Terminator
15-11-03, 10:26
Near totalled the car last night. I was at a big cross roads, it was raining dark and traffic was patchy. Waited for a reasonable clear spot, RL was set to wet, box in manual and first. The road cleared in both directions, and left enough room for me to pull out smartly. I pulled out at the same sort of throttle pressure I usually do in the wet when pulling out of junctions turning right, the car gripped as usual, but half way through the turn I felt the back go and heard the wheels spin up , I instinctively followed the car with fronts gently eased the throttle but the slide stayed on, the back continued round to the verge on the other side of the cross roads, if felt the NS wheel hit the (fortunately) flat verge, but only two feet from a deep ditch. The remaining rear on the road got traction and I started heading for the opposite side of the road, grip was almost regained, NSR I thought covered in mud, got it straight and back to my side of the road. It all happened so fast, but slow enough to know what was going on, but not one single flash from cars front or rear.
WTF I have RLTC, I have made much more spirited getaways in the wet before, the junction is not normally slippery. When I went back this morning to look for signs; only ¾ of my wheel was on the verge, the grass was clean with the tyre mark only just visible. No signs of oil or anything else.
So I checked my dat, my wheel allocations were wrong, they had flipped from front to back they had changed from the original configuration settings. So my rears were reference, not much use in a RWD car. I drove another configuration run this morning and checked again and the settings were back to normal. Just to double check as I have not done it before, I jacked the car up reset the minimum speed to 500 and span each wheel by hand and check the monitoring screen, all allocations were confirmed.
The only explanation I have, is that I have tuning RL dats and have been experimenting with the RL app. Normally I check settings with Graham’s app afterwards to see if all is OK, but I don’t think I did last Wednesday as the laptop battery was getting low and kept shutting me down.
It may be something I did, but I am not connecting my car up the the RL application again.
Now I have done what I have advised other to do, I recommend the physical spinning of wheels to check RL wheel allocations if you have any doubts it is quick , no more than two of three minutes a wheel and totally fool proof.
If you have been playing the RL app, I would advise a check with Grahams App to make sue you settings are as they should be.
WTF I have RLTC, I have made much more spirited getaways in the wet before, the junction is not normally slippery. When I went back this morning to look for signs; only ¾ of my wheel was on the verge, the grass was clean with the tyre mark only just visible. No signs of oil or anything else.
So I checked my dat, my wheel allocations were wrong, they had flipped from front to back they had changed from the original configuration settings. So my rears were reference, not much use in a RWD car. I drove another configuration run this morning and checked again and the settings were back to normal. Just to double check as I have not done it before, I jacked the car up reset the minimum speed to 500 and span each wheel by hand and check the monitoring screen, all allocations were confirmed.
The only explanation I have, is that I have tuning RL dats and have been experimenting with the RL app. Normally I check settings with Graham’s app afterwards to see if all is OK, but I don’t think I did last Wednesday as the laptop battery was getting low and kept shutting me down.
It may be something I did, but I am not connecting my car up the the RL application again.
Now I have done what I have advised other to do, I recommend the physical spinning of wheels to check RL wheel allocations if you have any doubts it is quick , no more than two of three minutes a wheel and totally fool proof.
If you have been playing the RL app, I would advise a check with Grahams App to make sue you settings are as they should be.