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Message: <blockquote data-quote="defcon1" data-source="post: 1367846" data-attributes="member: 30064">My goodness....today, I'm too busy to look in...and the forum goes into turbo mode... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1425" alt=":smile:" title="Smile    :smile:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":smile:" />First off, thanks for the warm welcome. I've been away from the motor scene in Malaysia for too long...and it's nice to finally find "like-minded" individuals again...you know...the mild-mannered, slightly overweight, boring career executive kind, solid in the office...but whose eyes betray just the hint of madness...like a coiled rattlesnake ready to strike at slightest whiff of exhaust fumes...lol... :vroam:  Anyway....first...the trailer... a fully loaded 40 footer...story starts like this:It was a dark and stormy night...no really...it was... <img src="https://zerotohundred.com/forums/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/laugh.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":laugh:" title="Laugh    :laugh:" data-shortname=":laugh:" /> A colleague and I were returning from JB after attending a dinner and we were about 80 km from JB on the way back to KL at about half past midnight when a trailer we were passing (he was driving) decided to swing out. Driver may have fallen asleep, but we will never know cos the coward ran... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1380" alt=":angry:" title="Angry    :angry:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":angry:" />Anyway, his rear tyres hit my left fender and my tyre exploded immediately. Rim hit the ground at 160 kmh and shattered, but the car remained stable and straight. Surprising considering we'd lost a control wheel. The impact crushed my left fender, and bent the lower arm back into the A-pillar. Also set off my one and only air-bag. We slowed to a stop...took us about a km...and the sparks from my shattered rim must have been spetacular.My colleague indeed felt very bad about the incident, but a quick analysis basically told me that we were lucky to be alive. A lesser vehicle would have summersaulted as the chasis gave way. The Cefiro chasis DID NOT give way. Stock, it was rigid enough to maintain it's shape through the impact and slowing down of the vehicle despite dragging it's left wheel. My bonnet was untouched!Anyway, the "sharks" were on the scene within minutes, but I made a call to KL and got a tow-truck to come down and retrieved us. Incident happened at half past twelve (midnight) and we "rolled" into KL at 10 am the next morning after waiting more than 3 hours for the tow truck, making a police report, and getting towed all the way back.The insurance claim was not too difficult, just bloody slow. Took them almost 2 months to clear and repair my car. There was a slight deformity of the A-pillar, and I lost my lower arm, knuckle and x-member but other than that...all was well...surprisingly. A 40 footer trailer carries so much momentum that it cannot be taken lightly.Being the driver that I am...I measured everything throughout the repair, and instructed the welder. One reason the Cefiro is so rigid (and they had and incredibly difficult time pulling the chasis back into shape) is because the chasis is constructed of 4 layers of steel. Most other cars (with the exception of continental vehicles and thoroughbred sportscars) have only 2 layers. Also, each of the layers is thicker than normal, making the chasis very tough indeed. Every part of the chasis was measured to mm accuracy before I accepted the car...and the wheel camber/castor was adjusted twice more after I got the car back. All in all, I'm reasonably confident that the repaired side is probably more accurate and more rigid than the undamaged side... <img src="https://zerotohundred.com/forums/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/laugh.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":laugh:" title="Laugh    :laugh:" data-shortname=":laugh:" />I still have a lot of adjustments to do. They took off my dashboard to make the repairs and put it back badly...so that gets done within these 2 weeks.So...yet another story to tell the kids when I get old and grey...then again...I NEVER intend to get old and grey... <img src="https://zerotohundred.com/forums/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rofl.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rofl:" title="rofl    :rofl:" data-shortname=":rofl:" /></blockquote>

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