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Was driving along beach rd to work, and you could see the road had the rainbow/oil slick look to it (first rain after a big dry). It was SOOO SLIPPERY!!

On a gradual bend, that you could probably take at 100+ in the dry, at 60, a slight bit of extra throttle and the car was stepping out (not even on boost). Even straight line, normal acceleration from the lights was struggling sometimes.

I've got plenty of tread left and $$ tyres, plus other suspension mods so i know it wasn't the car... it was just damn slippery

so PLEASE take it easy out there. I saw one accident on the way in, but there are surely going to be more floating around on the news.

-chinny-

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yeah my ass end was all over the place on the way home. heard there were a few crashes around.

amazing how it can go from hot dry 35 degrees then the next day 22 rainny cold and wind. Only in Melb :P

Edited by jake33

I was almost sideways coming out of my driveway this morning. I turn onto a hill and in the rain its almost impossible to accelerate at a regular speed without loosing traction which makes it a pain to pull out into traffic. Think I scared a lancer just a bit this morning while I was driving to the train station in suddenly in 2nd the rear started sliding out in front of her.

haha.. yea i almost got into a bit of trouble. coming out of Forster Road on to FTG road, I had a Burger in one hand and dart in the other, 3rd gear and my back and was steppin out, and I hardly had my foot on the throttle too.

If you cant keep traction on a wet day you shouldnt be driving.

Amen. Bout time someone said it.

I think people feel cooler if they can't keep traction....My daily has 250rwkw and I can keep it in line with little to no effort.

Learn to drive :P

it's got nothing to do with being a hero, or not knowing how to drive.

all my point was that it was exceedingly more slippery than any "normal" wet road, and you could see the oil sheen on the road, and the extent to which it was visible, was NOT normal.

all i was trying to do was give people a heads up in that the roads (well, beach rd at least) are A LOT more slippery than they are normal... and if that means someone misses an accident because they gave more room between them and the car infornt, well, the thread has done it's job

there were lots of crashes - and i was listening to AM radio on the way back from the train station. The Lindi Burns was saying something like "as soon as it starts raining, people forget how to drive"

How true it is. there was one ass wipe this morning who was cutting in and out, wouldnt let people change lanes etc......what an ass bandit

i know to be very careful in the wet in my car and i was taking it very easy around every bend and roundabout. i was doing under the speed limit and had a slight curve in front of me so i only had to turn the wheel a little bit. then the back end kicked out a little bit i pretty much shat my pants cause i wasnt ready for that to happen, i looked behind me and it happened to a couple other cars so there must of been some oil there it was pretty scary considering im not really used to rwd cars, cause i used to drive a subaru and you never cared when it rained.

it was filthy outside today, i was slidin everywhere on shitty nankangs, was enough for me to get a new set of yokohama r1s best tyre ever for me lol.

i expect this would only happen if you floor it in the wet ?

i expect this would only happen if you floor it in the wet ?

yeh i would also expect this cause i can keep my car straight with 200 + rwkw and got the worst tyres imaginable on the back

and they are stretched to

my VL wagons fully sick in this weather.. makes me feel like its got 500HP... sick

:rofl:

bahahahahaha

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