Yesterday morning I headed out from Bristol, TN with my dad and a friend. We were going to Gloucester, VA to buy my new car. The trip up goes fine even though it is 420 miles long. We get to Colin's (HYBRID ACCORD) house, dick around awhile, drive the car, and eventually buy it.
1993 Accord SE coupe
JDM H22A w/ manualy tranny swap
Note: H series kicks the shit out of my old F22A4
Heading home, everything is fine. While hauling ass down I-64 my left rear tire blows out. Note: Virginia has such wonderful roads
I'm still 300+ miles from home...oh joy. I dont have the tool to get the wheel locks off of the 18's and all I had was a donut anyway so I wasnt getting back home on that. Luckily, my buddy (who oddly enough got sick as all hell on the trip home and still feels like shit) has AAA, so we call them and they send a tow truck. Wrong damn kind...he cant tow me because of the rear flat and he cant pull me the other way because it would tear the front bumper off (Xenon kit). He calls another truck and said it would be there in awhile. 2 hours later the truck shows up with a bumbling moron for a driver. He proceeds to dick off and in a few minutes another truck shows up, this guy actually knows what the hell he's doing. We have no where to put my car and we need a new tire on a sunday...an 18" tire. We haul the car to a mall in Charlottesville,VA and leave it there for the night. We hull up in a Super 8 for the night and eat some hotdogs from the 7-11 across the street.
Sears is the only place that would have tires that big and is open on a sunday. Well fuck if they didnt have one that was the right size...I get 4 Kuhmo Ecsta's and we're off...finally. Everything goes well on the way home and we arrive at my house at 5:30PM.
Total trip time: 45 hours
Shit...
1993 Accord SE coupe
JDM H22A w/ manualy tranny swap
Note: H series kicks the shit out of my old F22A4
Heading home, everything is fine. While hauling ass down I-64 my left rear tire blows out. Note: Virginia has such wonderful roads
I'm still 300+ miles from home...oh joy. I dont have the tool to get the wheel locks off of the 18's and all I had was a donut anyway so I wasnt getting back home on that. Luckily, my buddy (who oddly enough got sick as all hell on the trip home and still feels like shit) has AAA, so we call them and they send a tow truck. Wrong damn kind...he cant tow me because of the rear flat and he cant pull me the other way because it would tear the front bumper off (Xenon kit). He calls another truck and said it would be there in awhile. 2 hours later the truck shows up with a bumbling moron for a driver. He proceeds to dick off and in a few minutes another truck shows up, this guy actually knows what the hell he's doing. We have no where to put my car and we need a new tire on a sunday...an 18" tire. We haul the car to a mall in Charlottesville,VA and leave it there for the night. We hull up in a Super 8 for the night and eat some hotdogs from the 7-11 across the street.Sears is the only place that would have tires that big and is open on a sunday. Well fuck if they didnt have one that was the right size...I get 4 Kuhmo Ecsta's and we're off...finally. Everything goes well on the way home and we arrive at my house at 5:30PM.
Total trip time: 45 hours
Shit...
Blows outs are common.. nothing too serious.
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