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[Me]

...have I ever before had the steering on the endstop of opposite lock when there is no snow and ice about

Mind you, it was when in snapped back, and overshot that I filled my pants - by this time I was fast approaching the roundabouts exit, which was much narrower target


//Mental note to self, don't take TBE out in the damp again...

[feeutfo]

Never? In 25years? ... Not trying hard enough lad!

Ahhh the Linglong sling along years, oh how i "miss" them.... pffforkme!

Catching the slide is one thing, sorting out the mess after it is quite another. Pendulum effect is it? Did you bang your head?

[Kevin Wood]

Could ask this chap what brand of incontinence pants he recommends...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jSYiU-JdRw

[the alarming man]

and prevention IS ALWAYS better than cure

[Kevin Wood]

and prevention IS ALWAYS better than cure

Especially when the cure involves a grass bank.

[Osprey]

... and, in the name of balance, an alternative approach from a BMW driver:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Qxic6qj3E

[Kevin Wood]

... and, in the name of balance, an alternative approach from a BMW driver:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Qxic6qj3E

Ahh, always warms my heart, that one.

"Eh, we're on the ring, innit"
<crunch>

[05omegav6]

Never? In 25years? ... Not trying hard enough lad!

Ahhh the Linglong sling along years, oh how i "miss" them.... pffforkme!

Catching the slide is one thing, sorting out the mess after it is quite another. Pendulum effect is it? Did you bang your head?

Successfully wrote off my Granada Cosworth demonstrating the 'pendulum effect' on a diesel coated dual carriageway

[albitz]

Pendulum/fishtailing/seesawing......other words for over correcting. He should be old enough to know better.

[Debs.]

Pendulum/fishtailing/seesawing......other words for over correcting. He should be old enough to know better.

  Clearly thinks he`s a the boy racer!

[Gaffers]

Pendulum/fishtailing/seesawing......other words for over correcting. He should be old enough to know better.

  Clearly thinks he`s a the boy racer!

[Me]

Not trying hard enough lad!

I fully agree Mr Gixer, clearly haven't been putting enough effort in all these years

On non-icey roads, I've never had a RWD not respond to opposite lock to the point you run out of lock. Have obvious had this arsing around in the snow before, but this was a dry warmish day, roads marginally damp, and with no not much provocation.

Maybe I've never really had *truely shite* tyres before 


Albs - wasn't what I would call a "Senator Fishtail" .  But it needed what seemed like forever on full opposite lock. Obviously when it did sort its life out, it snapped back far quicker than I could turn the wheel, but wasn't as dramtic (apart from the narrow width of exit) as the first.  Scary enough for my tail pipe to chew a hole in the gusset of my smalls

[feeutfo]

Personally, timing of the parts becoming available aside, i was/am still dubious about fitting my irmscher kit etc until used to the tyres and conditions being sensible.

I realise yours was a needs must situation, but decent tyres are top priority young man. No good fitting spsngly chavy trinkits all over the car, then spinning the thing into a ditch or barrier.

I dunno, bloody kids today, Chav first, safety second. (Sigh...)

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

I've just had to put on a full turn of opposite lock after a slightly enthusiastic junction exit on the way home. Woman was less than impressed...

[the alarming man]

Personally, timing of the parts becoming available aside, i was/am still dubious about fitting my irmscher kit etc until used to the tyres and conditions being sensible.

I realise yours was a needs must situation, but decent tyres are top priority young man. No good fitting spsngly chavy trinkits all over the car, then spinning the thing into a ditch or barrier.

I dunno, bloody kids today, Chav first, safety second. (Sigh...)










when i was learning to drive i was told only fit cheap tyres if you life is cheap!!!