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[Ethel]

It's a bit of a semantics argument - they key for me is that a rwd drive car can only apply drive in the direction the body is pointing. I'd keep it simple for the police say the rear end lost grip and let them say why. If it's not too late I'd also gather what evidence you can, photos of tyre marks or the lack of them, photos of the tyre tread. Report the road surface to the Council, then see if the Police have.

[Alexvariouscars]

Thanks Ethel,

Car has been released by the insurance company and its being towed home at the moment.

Plan is to strip back the damaged bits and see whet we are left with, if its repairable without a new shell it will probably get done, maybe with a flip front.

If the shell is gone, then it looks like it might be broken for spares.

any good places to look for spares?

[Ethel]

any good places to look for spares?

The TMF classifieds section?

Might also help if you say roughly where you're based.

[davey123a]

Yes, date incorrect 76, a typo on my part.

Ethel, thanks, understood on possibly not mentioning it if the police have a set description for LOO events (in dry circumstances). That does imply that you can't get LOO in a fwd car unless you have iniciated understeering first and then lifting off? (i`m pretty sure i`ve had LOO in both my 205 mi16 and B20 crx without understeer first) which by that case you must be driving over a FWD cars limit and cetrtainly not appropriate for public roads.

Its just in my brothers case it was in the middle of a 1 in 100 year storm event, just after a dry spell, so you have a very wet road with that nice greasy film. He lifted off mid corner and the resulting force from that deceleration was just enough for the older rear tyres to lose traction. I still belive in my head its classed as LOO, but not under normal dry conditions where the roads psv is up to scratch.

Police are getting back to him this weekend on whether he will prosecuted, if not he's he will be required to attend a driver improvement course, which isnt a bad thing IMO.

sorry i'm new what does LOO mean

[samsfern]

Lift Off Oversteer. its when you come off the throttle in a corner and the back comes out, and you go sideways or more than often, spin. this usually happens when you push it to the limits. i had it happen on a wet trackday, ended up on the grass, luckily i didnt hit anything or anyone, pretty scary when you fell it start to slide, most people do the wrong thing and hit the brakes, which makes it worse.

Edited by samsernie, 05 June 2010 - 07:24 PM.

[rimmer1993]

Does anyone know if this got fixed?

[samsfern]

i think it went on ebay...

[rimmer1993]

i think it went on ebay...

Ahh lets hope its being fixed then