On the way to work this morning, I was waiting to pull out of a busy junction when I noticed that traffic was at a standstill. Blocking the road was a big truck spinning it wheels when trying to set off... it just couldn't get traction at all.
After sitting there for 5 minutes, the truck finally managed to get some traction and off it went. My journey to work continued.
Driving down a back street to miss the rest of the traffic, my wheels span up in 1st (wasn't even going hard on the pedal) so I changed to 2nd and they continued to spin, so into 3rd it went. Sorted, making progress now.
Back onto the main road and upto a small roundabout at the top. Now, I've taken this at about 45mph in the dry before and had no problems. Today, I was going around it at 25 and could feel the front end starting to slip... weird I thought.
Got to the next set of traffic lights (the famous GP circuit) when there was a Golf R32 already there. I stopped behind it with a few cars in my left lane. The lights changed to green and the Golf set off rather slowly, so I did the same.
I put my foot down a little bit and changed to 2nd gear to get past the cars to my left and for some reason, my wheels span up again... I was doing 2000rpm in 2nd gear and wasn't even putting significant pressure on the pedal. Came to slow down for the traffic and the ABS kicked in as soon as I touched the pedal. Took my foot off and tried again, and the same thing happened
WTF?!?!
So, a bit further down the road, I came to another roundabout. No issues setting off there, even tried to make it spin up in 2nd by planting my foot... nothing...
Got to another smaller roundabout and had to stop half way around the roundabout due to traffic blocking my exit. Came to set off, into 1st, no problems, into 2nd and put my foot down a bit and it was just a wash of spinning wheels and people staring at my car, probably thinking "god damn boy racers"
The roads must be very greasy at the moment, so be careful guys.
After sitting there for 5 minutes, the truck finally managed to get some traction and off it went. My journey to work continued.
Driving down a back street to miss the rest of the traffic, my wheels span up in 1st (wasn't even going hard on the pedal) so I changed to 2nd and they continued to spin, so into 3rd it went. Sorted, making progress now.
Back onto the main road and upto a small roundabout at the top. Now, I've taken this at about 45mph in the dry before and had no problems. Today, I was going around it at 25 and could feel the front end starting to slip... weird I thought.
Got to the next set of traffic lights (the famous GP circuit) when there was a Golf R32 already there. I stopped behind it with a few cars in my left lane. The lights changed to green and the Golf set off rather slowly, so I did the same.
I put my foot down a little bit and changed to 2nd gear to get past the cars to my left and for some reason, my wheels span up again... I was doing 2000rpm in 2nd gear and wasn't even putting significant pressure on the pedal. Came to slow down for the traffic and the ABS kicked in as soon as I touched the pedal. Took my foot off and tried again, and the same thing happened
WTF?!?!So, a bit further down the road, I came to another roundabout. No issues setting off there, even tried to make it spin up in 2nd by planting my foot... nothing...
Got to another smaller roundabout and had to stop half way around the roundabout due to traffic blocking my exit. Came to set off, into 1st, no problems, into 2nd and put my foot down a bit and it was just a wash of spinning wheels and people staring at my car, probably thinking "god damn boy racers"
The roads must be very greasy at the moment, so be careful guys.
Haven't you read the post? I said when I did start to spin, I changed gear... and they continued to spin.
