto an offramp when I noticed a large rock in my path. It was too quick to react to and I ran right over it with my left front wheel. The entire car jumped up into the car and I immediately felt a weird mushy sensation with the steering.

I continued on my way to work since I knew I had runflats and it was only a short distance away. When I got to work I saw that the rock had punched a hole through the barrel of my wheel. Somehow there was no damage at all to the tyre itself.

I had the wheel welded and unbent and whilst I was at it I decided I might as well paint all my wheels satin black since I had been thinking about it and I was just fresh out of warranty. It was thanks to that rock that I caught the mod bug. 11 months later and I now have over $13k in mods and 2 135's under my name...