"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
11/28/2014 at 22:32 • Filed to: None
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"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
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The one with the "cut and shut" Golf. I can't help but notice one part, not necessarily related to the cutting and shutting: It was raining and he slid around a corner he takes all the time.
Maybe it comes with having lived all my life in a climate where the traction is compromised by snow and ice at a bare minimum five months out of the year, although October and April often stretch that to seven, and September and May aren't out of the picture either. Heck, I've seen it snow in the three summer months as well... So maybe dealing with reduced traction is a little less foreign to me. But I've never considered rain that much of an impediment to driving.
Sure, I can appreciate that rain will affect traction in a racing setting, where you're fighting for the maximum attainable grip anyhow, and I myself have hydroplaned and understeered very briefly when on bald tires, and I've driven in rain coming down hard enough that my wipers simply couldn't keep up and I've had to pull over. But I've only ever been able to scoff at someone who blamed their collision on a wet road. I guess I can see it happening with a high-powered car on fair-weather tires, but for a run of the mill commuter car on all-seasons?
Is this actually a thing? Rain being a serious impediment to car control? Or am I just the reckless idiot who has never experienced it, and drives normally in the wet? And no, this isn't just me tooting my own horn and pretending that I'm the world's best driver. I know for a fact that I'm not. I'm just honestly shocked that rain and wet roads alone could be that big a deal in day-to-day driving.
#4 Corvette at a damp PLM for your trouble.
Little Black Coupe Turned Silver
> gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
11/28/2014 at 23:11 |
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In bigger cities the problem is that the rain floats up the oil on the road, and everything turns to ice. Very quickly. It also is then washed away, yet people crawl along slowly because they are afraid it's still slick.
The average a-b appliance driver probably has sucky tires, which doesn't help.
Biodegradable Wiring Harness
> gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
11/29/2014 at 02:56 |
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I live in the Pac NW, so you know, lots of experience driving in the rain. One night it was raining quite hard, and I noticed my front wheels were sort of losing their directional integrity. Hydroplaning. Not a huge problem, I kept the wheel straight even as I was drifting out of my lane a little bit, and slowed down. But it certainly caught me by surprise. I've driven through puddles and felt the steering go light for a moment, of course. But this was like the whole road had a perfectly even one inch deep layer of water on it that I couldn't really see. It was a very strange feeling. I can certainly imagine an inexperienced driver would overcorrect the steering to stay in their lane and just understeer right off the road or even go into snap oversteer.
TDogg
> gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
11/30/2014 at 01:15 |
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Once I hit the brakes too hard for a stop light in done heavy rain and the car got pretty squirrelly. Other than that, I've never had a problem with rain.