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 Sat 21 May 11 18:45 
 Skid control - Ted

Nice bit of ' Armco avoidence ' here

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qn3z6ClwbQ

Diesel spillage ?

Ted
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 Sat 21 May 11 18:53 
 Skid control - -
Phew, thought he was going to spin out.

He was giving it big licks, and went through some sort of overhead gantry warning pretty quickly, what it warned of i could quite make out.

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 Sat 21 May 11 18:55 
 Skid control - ....
I was wondering how he was going much quicker than the other traffic.

Maybe they had read something he was not aware of ?

Not sure about spillage of diesel but suspect there was a stop at the next service area for new undercrackers.
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 Sat 21 May 11 19:48 
 Skid control - Zero
Rubbish road positioning, for each curve he was in the wrong part of the road cutting down his sight lines, and had he been on the outer of the bend when the skid started he would have had more room on his right, Like every amateur speeder he was trying to drive into apexes too soon. It looked like lift off oversteer.

To be fair tho he had quick hands, and did not over correct like most of us do at speed. It looked
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 Sat 21 May 11 19:51 
 Skid control - zookeeper
"chat" its true phonetic meaning perhaps? n'est pas?
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 Sat 21 May 11 21:16 
 Skid control - Westpig
Tenner says he had an under inflated rear tyre.
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 Sat 21 May 11 21:17 
 Skid control - Manatee
>> Tenner says he had an under inflated rear tyre.
>>

I'm not taking that - I agree.
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 Sat 21 May 11 21:21 
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>> Tenner says he had an under inflated rear tyre.
>>
But it's an Audi how could that possibly be ?
They have so many bells and whisltles and What Car? says German cars are right.
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 Sat 21 May 11 22:12 
 Skid control - Ted

YouTube title mentions ' Un plaque d'huile '

Isn't that something like ' an oil spillage ' ?
No one else skating though and didn't see any wreckage or bent Armco from previous miscreants.

Ted
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 Sat 21 May 11 22:15 
 Skid control - DP
The radio clearly drowned out the paaaaaaaarp....

Great reflexes though. You could see he was going to catch the first slide, but I was expecting the snap back to catch him out. My old Sierra was a swine for that.

Very nicely done.
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 Sat 21 May 11 22:39 
 Skid control - Manatee
Your old Sierra was RWD. Ours would try to swap ends at 20mph on a damp bend if booted too early. And that was only a 1.8.
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 Sat 21 May 11 22:42 
 Skid control - Londoner
>> But it's an Audi how could that possibly be ?
>> They have so many bells and whisltles and What Car? says German cars are right.
>>
"What Car?" don't love all German Cars. They always praise VW, Mercedes and BMW (and adore the VW Golf in particular), but are down on Audi and Opel in general.

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 Sat 21 May 11 22:46 
 Skid control - ....
Sorry, How can you be up on a wonky car such as Audi...Should have left out the wonky car.
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 Sun 22 May 11 00:25 
 Skid control - Londoner
>> Sorry, How can you be up on a wonky car such as Audi...Should have left
>> out the wonky car.
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:-)
I shan't bite this time!
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 Sat 21 May 11 23:20 
 Skid control - PeterS
>> But it's an Audi how could that possibly be ?
>> They have so many bells and whisltles and What Car? says German cars are right.
>>

It is an early A4 though I think ('94 - '98), so almost certainly no ESP, tyre pressure warning system etc. IIRC a passanger airbag was extra!!

Peter
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