79 replies to this topic

[wakkoboi]

to be fair to him, he has come back and tried to explain, even after being slated by many people so at least we know he isn't needing 'help in the trouser department'. even if he has behaved like a twunk as some of u put it

(i still really like the word twunk)

[Ouster]

You twit, you're blaming the car for your prattish driving.
In a mini more than most other cars you can feel the car going and adjust before it spins or skids.
No weight in the back is a poor poor excuse.
And you say you've got "adjustable" suspension, but have you actually bothered to get it set up correctly? Swapping suspension components for different ones is a sure fire way to mess up your cars handling characteristics unless you know exactly what you're doing and adjusting.

[woody17]

You twit, you're blaming the car for your prattish driving.
In a mini more than most other cars you can feel the car going and adjust before it spins or skids.
No weight in the back is a poor poor excuse.
And you say you've got "adjustable" suspension, but have you actually bothered to get it set up correctly? Swapping suspension components for different ones is a sure fire way to mess up your cars handling characteristics unless you know exactly what you're doing and adjusting.

chears for that.

another 1 just trying on the old insult..

pointless.. *sigh*

[miRon]

ive spun my car on a 40mph round about,i was going a tad bit quicker,and it was 4am,
but i let off on the accelorator and i went round,
and i had crappy falkens on at the time......

[mini93]

lift off oversteer almost happened a few times in the wet but caught by going an appropriot speed for the r.b in question

[minidaves]

answer to car set up good standard is better than bad modified

dave

[sazal]

I dont mean to sound silly () but how do you mean you "spun" your mini?!

[woody17]

I dont mean to sound silly () but how do you mean you "spun" your mini?!

i went round a corner, and ended up facing the way i came.

[sazal]

I dont mean to sound silly () but how do you mean you "spun" your mini?!

i went round a corner, and ended up facing the way i came.

Oh I see! Then yes, as I said before, be very careful!

[woody17]

I dont mean to sound silly () but how do you mean you "spun" your mini?!

i went round a corner, and ended up facing the way i came.

Oh I see! Then yes, as I said before, be very careful!

ok. i like your avatar by the way.

[sazal]

I dont mean to sound silly () but how do you mean you "spun" your mini?!

i went round a corner, and ended up facing the way i came.

Oh I see! Then yes, as I said before, be very careful!

ok. i like your avatar by the way.

Hehe, thank you, I mades it myself!

[alexcrosse]

if you only lowered the back thats why you kept spinning. How to make a car as unstable as possible!

sorry to hear about the crash,

al

[Kam]

Sounds like he's running tyres made by Sime??

Fair play to him though he (sort of) knows what he did wrong and will learn, dont know many 17yr olds that would and come back after the barrage from the last topic?

Balls in your court mate.....

[commander]

rite for all the mini chat regulars that saw and participated in my last thred, 'spun my mini' then this is for you. if not, then this will make no sense.

im sorry to announce that i have not killed/crashed/writen off my mini. all those people that came to look at this feeling smug, saying i would rite it off.


for a start, ill clear some things up.

some of the things that are true:

-i am 17
-i do drive sometimes a little to fast
- i have found out the limits of my mini. (these being in the dry, and the wet)
- i need no 'help in the trouser department'
- i was probably doing about 40mph at tops
-ive only been driving about 18 months and i have never been pulled over, had a crash, caused a crash, had a near miss, or even a little scrape.
- i love my mini as much as anyone else, so would not see any harm come to it.
i have adjustable suspension on my mini, so no handling problems there.

some other things that have evolved from the tread that are misunderstanding or people not reading the topic.

- i was not boasting
-i was not 'a built up area'
-there were no children
- i was not trying to be 'cool'




it was on a wide open corner, that i could see no pedestrians, pets, other cars ect. the road must be 30 meters wide- with huge overruns either side with no houses/buildings for miles around. i regularly drive 'off road' in my mini or an old beemer i have, and find the limits of cars i drive. i think this improves my 'on road; driving as i know when the car will let go.
are all you people on here trying to say that you have never, not once let a car go slightly out of control, spun or skidded a car. i did this on a safe area of public road. the grannys were about 30 meters away and heard the squeel.
the reason it spun is a combination of factors.
1. no weight in the back.
2.lowered rear end
3. i hit the brakes wen going round the corner.

i was gonna reply with something nasty but i fear that it will be wasted on you

[screech]

Im not being picky or offensive or anything as i see where your coming from etc... BUT picked up on this...

...i have adjustable suspension on my mini, so no handling problems there...

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the reason it spun is a combination of factors.

2.lowered rear end