Shoeboy
New Member
- Joined
- Aug 6, 2007
- Messages
- 738
- Reaction score
- 3
- Points
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- Age
- 36
- Location
- Calgary, Canada
- Vehicle Year
- 2001
- Make / Model
- Chrysler
- Engine Size
- 2.4L
- Transmission
- Manual
I was out for lunch with a buddy of mine. We pulled into the parking lot of the strip mall (a very large parking lot) about 1pm. It had snowed last night about 15cm and the parking lot had not been plowed, even though 8+ hours had been passed since it stopped snowing, anyways. I pull in and I nail my passenger tire up against the curb that was covered in snow and was even with the snow on the ground. I nailed my tire on the curb hard enough (despite the fact i wasn't going fast, I hit it on an odd angle), I bent my rim hard enough for when I parked about 50 feet away I could hear the hissing sound coming form the passenger side. I go to change the tire with my buddy, and my damn factory flimsy powered metal wrench Chrysler gave me with the car shattered on the first wheel nut. It had never been used before, and it broke on the first nut, no wonder Chrysler is in trouble. I'm going to be doing a suspension check on my car tomorrow and I'm going to check how badly the rim is messed up, if its not bad I can have it repaired, if its bad, it looks like I'm going to be looking for a used rim, and if I can't track one down for a reasonable price, looks like I'll be looking for a new rim set since the Chrysler rims are $600 each. Once i find out all the damage done I will be contacting the land manager of the mall and telling him what happened, and what damage has been done because of the lot not being plowed, and I'm going to see if I can make a deal with them about it, even if its just them paying parts. I'm not pissed I hit the curb, I'm pissed that the lot was not plowed when it should have been, its not like its a small side lot, the parking lot is probably about 10 acres and none of it was plowed, you could see where other people had hit curbs all over the place, and none of the curbs are in straight lines, they're all on angles and the rows go in all directions, its not an easy lot to navigate when there is no snow, its impossible to navigate the curbs when the curbs and the roads are evened out with snow half a foot deep. I just needed to vent, gaaa, this has been a shitty week.