d215yq
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- 1987 W124 300D 280k miles
Yesterday I was driving back from a nice day on the coast and inland there was a lot of crosswinds - the weather said a constant 30mph with gusts of 50 mph (max 60mph ) - trees were properly bending over.
I was driving at my usual 65-70mph and at times when cresting a hill or hitting an openign the car would suddenyl change direction and need inputs to stay in a straight line so I slowed to 55ish which seemed to be what half the people did and then it was very controllable and kept it's course much better. That said there were a good half doing their normal 80-90mph which I really wouldn't have wanted to do. There was also a 44ton artic that sped by at 65ish without seeming to care (trucks don't use their limiters here). No crashes for the whole 3h motorway journey so I can't say what tehy were doing was dangerous.
So was wondering if it's just the newer cars/trucks are better equipped to deal with this or maybe it's not actually dangerous if the car changes direction a little on big gusts and you just get used to it..or maybe the bushes are all warn in my car.
So would be interested to hear if forum members would expect to feel the car being pushed around and make adjusting inputs driving at 65/70 mph in up to 60mph gusts crosswind or if they would not expect this and it is something with my car and they would happily drive at 80-90 anyway...
I was driving at my usual 65-70mph and at times when cresting a hill or hitting an openign the car would suddenyl change direction and need inputs to stay in a straight line so I slowed to 55ish which seemed to be what half the people did and then it was very controllable and kept it's course much better. That said there were a good half doing their normal 80-90mph which I really wouldn't have wanted to do. There was also a 44ton artic that sped by at 65ish without seeming to care (trucks don't use their limiters here). No crashes for the whole 3h motorway journey so I can't say what tehy were doing was dangerous.
So was wondering if it's just the newer cars/trucks are better equipped to deal with this or maybe it's not actually dangerous if the car changes direction a little on big gusts and you just get used to it..or maybe the bushes are all warn in my car.
So would be interested to hear if forum members would expect to feel the car being pushed around and make adjusting inputs driving at 65/70 mph in up to 60mph gusts crosswind or if they would not expect this and it is something with my car and they would happily drive at 80-90 anyway...