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I had the wife borrow my car the other week when it was wet and she came back complaining that when she went round a bend the car basically spun here round on the spot and she S&^t her self. I though this was b.s. as i hadn't had any issue........till yesterday in the wet.

Same thing happened to me but i saved it from spinning out.

Basically driving around a sweeping left hand bend at 80 in the wet, and it was like the rear end completely switched off and the car tried turning hard into the corner??

It seems to be prevelant on a left hand corner too.

Has anyone had an issue like this before?

Other than this i have had no issues? I suppose it would do it in the dry if i pushed it really hard.

I have 4 near new tires on it.

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youve not banged into a kerb or anything lately? i had an r33 and broke the rear subframe when i kerbed it and it kept stepping out when i went through potholes and long corners. it was going to be a costly fix so i got rid of the car

For the rear end to lose power it would basically have to be disengaging the transmission?

I had a similar issue with a faulty throttle position sensor. Power to the wheels would cut out, I assume because it was receiving conflicting sensor input.

The car was still powering on but seemed like maybe only through the front for the time i allowed it happen.

Gave it some today in the dry - no problem, but in the wet.....it let go in back end. :)

Basically i have lost confidence in it now. Before i felt like i could go round anything.

Running the SK whiteline suspension package with bilstein struts.

May have to put it up on the hoist and check it out.

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