You know this afternoon I detailed to another URCM member the delights of
wearing the shoulders off Kermy's rear tyres. Anyway just for a laugh I
decided I'd increase my tyre pressures to 35 PSI to compare notes.

Tim Kemp, what's the A-Class like on 35s all around?

Ours is a "bit skitterish" *cough*.

Skitterish as in, two dozy duffers in a silver 5-series pulls on to the
gloriously wide slip road that goes from the A162 to the A64 this evening at
the heady pace of 36 mph...

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.c...multimap.y=140

....I decided, pah he's sticking to the inside edge of the corner, I'll zip
around the outside and be done with it. Down into third, off we go, hmm,
think I'll lift off a little.... rrrrrrrk! Kinda big nasty rear endy
slide, not unlike the time when I swapped the perfectly secure rear tyres
with the cheapo Chinese front tyres, so we had a grippy front end and
greased slicks at the back.

Hindsight being a wonderful thing I probably should have banged on the
brakes or crashed it, because instead banging on the power* just made the
slide gradually fade out and us nip onto the dual carriageway.

Aforementioned duffers twigged that I was a bad boy or something so
proceeded to flash his headlights at me. Then I spotted that the BMW had a
funky camera type thing on the dashboard. I should have spotted that
sooner, slap me, oooh slap me. Anyway, car pulled up next to me, officer
closest looked over and shook his head, wagged his finger and they
accelerated away...

Heh. Phew. Type thing. In fairness my police contact tells me they won't
stop me unless they're wearing uniform or I do something really stupid...

*Power in the Ka sense, so not much really.

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"DervMan" <dervman (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com> wrote


I'm finding the Swift to be quite amusing in this repect. Now I've got some
grippy-ish and low-ish profile tyres I can build up enough speed on the
roundabouts to get enough force to bring the backend out if I lift off, most
amusing On the steelies I just got a lot of understeer before the
backend would even consider coming round.
Doing an event in it on Thursday, that should be fun!!

However, I'm looking forward to picking up the Volvo, need some RWD-ness in
my life!

DervMan wrote:
It's an A class. It's /always/ skitterish. It handle like crap on the limit.



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"Carl Gibbs" <cagmeister (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote

get something RWD and go sideways properly you big girls!

you sure the wagging finger wasn't for being male and driving a girls car?

Listen to him Derv.
After all, he is an expert in this regard...


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"Lordy.UK" <spam (AT) recycle (DOT) bin> wrote

a MK2 MR2 turbo isn't for girls! that's what the puffy uk NA model was for

"Vamp" <none (AT) none (DOT) com> wrote

Actually the Swift is more tail happy than the MR2 (in the dry at least) at
sensible speeds.

I've got big plans for the Volvo though (well not that big, but it should be
a luagh by the time I've finished)

Apparently on date Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:44:26 GMT, "DervMan"
<dervman (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com> said:

I shall have to video Police, Camera, Action next time then and see what Lurid
Tales the producers can invent for that section of footage... "Drug dealers in
a stolen Ka, the driver got an extra two years for attempting to ram the
pursuit car off the road..." <cut to helicopter chase of bloke running to catch
a train, then handcuffing of a Geordie too drunk to let them get on with it.>

35 is probably too high a pressure for the weight / tyre combination, but then
I guess you're ahead of me there...

"Vamp" <none (AT) none (DOT) com> wrote


No you're right, the turbo model is reserved for laydeees, isn't it?

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<Questions (AT) forgotten (DOT) what.this.was.now> wrote

So I'm not the only one to spot inconcistencies in the stories?

Hehehe!

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