captint Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 Driving to work this morning, at a fairly leisurely pace, 10:20 so not much traffic, anyway, I get to a corner I drive around twice a day every day for years, and suddenly the front goes right the back goes left, totally sideways and then snaps back in, how strange I though, can't be ice as it's too warm, so must be diesel or oil spliage, any ideas. Not scary, but very bizarre Quote
captint Posted January 15, 2007 Author Posted January 15, 2007 Yeah, it was properly crazy, just lucky nothing was coming the other way Quote
Stew Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 I had a diesel patch near my work at a T junction, I turned right onto the spillage and the car was sliding all over the shop. Luckily I wasn't going quickly. Quote
dbryder Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 Had the same coming off a roundabout at about 15MPH 2 weeks ago. Thought it was just me planting it too much and kept driving home. I'd like to think I caught the slide just in time and powered out of it.. but more likely I just hit clean tarmac and got grip again. Was scary though, and there was a queue of stationary traffic on the other side. Went past the same bit that evening, and what did I see, a biker on the floor and shopping everywhere, which was when it clicked it was diesel. /David Quote
stuey Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 if a road user is caught spilling deisel a think a hefty fine is in order for the mayhem caused to innocent people......... Quote
GC350z Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 I find mud to be a real problem/entertainer. As I live on a building site there can be good clumps of mud on the road even though they clean the road twice a day. Obviously not a problem in a straight line as you can see it but coming of one of the two roundabouts it can give pedestrians a fright. Never encountered diesel. Quote
M13KYF Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 I would say diesel. Have a mate how had it happen to him. Ending up costing him 2.5k and he was only doing 15mph Quote
Digsy Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 Yup, sounds like diesel to me. Pal of mine spun his Lexus IS 180 degrees last week and we all know they don't have the torque to knock the skin off a rice pud! Quote
sl114 Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 I slipped the other week on mud But more so than often its the good old fuel burning liquid! Quote
captint Posted January 15, 2007 Author Posted January 15, 2007 How come it ends up on the road? Quote
Stew Posted January 15, 2007 Posted January 15, 2007 Well if a lorry tilts the fuel just kind of spews out. I worked in a fuel station when I was a student and a few of the hauliers wouldn't fill their tanks to avoid this. Quote
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