Slippin' and Slidin'

Yesterday it snowed.  Not TONS, but for some reason, the snow that fell was very slick.  On my way to church, I took the first bend out of the neighborhood at around 20 miles per hour, which was about 15 miles per hour too fast for conditions, apparently.  I slid into the curb.

After that, the front tire was wobbly and sounded horrible.

Great.

Fortunately, a neighbor (and good friend) has a mobile brake service business and he looked at it today.  I drove the car 2 blocks to his house, which saved me the towing fee.  I destroyed the bearing and hub on the passenger side front wheel and that wheel was badly damaged as well.  My friend was surprised that the tire held any air any more.  I also dinged the back wheel on the same side enough that it would cause a wobble at higher speeds, so that needed to be fixed as well.  The aluminum wheel and the bearing on the front took the brunt of the collision, so the "A arm" wasn't damaged.

The cost?  $320 for the bearing and hub and the two wheels are going to cost $130 each.  Then I need to have the tires removed from the dead wheels and mounted on the new wheels and have them balanced .  That costs $20/tire.  Finally, I'll need to have an alignment done.

Wow.

That was an expensive slide.  *sigh*

If I knew it was going to cost THAT much to get to church yesterday, I would have hired a limousine service to take us to church and we could have gone in STYLE.