Hello friends,
I am the proud owner of a black 2005 roadster limited. Today i saw my first crossfire (red roadster with new jersey? plates) out in the wild (besides my own) and felt like that was gonna be the high point of my day, but, it got a whole lot better*. I got my crossfire about 2 weeks ago and have only driven it a little and today was my first day driving it in heavy rain, i was getting off on an exit in the highway and i guess i was going too fast and my car started hydroplaning and that hydro plane turned into a full on clockwise spin, now i was in shock because well, who expects to be driving one way and 1 second later you're watching the cars behind you from your front windshield. Anyways in the beginning of my spin i accepted the fact that i was gonna crash into the wall and braced for impact but by the time i had completed my second full 360 turn I thought "Hey, maybe i don't have to crash" so at that point i decided to regain control of my life and my car and did a little course correcting and by the end of the 3rd 360 i ended up driving on the road like nothing at all had happened. after everything was ok i stopped at a light and thought to myself, wait, did that really just happen?????? i immediately grabbed my phone (not while in motion) and called my dad to tell him the great news all excitedly but arrived home to find a very angry mother
Now, I am 19 years old and to be honest maybe a little bit stupid when it comes to safety, i actually remembered after the fact that the car does have a w mode which i think stands for weather and also a button that is probably the traction control system. So if anyone was on i-595 taking the flamingo exit today they got one hell of a show i only wish i could've recorded it. So has anyone else here spun out and exited without a scratch on the car? Bu the way i did learn my lesson and do not plan on going for any more surprise carnival rides anytime in the near future. IF you have gotten this far thank you for reading and i would love to hear your thoughts about this.
this is my car sorry i am too lazy to upload any pictures to my computer
http://images.craigslist.org/00j0j_k...rP_600x450.jpg
TL;DR - car spun out because of rain