View Full Version : What NOT TO DO, if you have a fricken blowout
General of Darkness
8th November 2014, 01:09 PM
First don't panic and mash the brakes. Just slowly let off on the gas and coast to a stop.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=522_1415476469
Glass
8th November 2014, 03:17 PM
you can see where there rim has dug into the asphalt, After the rim bites the car is basically on rails. Trying to power out only gets you there quicker. I think it's a common reaction.
Hitch
8th November 2014, 05:28 PM
I was taught during a blowout, to accelerate the vehicle until you had control of it, then easy off the gas as the General said. Hope I don't experience one. Years ago with my Jeep I used to draft behind the big rigs, up close and personal, to save on gas. Once a tire on the rig blew out while I was right behind it drafting. It was an explosion actually, tire parts coated the jeep, got into the radiator, and it sounded like a cannon going off. The jeep was never the same after that. I also never drafted behind the big rigs again.
crimethink
8th November 2014, 06:47 PM
Looks like the stretch down by Oceanside.
And, of course, it's the truck driver who gives a damn enough to stop first.
brosil
9th November 2014, 03:02 AM
It was in his lane.
Glass
9th November 2014, 03:51 AM
It was in his lane.
brrr. :p
crimethink
9th November 2014, 01:21 PM
It was in his lane.
He could have driven around it.
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