not happy with new car tires??… anything i can do?

The point where grip starts to go can be found a very low speeds, knowing how where and when, is useful.

Agreed, but public roads are not the place to 'experiment' that's for car parks and industrial estates at night!

When I saw this car thread I knew that TrollingZooFighter would be baiting everyone.

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Edit: double post…

Double post!

Goan – Member
renton – so someone else had been driving like a **** idiot… Spills are pretty damn easy to see.

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nockmeister – Member
I totally disagree Groan, spills aren't THAT easy to see, especially on a roundabout!! Depends on road surface,weather (wet,dry etc),lighting conditions.

As I have said in a post quite recently – I was once in a car when its brake fluid reservoir unexpectedly exploded. It deposited fluid all over the tyres and the car went sideways around a roundabout. The trail of fluid on the road showed it went immediately before the roundabout so there was absolutely no warning whatsoever (such as dashboard lights). And it was a 6 month old car so absolutely no poor maintenance issues.

So no way could that have been expected and I would suggest a good candidate for a fourth way a car can spin unexpectedly.

christ this is getting a bit out of hand!!!

it was confirmed that the diesel was the cause of my wife spinning . although i sure with th old familiar tires fitted she could of caught the spin.

the tyres are still flexy, ive just done a trip up the m/way and round one of the high speed bends the car was all over the place and wouldn't settle at all.

im going to swap them to the front of the car and get something else for the back.

goan is still a cock though!!

this poor guy asked for advice and all you guys are doing is saying his wife cant drive and have a childish competition to see who drives the most miles? your ment to be adults rnt you?.

my advice is go to the ford garage…its thier car they have lists of recomended tyres for it.

goan is still a cock though!!

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my advice is go to the ford garage…its thier car they have lists of recomended tyres for it.

Recommended tyres for the C-Max in this size are:
Pirelli P7
Bridgestone ER30
Conti Sport Contact2
Goodyear ENCT5
Michelin Primacy

BUT
those are just the brand names…
The challenge you would face is making sure you get the Ford spec tyre….

I am still surprised that the Yokohama tyres make it feel quite so bad.

according to american tv, i should eat more yogurt – Member

this poor guy asked for advice and all you guys are doing is saying his wife cant drive and have a childish competition to see who drives the most miles? your ment to be adults rnt you?.

Adults? On STW?

If it was diesel, how come nobody else spun their car? People need to take responsibility for their actions.

how come nobody else spun their car?

Perhaps they did. Apologies if the facts have been posted, but as far as I am aware this information isn't known to us.

What I mean is how come a whole line of cars in front of the car that spun managed to get round the roundabout without falling off the road. The OP says that his wife was following a family member – any time I see that it envolves the following car struggling to keep up and taking chances to do so.

Diesel on the road would not necessarily mean every car spinning as not every car would hit the spill (or hit it whilst taking an identical line). And we don't know if no other cars had spun either before the OP's wife got to the roundabout or after she had moved on (as far as I am aware).

So are you saying that this is a tiny little spill that would only be hit if you took an imaginative line?

No. I am saying that not every car would necessarily spin on a spill as not every car would necessarily HIT the spill. Again, without being furnished with facts, the spill could have covered the entire carriageway, conversely it could have been a small spot.

We just don't know, yet you seem intent on accusing someone of something you do not have all the facts for.

As usual.

I know enough.

You think you do, I'll give you that much.

goan they did say another car spun, just read the thread properly for a change. And when you say you have driven a car 1million miles, my driving instructor always sat in the passenger seat and let me do the drving. If you drive the miles, i'm not sure how crap your students are going to be

as i posted in another post we went back to look at the island and there was another car in the bushes backwards and a load of sandy stuff spread around the island indicating a spill.

my father in law also felt his car slide but caught it.

the combination of different tires and diesel caught my wife out!

Shesh all this bickering, I've told you boys a million times to stop argueing. Where's coffeeking when we need him.

The thing that's annoying me most in this whole sorry episode is renton's spelling of 'tyres'.

You lot are forgetting the golden rule

Never argue with an idiot. They'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience every time.

ianpinder – a car spun, but ended up in a different place. therefore slid from a different place. did it at a diffeent time too. so they cant be linked. most of my work is teaching people to become driving instructors – to do this i play the role of a learner.

Face up to your responsibilities people. Stop trying to shift the blame onto something else.

therefore slid from a different place.

Therefore hit a different part of the same spill?….

Or its exit angle was different?…

Or it was performing a different manoeuvre?…

Or it was accellerating/decelerating/braking differently?…

Or the vehicle was loaded differently?…

Agreed, but public roads are not the place to 'experiment' that's for car parks and industrial estates at night!

Just please, not the one over the back fence from my house. At gone midnight, the sound of fast revving engines, screeching tyres and 'mates laughing hysterically' (to paraphrase another poster) is becoming very tiresome. My daughter's bedroom window backs onto the car park and she's been woken several times (or alternatively we have to keep all the windows closed to partly muffle the sound)

I asked advice on it a few weeks back on here and consensus was that I should call the police. Which i have done, twice now, but as it isn't an emergency they turn up only to find everyone gone again. Presumably they can all hone their skills well enough in the 15 minutes or so and then move back onto the roads to refine them further?

Or maybe they aren't really honing their skills at all, they're just twatting about in car parks in the dead of night while convincing themselves it's a safety conscious thing to do?

Goan so it looks like you're still a cock then.

So is it a huge spill that covers the whole of the roundabout now? As in one that would make all the other cars spin off too? Oh it cant be – they managed to stay on the road.

Make your mind up.

"to do this i play the role of a learner."
i bet you are a natural.

and a cock.

Hows about giving us a picture of the roundabout from google earth?

Speshpaul – you're a proper charmer you are.

goan , car was in the bushes in the same place my wife spun!

sand and stuff on road in the place my wife spun.

i fail to see how they cant be linked??

you really are a cock aren't you !!

A 'different part' of a spill does not then necessarily make it a 'huge spill' though now does it?

not got google earth on my computer?

Renton – why are you not even prepared to entertain the idea that your wife could be at fault here? And calling someone a cock just because they dont agree with you is pretty damn childish – grow up.

Thanks, a charmer thats quite nice really.
But you still sound like a cock to me.

Renton – how about you tell me where the junction is and i'll look it up and post a picture.

Speshpaul – are you the world belming champion?

why are you not even prepared to entertain the idea that your wife could be at fault here?

Conversely why can you not accept that you may be in the wrong and it may not have been driver error? Or accept you are attempting to give expert opinion on an accident when you are not in full receipt of the details and all the contributory factors?

Because my expert knowledge tells m that accidents dont just happen and cars dont just spin. Driver error rules when it comes to crashes and incidents on the roads. It wasn't mechanical failure therefore it must have been driver failure.

Or accept that he is a cock.

"Because my expert knowledge tells m that accidents dont just happen and cars dont just spin. Driver error rules when it comes to crashes and incidents on the roads. It wasn't mechanical failure therefore it must have been driver failure"

Me Lord, the prosecution rests its case. An Expert by his own admission!