Xterra Roll Over Issues

[modelbuilder]

I'm still not convinced it was the IFS...


Look how fast he was going when it tipped. If he took it slower he would have been fine.

Same thing happened in this video of an SFA..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8XYl5yz7RI


This guy gunned it when he thought he was going to clear it and instead rolled over like the Xterra.

Here is a great video of an X-Terra not flipping over...I mean look at what this guy does.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_wifZs9OOU&feature=related



The first role has more to do with driver error than anything else.







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[Rbertalotto]

Backing up can ruin your day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeYmDOzoibk&NR=1


And I love it whenever this happens as the first thing out of the drivers mouth is "Damn!"

 

[CA-RJ]

IFS doesn't flex as well, so when he got the tire on the ledge, it shifted all the weight over. a SFA would've flexed better and kept both tires on the ground, without leaning the body over as much.

quit getting so defensive.

Yup, that's what I was going for. Speed was surely a factor though.

 

[CA-RJ]

Joe, the Wrangler hopped and then went sideways. The Xterra in post 1 hit the step with the right front tire first.

If the Xterra in your last post had been SFA it wouldn't have been so tippy.

But now were way off topic.

Jeeps suck!:ylsmoke:

 

[modelbuilder]

Nissan sucks!

 

[BKCowGod]

Nissan sucks!

I have both... which side am I supposed to take?????

 

[alexrex20]

porsche?

 

[alexrex20]

I'm still not convinced it was the IFS...


Look how fast he was going when it tipped. If he took it slower he would have been fine.

Same thing happened in this video of an SFA..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8XYl5yz7RI


This guy gunned it when he thought he was going to clear it and instead rolled over like the Xterra.

Here is a great video of an X-Terra not flipping over...I mean look at what this guy does.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_wifZs9OOU&feature=related



The first role has more to do with driver error than anything else.

i agree it's driver error (too much speed), but i still maintain that the IFS didn't help him. anyway, my post #30 above was directed toward mcm4090. your keen ninja skills snuck in a post while i was typing mine.

 

[BKCowGod]

porsche?

You don't see them rolling all that often, it's true!

 

[RonapRhys]

But when they do roll, it's spectacular. The few I've seen are at high speeds and the rolls are generally in the air with parts flying off.

 

[BKCowGod]

But when they do roll, it's spectacular. The few I've seen are at high speeds and the rolls are generally in the air with parts flying off.

tru dat. It's funny - I have spun every car I've ever owned (including the Land Rover Discovery and the Diesel Mercedes) but I have never even gotten on 2 wheels while sideways. Proof that I'm not trying hard enough?

 

[RonapRhys]

Come to think of it, I've spun several but I'm in the same boat as you. Never been on two wheels due to that. Hell, I even managed to start drifting in the rain on I495 around DC one night (had a Crown Vic, just going a bit too fast for that curve, steered out of it without too much of a problem) and didn't get on two wheels.

Maybe I'll try harder when I'm driving my wife's Altima.

 

[BKCowGod]

Come to think of it, I've spun several but I'm in the same boat as you. Never been on two wheels due to that. Hell, I even managed to start drifting in the rain on I495 around DC one night (had a Crown Vic, just going a bit too fast for that curve, steered out of it without too much of a problem) and didn't get on two wheels.

Maybe I'll try harder when I'm driving my wife's Altima.

hehe - in my more hooligan days, we would go to Taco Bell and get a couple of fast food trays... Put 'em under the rear tires and lock the e-brake and you can pull some amazing front wheel drive donuts!

It was all very fun until my idiot friend did it one night with his headlights on - it was like he was actively signaling for that cop!

 

[xtatik]

Nissan sucks!

Ah, I see, your woman left you for a Nissan owner. Don't feel bad dude...it happens all the time.

 

[Alpine Spirit]

I think the problem was that he was going way to fast and that's why he rolled.

He "gunned" it and didn't let off the gas till it was too late.

Bingo :wings: