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[Erie Patsellis]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Erie Patsellis wrote:
>> Quite true, and I'd love to get my hands on the neck of the brilliant 
>> engineer that disables the center diff lock on my 200TQ over 15mph. 
>> That's the one thing I miss about my old 4000Q, in minimal traction 
>> situations, it made a huge difference in the ability to keep moving 
>> in the direction you want (and we won't even get into the torsen 
>> spider "bite" discussion....)
>
> The root cause of many of these problems is that people don't know how 
> to drive their cars.  There are quite a few more AWD cars on the road 
> today.  When the weather gets bad, there are quite a few AWD cars in 
> ditches.  Why?  A lot of the people driving them learned on FWD cars, 
> and bought AWD cars assuming that AWD > FWD.  AWD *will* help you stay 
> on the road, *iff* you know how to drive them.
>
> If you're beginning to understeer on a FWD car, you lift off the gas 
> and the front will bite in.  With an AWD car, you have to balance the 
> throttle and steer into the slide.  If you lift off completely and 
> suddenly, you'll oversteer and spin.
>
> I think driving skill was more widespread when people had been forced 
> to learn how to drive in the snow in a RWD car...
>
> Peace...  Sridhar
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Yup, while we have milder winters here in Illinois than I was used to in 
MA, I'm easy to find on the first few snow days, on nice curvy country 
roads four wheel drifting with the boost turned up all the way. First 
few years, the wife thought I was nuts getting up at 3 to go driving, 
now she just accepts it.


erie