Brain teaser.

[tomstickland]

Items currently required from scrap yard:
-1 new passenger side headlamp unit
-passenger side front grille
-passenger side wing
-bonnet
-bumper

Can you guess what it is yet?

Conditions: wet. Car: 320. Tyres: happy shopper longlife penny pincher extremes. Driver: 320 novice.

Is this normal?

[Jhonno]

were you provoking it? or did it just decide to visit the scenery?

[320Touring]

sorry to hear that dude!

hope everyone is ok?!

at least now you can make sure all the panel gaps are spot on

[tomstickland]

Not provoking at all. I think I had a momentarily lack of thought and was pushing the go pedal too hard as I went round the 30 deg kink on a dual carriageway as it comes off a large 3 lane roundabout. In the wet.

The first thing I knew was when the left wheel was skipping across the gravel on the side of the road. Then it was spin city with the front wing catching the central Armco as I spun backwards. The damage is quite low - I straightened it all out last night. The barrier hit the front headlamp square on, slightly marked the bumper, bent the corner of the wing and slightly bent the corner of the bonnet. I took it all apart last night to have a look. No structural damage. Going to rebuild the front suspension on the car anyway.

I think better tyres might help; the car does seem a bit too tail happy, and not in a good way. Either that or I'm just crap.

The worst thing is that I'd just done a 60 mile trip on wet A roads and had had a great time gently feeding power in on corners. No moments had occured. So this caught me out.

I spent a load of time on a skid pan in an old 320 last year and that was easy to control. I have a slight fear of the rear end barge factor of this car. I'm going to put the 15" wheels with the Goodyear F1s onto it.

[Jhonno]

new bushes, good tyres, decent suspension and LSD helps..

Altho you have to remember the suspension is based from the 70's - bit crude but loads of fun

[tomstickland]

Without a LSD what happens? Does one wheel break away and spin? Then the other wheel is of no use to anyone either and the back end is free to let go? So a LSD should hopefully make it more progressive in breaking away?

Anyway, I think some decent tyres would help. I have the 195/55/15 Cavalier wheels with F1s on sitting there for free. The other time I span a car was with rubbish tyres on the back of it.

[Jhonno]

lsd makes it more progressive yeah

you gonna put the cav tyres on your wheels yeah? vaux run the same pcd but the bmw offset if et24

[Jhonno]

i had something similar happen in mine.. 70mph n it swapped ends after a tank slapper = scary, altho i managed to miss everything despite bein on the m25 lol

[elliot]

reckon weve all been there
i had some slicks on the rear and there was some leaves on the rather greasy road. needless to say my auto cabby turned round the sharp bend slightly more than i had anticipated. ended up sliding across some ole dears nicely mowed front garden and onto her driveway

[tomstickland]

you gonna put the cav tyres on your wheels yeah? vaux run the same pcd but the bmw offset if et24

OK, I'll go down the tyre place with the spare wheels and get the tyres transferred over. Got to help.