Nearly wrote the 110 off on empty Motorway in dark.

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Just dropped Tom off in Leigh the other night and was on my way home in the 110. Decided as it was quiet to take the M6 for the last few miles and so swung her down the sliproad and wound the V8 up in third. Motorway was empty so held on till about 75mph and then into fourth. The motor sounded loveerrlly as usual so I threshed it along to about 85 then slung the LT85 into fifth. Speed was building up nicely and she was pulling well when I hit some deep ruts on the slow lane, the 110 started to snake and weave and I had trouble keeping it straight. Luckily the landy decided to move into the middle lane of it's own accord and I managed to regain control and ease the speed down to a legal 70ish for the last half mile or so.
Soft tyres ? dont think so, steering all ok 'cept for a little wear in the drop arm joint. I put it down to the roof rack having the spare on top and the fact that it's a land rover and not a Caterham.
Will be keeping the speed down in future.:eek::eek::eek:
 
your landy will be fine , its coz of them ruts the trucks make , as ther wider than the landy it will go everywhere , does it to me too in a car !!!! you just carry on mate on quiet motorways when noones about just stay in the middle lane next time lol :D
 
Those truck tramlines are a bloody nightmare! There are many stretches of the M11 that are particularly bad. I ended up stopping the car and calling RAC one night cause I was convinced a wheel was gonna come off, or suspension collapse, they found nothing actually wrong and just said keep out of slow lane. This was 20 years ago and the same pieces of road are still no better now!
 
having experienced tramlines and a caravan with anti snake bar -nice
 
They were a total pain in the arse to drive in with my old mk2 but in the 90, I've found that if you keep the nearside in the groove, it does most of the steering for you ;) I purposely stay in the inside lane and even overtake people on the inside lane just because they hog the middle lane! Bastards. Theres nothing worse than a middle lane hog, even if they are doing it to prevent their car being swept all over the place!

-Pos
 
M4 is pretty bad in places to - Girl at work managed to roll one of our fleet 110's because of them :( lucky for the full length brownchurch, think it saved her.

G
 
Ive driven the length of the M4 many times, never knowtised it. There is one point heading westbound, where there are only two lanes and the fast lane gets VERY narrow, then suddenly goes from masive left camber to massive right camber, which pushes you towards the crash barrier which is very close already. First time i went over that bit i was overtaking a lorry, so it wasnt a nice place to be at all.
 
I've experienced this when using my car trailer, think i came as close as i could to flipping my Vectra estate and the escort i had on the back. This was down to the tram lines.
Went from a very mild wobble to car getting dragged across three lanes by the trailer! I heard the cars rear tires screech and just slammed on the brakes as hard as i could. Luckly for me and my passenger the V6's stoppers dropped us from 60 to 20 quickly enough for me to pull the trailer back in line and carry on (though we stayed in the middle lane after that).

Defently a brown trouser moment.
 
Griffdowg said:
M4 is pretty bad in places to - Girl at work managed to roll one of our fleet 110's because of them :( lucky for the full length brownchurch, think it saved her.

G
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Yup the M4 is especially bad - I ride my bike to London on a regualr basis and the front end of my BMW 1150 GS Adventure goes all over the place - as you say its not nice at all.
 
landowner said:
Just dropped Tom off in Leigh the other night and was on my way home in the 110. Decided as it was quiet to take the M6 for the last few miles and so swung her down the sliproad and wound the V8 up in third. Motorway was empty so held on till about 75mph and then into fourth. The motor sounded loveerrlly as usual so I threshed it along to about 85 then slung the LT85 into fifth. Speed was building up nicely and she was pulling well when I hit some deep ruts on the slow lane, the 110 started to snake and weave and I had trouble keeping it straight. Luckily the landy decided to move into the middle lane of it's own accord and I managed to regain control and ease the speed down to a legal 70ish for the last half mile or so.
Soft tyres ? dont think so, steering all ok 'cept for a little wear in the drop arm joint. I put it down to the roof rack having the spare on top and the fact that it's a land rover and not a Caterham.
Will be keeping the speed down in future.:eek::eek::eek:
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no one uses the n/s lane from ashton down to the 62 turn off, they are deadly and until someone gets killed they won't get repaired either:rolleyes:
 
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