Sounds like a pretty undesireable day. Nothing like the sound of aluminium
being hacked up by concrete. I'd say just head out to the auto show and drown
your sorrows in the TB of a nice, fresh Viper!!
Ryan K
'99 R/T RC
Sam Parthemer wrote:
> Update:
>
> The tire didn't 'hit' the curb, but merely 'scraped' the
> sideway of the tire, but because of the height of the curb,
> and the fact that the RT rim has a lip that sticks out from
> the sidewall of the tire, it got 'grinded' down a little.
> About 1/2 of the rim was affected.
>
> To add insult to injury, my wife called me 45 minutes ago
> at work: Our front door was wide open, and the Sheriff's
> dept. was at our house......
>
> SO.... 22 miles and 15 minutes (no alignment issues
> at the speeds I was travelling) later I am home, the
> Sheriff's gone, and I can't find anything missing at our
> house. It appears the front door blew open (we are getting
> a lot of wind, some rain right now), and no one was in our house.
>
> Can you say "Gee honey, did you lock the dead bolt?"
>
> ARGH!!!!! So now I think a beer is in order....
> I've got TONS of work to do to make a deadline in 1 month,
> and all I want to do is go to the Autoshow tonight here in
> San Diego!!
>
> ARGH ARGH!!!!
>
> Sam '99 RT x 2
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eric <erich@dhc.net>
> To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 10:13 AM
> Subject: DML: Re: RT goof
>
> > You need to do a alignment.
> >
> > Swede/
> > 99 R/T Dakota CC
> > Black & Loaded
> > K/N, headers, 3" exhaust, SuperTrapp,
> > relocated coil, peaked inj-timing, 180 T-stat,
> > modified valvebody in tranny, MP sparkplug wire.
> > Mail: dakota_rt99@hotmail.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sam Parthemer <rtdkota@yahoo.com>
> > To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
> > Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 11:51 AM
> > Subject: DML: RT goof
> >
> >
> > >
> > >I did a MAJOR goof today. Did a U-turn in a parking lot to my favorite
> > >coffee drive through...and scraped the passenger side tire on the
> > >curb... I FELT the crunch, and knew that I toasted the rim.
> > >
> > >I checked it out after I left the drive through--- 1/3 of the rim lip
> > >is scraped pretty bad, but not bent. Guess this will be my new spare
> > >tire/rim...
> > >
> > >ARGH!!!
> > >
> > >Sam '99 RT x 2
> > >
> > >
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> >
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