Damn, glad your ok.

Funny story: I was doing 40 in the carpool while it was raining like crazy. Behind me is a white guy in his 40's in a huge truck. He tailgates me for a good 5 miles before he can't take it anymore and moves out to the right. I look over to my right and i see him point at me, then pretends to suck a **** with his hand. Seriously, how immature can he be? 40 and doing that to a guy in his 20's.

 

^^^thats the world we live in man, people suck sometimes...^^

 

ouch, sad thing.
was it on a straight or did you go fast through a corner ?

 

^... VDC on your model? Those look like T1R proxies... nice tires for the rain, either way, sucks man... GL on next purchase.

 

sorry to hear about the z.. but glad u r ok..

Nice drop on the rear!!

 

lol nice....

 

Glad you ok...thats exactly how I lost my z but instead a wall I hit a tree

 

hope you recover man. glad to hear your ok.

 

Glad your ok but now you can go get a brand new 370

 

Like the others have said, glad you are okay... The car can be replaced...

 

^Yup. Get another one, and make it better!!!

 

Summer performance tires + near freezing temperatures= CRASH

Glad to hear you or no one else was injured.

--Spike

 

It was 60 F I live in canada not the arctic lol

 

Cars gone, your OK , all good.

 

I knew eventually someone was going to say that...

 

Glad you are ok. I have seen lots of pics of wrecked z's and the front/rear crash engineering is amazing. That is from only 60km/h and the front is competely folded with what looks like NO disturbance to the cockpit.

Amazing ppl drove rwd cars around at all before the invention of fwd...

Seriously, it really is not that difficult to drive in poor weather in rwd. You do have to drive more carefully but big deal. My z is a dd through rain, snow, ice and whatever else the stupid *** state of oklahoma throws at it. Now those on here that have higher hp z's (over 400whp) those are a different story and they would be a bit crazy driving in poor weather.

 

ouch.

To all the non-rain drivers; the rain is the most fun to drive in. Once you learn how a car slides it should be no problem. Everyone makes mistakes though.

Good luck with your next purchase.

 

After reading that I need to clarify. In no way is my previous post in respect to this unfortunate wreck of the OP. Accidents happen, sometimes even with the best of care.

 

I hit water on an off ramp, they were irrigating the foilage, spun out and busted up the right rear suspension is all, I totally lucked out compared to what could have happened.

 

Oh.

Well, then it was probably hydroplaning that did you in.

• Of course a lighter car with wide tires (the Z for example) is more prone to hydroplaning.
• At 60 degrees F in the wet there is less friction; the compound in your summer performance tires won’t heat much and remains pretty hard allowing the tires to float.
• There is more chance of hitting standing water (worst case scenario) at this time of year when there is more rain and melting of the snowpack.

Once the tire’s tread can no longer dissipate the water build-up, you’re in big trouble. If it happens to all four tires simultaneously, you have no control (i.e., you cannot turn or stop). It appears to be the case here.

--Spike