Sexy Friday – 20221223

TGIF! So long worthless work week. May your personal LDB challenge be done and dusted for another year. In the meantime, it’s freezing cold just about everywhere which means icy roads. One of the great things about slick roads is learning to do fun car maneuvers. So let’s learn one!

Survival – Personal Edition

The nice thing about slick roads is you can do these fun maneuvers at a slower speed than on a dry surface. That way when you mess up your collisions will be at a reduced speed, saving the car and yourself damage.  So today, we’re going learn to do a J turn which is a 180 degree turn while reversing.

1. Find a strip of driving surface that is straight and has some room to both sides.
2. Put the car into reverse. Look straight ahead and find something to focus on. This will help you keep the car straight while reversing. Remember our previous lessons about the car going where you look? Same principle here.
3. Accelerate to a modest speed. The slicker the surface the less speed you’ll need. However, on a dry surface you risk rolling the car if you’re going too fast. Try to keep it under 50mph in any scenario.
4. Alright, now’s the time. With an automatic transmission, shift to neutral. With a manual transmission, engage the clutch and put the gear lever in 2nd, but don’t disengage the clutch yet.
5. Turn the wheel a quarter turn. Either direction works here, it only changes which way the front end will slide.
6. Once the car has completed turning you stop the rotation by accelerating. First, return the steering wheel to center. With the automatic transmission, shift to drive and accelerate. With the manual transmission, ease into the throttle while disengaging the clutch.

There you go! You’re now turned around and driving straight. You can be a stunt driver in Brick’s next project!

BONUS KONTENT! What if you’re driving forward and want to do a 180 turn? I can help! First, though, make sure you have a parking brake that’s engaged with a handle and not a button. If you have a button you’re out of luck. For the rest, read on!

1. Same as the J turn. Find somewhere safe to do this.
2. Accelerate straight ahead. Again, keep those speeds in check so you don’t end up on the roof.
3. Same as step 4 above. We need the car in neutral here.
4. Yank the wheel a quarter turn and pull that handbrake. The rear end will swing out the opposite direction you turned.
5. As the car turns around, center the steering wheel and engage a forward gear and accelerate hard. You’ll now be heading the opposite direction.

Ok, now we’re done. Good job on that driving! Hope you didn’t do too much damage.

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Survival – Species Edition

Time to put the sexy in Friday!

Enjoy the weekend, folks! Alright, now let’s get to what’s most important: Commenting and drinking!