360 Degree Spin Out
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360 Degree Spin Out
I've driven trucks and SUV's for years and never had this happen. The wife and I were getting on a highway, on a ramp I have used 100 times. It's been raining most of the day, no big deal. The ramp is curved, I was accelerating just little, under the speed limit (about 30mph). The rear end cut out towards the left, I could only hope to steer it off the RAMP (there were 4 cars right behind me). I managed to get it to spin all the way around and parked it right on the curb of the access road, facing the wrong way of course. I did this all without hitting anything and did't spill a drop of my Starbucks. Has anyone had one of these SD's get out from under them like that? The road did look real slick in that area.
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sounds like a 180 or a 540 if you were facing the wrong way. Only a 5.0L mustang got away from me in the rain one time, these trucks only if you want them too or have a tuner or fuel module. Sounds like a tundra lost its front diff fluid...
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ANYTHING, even a front wheel drive, can get away from you in the perfect conditions 
Always found it worst when it has JUST started raining after a long drought... the oils, etc.. are not flushed off the roadbed, but mixed in with the little rain and it makes the perfect skidpad !!!
and if it is a slight grade where everyone is accelerating, have seen many that the asphalt gets like mirrored glass after the push of all those tires just polishes it
Always found it worst when it has JUST started raining after a long drought... the oils, etc.. are not flushed off the roadbed, but mixed in with the little rain and it makes the perfect skidpad !!!
and if it is a slight grade where everyone is accelerating, have seen many that the asphalt gets like mirrored glass after the push of all those tires just polishes it
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Ahhhhh, a Texas guy. That is a rather familiar event for those of us that have lived most of our lives in the north. Upstate NY gets just a "bit" of black ice from time to time. The wife had me white knuckled when she hit some on the highway. Mud terrains and a short wheel base Wrangler makes for an interesting ride.
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Haven't done it yet with my 350 but I have done with another car. Good think I had a shovel in the trunk to clean up my drawers. Not spilling the coffee sounds like Eddie Griffin in Undercover Brother. His couple deville started doing 360's and he didn't spill a drop of his orange soda. And the lid was off.
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STEPHENA GOOD THING YOU WERE IN THAT LONG SD. iF YOU WERE IN A SHORT WHEELBASE THAT ONE MIGHT HAVE BEEN JUST A LITTLE MORE EXCITING. 360 MY EXTENDED CAB F-250 ONCE. ALTHOUGH THAT WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. I STARTED FROM A DEAD STOP AND SMOKE WAS ROLLING OFF THE TIRES ALL THE WAY AROUND. MAN THAT WAS FUN.
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I had the same thing happen to me, going around a slight curve in the road and then next thing you know I'm doing a 360. I wound up backed into a bank, over a mailbox......with absolutely no damage to the truck (built tough). It was the dang limited slip that did me in, I just held on for the ride.
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