winter tires story

[mike]

Hands over the eyes and pray?

mike

>Just imagine you are driving on loose
> ball bearings and act
> accordingly ....
> 
> Fred Munro
> '94 S4
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doyt W. Echelberger"
> <Doyt at buckeye-express.com>
> To: "Roger M. Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at downeast.net>
> Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 2:30 PM
> Subject: Re: winter tires story
> 
> 
> <snip>
> > About halfway home, on a straightaway about 3
> miles long, I noticed the
> > snow was gone, and the road looked wet. This was
> different. I turned the
> > wheel a little, and NOTHING happened. It was black
> ice, newly frozen and
> > totally invisible. And I was going about 50 miles
> an hour. I barely
> touched
> > the brakes and they locked up, so I let off
> instantly. I was running with
> > the ABS disabled. The car was still going
> straight, and nothing that I did
> > affected anything. This was really scary. I had no
> control at all.
> >
> > I gently backed off the gas pedal and the car
> slowly lost speed and stayed
> > straight, and eventually got down to about 20
> miles an hour. It took at
> > least three lifetimes to slow down. We didn't have
> any traffic, so I crept
> > along at maybe 15 mph for about 10 minutes, until
> we got out of that
> stuff.
> > It was only a patch about 5 miles long, and salt
> trucks hadn't gotten to
> it
> > yet. Talk about adrenaline.......
> >
> <snip>
>  

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