Brown Trouser moment

[ticker]

I did a 400 miles round trip yesterday visiting relatives, on the first 200 , glorious sunshine, and giving it loads, on the latter part, pi...ng down. Doing 70 - 100+ leptons on carraige way,on return journey, unexpected large pool of water, next thing back end playing slippy slidy, aqua gliding, foot off, beast calmed down, carried on with the need to clean my leather.
All in all the tusc behaved superbly and I wasted everything that came close to me, it was awesome.

I love Speed Six Motoring!!!!

Dave

[targarama]

Lucky.

This happened to me on the autoroute in France. I slowed before the water but not enough. Luckily velocity took me through and it was straight, not a bend. Now I drive like a granny in standing water. TVRs have plenty of grip on normal wet roads but if water is standing they are dangerous. 20-40mph in the rain on the M4 yesterday. One of the slowest on the road and I don't care.

[UpTheIron]

I had a similar incident, caused by a "stream" of water running across the road...

My rear tyres had 2 - 3 mm tread on at the time - no great surprises, but with a new set of boots things were much improved.

[ehasler]

targarama said:

Lucky.

TVRs have plenty of grip on normal wet roads but if water is standing they are dangerous.

Light weight, fat tyres and plenty of power do make things a little interesting when it's very wet!

[dvs_dave]

Heavy rain and TVR's don't mix. Had a thoroughly scary drive up the A1 and got caught in a massive downpour with lots of standing water. I pulled off and waited for it to pass as I was convinced it was just a matter of time before she would have thrown an unrecoverable death twitch at me.

[chalky white]

Span mine after a moderate downpour, turned right out of a T Junction, next thing I'm looking at where I've just been. A bit more respect for lots of power and rear wheel drive in future.

[G9eg]

I'm sorry but theese cars are leithel in the wet or in the dry,they have enough power to do whatever you want them to do in any situation,so it's up to you to keep theese (I know it's spelt wrong ) ers in control whether it's in the wet or in the dry,they can still be tamed,it just takes experience and practice to control these puppies and when you can what a great deal of fun you can have sliding all over the road and leaving rubber skid marks everywhere(I think I mean rubber anyway)




G9eg