For all you guys and girls without TC, please be carefull !!!

 

Taking it sedately back from a mate's tonight, the turning I wanted off a round-about was closed so accelated a bit to get round, did the same thing on the other side when the road opened up (doing about 25mph in second) gently accelarated and found my arse abound 30 degrees out :eek: :eek:

 

Thankfully no cars alongside so I gathered her up again without drama.

 

Worst thing is that I then had 30mins worth of argument with Louise about my immature driving whilst in car and she is still seriously pissed off :eek: :confused: :(

 

Time to get TC me thinks

Tell her if she cant stand the heat to get back in the kitchen!! lol:D

 

I love the wet it nice to have a little play slide at an empty junction now and again, without ripping £50 worth of rubber off the rears!!

 

(Even our crappy Auto's spin in the wet!!!)

Yeah, it's playtime out there!:dance:

Since fitting new Goodyear GDS3 tyres, I find the car has loads more grip. Its much harder to get the back sideways, even really booting it.

 

No sudden unexpected losses of traction yet:D

I gotta go with Richard on this one. I was coming back from the pub last night ( I find it more fun to drive than to drink these days, that's how sad I am :D). And it had been chucking it down.

 

Even with boost set at 13 psi my eagles were still holding the road round tight corners.

 

James, you really got to try F1's on the back mate. Speak to mr Plastic tyre man ;) because he needs to get some as well and maybe able to point you in the right direction.

 

Good luck with louise, I'm sure she was just tired and scared :D

I've got BC Goodrich on the back and they're well sticky - I have to be brutal woth the throttle and lock to get full sideways!:D

Originally posted by SMW1

 

James, you really got to try F1's on the back mate. Speak to mr Plastic tyre man ;) because he needs to get some as well and maybe able to point you in the right direction.

 

 

yup, i can get a wide range of tyres, from the rubber type, to the plastic type!! :D

What people tend to forget that road surface plays a huge roll in this. If it has not rained for a while, like the last few weeks, all the oil and road dirt soaks into the road. When the first good down pour comes, all the oil grease and dirt is washed up to the surface making it very slippy.

 

Even with out the oil and dirt being washed up different road surfaces give different traction. For example, yesterday in Tescos carpark I turned the traction off to have a little fun while drove round the carpark to pick up my girlfriend. The back end kicked out very easily while just turning a sharpe corner because of the cheap smooth tarmack used. It had nothing to do with my tyres or my driving.

 

Just a few minute before I had to pull out of a sharp junction with a box junction painted on the road as well as traffic light Zigzag lines and the usual centre road line. So in other words the road was mostly lines. As people people know these lines become deadly when they get wet. No matter how careful I was at pulling put the traction control still popped a few times. It was because of the lines on the road, and again not because of the tyres. No tyre will grip the lines in the wet, and with councils just going mad and painting more and more graffiti on the roads, roads are getting more and more dangerous.

 

So please dont think your car is better in the wet because you have such and such a tyre, or what has happened to one person hasnt happened to another so you must be a better driver. Its getting cold and getting wet, so just be carful I think the message is.

 

Stuart

thanks guys :D

 

It wasn't the sideways action that got me annoyed, but it was seriously greasy (and yes my tyres are shit!). I quite enjoyed it actually and was happy with how smoothly it came back on line.

 

Just pissed off I had to be ranted at for rest of journey :(

 

All sorted now, she just got a bit scared and had had a bit to drink to make it worse.

 

J

In reply to Stuart's (SRRAE) post I'm with him on the painted lines issue.

 

What fecking b45tard moron from whatever agency deals with roads, thought about those stupid yellow lines across the lanes on the approach to roundabouts on 70mph dual carriageways??:confused:

 

Surely the idea is to safely stop for the roundabout??

 

On some cars I've driven (not my zed yet:D) it really f***s with the ABS in the wet and you end up with the front halfway onto the roudabout before you've stopped.

Do I just drive sedately, or is it my F1s, but I have never felt the back slipping yet. What am I doing right/wrong? I worried about it because of what people had said about RWD cars, but maybe I am just a wee jessy driver.

Rich,

With F1's on the back of my and running stock boost, it was hard to get the back out, so don't worry about it. However at 15 psi I can wheel spin in 2nd gear (3rd in the wet) with traction control turned off.

 

My advice would be to find a nice safe area and deliberatly get the back out once or twice so you know what it feels like, because one day it will come out and you'll need to be ready for it ;).

 

Group buy on rented air field space on a wet day anyone ? :dance:

Originally posted by SMW1

Group buy on rented air field space on a wet day anyone ? :dance:

 

 

:dance: :dance: me me me , would love a wide open space to play safely

That was a real 'safe area' to play on that video on SMW1's site!!! That really shit me up. Weren't you really crapping it? or did you do it on purpose. I would have been thinking 'ohshitthecopperswillhaveme.' or 'ohshitallthoseguyscarswillbetotalled!!!'

 

If it was on purpose, it took some balls.

lol,

No mate it was not on purpose and James said that he had about a million things flashing through his head at the time. Ranging from " Oh my Gog what will his neighbours think" to "Oh sh|t there goes my no claims bonus".

 

More reason why Jaffa, needs Better tyres traction control before he raises his boost at Christmas :D