A day of highs and lows

Well today has been "eventful" to say the least. Got the new tyres on and everything re-aligned and balanced. The tracking was out by 8 degrees, no wonder it pulled. Drove home loving how smooth everything felt and how light the steering was again. So went out for another drive tonight which was nice and uneventful until a minute from getting home. Turns a 90 degree left hand corner at a speed just on the limits of normal tyre adhesion, forgetting new tyres need to wear in and BANG slid straight into a kerb. Chuffing brilliant, bet everythings well out of line now, and my rim is lookin worse for wear. Me and the cinq seem set to have a love hate relationship.

At the risk of sounding old, this has nothing to do with new tyres needing to wear in. It's to do with driving too fast for the road conditions and lacking the basic skills to keep your car under proper control. You've now smacked a kerb twice with a small, well handling car in the space of what, 2 weeks?

You seriously need to slow down and get some training from a properly qualified person on car control. If you can lose it going into the kerb, you can just as easily lose it into the front of the truck coming towards you, and the Fiat WILL lose.

Here endeth the lesson, and pray they aren't saying that in the presence of your closed coffin soon.

Pete

yup your driving way beyond your skills,the cinq handles well and you have plenty of road space in a small car.
you have had this mentioned on more than one occasion

Might help if I didn't drive tired, as for getting training, when you cant even afford to put a tenner of fuel in a car how can you afford training? People say things like that thinking people are working, its not very easy to get a job of any financial significance at my age. I don't drive fast around other traffic, I have had trucks pull out in front of me on numerous occasions and have easily been able to stop, I do know how unsafe the car is in a crash.

There isn't plenty of road space in our housing estate, less than 2 car widths

You are still blaming external factors, my tyres needed wearing in, there isn't plenty of space, I can't afford training.

There is only one person responsible, and that is you. It doesn't matter if you drive a Cinquecento, a Porsche 911, or a Volvo Estate. They all have their own abilities, quirks and idiosyncracies. And it's the driver's job to exploit those, and to stay within them and to stay within his or her own abilities.

You need to face the fact that YOU made a mistake, and that's fine up to a point, we all did. The basic point I'm making is that if you believe it is somehow the fault of the tyre or the car or the road then you are a danger to yourself and others.

Peter

yup its no good blaming other factors.so you were in a little housing scheme but were going fast enough to break traction?
do you think we were all given new cars and training courses etc?we all learned!

Did I not say I was going at a speed you would only just make it( granted I also said on worn in tyres), that also means you can also not make it, and I have to learn and make my mistakes, I'd rather hit a kerb than be upside down in a ditch.

When you are in a hole, stop digging.

Cheers

D

perhaps concern for other road users and pedestrians would be more appropriate?

It isn't exactly very hard to break traction in a Cinq, 1st time i drove it it wheelspan in 2nd with very little revs.

is it as fooked as my wheel was? http://tackycheese.net/gallery/main....g2_itemId=6047

i hit a kerb too, but that was because i was driving like a dickhead.

There were no road users or pedestrians, do you not think if I had seen moving shadows and headlights shining towards the corner I would have slowed down? At best 15 cars a day come through this road and the same for pedestrians. I have admitted I was driving on the limit, but I don't always drive that way. You are picking at my bad points and trying to make out as if I'm driving way beyond my skills all the time.

Its almost like that, except its not bent, there is a 3 inch chunk of the raised edge worn away and a lot of scuffing as well.

no you were driving beyond the limit(either of your skils and/or the car)otherwise you would hve made the turn