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mdost03 · 01-06-2009

When I got my RS a while back, I was driving on the highway late at night. At the time I had the stock 14" wheels with bald tires on them and hadn't noticed that the highway had completely iced over in a certain spot. Driving along at 40-50 mph and then I notice my back end start to come out. I correct it and then it swings out the other way even more and so I go to correct that and I made the mistake of hitting the brakes to slow down and that sent my car in a 180 going roughly 40 mph towards the ditch in a slide. Hit the grass and stomped the brakes and I eventually came to a stop. The car was halfways in the ditch with snow underneath the tires. I let off the brakes for a second to test and I started to go in the ditch more. Not wanting to go in more from the tires spinning, I threw the car in 3rd and started to go and I pulled right out amazingly. Drove about 20 mph on the road after that back home lol.

01-06-2009	#2
mdost03 Sonic Champion! Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Litchfield Drives: VA STI Posts: 1,793	Re: Crazy close calls? When I got my RS a while back, I was driving on the highway late at night. At the time I had the stock 14" wheels with bald tires on them and hadn't noticed that the highway had completely iced over in a certain spot. Driving along at 40-50 mph and then I notice my back end start to come out. I correct it and then it swings out the other way even more and so I go to correct that and I made the mistake of hitting the brakes to slow down and that sent my car in a 180 going roughly 40 mph towards the ditch in a slide. Hit the grass and stomped the brakes and I eventually came to a stop. The car was halfways in the ditch with snow underneath the tires. I let off the brakes for a second to test and I started to go in the ditch more. Not wanting to go in more from the tires spinning, I threw the car in 3rd and started to go and I pulled right out amazingly. Drove about 20 mph on the road after that back home lol.