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Hi everyone I have recently hit a parked car with my Z :shakes head: i am very disappointed with my self about what happened i could have avoided it if i had more experience at how to control the car.

I would like to encourage everyone who had an accident rather if it was their fault or a negligence of other to tell us your story of what happened that day, how you could have avoided it if it was possible and share some pics if any. For these drivers that have a non damaged Z and give them an advise of how to keep it rolling in one peace.

Heres my story. I got off work after doing overtime 4 hrs all i wanted to do was to get in to my Z and just drive home to get some R&R, little did i know my day was just about to get worse. I pull out of the gates where i work and made a left turn in 1st gear where i was going like 3-5mph, so i hit the gas a lil to get some speed in order to go in to second gear and the car just lost it, my RPMs skyrocket and the car started doing of to one side i tried to control it and before i can realize WTF? i was facing the parked cars and then Boom Badahbah Bam. I also had my VDC off i think if i had it ON this would not have happened. Plus i dont race or drift so maybe if i had more experience in drifting i would have prevented that crash in any case here are the pics. DONT MAKE MY MISTAKES.

uhhh...

sorry to hear what happened..

but.. why would you turn VDC off especially if you have no experience with "racing" or "drifting"..

Although its strange. ive never found that the z likes to break loose from just a lil gas in a turn like that. It just scampers on.
truthfully theres never a reason to turn it off when your just going around town. even then if someones doing spiriting mountain driving etc most should leave it on..

I dont mean to sound like an *** but that accident was not caused by the VDC being off...like you said, its caused by the little expeirence you have. Did you give it a "little" gas to get into second or did you dump the clutch and floor it? I disconnected the harness for the VDC and never once lost control of the car (except on the track in a turn doing 70kmh but i quickly recoverd)

Sorry to hear and especially the others involved.

I can't really make sense of what happened from your post. I've never had trouble in first gear with VDC off. Did you leave your foot on the clutch pedal without realizing it, spin the clutch then drop it, causing traction loss? Regardless, no offense man but if you're that inexperienced then your first mistake was even driving a 370...

I once scraped on a speed bump.

I scraped my front drivers wheel on a curb. Scheduled for repair on Wednesday.

Sorry that happened to your ride. I too am trying to puzzle out how this happened to you. :(

It doesn't sound like you hit the throttle just a little to me. When making a turn in our car from first gear and you gun it with VDC off it will lose traction very easily.

I always ride with VDC off and when I plan to have fun from time to time from a standing stop or first gear pull while turning I always have to feather the trottle to regain traction from keeping it going around on me. But I also have a great LSD that more than makes me feel comfortable at all times. It's a great piece to have.

But experience sounds like the issue. Plus it sounds as if you where on cold tires also. But I would never do this where other cars are directly around me.

^^^ +1 on cold Tires ^^^

Could have been oil or something in the road. I had a similar drift experience once a few minutes after coming out of a car wash with vdc off. In my case I was able to control the drift but I got majorly sideways with cars on either side of me and was not anticipating it. Could have easily been a bad day. I hope you get your Z fixed up soon.

I scratched my rim going thru a bank drive thru...pissed me off for a few hours.

Knock on wood no accident/incident with my 350 or 370.

Things to keep in mind: Stay off the phone, be aware of your surrounding, know your limits, know the limits of the car, watch your speed and know your blind spots.

Last but not least without offending anyone, DON'T drive like an A-Hole!

Uh oh... another "don't VDC off or you could dead" story. :facepalm:

In all seriousness though OP, glad you are alright and only the car was damaged. At that low speed it could have been some loose dirt/gravel/oil on the road + cold tires like others have said. Always be mindful of road surfaces. You should never take driving for granted (yea we are all guilty and do it on a daily basis).

car accident 7/31/2011
 

Hello everyone this is my first time posting things on the site but i'm an avid reader and stalker of this site... so to my story on 7/31/2011 i was coming from a freinds house i got off the I-805 on university exit, it was a green light i yielded to the opossing cars, except i could not see the car behind the big black tahoe so after the car passed i took the left but i got hit from a civic left front damage which resulted in 14k in damage the car is still in the shop and will be back in my driveway on the 29th, so this accident was my fault because i shoudl have yielded longer but there was no way i would have seen the civic the person i hit said there was nothing I could do so from now on to prevent this from happening is I am very cautious when making turns on green or when i come to a hidden or hards to see intersection...

for pics there in my album i dont know how to put pics in reply yet

Jeeez, how about some punctuation! It sounds like an interesting story and thanks for posting, but it's practically illegible.

:iagree:

I totaled my car, except I was in the civics position -- approaching a green light, where someone had a left on green yield, and they didn't see me coming around the bend. I slammed on my brakes but still hit them. My vehicle was totaled, and the insurance company ended up declaring them at fault, which they obviously were. Moral of the story, don't turn blindly at a yield on green light if you can't see everything coming your way.