Whew. Gotta a little scared in the stang this evening and thought I would pass it along for comments so I can feel a little reassured. It's that solid rear axle.
I was taking this nice little left hand sweeping on ramp here in Birmingham getting onto to a freeway. It's about a 45-55 mph curve, so nothing to slow down over. I was doing about 50 or so and decided to see how the stang would hold at say..70. Got to about 65 and I didn't notice this "gap" between the overpass part of the on ramp (it's a bridge over the road I was getting onto) and the concrete glued to mother earth. I hit that little bump and the back end decided it was going to go in the opposite direction of the front end. Backed WAAYYY out of it and caught it before catastrophe set in. Whew.
Then I decided to do another test because that both scared and bothered me. There is this nasty little section of road on my way home where the pavement has "rippled" a bit. (LIke roots or something under the road pushing it up in about 6" sections.). It's a right hand turn up a hill to boot, so I decided to see what would happen on that little peice of Alabama roadway. Holy friggin mother of mary. Her ass was like JELLO. I came so close to completely losing the rear end again! Man alive. Off the gas, no brake just to let it get itself back under control. Talk about scary.
So the point of the post is.... is this what I have to expect for the next 5 years with this solid rear axle? Every bump in a curve has the potential to throw the rear end around? God forbid there's ever water or something like that on the road when I hit something like these places again. I can just see me spinning around, throwing it into reverse and smiling at the people behind me as I try to drive backwards around the curve in the road. Yarite. But it has scared me somewhat. SOMEONE please reassure me that I am just used to independant suspension and I can learn to handle that ass in the future. This is my first Mustang.
Maybe if she got lowered an inch and had some more prominent rubber it would be better.
I was taking this nice little left hand sweeping on ramp here in Birmingham getting onto to a freeway. It's about a 45-55 mph curve, so nothing to slow down over. I was doing about 50 or so and decided to see how the stang would hold at say..70. Got to about 65 and I didn't notice this "gap" between the overpass part of the on ramp (it's a bridge over the road I was getting onto) and the concrete glued to mother earth. I hit that little bump and the back end decided it was going to go in the opposite direction of the front end. Backed WAAYYY out of it and caught it before catastrophe set in. Whew.
Then I decided to do another test because that both scared and bothered me. There is this nasty little section of road on my way home where the pavement has "rippled" a bit. (LIke roots or something under the road pushing it up in about 6" sections.). It's a right hand turn up a hill to boot, so I decided to see what would happen on that little peice of Alabama roadway. Holy friggin mother of mary. Her ass was like JELLO. I came so close to completely losing the rear end again! Man alive. Off the gas, no brake just to let it get itself back under control. Talk about scary.
So the point of the post is.... is this what I have to expect for the next 5 years with this solid rear axle? Every bump in a curve has the potential to throw the rear end around? God forbid there's ever water or something like that on the road when I hit something like these places again. I can just see me spinning around, throwing it into reverse and smiling at the people behind me as I try to drive backwards around the curve in the road. Yarite. But it has scared me somewhat. SOMEONE please reassure me that I am just used to independant suspension and I can learn to handle that ass in the future. This is my first Mustang.
Maybe if she got lowered an inch and had some more prominent rubber it would be better.