Those things are sketchy AF! My BRZ is also lowered slightly, and has the stock front lip since it’s a Series.Blue, so those situations are butt-clenching for sure. The car is high enough that it USUALLY isn’t a problem, but there are some that stick up so much that it makes me legitimately wonder whether or not they…

“I’m staying on the road, and I’m staying in my lane! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!?!” -Most Motorists

Fuck, you’re right. I mean to say fatter TIRES (i.e. taller sidewalls.) Oh well!

I’m half-expecting to walk out to my car after work today and find a flat tire now that I’ve made this post, lol.

I have smaller wheels specifically for autocross, but I LOVED how these 18s looked, and couldn’t say no to them as the summer setup :P

My favorite is when they strip the top surface off a given street during a reconstruction (I remember them doing this on Western many years ago when I lived in Bucktown) and all the manholes covers are left protruding like a foot up into the air, spaced at odd intervals up and down the street. My cousin came down in…

Detroit’s a whole ‘nother animal. I’ve lived in SoCal for 16 years, and never had a low-profile 18" or 20" wheel get wrecked or blow a tire because of the roads here. Driving my ‘87 Supra in Detroit for only 8 months had me replace all 4 16" completely bent oem wheels that were practically triangular. Luckily I had a…

I’ve driven in Chicago most of my life and have bent 4 wheels and blown out at least 6-8 sidewalls in the past 5 years. (Golf R and ATS)

#MidwestLife :(

Try that in Detroit.

17" with taller sidewalls is the limit. I don’t even run the 19" that came with my car, I swapped those out ASAP for 17" with a taller sidewall.

They look better and the ride is softer on our Michigan 3rd world nation suffering a civil war style roads.

You have huge balls putting HRE’s through Chicago hell-roads.

You get a star sir!

I know that you can’t always see every pothole, or avoid every pothole in every situation. Let me state that up front. I live in Chicago. Potholes are a way of life. I’ve driven my lowered BRZ into some invisible potholes at night that had the car basically fall onto its front bumper. I’ve also hit potholes violently…

I guarantee you it’s because the airline thinks they are being generous.

(Update: I should point out that I don’t mean to suggest that this engine would have exploded, as other commenters have noted. But I am 100 percent sure that the passengers on this flight thought they were going to die.)

Yeah, it legit took me a second to realize that was the shaft and its surrounding components getting red-hot, and not the rest of the turbine on fire peeking through like the Eye of Sauron. 

There’s nothing legally requiring airlines to compensate domestic passengers for delays due to mechanical issues but I am continually baffled as to why any airline wants ‘offered $30 for an engine that looks like it nearly exploded!’ appearing in the news next to their name.

Passenger Jack Leonard told ABC 11, “We heard and felt everything... It was extremely terrifying to be honest. Once it went, you had no doubt that it was major trouble and then seconds later smoke started filling the cabin in the back. You could smell it. It smelled like burning metal and the cabin started to…

It looks like it lost lubrication in the front bearing, causing that to turn that nice fiery orange and probably melting part of the aluminum cap, allowing it to come loose.

Delta has apologized for the inconvenience and gave passengers $30 food vouchers while they waited in Raleigh, according to ABC News. The passengers eventually landed at around 8:30 p.m. local time.