Car Limits Day Fri 11th July

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wilbo

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 Berkshire
I have just signed up to do a Car Limits activity day on Friday 11th July, held at North Weald Airfield. It's only £49 and supposedly a great day out and an opportunity to learn the car (and your) limits in a safe environment. There are 16 spaces remaining, would be great to get some more zeds along:

http://www.carlimits.com/script/viewEvents.php?type=airfieldactivity&month=20140701
 
No one else fancy this?

If anyone has done this before, can you let me know how much tyre wear I can expect? Got about 3mm left and would ideally like to do this (finish them off) and then change to the Eagle F1s I have waiting.
 
I've done one of these days and done the full instruction day. Although Weald is fairly abrasive you probably won't get a whole lot of tyre wear on an activity day as there are usually quite a few cars. Do take a compressor as you usually need to pump your tyres right up.
 
i did this in my smart roadster & got a nail in my tyre :thumbsdown:
It was fun but would be better on a purpose made track & not a car-park, it felt very bumpy at speed & i wouldnt want to hammer my zed round there.
regards
 
Smartbear said:
i did this in my smart roadster & got a nail in my tyre :thumbsdown:
It was fun but would be better on a purpose made track & not a car-park, it felt very bumpy at speed & i wouldnt want to hammer my zed round there.
regards
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Looks like you are not the only one to get a puncture :x Just returned from a very frustrating morning at car limits.

Managed to do about 5 attempts at the high speed bend before I could hear that something was not right. Pulled over and as expected, could see a bolt head protruding from my NSR tyre. Told the staff and their response was "Do you have RAC/AA?". Not sure how they are going to help with a puncture?! They then said to drive up to the office which I did but as no-one came to assist and I was losing pressure, I just found a local tyre repair place on google and headed there.

Luckily it was repairable so only cost me £18 but I had lost the whole morning and didn't really want to risk returning to car limits and it happening again so headed home. First and last time I do something like that on a surface that is not used just for cars; they run a weekend market there and guess they don't check the track surface for offending items. Not sure if its worth complaining, can imagine the response will just be "thats the risk you take".

The screw:
 
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