sandiegodrive

I drove a TSX today showed a friend how to make a U-Turn with the car on a NARROW two lane mountain road. Hope you guys enjoy! I'll keep updating the video the next couple days I have the car around. I drive a 3G TL.


Ok So the first video below is me showing him how to do a U-Turn in a two-lane road. If video doesn't play correct just refresh page.




In this video I guess he wanted me to go sideways for a close up haha. If video doesn't play correct just refresh page.

Comptech-814

that poor tsx !

bluexcrush

ouch stock tires. :p

v6cord2k5

iTrader: (1)

and its an 06/07. why would you do such a thing? lol shoulda got a rental

has it even been broken in? friends dont let friends drive their cars like that.

minkl81

iTrader: (2)

do you do that with your TL too? i ain't doin that shit with my car

xenonhid

Thats probably a Rental. Who in their sane mind would do that to their own car.

sandiegodrive

Yes a rental

EuRTSX

Poor 06 TSX!

sandiegodrive

Oh come on guys! Wow so I wear out the brakes a bit more. The tire loses slightly more tread. Why do you guys all feel bummed out for? I love my car too and I do it? Ive never had any problems as a result in tens of thousands of miles. So why is everyone so bummed out? I thought you'd all like seeing how well your Acuras handle.

PACman

I enjoyed seeing that. So how do you do that?

taylor314gh

yeah, i would be more impressed if you pulled a j turn....

jlukja

Nice. Brakes and tires are wear items. As long as you practice that where you can't hurt anyone else then go for it. Its good to know exactly how the car handles.

2k4CL9

drive, turn and pull e-brake.
i use to do it in my del sol all the time, but now that i hav a TSX i see no point in doing so...

shmork53

Just pull up on the e-brake and turn hard one direction. I use to do it with my prelude in high school a few times. It really isn't that bad for the car if you do it once in while. You put just as much stress on the suspension, brakes tires and what else you can think of driving hard.

fadinglionhart

i see that he also added a scandinavian flick before pulling the ebrake. Nice! Wouldn't want to do it to my own car since I don't want loose ebrake lines.

sandiegodrive

This just in! J turn coming up next!

And guys no cars passed through that road. A local park is closed during the weekdays so its empty. Yeah trust me I won't speed through residential street for example. I hate people who speed through my streets!

PWPTSX

that's called car abusing

sandiegodrive

OK so some are ok with it and some aren't. I guess I "abuse" my car every once in a LONG while, but have never had a problem with it in 50k+ miles. As a matter of fact we SD people just had a palomar run this weekend driving the cars fast through the mountains. All the Acura's handled like the champs they are. Is this also "abuse". I actually REALLY want to know. Not being sarcastic.

PWPTSX

if you were driving the car fast thru the mountain, i am fine with that and count that as an art of driving, drifting or fast braking the car is alrite for cars that is specially made for it, but i don't agree doing this in a TSX thou. my 2C

zidenx

iTrader: (1)

what happened to that nsx that hit the curb or the side of the road?

PWAiN

Hoy! body roll?

jmathew34

meh, it's more fun in my dad's enzo

sandiegodrive

Had a spare bumper at home LOL. I guess you saw that video too.

Hey guys the video he is talking about is HERE.

As you can see in the video I was driving my TL with about 20 other Acuras fast thorught the mountains and THEN other owners were having problems like ABS and steering fluid pump, etc. So more damage was caused drive through corners then doing 180s in my cars. I know the 180 look like they'd do more damage, but they really don't.

lilasiian8

Now that is skill.. where did you learn how to drive like that?

sandiegodrive

Thanks! A friend when I was 16 told me to just pull on the e-brake and flick it before I pulled. I just practiced since then a few times and got the hang of it. So in other words PRACTICE and one day you'll be better then me.

And sorry for the word & grammer murder on my last post.

lilasiian8

nice. i'd be too scared.. even in an empty lot..

sandiegodrive

Its cool. I actually respect you all who don't do this becuase that shows how much you REALLY love your cars. So much so that you wouldn't even want to risk doing anything that might harm your cars. I give you all mad props

daicacharco

where was this taken at? ? btw what car do you drive ?

TSX420J

LOL.. Hey, can you ram it into a wall??

sandiegodrive

SSM 2005 Acura TL

Hmmmm...I don't think so.

slfmade

why is everyone complaining about this? its not an extremely difficult maneuver and it does not do a whole lot to your car

TSX7

You need to go faster before you pull the brake.......so that you can really whip that baby around.

visuelz

I think that was pretty cool even though it's somewhat harmful. But I give you props for doing that.

Mokos23

Come on this isn't Dukes of Hazzard or Knight Rider here

When I saw your thread I thought you were doing an actual u-turn and assumed you were going to comment on the turn radius which isn't that good on the TSX.

Reach

Whatever... I love it. I find it much harder to handle a FWD car like that, and I can't imagine doing that to my new(ish) TSX yet.

But if it were a rental... giv'r


I think he just figured out how to fix that!

dom

Cool.

taylor314gh

yeah, i'm not sure why everyone has such a problem with this. Cars are built to take hard driving, the only thing that this could hurt are the tires and brakes, maybe some suspension if he messes it up. Every cop it taught how to do offensive driving, as are most professional drivers (for important people at least).

TheDukeZip

Thanks for posting the cool videos!

jlukja

I was wondering how to wear down my OEM tires so I could justify a new (better) set.

CJ Majesty

Hey Screw these guys that shyt was phat... Say I uhhhh.... I plan on robbing a bank in a few weeks wanna come out here & be my getaway driver. Just kidding.

You live once & cars dont last forever.
I do the same thing only I do it in Snow.