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Old 12-01-2015, 11:44 PM
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I once spun my 190D with similar results. It was a sunny summer afternoon but had rained in the morning. I was going around a tight curve accelerating with full throttle (which isn't really much acceleration) and I hit a dip in the road with the passenger rear tire that had a puddle that hadn't dried yet, probably a total volume of a liter of water, and my tires were so bald that I lost traction and spun into an older couple's front yard. I went up the the door with the adrenaline still pumping, told the man what happened and offered to come out and work on his yard to fix the damage but he told me not to worry about it since I was "the 15th person in the past year to spin out into his yard". Told me to drive safely and I got back out to the car and couldn't to get it to move in the mud so a good Samaritan came by and helped me push it out, got covered in mud in the process then drove off.

Needless to say I went and bought new rear tires the next day.
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