[DML] Driving Techniques

["jhirkojr" <jhirkojr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Videobob wrote:
"All I said in the beginning was that I don't want to drive the car in
the rain, it doesn't perform as well as a modern car in the rain and I
would just assume leave it at home to be on the safe side."

   VB - the D performs every bit as well as ANY modern car WITHOUT ABS
in the rain. The problem lies in your driving techniques. If you have
your front brakes locked up and have lost traction (regardless whether
on water, ice, oil, whatever, you can spin your steering wheel
lock-to-lock until Kerry gets elected, but the vehicle will continue
to travel in the direction that inertia is pushing it until traction
is regained. Either you momentarily let off the brake until the wheel
can rotate again or dry  surface is encountered or SOMETHING breaks
the film surface that the tire is sliding on. At that point, the
vehicle will steer to the direction that the wheel is pointing. It
will. That is why, in the days before ABS, the dictum was "pump the
brakes". Which is exactly what ABS does, and why with ABS the dictum
is DO NOT pump the brakes - ABS is doing it for you.

Mike Hirko
vin 1387
"WAWAZAT"








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