What causes a car to go into a spin?

Scrapit

It's not easy to get a 180 going, fair play going full circle and more on the queens highway

worried_jim

Sea_Shell wrote: »

Slightly worrying that you have a licence and don't appear to know what a mini-roundabout is!!

Ticking all the BMW driver boxes! :rotfl:

scaredofdebt

What kind of tyres?


Space-savers all round?


:rotfl:

Clive_Woody

Have you checked the tread on your tyres....and if so is there any left?

DoaM

Total guess, but ...

OP came off a r'bout;
hit oily water;
front end started to slide;
OP remembered about powering into a slide (even though this is the wrong context);
OP booted it without turning into the slide and went spinning



Of course I could be completely wrong

onwards&upwards

rbulph wrote: »

I went into a big spin while driving round a mini-roundabout a few days ago. No damage to anything but very disconcerting. The road was a bit wet, but there was no standing water. I think I was braking, but I wasn't going excessively fast. What could have been the cause? Wafer on the road? Some oil on the road that I didn't see? A problem with the ABS? I would prefer that it didn't happen again.

Thanks.

You shouldn’t be braking during the turn, you should get your speed right before you start turning so that you only have to steer through it.

DoaM

AdrianC wrote: »

Is it the school holidays already?

It's half-term here in Scotland.

oldagetraveller

SHAFT wrote: »

TFF.

Too !!!!ing Fast.

A bit like this. A BMW I observed over three years ago.:rotfl:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tWbEqawaF4

AdrianC

oldagetraveller wrote: »

A bit like this. A BMW I observed over three years ago.:rotfl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tWbEqawaF4

Private video.

oldagetraveller

Oops, shouldn't be now?