Can you do a handbrake turn?

[Orang Utan]

got off the wrong side of the bed AGAIN?

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

got off the wrong side of the bed AGAIN?

one might ask you the same question really...

with your caustic why would you want to snippy smug response... eh??

I just assume these days you're being curt and disengenious because you are hardly anything else. bit like you assume agression. Mind you at least mines not the passive agressive type of sneaky snide insinuation...unlike yours eh, chuck?

 

[kyser_soze]

Yes, and as everyone says, that are Enourmous Fun. Bit of mud in a field or about 5mm of water in a supermarket carpark are my faves.

Or when you're on a rally driving day

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Yes, and as everyone says, that are Enourmous Fun. Bit of mud in a field or about 5mm of water in a supermarket carpark are my faves.

Or when you're on a rally driving day

nah tramping always buggers your wheel bearing eventually they just aren't designed for lateral forces....

 

[Orang Utan]

one might ask you the same question really...

with your caustic why would you want to snippy smug response... eh??

I just assume these days you're being curt and disengenious because you are hardly anything else. bit like you assume agression. Mind you at least mines not the passive agressive type of sneaky snide insinuation...unlike yours eh, chuck?

ooh, get her!

 

[Yetman]

Yep, and do donuts. Although that is a bit embarrasing really isnt it

 

[geminisnake]

Never even tried coz a) always had to buy my own cars and pay for my own repairs and b) til I started buying VWs my handbrakes were generally things that worked the day of the cars MOT <whistle>

If anyone would like to lend me their car I am quite prepared to learn or try

 

[gentlegreen]

Should have clicked on "comedy option"

Not a full-on one but I have vague memories of using the handbrake or just the brakes of my 2CV hard into corners - I took naturally to its unusual handling having been a motorcyclist - I suppose the point is that the handbrake works on just the back wheels.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I haven't tried on dry pavement, but on icy/snowy roads, they've been good for hours of fun, with the kids egging me on. It started with Safeway parking lots, now it's 180ing into the space in front of the house, or pulling 360s in the intersection, via essentially the same technique, but with a front wheel drive, with accelleration added during the 'slide' phase.

 

[berniedicters]

nah tramping always buggers your wheel bearing eventually they just aren't designed for lateral forces....

Well, they are, just not that much that often. I suspect that it's actually the other components of the rear suspension that really take a hammering...and they're a lot pricier to replace than wheel bearings, too.

 

[Callie]

I had the weirdest experience one day on my way to work. I had reached the mainline train station and was waiting neat the pick up point for the work shuttle bus. A woman came along in her little hatchback car and seemingly randomly did a handbrake turn right outside the Reed office building opposite, stopped breifly then drove off

WTF

I reckon I could do one if I tried and was feeling brave. I imagine it involve some amount of speed, steering wheel turn then swift application of the HB. I aint gonna try it though.

 

[Callie]

Tried it once in John Ruskin college overflow car park. Grass was a bit wetter than it looked. Wrote off an Escort. But my Talbot Horizon just had a slightly dented bumper!

You went to John Ruskin?

 

[oneflewover]

Yes, learnt when I used to deliver hire cars and Vauxhall and Audi test drives

 

[moose]

Yes, but I certainly wouldn't do it in my own car

 

[Spymaster]

Yes.

And I can do doughnuts better than this bloke:

 

[stretchy18]

Yep but don't do it in a B6 amoured landcruiser

 

[berniedicters]

Yep but don't do it in a B6 amoured landcruiser

Why, what happens if you do?

ETA: Ah. I'm guessing that it highsides, and you roll it?

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Yep but don't do it in a B6 amoured landcruiser

I'mnot one to talk but amoured

if this love wagons rocking don't come a knocking??

 

[Dan U]

i had the best fun ever when i was driving 7.5t lorries as a 19 year old for a short while.

went to this big new out of town office development near completion with a massive car park that was empty and totally icy.

once i'd unloaded the lorry i went and pulled massive pirouetting handbrakes on the ice for about 20 minutes. it was fucking ace, the lorry just spun so gracefully and went round and round.

i got SUCH a bollocking when i got back to the yard as security had rung up and complained

got the sack not long after, can't think why