Stacked the car this morning (pics)

good work! Thats one way to show a corsa whos boss! :D

Glad you are okay though!

Yeah for Ocuk and the "ive almost killed myself, take photos and post :D" brigade :D lol

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If you want another corsa, let me know and i will sell you mine :D
 
Main thing is you are ok. :)

Unlucky though fella, I know what it's like to lose the back end and flip a car, not the nicest of experiences I must say.
I had the person following me stop, and someone that came the other way stop though, which was nice.
Really is such a shame that people don't, whenever I see an accident has happened I often check to see if anybody is helping, just in case there isn't. :)

InvG
 
helpimcrap said:
at least you're alive mate. looked like a bit of a nasty one. next time the back end goes in a FWD car - plant the accelerator. more chance it will pull it into line then. my escort can get the back end out on lift off oversteer and if i want it to straighten i just accelerate (well... as much as it will do being a 1.8d lol).

if it's a RWD... don't do the above lol.
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RWD you can apply more throttle to correct oversteer. Hence drifting.

And you never just plant the accelerator.
 
glad your ok mate.

anyway for future reference, can anyone confirm the correct action needed if the back-end slide?

So for FWD cars - accelerate and hope the rear lines up with the front?
RWD cars - turn into the slide?

the above correct?
 
Wolfchild said:
RWD you can apply more throttle to correct oversteer. Hence drifting.

And you never just plant the accelerator.
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with an underpowered engine you do, certainly dont expect mine to do a lot unless you nail it. In mine you have to be going very fast to induce oversteer and it borders on being scary. Likelihood of it ending in tears is high, so best avoided unless there is a lot of runoff space. As always though YMMV so giving advice on here is a bit pointless. The only way you will learn how to control your car in a wild slide is to give it a few goes and find out for yourself.
 
Defcon5 said:
It was definatley my fault, but i cant have been going over 50mph. I was stationary just before the slip road and its only a 1.2, so slow to pick up speed.

But neverthless i was obviously going too fast for the conditions. lesson learnt :)
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Lessons learnt when you've perhaps had an advanced driving course?

I say this as you earlier said that you didn't know what to do in such a situation.

Had you known, your Corsa would very likely be still with us.

Good job you did not know then! ;):D

Glad your ok which is always the main point in such situations - another mangled Vauxhall is nothing to get sad about.
 
I'd sue Vauxhall, and report this to watchdog.


It's clearly a case of random handbrake auto-application, rather than it releasing, which makes a change :D

Glad you're ok, as a self inflicted victim of two write-offs in the long and distant past ( currently on 8yr N/C ), you do learn from these events, maybe not instantly, but over time you certainly do.
 
well done for getting away from that un-injured.

no idea how you could have lost that so badly, doesnt sound like you know either, which is doubly worrying
 
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