Why My Car Sucks

Dec 21, 2008 02:49

Two words: AWD. ABS.

All that beautiful snow, and I can't make the damned thing go sideways in it.

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penk December 21 2008, 14:32:08 UTC
Back in the good ol days I had a '91 Eclipse AWD. Zippy, fun, and it loved being in the snow. You could make it drift all 4 wheels, but it was tricky.

Until the time I drove from Boston to NJ on my racing tires. Low tread, soft tires. In a constant heavy snow.

A 7 hour drive I'd rather not have had to do.

Lemme tell ya, the ramp from the mass pike onto 84? Not so fun when sliding sideways.

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also_huey December 21 2008, 14:50:03 UTC
If it's full-time AWD with no facility to turn it off, that can't be helped, but there's probably an ABS fuse somewhere you could pull. Same goes for computerized traction control.

My advice: find a parking lot with no curbs or concrete bumper-stops in it, and conduct experiments. It's For Science!

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catness December 21 2008, 18:03:02 UTC
I was in one last night, by the beach! I'm apparently going to need it to be a lot emptier, and a lot larger, because thus far all experiments have ended with a stuttery stop facing more or less the direction I started. I NEED MORE SPEED!

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girl_on_a_stick December 21 2008, 17:33:59 UTC
EBrake.

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catness December 21 2008, 18:00:36 UTC
If only it had a handbrake. Man, I miss renting cars. Hee hee!

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geoffroi December 21 2008, 18:09:47 UTC
best way to get a AWD drive car to go into a drift is to dial in a lot of steering (creating understeer) then add lots of gas and as the car starts to pivot around the front tires, take some steering out and manage the drift w/ the throttle.

it's harder to describe than to show....we teach it at our winter driving schools on the skid pad.

On my way home from the show last night I found a big empty parking lot and did a bunch of lazy figure-8s, drifting the whole way thru the ends :-)

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kazmat December 21 2008, 18:30:05 UTC
It's all about the steering, baybee. I love taking the corner where I live at speed and sliding the ass end out. Wheeeee! Winter driving! :}

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