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He's half right
Posted by No Snaab (more from No Snaab) on Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:47:05
In Reply to: what do you think of this FWD article?, bender [Profile/Gallery]
, Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:30:52
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Sometimes when it's extremely slippery the best thing to do is esentially neutralized any input ie. take all loading off the tires (push the clutch in on a stick). If you've overcooked it into a square corner you only have a few fractions of a second to get it right and attempting to "claw your way around" could cause the front tires to lose traction. The best thing to do is brake (lightly)as long as you're going straight and then take the corner as wide as you have room for with no throttle input. An automatic doesn't have a lot of braking at low speed so simply taking your foot off the gas has to suffice. On a sweeping corner you might be able to experiment with using throttle. The problem with articles like that is it gets you trying to think about what to do. What you really need is to do the right thing instinctively. At least he does suggest practising in a snowy parking lot, which is what you have to do to get so don't have to think what to do. FWD, RWD, and AWD all have their pluses and minuses in slippery conditions and require slightly differing techniques. In skilled hands any of them can blow by everything on the road but if you're a klutz behind the wheel none of them will save your bacon. Practise constantly (I've been driving since 1968 and I still constantly "play with it" to test conditions and keep sharp) with what ever you have to drive and you'll do just fine.
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