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Originally Posted by tk1971
My Yaris had a set of Scion XB 7-spoke wheels and tires (185/65/R15) installed, which made the car a little taller.
In that configuration, I once drove forward to exit a parking space (no car in the space in front of me) and ran over one of those concrete parking chocks. Imagine my surprise when I realized nothing happened to my car at all.
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I did the same thing in 2011 with the same no damage result. In 2007 I was driving to Florida on I-10 and in either MS or AL a big rig jackknifed and I-10 East was a parking lot in the hot sun for hours. I was stopped near an onramp in a rural area. People around me were driving over a narrow median and backing down the ramp to the frontage road, taking the frontage road to the next underpass, and then heading west. I tried to do the same thing and got a little stuck on the median (which was lower than one of concrete end of parking space blocks. Some nice people got out of their cars and lifted up the back of my Yaris a bit to push me forward/get me unstuck. They did, and I completed what I just described others had done. My Yaris had about 40k on it at the time and was not damaged. I went West to the next Wal-Mart and would occasionally peek outside (I-10 could be seen from the entrance) to check the Eastward backup until finally it was gone. One guy in an 80s Accord didn't follow what everyone else was doing to get out of the backup on I-10. He attempted to drive across the soil between I-10 and the frontage road. The soil was so mushy his car sank all the way to the top of his wheel wells
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08-24-2012, 04:08 PM
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