I spun twice the first day I got my car on the road. Didn't hit anyone/thing, luckily, and since then I've been spin free! Thanks BF Goodrich!

 

Thanks for all the input. All your comments hit good points. I'm sure it was a culmination of things (slick/wet roadways, oil on the road, cold summer tires with less than par tread, too much/little gas, driver error ?) but with all said and done... lesson learned.

Now it's off to the body shop. Does anyone have a ballpark figure for 1) new bumper 2) oem front lip 3) new front underlining ???

 

14,000 miles is when my tires start scaring the hell out of me. I won't run the re050s any more than that, myself.

 

The VSA does put me much more at ease in the rain.

I gave the VSA a little test the other day. I've had the car for less than a month, so I wanted to see how the VSA worked and how much slide it allowed.

So I made a right turn at a decent speed in the wet and gave it a little more throttle mid turn than I would normally and the tail started to come out. Power cut immediately but I stayed on the gas and power came back as soon as the car got straight again.

The VSA wasn't overly evasive but handled the situation completely on its own. I used to have a VW GTI with the ESP traction control and it completely killed power upon any tire spin and was really annoying.