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Eldavo

Eldavo

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When you crest that off-camber left hand turn in second gear and start to give it some gas you see that a farmer has driven his muddy tractor out onto the road and dumped slippery mud all over it. After a bit of steerng wheel wrestling and sphincter tightening you gracefully come to a halt with half the wheels in the verge, safe and sound bar a bit of grass in the headlight surround and some muck to clear out of the arches.

My little learn for today is that the abs works fine and I'm glad I was only going slowly!
 
Lucky escape!

We all have our local "˜points of interest'. In the countryside you have mud and pheasants. In the city we have drunks on their Christmas nights out "¦
 
Very lucky [:eek:]

I had a scare yesterday afternoon when driving home along some wet and greasy B roads. I came round a gentle right hand bend at about 40mph to find 3 cars parked on the left hand side outside a single country house and one car coming in the opposite direction so the road was effectively blocked. ABS chattered like mad for a good 5 seconds whilst I prayed the car would stop in time. It did with 6 foot to spare, but could so easily have been nasty if I'd been driving at the 60mph limit for the road
 

ORIGINAL: Eldavo

When you crest that off-camber left hand turn in second gear and start to give it some gas you see that a farmer has driven his muddy tractor out onto the road and dumped slippery mud all over it ...
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New set of undercrackers for the chap in the nice guards red 2.7? [:mad:]

One of those moments when a black leather interior is quite a good idea .... [;)]

Oli.
 
It's amazing how slippery wet mud can be! One of the many instances where you can be very glad you were in a forgiving 944 and not anything more deadly. Glad you were ok.

I came round a corner once to find a tractor who had just pulled out of a field (doing about 1mph) and a big trail of mud behind him. ABS didn't work in the slightest, it was like braking on compacted ice. Had to swerve and go round him or I'd definately have hit him! Good job there was nothing coming the other way[:eek:] amazing how he was so hidden by what I thought was a pretty thin hedge.
 
I had an "interesting" moment a few years back on the way to a conference at Turnberry. A colleage was navigating & he made a complete hash of it - took us completely the wrong way & we ended up driving through some very narrow single track roads over the hills. It was more like a special stage than a normal road, we were late, and I have to admit that I was fairly "spirited". For about 10 miles it was a great drive, with very open roads & good sightlines. That was until I rounded a bend to see a Land Rover coming the other way. He stopped right in the middle of the road [:-]. Brakes full on, ABS pumping, we just didn't have enough time to stop. I reckon I would have hit him at 10-15mph. I pulled over onto the grass, slid past & carried on. (Didn't stop as I thought an angry Scottish farmer with shotgun might not be too well disposed to an Englishman in a red Porsche [:)] ). Was very lucky that there were no ditches or rocks, & the car was unscathed.

I stopped about half a mile up the road, checked the car over & carried on - much more sedately [:D]
 
After washing all the mud off the sides and out of the arches I got the last of the mud and leaves off the bottom of the oil pan this morning, good job there were no rocks as it could have been expensive!

Got me thinking though, if I underseal the car then do people also do inside the rear arches too? Almost like a front arch liner but of underseal or is it better to just keep this area clean?
 
ORIGINAL: poprock

Lucky escape!

We all have our local "˜points of interest'. In the countryside you have mud and pheasants. In the city we have drunks on their Christmas nights out "¦
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surely you mean 'mud and peasants' [:D] thats how my millionaire neighbours view the rest of us down our lane anyway
 
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