Wife spun out - She's okay but the G8 has some damage.

[Bob the Noob]

So the wife spun out on the way to work today... She says it's still driveable so it should just be cosmetic.

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State Farm says I can take it where I want to get it fixed. Anyone have places they could recommend for a quick fix? Around the Roseville area?

[travis gore]

Ouch! that is good that the wife is ok. easy fix

[Zodiac]

Sucks, glad everyone is ok.... buuuuuuut are we sure she did it? How do I know you aren't blaming it on her when you actually did it....:drunk:

So what exactly happened? Hope it gets fixed up into perfect shape in no time.

[Bob the Noob]

She said she was changing lanes and then thought she saw a car in the lane, so she whipped back to her original lane and must have done it to fast... (shrug)

[NWOG8]

Glad no injuries, the car can be fixed.

[-Ray-]

I don't know where Roseville is, but are those Potenza's on the G8?

[Bob the Noob]

Nah, just the crappy Goodyear RSA's that came with it. New wheels and tires next year!

[TailG8er]

You can bring it to me, I am in Clawson.

[MIEngineer]

^Jay does nice work...seen some of it in person.

Glad the wife is ok. Just a car.

I wouldn't run RSAs or bridgestones in winter if someone paid me....

Roseville is about 30min east of woodward where everyone met for the cruise.

[Zodiac]

^Jay does nice work...seen some of it in person.

Glad the wife is ok. Just a car.

I wouldn't run RSAs or bridgestones in winter if someone paid me....

Roseville is about 30min east of woodward where everyone met for the cruise.

I wouldn't run RSA's in any weather/season.

[Bob the Noob]

You can bring it to me, I am in Clawson.

Got an apt. to drop it off at a Collex shop tomorrow, but I'd rather keep it with a fellow G8 owner. I sent you a pm...

-Bob

[Seattle09GT]

Hey Bob recommendation for the wife, and to ease the sting you should go too.

Driver school. Look up in your area for a BMW, Porsche, Audi, etc. etc. club or SCCA Solo training event. There are tons of these that go on all over the country.

The basic course before you get your DPE Novice license is what you want to take (its the ground school and track day). They will cover skidpad, high speed handling oval (the most fun in our car), emergency collision avoidance, emergency braking, slalom, offset slalom, and autocross. The day usually ends with a non-timed (sometime timed) autocross event. Around here the full day with a lunch is just $55. That includes the six track sessions with an instructor in the car with you at all times. You get your certification at the end, that you could then take to a place like Skip Barber, etc. etc. etc. to have your minimum requirements for advanced driver training. The schools around here allow people to share a car, so you can go together. In the way they do track time your time is not cut as a co-driver, but it is harder on the car as it spends 2X time on the track. But really you have to try VERY hard and not listen to your instructors to get anything worse than a cone scuff.

I bring this up not to be critical or an asshat. The stability control system in the G8 is in a word outstanding. One magazine put it best, "it engages when the fun stops being fun."

In normal day-to-day street driving a stock G8 GT is not the easiest car to spin out. Yes wet pavement can add to the fun, or non-fun in your case, but the stability control should have been in full on engage mode.

I'm not the best person to take marriage advice from being divorced twice - LOL. But I wouldn't bring it up now. I would let some time go by and maybe in the spring go, "hey honey, this sounds like a lot of fun if the two of us..."

The most important thing - your wife was unhurt beyond pride. The best accident is the one that you walk away from.

[Bob the Noob]

Oh no worries... she still feels horrible about it, and we'd talked about going to a race track in Michigan (Waterford Hills) for a training course next year when we get better tires :)