Pine Needles+experienced driver+traction control=Disaster
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yeah so I hit the left hand turn at about 35mph, +/- 5 mph
this next part all happens in about 5 seconds start to finish...
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i don't know how, but i hit a patch of pine needles bthick enough in one spot and the back gets loose towards the outside of the road.
so I turn into it to correct the turn like I'M supposed to. car straightens out and continue driving
AND THEN orange light starts blinking super crazy the brakes LOCK UP because of the pine needles
the back end swings out the OTHER way towards the inside of the lane
the passenger side nose of the car just goes thru three trees at about a 6 inch diameter.
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the messed up part is, i could have gotten out of that situation if I didn't have traction control.
i'm really angry about this actually.
because i really liked the traction control.
i though it was good, not the best. but really good. and then that had to go and happen.
it was like as soon as the orange light turned on i felt like i was on ice and the car sped up!
and since the tires locked on the pine needles I had NO control
funny too because when the cops came and the convo goes something like this
cop "so how fast were you going"
me: "honestly no more than 10 miles an hour over the limit. probably not even that fast."
cop: "that'a srt8?"
me: "yeah"
cop: "and you weren't going fast?"
me: "yeah its fg b-st."
cop pulls out the meter to measure the tire skids
"we'll see about that"
cop comes back 5 minutes later talks to the other cop...
"there's no tire marks, sooo..."
and that's pretty much it.