Re: [T3] oil consumption

[Aaron Clow <variant_1600-vwtype3@yahoo.com>]

--- Dave Hall <dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk> wrote:
> I took it for a drive up the road as it was still
> had a few days of MoT to run,
> and off up a long hill to check its climbing
> ability.  The road was wet, and on
> the way back after turning round, there was a
> crashed car in the field about 15
> feet below road level, with a couple of young guys
> standing beside it.  Now
> maybe they had simply over-cooked it on the bend
> with a wet road, but I still
> wonder if the drips of oil played a part in their
> downfall.

Dave, I don't know if the road was the same kind of
asphalt that they use on roads stateside, but with any
light rain, especially the first in a while, it seems
the roads are always slicker than after it has been
downpouring for a while. This is no fault of anyone,
just the way the asphalt seems to be.

In addition, it is every drivers' responsibility to
travel safely according to current conditions, and
that includes knowing that roads are slicker when it
is raining out, as well as understanding that there
might be a certain amount of oil, dirt, or other
substances on the road that needs to be accounted for
when braking, cornering, or otherwise estimating any
potential action.

I'm getting wordy, but I doubt very very much that any
drops of oil you spilled onto the road, even if they
were the cause of said accident, could have caused an
accident if all other prudent driving precautions were
in place on the part of the driver. 

In short, I can see how you might feel guilty, but I
think it would take an oil slick of much more
magnificient proportion to cause an otherwise safe
driver in total control of his vehicle to lose it and
end up in the ditch. :)




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