Slippy stuff on the road

[ModernAndy]

Hi,

I'm pretty sure I hit a patch of oil or diesel or something suitably slippery while on my drive back from the office today. I felt the back end trying to overtake me (only doing about 15-20mph on a large 2-lane roundabout in the outside lane) and had to apply quite a bit of counter-steer to keep inside the lane.

My question is this...

is it normal for slippery stuff such as above to stay on your tyres for a couple of hundred metres afterwards? I ask because at the next roundabout I was going even slower but felt the rear-end playing up again. After getting the car home I had an inspection and drove it in a very quiet area doing brisk speeds and no sign of any problem.

[jimbob82]

yes oil/diesel will stay on the tyres for a bit...

[DouggyMc]

Yep oil/ diesel will stay on your tyres for a little while. I hit a humongous patch of diesel on a wet roundabout last week. Still spun the rear tyres setting off from a traffic light 100 metres up the road. Wheelspin up to third gear in a Sierra

[S2Mike]

Needed quick reactions in the TVR on a roundabout last weekend, could only be a diesel spill, as too warm for ice.
Rather sideways on the exit, even though I was taking it sensibly.

[jimbob82]

DouggyMc said:

...Wheelspin up to third gear in a Sierra

and then you took your foot off the brake?

[ModernAndy]

thought that was the case. Thanks for reassuring me. I'm 25 and have been driving since 17 but have never had anything like this apart from black ice on a couple of occasions

[Fitz666]

Post this in the Bike Banter section and see how bad the diesel problem is.....

[AndyNetwork]

Had this over the Christmas break - on a roundabout near me is a Hiways depot, and they regularly spill diesel onto the link road between 2 roundabouts. It is a downhill left hand bend, with a wierd camber due to the joining lane from the depot.

I ended up facing the wrong way as I hit the diesel, and fortunately it was Christmas, and there was no traffic coming up behind me.

Any other day of the year, and my car would have been a write off.

[Rawwr]

Fitz666 said:

Post this in the Bike Banter section and see how bad the diesel problem is.....

More like a rider incompetence problem, I suspect.

[tigger1]

Fitz666 said:

Post this in the Bike Banter section and see how bad the diesel problem is.....

I found the roads very greasy this morning, and I was only on a push-bike!

Worst times are always damp days after a period of dry weather, or when some doughnut decides to piss diesel everywhere.