Super_Shaun
New Member
trying to impress my grandson. Took the smile off my face when the steering went heavy though
That made me chuckle, the silly things we do to impress...
I had a black eye last week as I tried walking on my hands for my 3yr old daughter and it went horribly wrong lol.
iwantone
Active Member
Cheers mate, will take a look tomorrow.
Dufty
Active Member
It's absolutely normal.
If you hit a puddle with 2 tons of car at speed, the surface tension will all-but tear the steering wheel out of your hands as in the direction of the impacting wheel .
As you impact, the water's first reaction is to bunch up tight and this massively increased friction grabs the tyre. Being water, it then falls apart pretty dramatically but since you probably over compensated by reflex, you'll be launched in the opposite direction. The process feels exactly like you've 'lost control' of the steering for a few seconds.
If it's a good long puddle (or you hit it hard/fast), the effect last longer and steering is all but impossible until the tension breaks.
Scary as ****, but great fun if you know what's going to happen and how (not) to react.
If you hit a puddle with 2 tons of car at speed, the surface tension will all-but tear the steering wheel out of your hands as in the direction of the impacting wheel .
As you impact, the water's first reaction is to bunch up tight and this massively increased friction grabs the tyre. Being water, it then falls apart pretty dramatically but since you probably over compensated by reflex, you'll be launched in the opposite direction. The process feels exactly like you've 'lost control' of the steering for a few seconds.
If it's a good long puddle (or you hit it hard/fast), the effect last longer and steering is all but impossible until the tension breaks.
Scary as ****, but great fun if you know what's going to happen and how (not) to react.
Fur Trapper
Banned
What happened is hydro planing do a read on it, will help. And everything that has been said is true.
iwantone
Active Member
I didn't actually lose control though. I know what aqua planing is & what happened wasn't that. The steering went heavy; I never skidded/lost control in anyway.
Furtrapper; thanks for your wisdom!
Thanks for the input guys.
Dufty
Active Member
Just me not communicating accurately again I think. The loss of control was a quote from your original post, I guess meaning 'loss of power steering', as opposed to loss of driver 'control' (I'm making this worse aren't)!
Surfavce tension will make the steering insanely heavy until it breaks. As long as you don't tug at the wheel, it's manageable (and fun).
