When did you last do a handbrake turn ?
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Last time we had proper snow. 306 HDi. Probably 3 years ago 
Likewise have had cars with electronic handbrakes since. The handbrake on my SEAT is one of those crappy ones which seems to just gently squeeze the caliper rather than applying enough locking force. My old Celica used to be great for handbrake turns - it had a separate handbrake drum on the rear axle, whilst the braking system used a separate caliper/disc setup.
But that was even longer ago
Likewise have had cars with electronic handbrakes since. The handbrake on my SEAT is one of those crappy ones which seems to just gently squeeze the caliper rather than applying enough locking force. My old Celica used to be great for handbrake turns - it had a separate handbrake drum on the rear axle, whilst the braking system used a separate caliper/disc setup.
But that was even longer ago
What is a handbrake turn? 
Only joking!!!
The last on I attempted was when I, for some long forgotten reason, bought a Sierra 4x4. I tried handbraking it but the rear discs, LSD and 4wd system meant that it was not very good..... That must have been in the early 90's and after that I gave up doing things like handbrake turns.....
Only joking!!!
The last on I attempted was when I, for some long forgotten reason, bought a Sierra 4x4. I tried handbraking it but the rear discs, LSD and 4wd system meant that it was not very good..... That must have been in the early 90's and after that I gave up doing things like handbrake turns.....
Mrs jogged home the other day so I took her back to the car park in the night to get the car. Decided it would be super awesome to show her my manliness and do a handbrake turn around the last cone that divides the "rows". Yeah it wasn't the last cone and I went straight through the tape WRC style. At the lights my Mrs pulled up next to me pissing herself... I destroyed her in the traffic light gp though. Last laugh amIright?
I did an autotest last year in my TVR (just to see if it would do it)
Handbrake turns, donuts, J turns all possible.
I wont do it again though, the donuts took the outside edge of one of my back tyres nearly down to the wires.
The track with a rwd car is to put the clutch in, then handbrake then dump the clutch. the only difficulty then is stopping it going around and around an around whilst the world disappears in a cloud of smoke.
edited to add
The only road cars I have owned that I havent done a handbrake turn in are my current 3 series (auto) and my previous i40 (electonic handbrake). Every other car has been able to do them including my multipla that was actually really good at them and my mondeo estate that I ended up having to use the handbrake to get around a 90degree left that turned out to be covered in sheet ice,
Handbrake turns, donuts, J turns all possible.
I wont do it again though, the donuts took the outside edge of one of my back tyres nearly down to the wires.
The track with a rwd car is to put the clutch in, then handbrake then dump the clutch. the only difficulty then is stopping it going around and around an around whilst the world disappears in a cloud of smoke.
edited to add
The only road cars I have owned that I havent done a handbrake turn in are my current 3 series (auto) and my previous i40 (electonic handbrake). Every other car has been able to do them including my multipla that was actually really good at them and my mondeo estate that I ended up having to use the handbrake to get around a 90degree left that turned out to be covered in sheet ice,
Edited by GOG440 on Saturday 25th March 15:34
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