Powerslide in a lorry

kikel

Couldn't believe it. Heard tires spinning in the rain. Stepped out onto the road on there was a tractor unit going sideways around the corner. 2 youngish fellas in the cab laughing away. :eek:

tossy

500bhp ish RWD and commercial tax,maybe they are onto a winner

sdanseo

I take it you called the Guards like a responsible person?

Sweatynutsack

sdeire wrote: »

I take it you called the Guards like a responsible person?

In fairness the gardai have better things to be doing !!
Why does everyone suggest "ring the guardai" they aint gonna waste their time because someone is spinning their wheels

listermint

Sweatynutsack wrote: »

In fairness the gardai have better things to be doing !!
Why does everyone suggest "ring the guardai" they aint gonna waste their time because someone is spinning their wheels

I gather youd have a sweaty nut sack different attitude if it was power-sled into your parked car :rolleyes:

Big Nasty

Anything like this OP?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ6LDAc7sWE

CJhaughey

That's all good as long as they keep it together, once things get out of shape in a truck its a bad news day.
Trucks are heavy and when they roll or hit something immovable the cab can just fold up like a coke can.
Young fellas probably never saw a crashed truck and the mess that's left...

Big Nasty

Would be fun to try it in a big open yard on a wet day though!

corktina

sdeire wrote: »

I take it you called the Guards like a responsible person?

"Gards" Im guessing you mean

kildare.17hmr

used to drive dump trucks, great crack driftin an A30 around a mucky field!

sdanseo

Sweatynutsack wrote: »

In fairness the gardai have better things to be doing !!
Why does everyone suggest "ring the guardai" they aint gonna waste their time because someone is spinning their wheels

Oh I reckon the might leave down their beans on toast for someone powersliding a tractorcab round a corner. Not like it's unimportant - they could lose control and cause absolute fúcking carnage.

corktina wrote: »

"Gards" Im guessing you mean

Gardaí, then. :rolleyes:

Guy:Incognito

listermint wrote: »

I gather youd have a sweaty nut sack different attitude if it was power-sled into your parked car :rolleyes:

It'd be oncoming traffic I'd be more worried about.

Owen

My little Smart's very tail happy, but the non-disengageable traction control kills the fun. The plan this weekend is to make it possible to temporarily disable it. It has more or less the same wiring and control units as a Smart Roadster which has a switch, so it's a case of identifying where the signals are being sent and putting in additional switches.

end a eknny

listermint wrote: »

I gather youd have a sweaty nut sack different attitude if it was power-sled into your parked car :rolleyes:

but it obviously didnt

rabbitinlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeX5rHSnNNA

Slushfund

Better things to do ? You should have done the decent thing called the cops with the reg.
It's a public road
What if the truck slid into a car with kids in it ?
HGV licence drivers are supposed to know alot better.

Owen

The 'Won't someone think of the children' post was inevitable. It's like Godwin's Law for the Motors forum.

langdang

Owen wrote: »

The 'Won't someone think of the children' post was inevitable. It's like Godwin's Law for the Motors forum.

You'd swear there was a fully loaded trailer involved rather than just a tractor unit. There's more dangerous driving on the school run than a lad laying down a bit of rubber. Spent the weekend "testing" the 4wd of the new banger and no kittens/puppies/children spontaneously combusted to my knowledge...

h3000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J4KdQQIzW4

unkel

Owen wrote: »

My little Smart's very tail happy, but the non-disengageable traction control kills the fun. The plan this weekend is to make it possible to temporarily disable it. It has more or less the same wiring and control units as a Smart Roadster which has a switch, so it's a case of identifying where the signals are being sent and putting in additional switches.

Careful now! If you're ever in an accident that would be the perfect modification excuse for your insurer not to cough up!!!

unkel

h3000 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J4KdQQIzW4

Haha that's class

Made the dude in the BMW look silly

Owen

unkel wrote: »

Careful now! If you're ever in an accident that would be the perfect modification excuse for your insurer not to cough up!!!

Oh noes, it's for safety. Otherwise when the snow and ice returns I'll just sit there with the Traction Control making me go nowhere.

unkel

Owen wrote: »

Oh noes, it's for safety. Otherwise when the snow and ice returns I'll just sit there with the Traction Control making me go nowhere.

Do yourself a favour and tell your insurer after you've installed this mod!

As for the snow - all modern cars have traction control. Switching it on or off doesn't help much. What does help is winter tyres. Or just add a lot more weight over the driven wheels

Owen

unkel wrote: »

Do yourself a favour and tell your insurer after you've installed this mod!

Goes without saying.

As for the snow - all modern cars have traction control. Switching it on or off doesn't help much. What does help is winter tyres. Or just add a lot more weight over the driven wheels

Course it helps to turn it off. In the Snow last year, with the traction on, the car would spin the wheels for a second, the car would cut power, and you'd go nowhere. With the traction off, I was pootling about no bothers at all. If I couldn't turn the traction off on the Smart, it wouldn't move an inch - which is why there's Trust disabling plugs for the OBDII port available from Smart Accessories supplies on the net.

challengemaster

sdeire wrote: »

Oh I reckon the might leave down their beans on toast for someone powersliding a tractorcab round a corner. Not like it's unimportant - they could lose control and cause absolute fúcking carnage.

Unless you can say without doubt you know who it is and will go to court over it, you'd be wasting your time. They wont do a thing, and even then...

Slushfund

Owen wrote: »

The 'Won't someone think of the children' post was inevitable. It's like Godwin's Law for the Motors forum.

Interesting how you complained about how someone's parking dangerously blocked vision lines at a junction in another thread, but power sliding a truck around on a public road is different.

Slushfund

challengemaster wrote: »

Unless you can say without doubt you know who it is and will go to court over it, you'd be wasting your time. They wont do a thing, and even then...

That's bad advice. Let the cops make the decision about what should be followed up, not you.
Ring it in.
I know a couple of traffic corp. cops and then would be ecstatic about an opportunity to apprehend tramps like that.

Owen

Slushfund wrote: »

Interesting how you complained about how someone's parking dangerously blocked vision lines at a junction in another thread, but power sliding a truck around on a public road is different.

Christ your life mustn't be hectic if you find that interesting. Also, point out to me where I agreed with the Truck powersliding ... ?

Slushfund

Owen wrote: »

Christ your life mustn't be hectic if you find that interesting. Also, point out to me where I agreed with the Truck powersliding ... ?

Maybe you can point out where you condemed it ?
The sarky reaction indicated otherwise.

Owen

Now I'm confused ... what is it exactly you're trying to accuse me of?

All I did was make the observation that inevitably, a thread with people enjoying vehicles either responsibly, or dangerously will inevitably have someone making a 'won't someone think of the children' comment, and that maybe we could make it our version of Godwin's Law. Nothing more, nothing less. I made no comment at all about Truck. Nada. Zip.

listermint

Owen wrote: »

Now I'm confused ... what is it exactly you're trying to accuse me of?

All I did was make the observation that inevitably, a thread with people enjoying vehicles either responsibly, or dangerously will inevitably have someone making a 'won't someone think of the children' comment, and that maybe we could make it our version of Godwin's Law. Nothing more, nothing less. I made no comment at all about Truck. Nada. Zip.

I agree with you in terms of people using 'the children' as an excuse. But in the scheme of the thread and discussion it can easily be construed that your were condoning that it was okay to powerslide a tractor on a public road.

Semantics aside.

Owen

listermint wrote: »

But in the scheme of the thread and discussion it can easily be construed that your were condoning that it was okay to powerslide a tractor on a public road.

No it can't be construed that way at all. You're adding 2 and 2 and getting 22. I know what I intended when I wrote it, you're overlaying your own interpretation. And I don't appreciate you putting your words into my mouth.

listermint

Owen wrote: »

No it can't be construed that way at all. You're adding 2 and 2 and getting 22. I know what I intended when I wrote it, you're overlaying your own interpretation. And I don't appreciate you putting your words into my mouth.

But im not putting anywords in your mouth.

The thread was 'powersliding lorry' Someone says 'ah the guards have better things to do'

someone else uses 'think of the children excuse'

You then give out about the person using the think of the children excuse.

Its quite easy to construe this as agreeing with the second poster saying the guards should have better things to do. I was merely pointing that out. And no im still not putting words in your mouth. Its called context......

Owen

listermint wrote: »

And no im still not putting words in your mouth. Its called context......

Put whatever spin on it you like, you're trying to put my words in a context in which they weren't intended - cut it out. And how anyone could construe my comment as sarky either beggars belief. This is a text only communication interface, how you can infer the intended emotions is beyond me.

This is exactly the petty - and there's no other word for it - type of crap that makes what should be a great forum (And regularly is) frustrating.

Big Nasty

Ah lads, will yiz cop the feck on and stop runing the thread with this sh1t!?!:mad:

bazzachazza

Power-sliding in general can kill in all types of vehicle, just because it's a truck doesn't automatically make it a sin.

listermint

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Ah lads, will yiz cop the feck on and stop runing the thread with this sh1t!?!:mad:

Agreed, Its tripe when someone is challenged for their lack of understanding of the term context and in the context of discussion something is picked up wrong within the scheme of the discussion. Then makes a hullaballoo about the forum as a whole.


I enjoy the forum as much as anyone else and I have a disdain for people using children as an excuse. I dont like petty posting. But I agreed with another poster that your comment 'Appeared' to side with the second poster. Im not accusing you of emoting that comment but It merely appeared to look like that as stated be the poster whom pointed it out.

Im sorry if it was picked up wrong but thats life, as you said its a text based system so your going to have to step back and see where comments apply to a discussion as a whole not just to you responding to someone who made a comment about kids and think of the kids.


Can we agree this is going nowhere thanks MCMLXXV for pointing that out.

-Chris-

listermint wrote: »

Can we agree this is going nowhere thanks MCMLXXV for pointing that out.

Agreed, thread closed.