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I had more respect for the 5 that I do for this crappy car!
Yep, and my driving standard has gone down due to driving a FWD car again.
Rear wheel drive and snow
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Yep, and my driving standard has gone down due to driving a FWD car again.
Learning RWD is like learning to swim - once you've nailed it you never forget.
Back OT - I'm pretty fed up with my car atm, it's a proper handful and just popping to the shops requires 100% concentration. PITA, tbh and just makes me look at www.subaru.co.uk.
This was my parking in the office carpark last year....
bet a certain manager gave you no end of stick for that !
Since the tax has ran out on the 330ci, i have decided to sorn it for the next 2ish months than attempt to drive out of my drive in the cold winds and snow covered iced roads.
In the meantime ive bought a new used car and all im going to say is quattro!
In the meantime ive bought a new used car and all im going to say is quattro!
Really, I had to drive up a ice laden road today and overtook multiple FWD cars stuck at the side of the road scrabbling for grip. RWD automatic for the win. Creep is very nice to have in snow / ice
dont be daft
If an RWD car can get up the hill then so can any car with FWD. The only reason the cars were stuck or scrabbling for grip was down to their own incompetence.
Your post reads like you believe RWD to be superior to FWD for going up icy hills which is balderdash.
Not at all, I just dont see what all the fuss is about. The snow was heavy here today. I left the first tyre tracks in the snow at 6am this morning out of the road. Went 1.5 miles to the train station up an ice soaked non gritted road, whacked on DTC put her in 1st or 2nd as appropriate and let the engine pull the car up the hill. Other cars were struggling probably because they were still applying too much power through the wheels. I then drove the 1.5 miles back home (no trains running), engine braked all the way back down the hill and by the time I got back, my tracks had been covered by snow. I climbed back in to bed for an extra 2 hours.
The back end slipped slightly at the 1st roundabout I came to. Good job my passenger window was clear so I could see out of it!
The back end slipped slightly at the 1st roundabout I came to. Good job my passenger window was clear so I could see out of it!
It's all about the amount of slipperynes son the surface the car is going on isn't it though. I had no trouble getting out of driveway but had to get a push from colleagues getting out of work's carpark as the snow and ice was slightly greater there.
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Gosh really?!
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people with RWD cars should drop the air pressure in their rear tyres by a lot, and stick some wieght in the back of the car. Job done, SHould be just as good if not better than any FWD car.
People just dont know how to drive in anythign other than normal weather, primarily because they are retards.
People just dont know how to drive in anythign other than normal weather, primarily because they are retards.
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Hmm, not so sure about these points.
Well the EVO owns you all, colleagues battery flat here, no one can push it due to how slippery from ice/snow the car park is. So EVO towed another car out of carpark full of snow to main road where everyone could push it.
Now thats traction.
Now thats traction.
Gibbo, you don't have the little lights on your dash - but my AYC was working overtime in the snow earlier this year! I could actually feel the torque going between the two rear wheels, keeping the car in check 
The amount of traction that thing had - even on it's wiiide (255/40/17, 235/45/17) summer tyres, was amazing!
The amount of traction that thing had - even on it's wiiide (255/40/17, 235/45/17) summer tyres, was amazing!
Gibbo, you don't have the little lights on your dash - but my AYC was working overtime in the snow earlier this year! I could actually feel the torque going between the two rear wheels, keeping the car in check
The amount of traction that thing had - even on it's wiiide (255/40/17, 235/45/17) summer tyres, was amazing!
I do have an AYC meter, never thought to switch it on actually.
For ultimate snow fun I set it to gravel mode and AYC fully off, that way if your pushing to wide, you apply more steering angle and power the car out of the slide/corner, its epic fun.
Found a deserted private car park other day still thick with snow, flicking snow into the sky whilst spinning on the spot was epic fun.
Sticking weight in the back is a good idea but lowering tyre pressure's isnt.
You're not driving on sand, you want a small contact area to be able to get through the snow and to the road underneath.
Really, is that why they dropped the pressures on the TopGear iceland truck. So that they would get stuck in the snow? Oh no wait....
Because the snow is so thick, you'd need 50 inch wheels to touch the surface, so you need to drive over it = maximum contact area needed. We are not in Iceland and we have a few inches.