[s-cars] Was: What I did over Christmas, Now: Tale of woe.

[Rich Dauenhauer]

Well I thought this was a good segway to inform all
you S-Heads there is one less Sedan in the world.
On the evening of Christmas day while retuning from a
day of exchanging gifts and general merriment,
traveling home in a fairly heavy rainstorm my family
and I survived a serious crash after hydroplaining and
spinning across 4 lanes of traffic. My beutifil
Toranado red 95 S6 is a write off.  It gave its life
to protect ours. Fortunately no other car was
involved. I suffered burns from the air bag and some
bruising, my wife, two pretty bad ankle sprains sore
neck and the kids ensconsed in thier child seats in
the back were just scared.
While the LEO (WSP)who responed indicated Id probably
recieve a ticket for "too fast for conditions" he
commented that he'd already responed to 4 such crashes
that eve. and that If it was up to him (I thought it
was?) he wouldnt write me, but it was the way WA state
law was written (quote!)!?!
No matter. The fam. was safe and after this my first
expriance in a crash of that magnitude I feel VERY
fortunate that all that was lost was my car.
To keep this sort of on thread, the skins on the car
were Michelin Pilots at about 1/2 orig. tread.
Any opinions on wether I should consider buying the
car back as salvage? and what an appropriate value
might be? Prior the car was 9 of 10 inside and out
with 100K on the OD. the crash punched both ends the
pass. front taking most of the blow but motor looks to
have survived.
Am now on a quest to find an Avant of the same
vintage.
Cheers.
Rich D.
95 S6 -totaled-


>
>From: "Fred Munro" <munrof at sympatico.ca>
>To: "TM" <t44tq at mindspring.com>,
>	"'Robert Myers'" <robert at s-cars.org>,
>Subject: RE: [s-cars] What I did over Christmas
>Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:39:06 -0500
>Hi Taka;
>As a rule of thumb, I always replace my snow tires
>when they get down to 50% remaining tread depth. I
>find the high speed traction and stability in slush
>and snow falls off considerably at this point and
>they act more like all-season tires than snow tires.
>If you spend most of your time toodling around town
>it probably doesn't matter as much, but 90% of my
>driving is highway.
>Fred Munro
>'94 S4
-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-admin at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com]On Behalf Of TM
Sent: January 3, 2003 10:38 PM
To: 'Robert Myers';
Subject: [s-cars] RE: What I did over Christmas

Bob-
That sounded pretty much like my Christmas, although
it was driving in heavy rain in the morning and snow
at night.
Is it just me or do Dunlop Wintersport M2s drop off
dramatically in terms of traction and directional
stability once you use up 1/3 to 1/2 of the original
tread?

Taka



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