Almost Lost It!

[Azim]

hey everyone!!

i was on my way into uni this afternoon, and it started snowing jus as i was leaving the house.15mins later wen i arrived, i was going round one of those small bumpy paper roundabouts, wen all of a sudden my car started to lose control!!

because the roundabout was so small, i had to turn the steering quite alot. at first the front end went briefly, then by this time the back started going.

i totally s:censor:t myself coz i was only going a couple of miles per hour!i heard they are bad in the wet, but just thought that id advise anyone who has only had their mr" for a very short while (like myself) to take it extremly easy over those little paper roundabout things-they may look harmlss,but boy do are they decieving!!!

[Funkadelic]

Bit of oversteer never hurt anyone ;)

Well, actually it probably did.

First thing I intend to do when I get my MR2 is find a big, wide expanse of tarmac (i.e. an empty carpark) and try and get a feel for where the limits are, in the dry at first!

[Bibbs]

if you have good rubber .. it's hard to find the limits .. it's so far beyond what you think ..

Get in in the wet .. a Metro can beat you, if you are not careful ..

[Roytoner]

if you have good rubber .. it's hard to find the limits .. it's so far beyond what you think ..

Get in in the wet .. a Metro can beat you, if you are not careful ..

Bibbs Your showing you age now :P a metro ??

[Dame]

Hey I used to drive one!

True, with good rubber it's very hard to find the limits in the dry. I've managed it twice, but in the wet, where it's far easier.

[Azim]

after this incident, it got me thinking, maybe i shud put a bit of weight in the front of the car? atleast that way the front wont go so easily? i know theres not much spance there, but will that help at all? just a theory, as the snow is now abt 1inch thick-thats abt 10 more than wot it was on my way in uni!!!!!

[Dame]

It can help. I put a bag of heavy sand in mine one, which did improve the cornering. However said sand bag was removed when I took the car off the road. Having driven it since with new tyres, I find the handling fine. WOrth a try though...Remember performance will decrease due to extra weignt

[Bibbs]

Bibbs Your showing you age now  :P  a metro ??

Rover Metro .. or a 114i

[midmotorsteve]

snows much worse than wet, wet limits are still quite high, i must admit i don't really slow down a great deal in the wet except in the opposite place to where you'd think, i.e. really slow really sharp turns talking 10 -15 mph bends where with to much throttle it pushes the nose straight on, A roads can still safely be cruised at over legal limits, rev2 anyway.

[Jimlad]

yeah.... my ABS was kicking in like a trooper in the snow.

Take it easy and you should be fine.... no planting your foot in 2nd gear !

Motorway travelling is still as safe as anything in the snow... well as long as you didn't start changing lanes rapidly while accelerating hard I suppose.

[Bibbs]

I'd rather be accused of "driving miss daisy" (in the snow) and look cool doing it .. than be seen crawling out of a MR2 shaped hole in a hedge ..

[Jimlad]

yeah... I'm very cautious in wet.. even more so in the snow.

If I have another crash.. mr Insurance will come to my door and take me keys off me. Then slap me on the hand and say " .... no more driving cars Jimlad "