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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
I don't understand how people crack the oil pans in these cars.
To crack the oil pan you have to high center it on a pretty good curb or rock, steering around such things would be a good idea. These are not Humvee's.
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it's pretty easy. You must live somewhere where the highway department is well paid and very responsible. I've nearly done it two different times on railroad tracks. Around here they don't level things out.
When i cracked mine, it was on a thing that was advertised as a crosswalk on the yellow signs. Crosswalks to me are flat brick things laid into the pavement. Some fool built these... i'ts LITERALLY... take a sidewalk (standard concrete sidewalk) and stack another one on top of it... that tall. They put a narrow little slope up each side of it, and slap the whole thing down on a steep hill. Going up, the car nearly bottoms out on the stupid thing in the middle. Going down... well, we know what happens. I literally have to be under 5 mph to avoid repeating the experiment.
if you ask me there's no excuse for building something like that. I'll take a picture of the scrapes in the road right against that thing where other people have done the same thing I did.
If they had put up a yellow sign that said "car killing obstacle in road" or even "speed bump" i'd be happy... but they deliberately put up a crosswalk sign just like they have for the flat ones, with no extra notification.