I will make this story short...<p>It was raining last night when I was heading home, in near freezing temperature. I powered my Brilliant Yellow 1.8TQ into a 90 degrees left turn. I picked my line. The car slid over just enough for me to notice. Kept my foot on the gas. I stayed in my line! <p>The slide over was due to cold tires match with condition.<p>Quattro:<br>100% FUN - 0 drama<p>Cris<br>

Similar situation...coming home from a dinner get together with Christian Long<br>and a few qlisters....raining....90 degree right turn....but, my situation was different,<br>apparently since this is the first rain for a week or two there was a considerable<br>amount of oil mixed with water on the roadway. My tail swung out...when I went<br>off throttle...about 25-30 degrees....I corrected by putting my foot on the throttle<br>again. Moral of the story: "When in trouble, punch it!" (Nah, moral of the story is<br>"Watch out being too over confident in a quattro...you can still get in trouble...I<br>evaded it this time...but will you?")<p>Father Guido<p>P.S. Whats the deal with people flashing there brights at you from behind....are <br>they saying "good correction"? :-)

I had two similar experiences: last week, when visiting my father who has a new A6 V6 TDI-Q, I got the car to beautifully oversteer when I took a 270 deg. roundabout a bit too fast. There were leaves on the road, and I should have been more careful :-) Loosening the gas only a little bit brought it back under control.<p>A few days later, back in the US, on our freshly watered CA roads, my 2.8q didn't behave quite as nicely: taking the "Biz district" exit off Oregon Expway here in Palo Alto, I nearly hit the curb. There just wasn't enuf space where to skid. And no matter what I did, the damn thing just wouldn't oversteer. Close call.<p>Gotta go find a slippery place and practice with this one :-)<p>Cheers, happy driving!<br>- Stan

You will be able to practice to your hearts content.<p>Steve S.<br>97 2.8QM