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I was (am) an idiot and have spun a car on at least two rotational axis. No front or back flip yet.
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Only two spins: Shelby GT500 on the drag strip - drove through the burnout box instead of around it, and didn’t warm up/dry the tires. 360 in my own lane and ended up 1” from the barrier. Felt fine til I got back to the pits and then the shakes set in. Bronco - coming up a hill in winter and hit a patch of black ice. Veeeerrrryyyy slow spin into a field. It was calm and fun. When I stopped, I just put it into 4HI and drove away gently.
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Aug 18, 2023 11:08
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My first car (Saturn l300) showed me the true meaning of understeer by sliding up over the curb, continuing sideways until bouncing off a cinder block wall, and then proceeding through a 5" thick desert pine tree before coming to rest on the gravel of a parking lot island. No spin, so I'm obv. a very good driver.
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Aug 18, 2023 15:53
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I spun a 240sx when I first started learning how to drive a manual. I was making a left turn in a heavy down pour and tried to go for a gap that was a bit smaller than I had liked. I dumped the clutch and spun after successfully completing the turn. On the track I've spun sideways when I was practicing drifting so Im not sure if that counts.
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Aug 18, 2023 16:42
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The one time I honestly lost control of a car was back in 2014 when I was doing the slippery course part of my license and we had to do repeated runs through a short cone section. The instructor basically just told me to go faster and eventually to not brake at all before I reach the cones because the whole idea was to find the point at which you simply don't have enough traction to make the turn through the cones cleanly. Anyway I think he misunderestimated how wide I'd be coming out of the turn since he legitimately jumped out of the way into the snowbank lining the course because otherwise he would've been right in my path. I did manage to correct course and brake enough that it wasn't actually a close call but it sure as gently caress looked dodgy coming in hot from the cones. Suffice to say it did function as a pretty good lesson on just how scary it can be if you take a slippery corner too fast and suddenly get to experience a very harsh physics lesson. It's probably why the closest I've got to something similar has been a few instances of mildly surprising oversteer taking a corner on a narrow, freshly snow-covered road. Nothing dramatic, mostly caused by my desire to keep in my lane rather than go wide in a corner with poor visibility on an empty village road (it was Christmas Eve so literally nobody was out and about but it was also snowing and like 4pm so literally pitch black).
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Aug 18, 2023 17:15
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Ruflux posted:
So does this mean overestimated, or estimated correctly?
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Aug 18, 2023 17:17
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Ruflux posted:The one time I honestly lost control of a car was back in 2014 when I was doing the slippery course part of my license and we had to do repeated runs through a short cone section. The instructor basically just told me to go faster and eventually to not brake at all before I reach the cones because the whole idea was to find the point at which you simply don't have enough traction to make the turn through the cones cleanly. This is just like how my first 180 happened. We were doing swerves over a wet, plastic skid pad. I had managed well enough that the instructor wanted me to try it at faster speeds. The last attempt was at 50km/h. The problem was that my family's old Saab had a sticky speedo and the needle wouldn't climb fast enough during the acceleration section. My idea was to accelerate to above 50 so the speedo would drag the needle with extra force and then I would slow down. With the result that I don't actually know how fast I was driving. I went over the braking section fast enough I barely managed to touch the pedal, then I turned, spun immediately, slid backwards over the skid pad and on to the dry tarmac. That let out quite a screech from the tires.
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Aug 18, 2023 18:16
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I lost control of my Quattro during Snowmageddon '17 in Atlanta because I hit black ice while trying to brake for an intersection. Haven't really spun out yet, at least in an uncontrolled manner. https://www.weather.gov/ffc/20171208_Winter_Storm
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Aug 18, 2023 18:36
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Sagebrush posted:So does this mean overestimated, or estimated correctly? Yes.
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I got going pretty good around the 3:00 minute mark here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZwgYHGWr8Q&t=180s Now I live in the South, so I won't get the chance to do this again any time soon. On the plus side, I won't have to worry about pirouetteing sideways through an intersection any time soon, either. Major takeaway there was that just because the road you're on is plowed and dry, it doesn't mean the turn lanes are... pulled into the right turn lane and just couldn't stop. I'm extremely lucky I didn't cream anybody.
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I had a 1985ish Charger that I “bought” from a college student* when I was like 17. It needed front brakes so my dad told me to just use the emergency brake. I needed to slow down in a corner and pulled the handle. That was at least a 180 spin. Thanks dad. *college student was so far behind on the loan that it got repossessed from him/me lol. I was going to take over the loan so no money had actually changed hands yet.
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Ruflux posted:I was doing the slippery course part of my license The what now?
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(autocrosses an mr2 with square tires) I spin every 8 runs or so.
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SlapActionJackson posted:The what now? The after-license part you completely forget about until a year and a half after you've passed your license test and then call up your instructor around Christmastime that oops, I actually need to get the second phase done before the army. Also I'm due on for that on the 5th of January so it's probably urgent. Technically speaking I only got my full driver's license in early 2015, despite completing driving school and passing in June 2013. My license expires in 2030 which according to current law IIRC requires me to prove on a basic level I'm still competent to operate a motor vehicle to get a renewal. I realize this is entirely incomprehensible to most users so to make it easier for you: it cost well over a grand to get a license and because reasons I and everyone else in my age group skipped over a fair few hours of driving (which were still billed) once the instructor decided we'd gotten experienced enough to take the exam. He had a schedule to run, after all.
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no lube so what posted:(autocrosses an mr2 with square tires) Look at the stig humble bragging over here. :P
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Ruflux posted:The after-license part you completely forget about until a year and a half after you've passed your license test and then call up your instructor around Christmastime that oops, I actually need to get the second phase done before the army. Also I'm due on for that on the 5th of January so it's probably urgent. Are you in one of those countries where you need more then a pulse to get a license?
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'79 LTD, turned a corner one winter and 180ed. Figured hell, nice wide road and no traffic, goosed the gas pedal and turned it into a 360, kept driving. '97 S-10 Blazer, the little old farmer being courteous and pulling over on the shoulder to let me pass actually turned out to be a 14 year old girl who stole her dad's truck to go joyriding and didn't have a loving clue about mirrors, pulled back into me in the front fender hard enough to send me on a barrel roll and a half.
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Aug 19, 2023 01:22
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Hey kid, wanna drive a Ferrari through a corn field?
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Clickbait WhistlinDiesel just breaks stuff for the clicks. I'd love if he'd eventually just disappear off the internet. Destroying good stuff so people get mad is his whole thing, and it's a sucky thing.
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Aug 19, 2023 03:21
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drat dude just stands there while emergency services deals with his bullshit, I'm like make his dumb rear end put it out.
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LifeSunDeath posted:drat dude just stands there while emergency services deals with his bullshit, I'm like make his dumb rear end put it out. Dude's a piece of poo poo, don't give him clicks. KakerMix is a hero for refusing to sell him a truck.
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Aug 19, 2023 05:39
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I assume all YouTubers are douchebags, even the ones I tend to watch (like samcrac). But I don't really give a poo poo if a Ferrari burns up.
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Aug 19, 2023 06:07
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What a genius move to drive around a bunch of dried plants in a car that gets really hot.
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GD_American posted:I assume all YouTubers are douchebags, even the ones I tend to watch (like samcrac). But I don't really give a poo poo if a Ferrari burns up. Last time I saw him in person there was a Trump sticker in the back window of his truck.
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OBAMNA PHONE posted:is there anyone in this subforum who hasnt spun a car? spinning is too e-z, call me when you've end-over-ended (please don't do this, I was 18 and very lucky to live)
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OBAMNA PHONE posted:is there anyone in this subforum who hasnt spun a car? I ran over curbs plenty but never spun(it's the magic of always driving 4x4 shitboxes).
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OBAMNA PHONE posted:is there anyone in this subforum who hasnt spun a car? I once spun my 1984 Jetta with a little assistance from a big rig.
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madeintaipei posted:Last time I saw him in person there was a Trump sticker in the back window of his truck. I refer you back to the first part of my statement. He's a rich farm kid in the Midwest. I assume just from watching five minutes of Bam MAGAera that he's an intolerable twit who makes things people find funny. I just think burning a Ferrari to the frame on purpose isn't something that moves my needle GD_American fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Aug 19, 2023 |
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Well it did stop.
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I had to do mandatory low friction training as part of getting my licence back in the 1990's. It was on oiled pads sprayed with water, which is still a thing, though these days there are also cars equipped with caster wheels that give a similar effect on dry asphalt. I recall doing understeer and threshold brake drills with a FWD car (VW Golf) without ABS and also oversteer drills cornering with a RWD car (some kind of Mercedes) lacking traction control, also equipped with intentionally lovely funky looking rear tires. I think maybe I spun out once in that one, not sure though. Pretty fun day, but cost a fair bit of money. Looking at youtube, it seems like a very similar setup to what I did is used up to this day (video description says the course is like €250): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4ALnkEq-8w
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https://imgur.com/Us4t2HH.mp4
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What is that a Bronco
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Aug 21, 2023 04:50
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StormDrain posted:What is that a Bronco Ford Explorer maybe
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StormDrain posted:What is that a Bronco Murciélago maybe?
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Aug 21, 2023 05:24
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Holy loving poo poo volume warning please.
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Aug 21, 2023 10:04
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StormDrain posted:What is that a Bucking Bronco
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There it is!
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AirRaid posted:Holy loving poo poo volume warning please. do they control your phone volume or autoplay settings lolo
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I was about 2/3rds of the way through thinking to myself that I was impressed with how strong that trailer hitch was...
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Goddamn. At least they strapped it down really well.
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