OK guys story time. The most RANDOM fricken thing happened to me last night. I am driving home from my girls house, its a late night and nobody is on the road, all of a sudden... I am driving by a cross street and there is a 2006+ audi A4 2.0T sitting at the stop sign (it was dark...couldnt tell exact year but was the newest body style available). I am wondering why they arent moving. So I go ahead and gas through the stop sign and they bolt after me. They get behind me and straight RIDE my bumper. I am like who the crap are these guys. We get to another stop sign that leads to the main road. As we enter a road with two lanes, they floor it and drive around me. Now I have my windows down, blue neon interior lights flaring, so my car is all lit up. I look out to them as they drive by, 2 guys and 2 chicks in the car, the two girls are flipping me off, calling me a loser, f*g, h*mo, any name they could think of in the 3 seconds it took them to pass me. At this point I am thinking OK this HAAS to be someone I know because I still didnt really get a good look. So I am cruising at 50 mph in 4th. I drop it into 3rd and go after them thinking "hey, maybe its someone I know, maybe its someone I dont like or vise versa". I catch up with them and we are side by side. They start screaming at me calling me a f*g, loser all over again. The guys are joining in thinking they are tough sh*t. So they floor it and the 2 girls flip me off as they bolt off. K so I have established the fact that I didnt know em. maybe they were drunk. maybe they thought they were tough stuff...who knows...I didnt care... now before they took off we are doing about 60. I was in 5th. As they take off I was like oh hellllll no. I throw it in 3rd and just DUMP the clutch. My car is straight screaming(dont get me wrong I aint that fast. my car is brand new, I just started on it, so I dont even have all the bolt ons. Now at this time they were about 3 cars ahead of me. They saw me coming and I saw the rear suspension of the audi dump out...which obviously means they floored it ot try to race. hahaha too bad that car is one of the weakest slowest turboed cars on the market because I romped on them. as I drove by I didnt even look over... I just extended my middle finger right back...Didnt hear a WORD from them this time(maybe my exhaust drowned em out. rofl. So after I am like 10 cars ahead of them and they finally realized they werent gonna catch me, I went ahead back to cruising speed (55 mph). here they come...AGAIN!!! man dont the F*ckheads ever learn. Sure enough, they drive by AGAIN and repeat the same crap. AGAIN I dump the clutch and go after them...heres where it got a little out of hand and I seriously thought they were drunk. Sure enough I pull on them just like I did before. But just as I get to about 1 car length behind them, the driver of the audi swerved into my lane and stood on his brakes. On this part of the road to my right is a small...maybe 25 foot deep ravine. I, like any driver who knew what to do in an emergency situation, stepped on my brakes and as fast as humanly possible I turn the wheel to the right without jerking it too hard and loosing control. Because to my left is the opposite lane so I couldnt go left. SOMEHOW my ABS wasnt enough for this. BOTH of my front tires locked up enough to the point where I lost steering. Not totally locked but enough. So here I am rocketing towards this ravine. I let completely off the brakes and grab the E-Brake as I turn the wheel back to the left in order to bring the back end around in order to get the car pointing away from the ravine and towards the opposite lane on the left side. Right as I get my nose where I need to, I dumped the clutch and put my foot to the floor. The car recovers. By this time these guys are WAY ahead of me because they probably thought I was gonna crash and wanted to be no part of it. I think not. I take a second to let my heart beat settled because that scared the living crap out of me. I step on the gas and go after them...ready to rip each and every one oftheir heads off. I FINALLY see them jerk into a neighborhood. I follow them in. I pull up next to them and what are they doing? LAUGHING at me! I said pull the F*** OVER!. The guys, OBVIOUSLY THINKING they were tough...sure enough did. We both come to a stop and I step out ofthe car with a mag light ready to pound them. The girls were the first ones to see it. They screamed to the driver to leave. He saw me. saw the big medal club for a flashlight I had, slammed his door and tried to speed off. I knew I couldnt cahse them on foot so I hucked the light at the car as hard as I could. It SMAACKED their back bumper. That didnt stop them. They sped off. I took about 10 minutes to recap what just happened, Let myself settled down, and I got back into my car and left. I really hope I put a FAT dent in the 30 grand car rich mommy and daddy bought them. Man what a night

 

Wow dude thats a crappy story and im glad your ok, but in situations like that you just got to let losers like that drive on past and not even try to race or catch up to them, they obvioulsy have no respect and dont care if they put their or your life or car in jeopodary. Just try and stay cool and let them drive by and if they slow down to harrass you more just pull off somewhere give it a min and continue on your way......It is not worth your life to prove your not a pushover or a tough guy...I have been there and done the same thing you have and will never do it again after my friend was ran off the road and killed doign the same thing you just did


Be Safe, Be Smart....Karma

 

I hear you bro. But you know us guys. sometimes testosterone can get the best of us. Originally I thought this was going to just be a race and they were talking heavier S*** than normal. Turns out I was wrong.

 

Ya i know because i have been there trust me, just gotta think about your life, because obviously someone that is doing something like that has no respect for their own lives or their passengers which scares me even more....

 

couldnt have said it better myself.



P.S. If that is your celica...thats a beautiful car

 

Thanks, Ya that is my first car and first project, went more show then go, had it turboed for awhile but tunning issues and one blown motor later stopped that quick...Now im more focused on the TC

 

o snap hell of a story. glad u and ur car r straight my nig. where u live at? u gotta be careful man u coulda got killed u never kno wut they coulda done. sumtimes u jus gotta chill out n ignore those biatches.

 

is your maglite alright?

 

I agree^^. I gotta give you credit for having the ***** to do that but i would have probably not even bothered with them.

 

2nd lol

 

A few pointers:

Your ABS did not fail. What happened was that you induced understeer severe. By slamming the brakes, you transferred all the weight forward, and the ABS should have kept them at the limit of traction. But because you braked and at the same time applied steering input, you over loaded the front outside tire... Front heavy FWD vehicles will do this, even with light to moderate steering input. Most FWD are already probe to understeer, and heavy braking will exponentially increase the effect.

Good job unloading the front tires by ripping the ebrake and powering out... That probably saved your life. That's one way to do it, but ideally if you plan on trail braking (braking into a turn), apply brake first, let the ABS sort itself out for a second, and the continue braking and steer. But what you did was the "drifters" approach, which is an emergency way to recover when coming in too hot.

It sounds like these guys knew the road, and were trying to bait you into getting in an accident...

Next time, sum for the tail lights to incur max damage when swinging.

And next time, don't race. I'm not going to flame you, as I like the rush too, but try to save it for the track.... Or at least save it for either a road that you know very well or a long empty stretch with plenty of visability. You're lucky you didn't hurt yourself or an innocent bystander.

Those guys were jerks and deserved what they got. If it were me, I would have skipped the racing and jumped to the part where I tell them to pull over and beat the living snot out of them and their car (which is pretty stupid too, but I've got anger issues...).

PS, petroleum jelly is almost impossible to remove from glass as it gets into the pits. If you score S hit and they turn on the wipers they will lose all forward visability. I have a few PJ water balloons handy in the glove box.

 

Sorry that happened to you man. I run into rich little snobs like that all the time, just let them pass you up and laugh at them when you drive by and the cops have pulled them over. I'm 26 and proud to have my Scion...I own it, no payments. Whereas my brother-in-law's sister just got a brand new 2008 G35 sport sedan ($38,000). It's funny because her and her friends _____ and complain all the time how they didn't get the car or color they wanted. I think it's hilarious to see these kids get the most expensive thing and then just to pick on a Scion late at night. Snobs really have no lives.

 

You know, you could've just ignoreed them and drove at a normal speed... just because theyre yelling at you doesn't mean you necessarily know them, people (especially younger kids) looooove to ____ people off doing exactly what you described.

 

That is one heck of a wall of text...

 

This is why some people keep a gun in the car.

Though, I would have just let them pass me from the start...

 

holy crap dude! u sound like u know ur steering. i've been experimenting on sliding back and forth with my ebrake and going full speed and slamming on my brakes not too long ago when i was testing out my tc...any pointers in regards to how to recuperate from an oversteer brake slam?

 

hahaha ya thanks guys. The thing is originally I wasnt even totally planning to race... I was trying to see who the hell it was who was talkin crap. then it ended up that way. But yes you guys are right. I probably shouldnt have done that. But I felt at least like they need to learn their lesson. The cops werent there to enforce it. And what if they did that to a lesser driver? Someone new behind the wheel (aka 16 yrs old). I dunno its just people liek that deserve to get theirs. I know I am not perfect and we have all done bullyish things...but damn I have never taken things to that extent.

 

sid (djct_watt) pretty much covered everything right there that i wanted to say..

ideally in that situation i would've just ignored them, and though not the smartest thing in the world to do what you did, you handled the situation without getting hurt in the end.

and that is the most important thing... you did a good job recovering and alot of people probably wouldn't have survived something like that

and agreeing above, the people in the cars were jerks... just hope the maglight is okay as well.

 

I live in Mission Viejo California. About an hour south of LA

 

You are an idiot. I'm gonna flame on you. Why wouldn't you just ignore it? Not to say I haven't done anything like that either, but come on bro. Seriously? I guess at 20 I would have done the same thing. But next time, let it go. What if you would have crashed? Died? Then what? Can't come posting on ScionLife making 400 daily posts like you usually do...