When it snows do you find an empty parking lot and act like a child?

[StageLeft]

I do WHen I can find them, its fun!

 

[Viper GTS]

No, there are no parking lots around where I live.

Viper GTS

 

[FrogDog]

What do you mean by 'act like a child'?

 

[Wangel]

I assume that you mean doing donuts and sliding around. Do you know what happens when your sliding around and then your tire hits a spot of dry pavement? You can do all sorts of damage to your CV joints, bearings, ball joints, tie rods, and other steering and suspension parts. You can also destroy the tire sidewalls and bend wheels. Not worth it!

 

[Electric Amish]

My car is FWD.

amish

 

[RU482]

that's why you get a test drive dealer car to do it with!!!

 

[slunk]

I would, but I live in Texas.

 

[StageLeft]

wangel

I'll keep an eye out for the dry spots.

frogdog

What the other guy said, donuts, skids, things that if you did on dry pavement you'd have to go very fast be more likely to draw attention.

 

[nateholtrop]

I did last nite on the parking ramp in reverse 720 HAHAH LMAO that was fun as all hell!!!!!!!



nate

 

[Raspewtin]

I try to act like a child even when there is no snow or parking lots.

 

[ManSnake]

Uhhhh... What is a child?

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

heh...I just pulled some semi-donuts today as i was going around a open curve on my block. made sure there weren't any cars first. I pulled the handbrake as going around the curve and then counter-steered to correct my self. I couldn't do a full donut cause there wasn't enuff room.

some guy at our school was doing full donuts in his V6 Camaro. It was pretty cool..its the first time I've seen donuts in person.

 

[StageLeft]

Found a parking lot on the way home but there were a couple of cars so I couldn't go too silly

 

[GL]

Skoorb,

It must be a Canadian thing I do it all the time...and as far as dry spots go...I guess people haven't seen the types of storms we get up here (i.e. snow flurry that turns to freezing rain that turns parking lots into ice rinks).

My friend's the craziest though. He races even on dry pavement and really wrecks his car. One time he started doing donuts in reverse around a lamp post of a parking lot at 40km/h (didn't think reverse would let you go that fast!). He's really precise though...about the only guy I trust to drive me like that.

All that practice pays off though. I've been able to pull a skid, and gain control and avoid an accident on the highway because of this parking lot practice. My friend (same guy mentioned) once had some idiot slam on the breaks in the middle of the 401 as my friend was being tail-gated from behind. With not much to lose, my friend skidded and practically did an outline of the car by going onto the unpaved shoulder, then regaining control and driving normally without causing any disturbances to the traffic around him...of course, the idiot caused a major disturbance as the guy that was tail-gating my friend couldn't really stop in time and ended up cutting off a guy in another lane who had to slam on his breaks, and well you get the picture...

-GL

 

[fragarific]

Someone did that once. Except it wasn't in a parking lot, it was on the road. And it wasn't doghnuts, it was pretty much a straight line. And then he hit me.

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

GL: You can go 80km/h in reverse =)

Also how do you induce 4-wheel drifting in a FWD car? And how do you skid on the highway (relating to GL's stories)??

 

[StageLeft]

GL

Man I was a crazy fool when I was younger, now I try and be a bit more reasonable

mad indian My car is AWD so its tough, but with the handbrake all you have to do is be turning and jack that on and the tail will whip out no problem. Its really quite fun, talking about it makes me want to go find another parking lot but it just started to rain

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

Skoorb: don't you have an older Accord? those aren't AWD are they?

Also when you pull the handbrake, doesn't that induce over-steer in a FWD car? I meant drifting...like on a 2000 Maxima commercial where the Maxima is drifting across the sand..

 

[StageLeft]

I had an '89 accord and $2k and 6 months later sold it for the lemon it was I got unlucky with it. My mother kindly lent me her '00 imprezza sport wagon for the year until I buy something better.

I noticed that commercial you mention - yeah pulling the handbrake on any car will induce oversteer and thats the only way they could have done that in that commercial; so the keen observer will note that they were not really sport driving as nobody would pull a handbrake in real life unless they were playing a video game!

I think to get the thing to drift you'd need just the correct amount of turning, gas on the front wheels, handbrake tension etc...much easier on sand or snow than on pavement.

 

[PCAddict]

Yep. I go nuts in the parking lot at work. When it snows, I am usually one of the few there because I have a 4x4. They either tell people not to come in or they send them home early. I am discriminated against in this regard, however.


It's hard to say what is more fun, doing doughnuts in 2WD or climbing over the big piles of snow from the snowplows in 4WD.

 

[StageLeft]

hehe I have a friend and his company has given them all cars (like brand new low end hyundais or whatever) and its part of their day to do handbrake turns around the parking lot. He said they do it more now that it snows.

 

[stonerdave]

yes, I've done it with friends in the past.

I don't know why...but it's more fun to do with newer cars!

 

[zippy]

nevermind---sorry

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

I feel like doing some drifting on the snow-covered parking lots so badly!! I'm scared of getting caught by the cops!!

 

[Whitedog]

No.

I did when I was one.

I'm not anymore.