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Nearly died today. Not a good day. :-(
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I aint out to get anyone, but after reading this thread, I felt I had something to give.
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Capn' Crash theres an S-bend leading into Manchester that Ive taken fruitily at times- coming out of the 'S' in torrential rain the back end snapped out, I lifted so it pendulum-snapped completely the other way so I booted it. Looked in my mirrors and every other driver had held waaay back (obviously thinking I was going to be hanging in street furniture.
That was bloody dumb- torrential rain and enter the S-bend at speed. Learnt my lesson
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Thank god you are all OK.
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Noticed that the rear felt a little lighter, almost like it was over-steering a couple of times, put it down to new tyres
Interesting. Seems weird to me that new tyres would be that dodgy. I've never noticed much difference with new tyres before unless really pushing it - and it sounds like you weren't. The fact that something felt different on a number of occasions previously points to something wrong with the car rather than the road conditions tbh. The only time I ever had a car feel particularly skittish was when I upped the tyre pressures to the max to see if it saved fuel. After cornering on a rough bit of country lane I put them down again pretty damn sharpish. That though wasn't lightness, but skittishness - really felt like tyres too hard. I've also known garages pump the tyres up way too hard too.
I did hear of someone once tell me that losing a spoiler made their car feel really light - perhaps those little ones do something after all...
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Could be a rear wheel bearing, if it seized up it would cause you to get a swapper on on a damp road.
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While I've never had a good new tyre feel slippery even when fresh-on (after the first 50 yards of driving), I've certainly come acropper with cheap/budget tyres - never making that mistake again. Often they are fine in the dry but in the wet they become horrendously dangerous. I have two "DoubleStar" tyres on at the moment, as soon as it becomes wet I can spin the wheels in 3rd at 30 (90hp DT!) and stopping becomes a work of predicting which soft verge is best for slowing without damage. They're currently being replaced.
Other things to have checked (police probably will anyway)....
2 occasions now I've come away from car repairs and had to stop 100 yards up the road and torque my wheel nuts as they were totally loose (to the point of the caliper catching the rim) it was wobbling that much.
Road surface - a family member span and flipped a car at 40 (in a 60) in the dry after hitting a section of carriageway that basically crumbled as the tyre went over it - a subsequent investigation from the council found it to be massively substandard and dangerous.
As mentioned above - wheel bearings. Caliper seized? Spring collapse?
But always bear in mind that white lines are not very grippy and crossing them on bends isnt the best option if possible!
Get back out there, glad you're safe and well!
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I think you're stupid, and I feel sorry for your children, you could have finished them !.
Obviously this hasn't entered my thoughts.
But I'll take your kind advice.
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Funnily enough was chatting with one of my partners at work today, and he was the off-duty GP who stopped to help you on Saturday.
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Sarcasm from the person who nearly wipes themsleves out and others from their imediate family as well as possibly others road users.
Staggering !.
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Kramer, please please pass on my sincere Thanks to the guy.
Captain_Crash, apologies for the sarcasm, I know you're only expressing an opinion.
Cheers STW.
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takisawa2 been working in the car trade a few years (10 ish years and been a mechanic since 17) there is something about those TDI's (and early k series 91 plate) that caused oil seals to fail on the offside (drivers side) and dump oil onto the tyre and wheel.
it happened to me in a 25, going round a sweeping bend at 55 ish, i was lucky that it wasn't wet, wheel went light as i turned left round the bend, next thing was i was at 90 degree's to the road (almost at that stage where grip returns and flips the car), lucky i span the wheel to the right and saved it (all thought the car was covered with oil over the driver side front wheel) and got out the fish tail. since then i've seen a few petrol and diesel 25's drop oil over the drivers side front wheel and cause a few accidents.. only no rover to answer to the issues. for those that don't believe me google it.
just suggesting the oil seal may be blown/ split classic on the rover engine series. Would be not your fault and maybe a bit off your mind.
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Having read all the verbage now written apart from being lucky I think the lesson is it could happen to any of us. Crashes can occur at 30mph never mind short of 70mph. There may even have been oil on the road, we 'may' never know.
I drive all motorways in the UK at at least 70mph (snow aside!)- never had any problems in over 20years of driving - lucky perhaps but not sure I would say anything against Takisawas driving - it could happen to any of us.
Just glad everyone's o.k. - cars are replaceable.
Be safe out there people...
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Sarcasm from the person who nearly wipes themsleves out and others from their imediate family as well as possibly others road users.
Do you honestly think he needs this pointing out? Seriously? What in his posts makes you think he is completely happy with what happened and needs a telling off from you to make him think about his driving?
You are surely a troll tho.
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Noticed that the rear felt a little lighter, almost like it was over-steering a couple of times, put it down to new tyres
This made me think about when I got some new tyres fitted to my car and it also felt light/twitchy at rear.
Tyres were branded and same spec as originals and all looked fine.
I had the feeling that they may have been uderinflated but a visual check said otherwise so I checked the pressure anyway 65 PSI
they should have been 30.
Dozy c*** at tyre place got sacked for it after I complained.So may be worth checking.Posted 2 years ago # -
You are surely a troll tho.
Unfortunately the self-righteous is in the ascendency on this forum at the moment. Gone are the days of grown up conversations, light-hearted banter and idle chit-chat.I Blame it on the Boogie.
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mastiles_fanylion - Member
Unfortunately the self-righteous is in the ascendency on this forum at the moment
Jeez you are no one to talk. remember the dambuster thread?
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Well look on the bright side- all are well
and at least thats another Rover off our roads.
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Can we not swap Rudeboy for Glupton / smee / tzf ??
We all know he has typing torrets syndrome, but he is not a complete tard.Just wondering , Did the airbags deploy as is was a side impact?
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Airbags frontal dont deploy in side impacts? Only side airbags, doubt a rover has those?
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this thread is useless without pictures
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CoffeeKing . Exactly why i was wondering. The 25 / 200 is not a newish design , so probably not enough airbags to recreate your very own bouncy castle, with inteligent deployment, like Volvo , Saab , Mercedes etc. It probably has a crash sensor tucked behind the front bumper, but I was just wondering if it went off, thats all.
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The tyre pressure point is a good one. I had two new tyres put on the back at a garage earlier this year. Going round a roundabout after collecting the car they felt all wrong, back end felt 'light' and like it may slide so I checked the pressure and they were way too high at 40 psi. Dropped them down to the recommended 28 and they've been fine since.
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Takisawa2 is that just outside the craft centre near Swinfen Hall?
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Jeez you are no one to talk. remember the dambuster thread?
I have no idea what you are talking about - was I suggesting Barnes Wallis was a Nazi or something?Posted 2 years ago # -
Who was the STW'er who rolled his Berlingo down a big banking with bikes et al onboard- had pics? I
when I saw those.
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hora - Member
Well look on the bright side- all are well and at least thats another Rover off our roads.Kerwality......
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