Breakdown of an "oops".

[the mike]

Just a little photo tutorial on the simple act of tapping a curb, thanks to me.

I was out in the snow with some other TST'ers last night. Unfortunately I was on the stock RE92's. Not that they are to blame, but come on Subaru, this is a rally bred car. Camry's come with RE92's. Yeah, Camry's. I got a little overzealous coming into a turn and the front end washed out on me, I pushed into a curb. Not super hard, but hard enough for the inherent design of Subaru's control arm to make itself evident. I'll show you.
I started with this:


Then tagged the curb:





The steering wheel shot is me going STRAIGHT down the road. Yeah, I b0rked it good.

Here's why:


You can see where the paint cracked due to it bending at this point.

Here is how the design comes into play:




There was another run in with the curb(or 2 ) and it had a destinctly different outcome. The other car that tapped the curb had STi aluminum control arms. These are designed to hold up a little better than the stamped steel stock WRX/RS ones. This WRX owner suffered a bent wheel, but no suspension damage(that we are aware of).


mike