Would this do any damage?

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On Saturday i was driving on an ungritted and unploughed road and i hit a patch of heavy snow and ice on the road...i spun the car and ended up in a ditch at the side of the road half buried in heavy snow...

i tried to get out but the wheel right side of the car was spinning like crazy and the wheel on the left side still on the tarmac was stationary and unmoving because i was stuck too deep in the hole...

this is a front wheel drive car...one wheel spinning on the ice and the other on the road unable to have the power to pull me out.

would this do any damage to the differential or the engine or whatever....there was a burning smell but i think (hope) it was just the clutch...

we were there for 2 hours till a guy in a Mitsibishi off roader tried to pull us out and failed...we got a tractor from a farm 4 miles away and he pulled us out....man i thought we were gonna be there all night..it was getting dark and the snow was falling heavily again...

we managed to drive home but i seem to lose power in the engine accellerating through 2nd and 3rd.....but that might just be the cold...
 
no the differential wont be damaged, the engine maybe if you were over revving it to much
 
Originally posted by VIPERGTSR01
no the differential wont be damaged, the engine maybe if you were over revving it to much
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Yup, the differentials entire purpose is to make the wheels able to spin at different speeds.

Have you checked if you got any damage under your car? The exhaust system mabye got a hit and is "choking" the engine..
 
It's quite possible you overheated the clutch. It should be okay, modern clutches are pretty resiliant, but just keep an eye on it over the next couple of weeks.

If the diff was damaged you'd hear it.
 
thanks guys...my knowledge of car engines is pretty shocking...

i just didnt think that the front wheels were capable of doing that...one stopped and one spinning like crazy.

cheers
 
thats what they are suppose to do (unless it has a LSD or locked)
 
Yeah, differentials are pretty clever little things...I never really understood how they worked until I read this article frorm HowStuffWorks. I'm sure you'll find it interesting (how could you not?). :)
 
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