Know how you feel - I borrowed my son's old Silvia a while back, a
notorious sports taildrifter. Dry road but there is one roundabout on
the way to work which seems to have a smooth surfacing problem. I've
seen lots of people lose it there in the wet so I should have known
better. Put the power on a little too early coming out and did some
inelegant 360deg work. Damaged nothing but my ego fortunately, and
managed a shoulder strain from trying to control it.
Back to the SUV for me.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 22/06/2008, at 8:29 AM, JOHN DUGGAN wrote:
> Last Nov I bought a C36 mercedes AMG sport. A monster of a car
> with best part of 300 brake horsepower..and fuel consumption to match.
> Old but in very good condition. It is spiteful in the wet, with a very
> twitchy rear end No traction control or drivers aids. Today I went
> around a small roundabout at about 20/25 mph in the wet. Turned left
> and found the back end overtaking me as I hit a patch of diesel fuel
> that had been spilt.
> Spun around 1 1/2 times and ended up facing the way I had come...after
> wiping out the drivers side on the crash barriers. One of those " Oh
> BUGGER moments!"
> Main thing is I did not hit anyone else and no one was hurt..only
> metal.
> I feel VERY embarrassed that after 34 years accident free driving I
> should lose it in such a simple way. Bugger, Bugger Damn!
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