Well Darn it. I wrecked my Boxster today - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

my89_928gt · 10-31-2005, 01:36 PM

Less than 2 months old and apx 2000 miles maybe a little less.

Adam · 10-31-2005, 01:45 PM

Sorry to hear about. Did the suspension get tweeked?

98Boxster98 · 10-31-2005, 01:45 PM

Sorry to hear about your accident. Was this at the beginning of the big rainfall or afterwards? It hasn't rained in a long time. Oil slick, maybe? Were you turning in a curve at the time or rounding a corner? I know in previous posts that you have indicated a floating feeling at higher speeds; anything weird today at 30 mph? Where in DFW were you when this happened?

10-31-2005, 02:00 PM

my98_928gt, did you ever get the rear trailing are bushings repaired? You mentioned this problem a few weeks ago.

my89_928gt · 10-31-2005, 03:45 PM

After the rain. Just going straight.
Nothing weird. The floating thing is wrong and not realy floating. Floating is the wrong word for it. Just the handleing traight of the car, witch is fine. The car is rock solid at high speeds of 120+ but yet not the stabilty of a 928. It is hard to describe if you have never been in a 928. Those that have understand where I was comming from on that one.
Back to the issue. I did not get it replaced. I had bought the wrong part. Had just found the right part. My guess is that that maybe what it was.Though I certainly did not think a lateral guide(where it ties into the trailing arm) would do that. Now the trailing arm, yes with out doubt that would be bad. But I have been kown to be wrong before. Thank good I was not on the hwy if that is what happend. I will find out from the dealer when they get into it.
I was in North Richaland Hills on Browning all most to Rufe Snow.

98Boxster98 · 10-31-2005, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by my89_928gt

After the rain. Just going straight.
Thank good I was not on the hwy if that is what happend.

Amen to that. Good to hear nobody got hurt. Let's hope damages are managable.

MNBoxster · 10-31-2005, 04:51 PM

Hi,

Sorry to hear of your troubles. Hope everything works out for the best.

How fast were you going that the Car spun 3 times? I'm not inferring anything, but without much of a weight bias Front/Rear, the location of the Rotational Center of the car makes spin recovery much more difficult.

That's the downside to exact or near-exact 50/50 weight distribution. Makes a good case for many here to take some DE or Auto-X with their Cars so they have some notion of how it can bite you if you're under unusual conditions or not careful ...

Happy Motoring!...Jim'99

trogdor · 10-31-2005, 08:02 PM

Do you have traction control?

Since I got my 2000 S I've only seen the TC light come on once or twice for a split second under hard acceleration in the rain. So last week after it rained all week and I was stuck at work until 9pm, I walked out to the empty, wet and lighted parking lot and decided to test out the TC.

I tried doing donuts with TC on and it was interesting how it limited engine RPM in a very unobtrusive way. I could spin the wheels a little but it would take over, very controllable circles with the wheel turned all the way and a little back and forth to keep it going.

THEN I tried it without TC on.. man... the boxster will spin like a top! I was very surprised how quickly the back end can get away and if you stay on the throttle you'll go around a few times before you know what happened... eye opening and I'm so glad I got that option.

Maybe nothing relates to you with this but I just found it interesting.. I'd really like to get it on a wet track and learn how to tame it without TC now... challenging Im sure.

Best of luck with the repairs.