So I'm coming home after work, and I take a detour to Sear's Hardware to pick up some jacks+jackstands. On the way back home, I'm doing about 50mph, and I change lanes.

I saw what looked like a medium sized cardboard box right in the center of the road, and it came way too quick for me to avoid it. All of a sudden I hear two loud bangs, and the car is jolted upwards twice. It turned out that this "box" was indeed a large solid object.

One second later the car starts pulling to the right hard, and I'm now cursing to myself like crazy thinking that my suspension has been severly damaged. I manage to safely pull over and inspect the "damage."

I walk over to the right side of the car, and the only damage I saw were 2 flat tires. Since I had 2 flats and only 1 spare, I call my dad to bring over 2 of my 15" stock wheels from home (4 miles away).

Once he arrives, we start swapping over both of the right wheels. I notice that there was another Honda Accord pulled over, so my dad goes to check it out. It turns out that he had hit the object before I did, and he seemed a bit "dazed." He left before I could speak to him :evil: I'm not too concerned since I lucked out with only 2 damaged tires...



WRONG!!!

I noticed this:
































Rear Right:




Front Right:







Later on that night, I go back to that same spot to find what I hit, but all I found were pieces of the other Accord's hubcap, and 2 chunks of my wheel on the other side of the road:



I took my car in for an alignment today, and the toe-in was off in the rear and front right, but they were able to correct it within factory specs...

There is no damage to the undercarriage, and the car drove in a straight line with absolutely no funny noises whatsoever before and after the alignment.

So, now, my collision dedcutible is $1000, so I have to pay for 2 new wheels, 1 (maybe 2) new tires, and an alignment all out of my pocket, unless I can find the party responsible (highly unlikely, since the object disappeared) :cry: :cry: :cry:

Do you guys think I should also replace the rear right tire too (one with the less-damaged wheel)?



The guy at the local wheel shop, and the guy from Discount Tire both went when I popped the trunk and showed them the wheels. The wheels are currently discontinued, but I've found 2 online vendors that have them in stock...

So, do you think the wheels held up well for a 50 mph impact with a large solid object?

EDIT:
let me reiterate that I hit some large solid object in the middle of the road doing 50-55mph. It caused the car to jump twice, mess up 2 AVS ES100s, and knocked out my alignment (that was fixed)...

I bet you that a much stronger 17" forged wheel would have been damaged beyond repair too!!!