Had the car a week Spun it already...

[brisa4984]

id post a facepalm pic if i could be bothered

 

[Chris205]

you spun....

.....a clio?

WTF?

It really isnt as hard as you think. Enter a roundabout to fast, power understeer, back off, back steps out, initial reaction is to brake if you dont have experience of it which only fuels the fire.

I only spun my ph1 once, entered a roundabout way to fast in the wet, roundabout was covered in diesel (always is but my fault) back end came out, I caught it started to power on and it hit the diesel and sent it round. Hit the brakes and managed to keep it in one piece.

 

[matt|H]

Everyone has a spin once and it teaches you a lot when you look at the error of your ways

amen to that

 

[Goodj]

cure: dab of oppo

the Clio Trophy is a b**ch, and he spanked it

 

[Chris205]

the Clio Trophy is a b**ch, and he spanked it

Are you talking about me here? I havent spun my clio trophy just pushed it too far to see its limits with lift off

 

[Cunney]

Are people confusing understeer with oversteer?

In seven years of driving hard in RS Clios, I've only ever had oversteer once... and that was going too fast through Paddock at Brands Hatch.

I can't get my head around how anybody could have over steer on a road unless they couldn't give a sh1te about their car or them selves 2bh, I'm all for giving it some beans and often do but to have over steer on a normal road, I can't get my head around it :\ Maybe I just drive like a wet fish :dead:

 

[kev182cup]

I can't get my head around how anybody could have over steer on a road unless they couldn't give a sh1te about their car or them selves 2bh, I'm all for giving it some beans and often do but to have over steer on a normal road, I can't get my head around it :\ Maybe I just drive like a wet fish :dead:

Yeah that's just you dude. Lol

Oh to be young and stupid/no car control again spinning cars. Brings me back to the 205gti days.

 

[Chris205]

Yeah that's just you dude. Lol

Oh to be young and stupid/no car control again spinning cars. Brings me back to the 205gti days.

I loved my 205 gti, living on a knife edge with them round a back road lol

 

[kev182cup]

I loved my 205 gti, living on a knife edge with them round a back road lol

to own a 205gti is living on a knife edge. driving 1 properly on the road is more insane. lol

 

[Martin_172]

rear dampers will be shot, i nearly put my dci 100 thru a bush backwords when mine went

 

[MikeoftheQuays]

I can't get my head around how anybody could have over steer on a road unless they couldn't give a sh1te about their car or them selves 2bh, I'm all for giving it some beans and often do but to have over steer on a normal road, I can't get my head around it :\ Maybe I just drive like a wet fish :dead:

Same here. I like to have a blast now and again but it's ALWAYS well within my/the cars limits.

The back end did waggle about a bit when messing about in the snow. First FWD car that I've had that does that.

 

[tom172cup]

Car full of mates and the famous comment "Watch This" then bottled it. bang lift off oversteer.

 

[Darren S]

Over 5 yrs of hard driving and I think I've had lift off oversteer once, warn tyres rain and me being a tit. You live and learn.

Man up, these things understeer before anything else, the back is welded to the floor. Learn how to drive before pushing on!

^^^ - definitely this. I've got my 182 going sideways proper during two periods of its life. Both involved me, the car, snow and the liberal use of the handbrake. It wasn't panic - I had plenty of space to 'play' and see what the 182 would do and how it would behave.

In normal conditions - even in the wet, it's been beyond faultless. As kev182cup says - these things give you LOADS of prior warning that it ain't happy with what you're doing and/or the road conditions.

Still, you've learnt from it - and that's the main thing.

D.

 

[Stu_350z]

Only time mine as even stepped out a little is when i was comin onto a tight roundabout..needed to to a 90 degree turn pretty much

entered a little fast, heavy braking and then turned.....was a damp road an the back jus slid out...easily caught though and continued on my way

reminded me to concentrate is all lol as i was day dreamin

 

[Goodj]

I had a step-out once on some grimy Lincolnshire backroad between Boston and Horncastle.

a dab of flickering dashboard light, and I was away

ESP is a bit(h, and I spanked it

 

[Goodj]

Are you talking about me here? I havent spun my clio trophy just pushed it too far to see its limits with lift off

our hero!

 

[Chris205]

our hero!

Someone has to be

 

[shiyan]

mad dorifto lol

 

[jack_kemp]

liberal use of the hardbrake

Anyone Keen for changing the name?

 

[Rich_172]

Had mine nearly 12 months and the back end is solid. Never slid out once. Understeer is a bigger problem

 

[benkay]

you spun....

.....a clio?

WTF?

Am I the first V6 owner to see this thread? More than possible

 

[.Kev.]

Pointless thread.

 

[JD]

You weren't trying. Or he wasn't. Was it a he? Or a she?

 

[mitch1503]

done it in mine within 3 days of owning it but i was pushing it in a car park with a light covering ov sand and lifted off but easily caught it.. then just went 1 night on a roundabout just after i had T1R'S put on the front and my old F1's on the rear... coul always tell when it was gonna break loose when i had a full set off F1's on

 

[Darren S]

Anyone Keen for changing the name?

FLOL - Changed!

D.

 

[Mells]

Lesson to new 182 drivers, be very gentle, Just pulled off roundabout, went sideways

Lesson learnt, be very careful with that right foot!!! :S

I've had mine 4 years. I've never once done this. Not even remotely and I drive like a c**t at every opportunity.

 

[cander08]

driving beyond your means.

 

[L3W15]

iv managed to spin a 1.2 bare in mind it was pissin it down i was drivin like a tit n a tap off the kerb helped lol

 

[daddycool]

i had lift off oversteer big time once, in a pug 406. rear end was light as anything. got a full 360 on a slip road and carried on going. god knows how i didn't hit the barrier.

 

[RDH]

iv managed to spin a 1.2 bare in mind it was pissin it down i was drivin like a tit n a tap off the kerb helped lol

Oh. My. Christ

 

[littlelise]

i had lift off oversteer big time once, in a pug 406. rear end was light as anything. got a full 360 on a slip road and carried on going. god knows how i didn't hit the barrier.

Peugeots are notorious for LOOS! My old 306 used to US AND OS :dead: and my 309 just OS as long as you weren't stupid but it was controllable which made for lots of fun on roundabouts The hubby makes the most of the OS in his 205 too

So far the only time anything's gone awry in the Clio has been much skiddage in the snow, and understeer once throwing it into a roundabout a bit too spiritedly, lifting off just about brought it back, not as predictable as the puglet though :dapprove:

 

[daddycool]

funny thing is i was giving the wheel a wiggle, a kind of half hearted scandinavian flick, thinking that if it goes i can accelerate out of it, but it let go so smooth that by the time i realised it was too late and i just held on