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New Tyre - Hill Start - Skid

  • 16-09-2010 10:42am
    #1
    cosmic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭


    Hello!

    I've got my full licence now, but I'm still learning! I was hoping someone could advise.

    I sent my car to get new tyres, now that it's getting rainy and will soon be icy, and since one of mine was barely legal! Anyway, I was driving home from the garage and had to stop on a hill. So when the lights changed, I was ready to take off and when I dropped my hand brake one of the front wheels (with the new tyre) spun and skidded.

    It was a dry day so water on the ground can't be the problem and there were no loose chippings or anything, nothing to blame but me. I'm not sure what happened.

    Is it just that I have to get used to my new tyres being better and so will need less revving when taking off on a hill? Or what could it have been? It gave me a bit of a fright really.

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Did they screetch at all? You were probably to heavy footed on the clutch / accelerator

    happens to me all the time :)


  • #3
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    New tires will take a few hundred kms to bed in, hence the slippiness you experienced. It's normal, just take it handy for the first couple of hundred kilometres and you'll be fine.


  • #4
    cosmic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭cosmic


    Tallon wrote: »
    Did they screetch at all?

    No, no screech, I could just feel the car skid under me. Scary!
    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    New tires will take a few hundred kms to bed in, hence the slippiness you experienced. It's normal, just take it handy for the first couple of hundred kilometres and you'll be fine.

    That'll be it. Great, thanks! I'll go for a few local spins (nothing strenuous and at a nice pace) over the weekend to try break it in a bit. Thanks again!


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