i could cope fine with slick tyres - 'cos I am a driving cod![]()
I thought I could smell something fishy. Don't you find it difficult to hold the steering wheel with fins?
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i could cope fine with slick tyres - 'cos I am a driving cod![]()
That's it to a Tee.
How on earth did we cope before "driver aids" came along to mask how crap some peoples driving really is, we have become too dependant on them.
There is no substitute for actually being able to drive "properly".
I disengaged the ASR this morning......
This in a car with daft wide tyres and huge torque.
ASR is for the weak.
For a small light FWD car, it's not too shabby. Nothing compared to the Romeo Ferrari edition with 360 HP. Any kind of power seems imense on snow anyway! Perhaps my near bold tyres had more of a ski effect on the snow?????? Immense???????
Are you sure about that????
ASR is for the weak.
Define "huge torque", I assume we are talking of 400lbs/ft
I had to giggle this morning at the chap in the Griffith 500 who was barely getting off tickover & having to apply opposite lock.
260 lbs/ft.. what's a 1.4 500 got? We're talking about family cars, not sports roadsters.![]()
the car isn't at fault - learn to use your right foot![]()
This is the effect i experienced in the Abarth with the TTC or torque transfer control, works in a similar way to a LSD and does help in slippery conditions.A previous car, although only 2-wheel drive, had VAG's ASR which is the Audi Quattro system (or half of it) - brakes the slipping wheel to transfer drive to the other wheel. There is no way to simulate this without the technology and made that car quite incredible (for a 2wd hatch) in the snow.
Sorry Rob but this isn't the point. When one wheel is on wet ice it will spin however gentle the driver is and, without ASR, there will be NO drive to the other wheel.
For instance I was completely unable to reverse this morning into my usual road-side parking spot this morning for this reason, being a diesel no right foot is required for such maneuvers, just gentle clutch control. Even with a bit of a run-up it just wouldn't do it!!
As I said I don't have ESP so those might be better, certainly my C4P with it is quite drivable.
A previous car, although only 2-wheel drive, had VAG's ASR which is the Audi Quattro system (or half of it) - brakes the slipping wheel to transfer drive to the other wheel. There is no way to simulate this without the technology and made that car quite incredible (for a 2wd hatch) in the snow.
It's OK Rob, I'll finish the sentance for you, I'm guessing you got distractedwinter tyres are for girls![]()
It's OK Rob, I'll finish the sentance for you, I'm guessing you got distracted![]()
Sorry Rob but this isn't the point. When one wheel is on wet ice it will spin however gentle the driver is and, without ASR, there will be NO drive to the other wheel.
For instance I was completely unable to reverse this morning into my usual road-side parking spot this morning for this reason, being a diesel no right foot is required for such maneuvers, just gentle clutch control. Even with a bit of a run-up it just wouldn't do it!!
As I said I don't have ESP so those might be better, certainly my C4P with it is quite drivable.
A previous car, although only 2-wheel drive, had VAG's ASR which is the Audi Quattro system (or half of it) - brakes the slipping wheel to transfer drive to the other wheel. There is no way to simulate this without the technology and made that car quite incredible (for a 2wd hatch) in the snow.
******** to all this fannying about. Be a man. Fit a real diff and stop relying on electronic nonsense![]()
I believe this method is for rear wheel drive cars, the idea being that the driving wheels hit fresh snow rather than snow that has been packed by the front wheels ?Or, if possible, reverse up the hill.