Torrential Rain & BMW’s

Rossi wrote: <yawn>

Quite. Time for this thread to go to bed methinks.

Apologies Gary

Sorry Rossi did yours need them too

Thought not


e30 m3 is a grand car and will always be iconic did I say its wasnt mmmmmmm, great car and still turns heads

e46 m3 holds its own as does its e36 counterpart, its just the cars have evolved and become more powerful hence the need for dsc abs etc

Edited by m3tiko

Oi !!!!!!!! 238bhp ya cheeky git for some at least

m3tiko wrote: Just out of curiousity what do you drive Pits?

Hmmm, surprised you don't know

An E30 M3 - daily to/from work, week-ends to race-circuits all over the country (and occasionally ON the circuits - lol) all weathers!

No electronic aids on MY car!

Thats absolute pants Pits..

4mm of tread is just over 50% used...fact. So I do know the condition of my car and it's maintained perfectly.

Just because I don't have an F1A accredition (do you?) like yourself doesn't mean that my driving abilities are that significantly less...common sense prevails IMO.

Just out of curiousity what do you drive Pits?

oh guys ye should come over here and try it!!! honestly with the state of someof the roads over here why you see surface water you don't know whether you are going to splash through it or fall into a swimming pool.

wrt the tread depth i read somewhere that when the tyre reaches the 1.6mm mark its already lost 85% of its grip!!!

wrt the road surface, there is a part of a dual carraigeway in galway (for those interested its' the piece that goes by the racecourse and tom hogan motors), this has a special road surface that draws water away from the surface and produces less spray.  its been there for years and never had any work done on it and its one of the busiest roads into the city.

bit o/t there is also a test piece of road not too far away from there that has another special makeup that is like taking 66% of the cars off the road due to the noise reduction (how do i know this? 'coz i made it!!!)

D. 

Only too true hehe, thankfully I am not an engineer....worse than that....

BMW328i wrote: grahame34m5 wrote: BMW328i wrote: As a Civil Engineer..... Hero, hero . A real Engineer good on you! Tiko don't worry thepits is just stiring, which I think you'll find is in his job description Im guessing our job descriptions are one in the same?? Im guessing this because if you were from a Structural or Mechanical background you would of told me I wasnt a REAL Engineer

Just back from aberdeen , All the way down the road pouring , kept to about 60 no incidents, but yesterday going north on the M80 I was about 0.5 mile past the river Carron  the road was damp but fine open right hander and I saw a "river" , not joking, crossing the road . I was doing speed limitish , hit the water and I was a passenger as I floated across. There was nothing to do but wait untill i landed at the other side , I had moved about a yard sideways across the lane and had a little shimmy to bring things back into line when I did . 

Did see the road engineers at it as I passed again today but it was still a full flowing river crossing the northbound carriageway( it disappeared into the central reserve.

re road engineering I remember about 20 years ago reading about a porous road surface where the rain just pours through the sucface and drains below but it cost twice as much and lasted half as long.....................I have never heard of it being used in this country

grahame34m5 wrote: BMW328i wrote: As a Civil Engineer..... Hero, hero . A real Engineer good on you! Tiko don't worry thepits is just stiring, which I think you'll find is in his job description

Im guessing our job descriptions are one in the same??

Im guessing this because if you were from a Structural or Mechanical background you would of told me I wasnt a REAL Engineer

What a surprise, another day of heavy rain in Glasgow. When willit end so I can wash the car. It looks awful!