Thank you Falken!

Thank you Falken!

This may be hard to describe without a picture, but I'll give it a shot..it happened so fast that my memory is a bit fuzzy, but anyways:

I was heading south on a two lane road; there was a silver '04 Civic in front of me. We had just crossed an intersection -- there is a wide paved driveway (drivers' license office, actually) on my right. The Civic is just abreast of the driveway, and an oncoming F150 pulls around someone and makes a left turn into the parking lot. More precisely, made a left turn into the Civic.

Fortunately, I was awake at the time..I see the truck run into the Civic (in my lane, immediately in front of me)..we weren't going too fast, but I didn't have much room to stop. I slammed on my brakes..they locked (no ABS), so I let them unlock. At this point, the truck is pretty much in front of my left quarter..I pulled a hard right/left (right to avoid the truck, left to avoid the Civic, who I *think* had been pushed/driven off to the side somewhere..that's the part I'm not clear on). There was a chunk of something in the road, and I somehow missed the truck, straddled the object in the road (which happened to be the drivers' side mirror of the Civic), and straightened out - without hitting grass, signs, or any other objects.

Fortunately, this happened at a wide driveway/parking lot entrance; otherwise, I probably would've went into grass or hit signs..I went back and looked at my skid marks the next day, and my right tire mark is at/around the white line on the right side of the road -- apparently I pulled to the right, away from the truck, locked my brakes, then let off and jumped sideways. I wish I could see a replay, since I'm not sure where the Civic was at the time, and I would like to have known how far the truck was in my lane -- since I was on the line before I swerved, he must've been pretty far over..

So..in short, I'm never buying cheap tires -- my car sidesteps quite nicely now. =)

Makes me wanna get rid of my yoko avids, Although I think these tires a rated pretty good.

hooray for reflexes!

what kind of falkens are you running?

holy sh!t nice save... nice tires definitely help i got the BFG Traction T/As it suck at highway speed for some reason the tire vibrate a little but definitely crazy grip rated at "AA"... i got into one incident when a cement truck stop on the right lane which i didn't know and traffic was starting back up on my lane i pulled to the right lane thinkin it was faster the stupid truck was rite ahead i pump my brakes and stop in a straight line no problem but the civic behind me stomp on his brakes and u could hear is tire struggling to grip and almost hit me...

aye but don't forget if they are summer tires you won't have that kind of grip at 50 degrees.....

Falken Tires 0wns

I have Falken Ziex 512s (185/60/14)

http://www.edgeracing.com/tire/752/ -- it says they have decent snow/ice traction, so they should be alright for a Florida winter.

it was YOU not the tires. The tires helped tho.