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Originally Posted by Nevermore
I have to admit I've fallen victim to this very thing a couple of times in my mazda 626. To the conversation about doing stupid things in your car, I like to consider myself a pretty careful driver, but the stupid things I have done in my car would have to be hitting my breaks at the start of a slide and spinning around completely.
One time was on light snow, through a round about at maybe 20-25 mph, felt it start to go sideways, tapped the breaks barely and ended up facing the wrong way. It was midnight, no one around.
Another time was on an entrance ramp to a highway in the rain. It had just started raining, which is when it is the most slick and I was going around the sharp curve of the ramp, maybe 25mph, same thing happened, slight slip, didn't think and hit the breaks, spun around backwards. Got extremely lucky, no one was behind me.
I also spun out my brothers 240SX several years ago in a similar rain situation taking off from a stop sign. But that was RWD.
To be honest this stuff makes me nervous about the FR-S, but I want the car too bad to not get it because of this. My nannies will probably never come off though haha
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That's the exact thing that happened to me in the rain, going on a freeway onramp on my RWD car. Funny thing is that I barely switched to 3rd gear and applied some gas, and the rpms were probably around 1500. Yeah, hitting the brakes in those situations is a big no no. And of course, taking off from stop signs too during the rain too. That can turn into a nightmare, especially uphill on a RWD manual w/o traction control.