Not what to do in the wet!!

squiffy said:
Learn from this and drive more carefully next time, you were obviously powering out from a corner (boy racer)
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Nope if he was powering it he wouldnt have got oversteer really.
 
saitrix said:
Nope, you did the exact thing you shouldnt do! As soon as you felt it, opposite lock and try to get a little power down. Inbetween those 2 it should have brought the front back in, but hard to know whether you would have ran out of road before you recovered it.
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Actually you only need to put the power back down. Countersteering usually leads to a fishtail scenario which normally ends in the first pic. It's not always a bad thing to do - but the critical part is putting the power back down. :)
 
squiffy said:
Learn from this and drive more carefully next time, you were obviously powering out from a corner (boy racer)
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I'm as far from a boy racer as possible I only got the car as a handy me down from my brother as he got a 200SX, sorry but I take offense from that comment you dont know me end of day it was an accident and I know I was very very lucky
 
Lowe said:
Actually you only need to put the power back down. Countersteering usually leads to a fishtail scenario which normally ends in the first pic. It's not always a bad thing to do - but the critical part is putting the power back down. :)
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Depends if you know how much opposite lock to put on. Turn it enough so your fronts are pointing in the same direction as movement and they will gain grip back easier. Then you can bring the steering back into turning into the corner to carry on going round.
 
squiffy said:
Learn from this and drive more carefully next time, you were obviously powering out from a corner (boy racer)
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powering out from a corner = boy racer? hahahahahahaha

thats how you're supposed to exit a bend, just at a sensible speed
 
merlin said:
Blimey, that's a corker. Roof looks like it would have crushed a passenger.

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Frightening isn't it?! :eek:

Glad you're ok though. That's the most important, and that no one else was hurt.

It could have been worse.
 
saitrix said:
Depends if you know how much opposite lock to put on. Turn it enough so your fronts are pointing in the same direction as movement and they will gain grip back easier. Then you can bring the steering back into turning into the corner to carry on going round.
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This coming from someone who's passed less than a year ago! :p
 
ooo ya did well there. its nasty when the back end of a fwd car snaps out.. had it happend to me once around christmas time.. i was close to catching it (it wasnt long after we had snow.. so id had a bit practice :D ) but mine ended in the fish tailing.. caught it twice (yeah right.. it had me from the start lol) then mounted curb with no path and just wet grass.. and it was time to say hello to behind me.. luckly i manged to miss everything bar the curb... aint happend again since.. i feel i know the limit of the car and my limit a tad better now.. i only passed in september

Glad you walked away :) and no one was hurt ;)
 
Over-steer in a 306?

/me gets popcorn and takes a seat in view of Dolph's soapbox... ;)

Proper rubber for the win!

How did you manage to lose the arse when accelerating out of the corner? Did you feel the nose going and lift-off?

/EDIT: Too slow.
 
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Smiley Man said:
powering out from a corner = boy racer? hahahahahahaha

thats how you're supposed to exit a bend, just at a sensible speed
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LMAO, I was just going to post that!

So every Rally driver or F1 driver who powers out of a bend is a boy racer?

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA :D Legend post! If I had room in my sig, I'd put that in there.

Re the OP... :eek: You're one lucky guy. Did the back swing out and then hit the wall which made the car flip?

Horrible situation to be in really and I'm glad to hear you weren't too badly hurt. It could have definitely been a lot worse.
 
Freefaller said:
This coming from someone who's passed less than a year ago! :p
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Yes but I have also done skid pan training, which was very useful i found. Put it this way, i have had my car sideways before, to which i havent crashed. yet!

Been passed for 9 months now, so getting to a year. :p
 
Jesus that looks very nasty :eek:. Thank **** you weren't carrying a passenger.

That's what the immense power of the screw mod can do.
 
saitrix said:
Yes but I have also done skid pan training, which was very useful i found. Put it this way, i have had my car sideways before, to which i havent crashed. yet!
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I knew that - it was a teasing comment.

However experience > * ;)
 
Zaf said:
I'm as far from a boy racer as possible I only got the car as a handy me down from my brother as he got a 200SX, sorry but I take offense from that comment you dont know me end of day it was an accident and I know I was very very lucky
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It's a 30mph residential zone. What do you expect us to say? You don't roll your car doing 30mph in a residential zone, you roll it by lifting off in a corner after you realise your entry speed was a tad high, unsettling the rear of the car, and inducing oversteer.

Most of us here have a laugh when the time is right but not in an area like that. You were lucky not to have killed yourself or somebody else. Please do us all a favour and buy a Fiesta 1.1.
 
squiffy said:
Learn from this and drive more carefully next time, you were obviously powering out from a corner (boy racer)
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Boy racer? Valid or not - personal insults are not tollerated. FF.
 
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