View Single Post
Old 04-02-2007   #106 (Post Link)
alfasud.ti
AO Member
 
alfasud.ti's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Athens, Greece
Posts: 818

Member car:

Alfasud TI

Re: Retrofitting a Q2 to an existing Alfa

Let me explain my last post a little, wouldn't want David to get offended.

With the occasion of the 2004 olympic games many main roads in and around Athens were completely rebuilt with decent rainwater drainage. However most secondary roads/avenues that would not carry any "olympic" traffic were not touched, therefore they are still slippery as hell to this day.

About road construction, unfortunately during the past decades they used cheap asbestolithic tarmac instead of the most expensive but by far better vulcanic one. As a result newly paved roads are OK for a year or two but become very slippery with time because asbestolithic tarmac loses its grained surface because of wear and becomes smooth and slippery.
alfasud.ti is offline  
Reply With Quote