[NefCanuck]

CanadaSVT,Nov 8 2005, 12:21 AM Wrote:Ha!  I did once last year with the stock 18" Z-rated BFG's all seasons.  Pretty bad snow coming home from a Daytona 500 party in Mississauga.  I was calmly driving along Dundas St. through Oakville and suddenly, whoa, the back ass is coming around to my right side.  T/C didn't help at all, and I'm sure if I hadn't slapped it into N I would have crossed into the eastbound lanes.  I was lucky traffic was light and only going 50k.  Got my four used 16' snowtires/steelies in the spring.
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Yikes, sounds like you had loads of fun there :blink:

I remember having to perform my first emergency stop in the winter back in the winter of '93 (In a '86 Ford Taurus 4 banger) some fool in a Caddy during a snowstorm decides "Ok, I'm gonna pull out of this exit... whoops car has no traction...." and so I'm forced to try and slow down, being inexperienced I do everything wrong and lock & slide it, I was only doing 30km/h at the time so it was a gentle swinging of my car's arse as I swung to the left and (I thought( gently bumped the centre median.

After gathering myself and cursing the Caddy (Who has continued on his merry way, swinging the arse of his car like a metronome, oblivious) I drive off and shortly thereafter the smell of gas permeates the car, we're talking Exxon Valdez here...

After a week of this and abysmal fuel mileage to boot, I finally take the car to a garage... only to discover that the "gentle bump" broke the retaining ring on the gas tank allowing gas to pour out like mad :blink: (Never noticed it 'cause it had been snowing that entire week) $300 later and all was well, mostly the labour to drop the tank...

NefCanuck