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[Gorky]

Anyone proper aquaplaned before???

Obviously I had heard of the phenomenon but never experienced it until Sunday evening when I hit a flood at 50 . After the initial swoosh everything went quiet and the I found myself pointing sideways, how I managed to keep big bird on the road I don’t know, my heart was trying to make its way out of my throat but we survived.

They really don’t like the wet do they………..!!

[Retro_10s]

what size wheels have you got????

[fatmini]

its not just minis that aqua plane

its the fact that the tyre tread cant displace the water quick enough ! may be get some better tyres

[Timtom]

My brother aquaplained about a month ago in his Cinquecento.. He spun.. mounted a curb.. spun round some more.. and landed in a ditch...

[Gorky]

its not just minis that aqua plane

its the fact that the tyre tread cant displace the water quick enough ! may be get some better tyres

Only got little 10 inchers - the tread seems fine.

The problem with the wet was the dissy filling with water as well as the foot well driver and pass side.

I'm in the process of adding Marigolds under the bonnet

[Gorky]

My brother aquaplained about a month ago in his Cinquecento.. He spun.. mounted a curb.. spun round some more.. and landed in a ditch...

Bloody hell. Hope he was ok. I was quite lucky really

[Retro_10s]

Wow!... aquaplaning on 10's!!! i'm impressed, I never aqua planed on 10's! but then i did slow down enough before hitting the water to stop it happening.

[TOMMO0302]

Aquaplaning is definately scary stuff, not having any control of your situation is definately a brown pants moment and of course, you cant always see standing water in time to slow down/prepare for it!

[Guess-Works.com]

Done it a few times, most impressively about 15 years ago... Driving a Montego, through a large puddle @ 20 mph, and the car literally floated out the other side and re-arranged a telegraph pole, and left a very impressive telegraph pole shaped 18" deep dent in the front of the car, down the inside of the wing. Since then thay have moved the pole to the other side of the road...

[fatmini]

u bunch of poof bags its great fun as long as stay cool and dont hit the breaks !

ive got 10s and Yoky A032R and have only had 1 instant where i have aqua planed

[Retro_10s]

u bunch of poof bags its great fun as long as stay cool and dont hit the breaks !

ive got 10s and Yoky A032R and have only had 1 instant where i have aqua planed

Remind me not to approach from the other side of the road

Edited by Retro_10s, 09 March 2007 - 01:17 PM.

[Gorky]

Aquaplaning is definately scary stuff, not having any control of your situation is definately a brown pants moment and of course, you cant always see standing water in time to slow down/prepare for it!

Yes indeed - p*ssing with rain, pitch black, after a long sweeping bend. Very brown pants.

Good old big bird held on in the end. At least if I had pranged it they would have found me easily enough being snapdragon yellow, and the stench from my underwear of course :'(

[Jammy]

Aquaplaning is really to do with the tread on the tyre, the quality of the the tyre or the size of the wheel. Its the width. Skinny tyres will cut through the water (and thin layers of snow) and provide grip. Big wide wheels will tend to plane over the surface.

[black jack1275]

Only once in the mini learnt my lesson after that (dont drive fast in the rain with big fat 13s and 008s)

[Clubby1275GT]

yeah did it on the motorway, sudden flooding brought speed down to 40 and it was that hard i couldnt see as the wipers wouldnt go fast enough, felt the car go light under my hands and just prayed, luckily my turn off was next and i slid into the junction perfectly!
thats on big wide 13"s!!

Edited by Clubby1275GT, 09 March 2007 - 02:08 PM.