Any near death experiences lately?

[Skinypete]

Me and my buddy and his girl are driving on 322 from oil city to clarion. we start to go up this hill around a right hand curbe. i downshift so i can make it up the hill. the next thing i know i start to fish tail. I say "holy shit" twice. I try to counter steer but we still skid into the field on the right. we skided about 60 yards sideways! and there was nothing i could do about it...if there would have been a hole in that field we would have rolled over and probably have died. i was even doing 5 mph under the speed limit, but the road was wet.

[Silver R/T]

can you post pic where it happened? Do you have bald tires or something?

[AKcharger]

Yes 

[Skinypete]

Sorry the only pictures are of the ones burned into my mind. I didn't think digitally recording the event was necessary. And the tires only got like 5000 miles on them. I still don't know how we didn't die?

[moparguy01]

it wasn't your time yet. Go to church sunday.

hydro-planing is quite common, and is more than likely what happened to you. Learn the limitations of whatever you are driving, including the tires in raining situations and this won't happen again. ive hydro planed before just never out into a field. I would say even at 5 under the limit you were going faster than your vehicle was safely possible of at that moment in time.

[Skinypete]

Thanks for the advice! But the sun was out and there wasn't any puddles on the road, just like you took your hose to clean off your driveway.

[moparguy01]

i once hydro planed in similar conditions in a truck running 35" swampers. apparently swampers and the highway don't particularly care for each other much. also, if you ever have ridden a motorcycle you would know that when the rain comes the oil and gease in the road comes to the surface, making it particularly greasy feeling. It could have been something like that as well.

out of curiosity, what tires are you running?

[Skinypete]

Sierradial Delta A/T 265/70 R16

[moparguy01]

never used their truck tires, but I've never cared much for delta tires, they always seemed greasy to me from the getgo. I had some on a used car I bought, they lasted about 2 weeks before I bought new ones.

[Skinypete]

Any recommendations for truck tires?

[moparguy01]

oh ya. i run bf goodrich all terrain t/a's on my bronco, and have had real good luck with yokohama geolander a/t tires, but many say they wear too fast.

if it gives you any idea, i just replaced the tires on my bronco with the third set of all terrain t/a tires. im not saying you need new tires, just that when you get new ones you should take a look at these 2 tires. both work extremely well imo.

[Skinypete]

Thanks man. I just don't want to find myself skidding near my death again!

[Silver R/T]

I have pathfinder A/T on my truck, good tire all around

[chargergirl]

i once hydro planed in similar conditions in a truck running 35" swampers. apparently swampers and the highway don't particularly care for each other much. also, if you ever have ridden a motorcycle you would know that when the rain comes the oil and gease in the road comes to the surface, making it particularly greasy feeling. It could have been something like that as well.

Happens in FL all the time. It's like driving with "black ice" on the road. When it's just rained enough to wet the pavement can be the worst time.

[Jon Smith]

yep I always used to see loads of crashes and spins when it starts raining after a long hot dry period ....

not any more...it seems to rain all summer here now 

[Mike DC]

Great handling suspensions, wide tires, all those electronic stability controls . . .  that's all well and good.  But it ain't half as smart as just keeping those stupid little tire grooves a few millimeters deeper at all times. 

[ZSmithersCharges]

Any near death experiences? No but I did an endo on the way home from Clevelend last night on my motorcycle becase my hands were frozen to the front brake  Needless to say I pulled over and grabbed a hot chocolate.

[41husk]

I had a recent near death experiance.  I told my wife I was going to buy larry's Daytona clone   We ended up compromising.  I sell a car first and I can live and I don't have to sleep in it

[moparstuart]

I had a recent near death experiance.  I told my wife I was going to buy larry's Daytona clone   We ended up compromising.  I sell a car first and I can live and I don't have to sleep in it

[dads_69]

*Any near death experiences lately*? Yep, I drove into town this morning, Anchorage, about 80% drive like an ass. 

[FLG]

None lately...but glad your OK.

I know alot of us "have fun" with our cars and by doing that we (maybe not exactaly in some cases) but for the most part we know the limits of our vheicles, for example maybe its not all of us but i can say some of us take there cars sideways sometimes. I honestly feel that by pushing the limits from time to time (now im not saying stupidly, but even in an open feild or parking lot) we get a better idea of how to control a vheicle in the event something like this happens in real life.

Maybe thats just me?

[ZSmithersCharges]

None lately...but glad your OK.

I know alot of us "have fun" with our cars and by doing that we (maybe not exactaly in some cases) but for the most part we know the limits of our vheicles, for example maybe its not all of us but i can say some of us take there cars sideways sometimes. I honestly feel that by pushing the limits from time to time (now im not saying stupidly, but even in an open feild or parking lot) we get a better idea of how to control a vheicle in the event something like this happens in real life.

Maybe thats just me?

That's definitely not just you why would you even say that , practice makes perfect. I can't tell you how many accidents I've been able to avoid just because I'd "been there, done that" already and knew the proper inputs to get the desired outputs from the car.

[Skinypete]

Unfortunately I haven't had much of a chance to practice any of my sideways driving. That all should change when the Charger is back on the road!

[The70RT]

Glad your ok.....sounds pretty scary, especially you could have rolled like Joey Lagano last weekend. I had a pretty scary incident a couple weeks ago with lightning. It was real stormy at like 5:30 AM and I was making my coffee and getting ready to head out to work. It was constantly lightening and I reached for the coffee pot and boom a bolt of lightning hit right outside the house. I was right by an open window in my breeze way and I never heard thunder this loud or felt this way when lightning hit. The lights went out for a couple seconds in the kitchen but the TV stayed on  and It felt like every hair on my body stood up. The lights came right back on and the TV went out and my ears were ringing for like 10 minutes. The microwave clock stayed on and I never had to reset it. In my living room all my electronic componets had to be reset. Come to find out I lost 2 TVs but it spared my big screen and componets. I didn't regain my hearing totally for like 30 minutes. I am just glad I wasn't outside getting in the truck yet. When I came home from work I couldn't see anywhere it had struck.

[chargergirl]

70RT glad your ok! Could have been much worse! I came from Maui, no thunder/lightening, to Tampa...Lightening Capitol of the World! At 20 years old I was under the table when everyone came home. Now, many years later, it doesn't faze me but I am extremely cautious of severe weather. One lady in NWFL was in her home and struck through a light fixture in the kitchen, one kid struck by the surge through the microwave. They survived, and a bit of advise...lightening likes your cell phone make sure it is not on your person in that type of weather.