Oh yah, but you got a bolt-action, whereas I got me a slushie.

 

It's really not. A little more than a glorified parking lot rash on the sheetmetal.
Probably just replace the chrome and the turn signal housing for now.

But after I replace the headlight door and the turn signal that broke, and if I ever decide to have the fender fixed and painted, a $2 part is going to end up costing $500. Lesson learned

Jason

 

Always is like that tho, that's why I usually try to take care of the cheap fixes before they become big and nasty fixes - eh, it don't always work out quite as planned, but hey, I try! lol

 

What I have that you don't,



I own the blue house on the right side of the street, I use it for storage.
The street right in front of it is a 32% grade, or 3.2 vertical feet for every 10 feet horizontal.

So when I park there to load tools, the rear tires are 35.6" higher than the front tires with a 133" wheel base.
The hill is 400 feet long slope distance and over 120 vertical feet high.

My house is 250 feet behind (to the right) of that house, and the hill is even steeper over there.

Wanna go for a ride when I plow the snow on that street?
The city won't even get close since they lost a grader 15 years ago.

That chunk of concrete with the long skid mark.
That was a lady driving one of those Mercedes 4x4 things, the chunk of concrete was under a tire and it was headed for the creek behind where I took the picture from.
With the concrete under the tire, she was out of control sliding down the hill.
I think the tire on top of the concrete was messing with the antilock brakes, she could not stop.
When her right side tires hit the curb, the left side tire jumped off the concrete and she got stopped.
But she also never came down that street again either.

Next time you change tires, leave one end on the ground, jack the other end of your truck up till the tires are 3 feet off the ground, then walk around the side and take a look.
That is not even one of the steepest streets we have around here either.

 

And them cracks in the concrete sure play h#$% with a skateboard too.

 

Holy cow, Dave, that's a grade alright! How you climb this, in 1st gear wound up? Better yet, how you descend it in the winter?

That Mercedes 4x4 had some issues tho, its ABS should have all but released the wheel that was riding on concrete, while still applying full pressure to the other three - they work on the individual wheels now, and they are getting smarter by the day - we had a test driver at my old job who refused to drive Tahoe Hybrids on the winter proving grounds, claimed tis just a waste of his time cause the ABS/TCS/VSES is so darn good it's like it can read his mind and predict what he's gonna do and take measure accordingly.

 

tcs&abs=YUCK...i dont like tcs...course, i never had a vehicle with one, but i dont like 4 wheels abs either...i have disabled it on any vehicle ive owned with it and plan to continue to do so...u can stop in a shorter distance w/o it

 

Chuby boy, yes and no - you can stop at short distance only when the pavement is dry and clean, throw some dirt or snow on it and things get interesting. Besides 4-wheel ABS on newer vehicles is usually pretty aggressive, so you really won't notice an improvement by disabling it, but you sure as heck will wish it was still active when you gotta do emergency stop on less than ideal road conditions. I used to do brake testing for one of the OEM suppliers, trust me there's no way any person can outperform a properly-tuned modern ABS.

 

The slabs have moved since they were poured way back in the 50's, so that is a 1st gear hill because of how rough it is.

Several of the slabs have about a 2" height difference from one to the other.

Then the places that the city piled blacktop in holes to patch.

That Mercedes was driving down the hill, and that chunk of concrete was under the left front tire.
The lady driving was totally freaked out, she was steering into the yard trying to slow down.
But as you can see, the yard is much higher than the road and it gets higher as you come on down the hill.
She was about to roll over when everything stopped moving.

Can't say for sure what was going on, I was not that close to the action.
But the tire on the chunk of concrete was not turning and the other three were all turning.
With no marks being left and she said she had the brake pedal down as hard as she could push it, something was wrong.

Brakes worked fine after the chunk was not under the tire though.

The only time I have to drive up and down the hill is when I am working in the yard or need tools or supplies that I have stored in the house.

The right side of the street is my yard from top to bottom, but there is another street I go to my house on, and I leave by a different street.

I have a driveway two blocks long that parallels the cross street above the blue house that goes to the one I live in.

Big yard, lots of grass to cut.
And all the neighbors sit outside when I run the riding mower, I think they place bets on weither or not I am going to roll the tractor over or not.

I flipped it over backwards once when the drive belt broke and it has slid off a couple times that required a winch to get it out, but so far no real big catastrophies.