Decent Melbourne Drives

[06eleven]

Could've been worse.
You'll be right once back in the saddle. Need to tune yourself into new car.
It's ok to be in heart or head, it's when put into practice we can get in trouble.

I went out to do just that this morning, hit a pot hole 20 minutes in & limped home with the space saver on

[Water Boy]

Kew Blvd
Balck spur
Reefton spur
Kinglake
Eltham - Yarraglen rd
Mountain hwy
Lake Mountain
Mt Dona buang
Great Ocean rd
Great Alpine way

Few of the the more well known roads. Just go exploring

[SouthPolo]

I went out to do just that this morning, hit a pot hole 20 minutes in & limped home with the space saver on

Bugger, Not the sort you want.
Is the wheel a right off?

[06eleven]

Bugger, Not the sort you want.
Is the wheel a right off?

Doesn't seem to be, but there's nowhere open on a sunday to get it checked unfortunately

[Buller_Scott]

Sorry to hear about your strife, 06eleven. Hope it's not a bad issue.

Yarra Bend, right off the start of the Eastern Fwy, is great late at night - there's no one around, although one of the residents likes to flash a light to make people think they've just been booked, haha.

As James mentioned - all those roads are awesome. Another one i like for fast, yummy sweepers is the road between Whittlesea and King Lake West? Or King Lake South, one of the two - 100km/h limit that you can hit corners at quite a bit more than that, in the wet (good, slidey goodness).

But yeah. You've got the car for a while (I presume), so take your time to get used to it - VW's always have a "safe" tendency to understeer, and it took me quite a while to learn how to handle that understeer tendency on the limit (and quite a bit more time and $$$ setting the car up so that it was as neutral as possible, hoping for it to tend towards slight oversteer).

Enjoi, and get out on some cruises - the early morning "first of the month" cruises are great for meeting up with like minded people and learning about how these things drive.

Cheers!

[kaanage]

Doesn't seem to be, but there's nowhere open on a sunday to get it checked unfortunately

Oh çrap. Sorry about the tip
Hope you can claim it against the council - did you take a bucket load of pics?

[06eleven]

Oh çrap. Sorry about the tip
Hope you can claim it against the council - did you take a bucket load of pics?

I think it's pretty much a nothing, so should be all good. The tip was still good. Everyone else managed to avoid the hole, so can't look elsewhere for the blame.