- Apr 30, 2009
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So long story short, I took my mom's car for a drive today because I didn't feel like warming up my car and hers was already warm. I didn't notice that the front tires were nearly bald.
There's maybe 3" of snow on the ground here and it's slippery as hell. First corner I hit, I gave it twice the braking distance I normally drive with and ABS kicks in hard... Lucky for me there were no cars at the T intersection or I would have hit someone slowly. I used to drive a front wheel drive car with no ABS and it would have stopped in the distance I gave it even if it slid around a little bit. Is ABS really helpful in most cases?
Not only does it increase braking distance, it makes it harder to predict when you will stop. I used to slide around the snow with my FWD for fun when I had a parking lot to myself. Most of time you can tell that you were not going past a certain point but this ABS makes it so that you have no idea where you will be when it finally stops.
BTW, I told her to replace those tires ASAP. I'm thinking of maybe pulling the ABS fuse until she is able to replace them in a few days... Think she will be able to figure out how to put it back in?
There's maybe 3" of snow on the ground here and it's slippery as hell. First corner I hit, I gave it twice the braking distance I normally drive with and ABS kicks in hard... Lucky for me there were no cars at the T intersection or I would have hit someone slowly. I used to drive a front wheel drive car with no ABS and it would have stopped in the distance I gave it even if it slid around a little bit. Is ABS really helpful in most cases?
Not only does it increase braking distance, it makes it harder to predict when you will stop. I used to slide around the snow with my FWD for fun when I had a parking lot to myself. Most of time you can tell that you were not going past a certain point but this ABS makes it so that you have no idea where you will be when it finally stops.
BTW, I told her to replace those tires ASAP. I'm thinking of maybe pulling the ABS fuse until she is able to replace them in a few days... Think she will be able to figure out how to put it back in?
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