Bye Bye No-Claims
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Sounds like the ABS kicked in simply because the surface was very slippery or you had some grime on your tyres. Bear in mind that ABS is much easier to activate at slower speeds than it is at higher ones.
When ABS kicks in it often feels like you're not stopping as "hard" as you could be without it, as it feels like the car is preventing you from braking harder, if you see what I mean. In reality you're stopping as "hard" as you can for the conditions and, as previously mentioned, without ABS you'd have been skidding at that point and would have taken even longer to stop.
Whilst the main touted benefit of ABS is that it lets you steer whilst braking hard, a common misconception is that if you don't need to steer and are just stopping in a straight line, you'd stop the quickest by locking the wheels completely. This isn't the case, as a wheel which has maximum braking force applied yet is not skidding provides more stopping power than one which is locked.
When ABS kicks in it often feels like you're not stopping as "hard" as you could be without it, as it feels like the car is preventing you from braking harder, if you see what I mean. In reality you're stopping as "hard" as you can for the conditions and, as previously mentioned, without ABS you'd have been skidding at that point and would have taken even longer to stop.
Whilst the main touted benefit of ABS is that it lets you steer whilst braking hard, a common misconception is that if you don't need to steer and are just stopping in a straight line, you'd stop the quickest by locking the wheels completely. This isn't the case, as a wheel which has maximum braking force applied yet is not skidding provides more stopping power than one which is locked.
L0rdMike said:
Goodyear GT2 tyres all round fitted in November.
Just of those things to go with one of those days I suppose. Not something I needed though. At least nobody was injured. Its a week since I saw an old lady get hit on her pushbike by a 206 :s
Must be a bug going round!
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luckily my 206 doesnt have ABS 
hope you get it all sorted though, i feel your cars pain
hope you get it all sorted though, i feel your cars pain
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Too fast for the conditions rings a bell
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Yep i've skidded on one before.
Im hoping when i have my first crash im not guna come off sounding like you tbh, sorry mate but it seems to me that unless there was a fault with the car, theres no one else to blaim but yourself. We live and learn, there but for the grace of god go i and all that.
willd58 said:
I didn't say it wasn't my fault for the 2nd time.
I've already been in an accident on my old motorbike where someone pulled out on me and I was very very lucky not to be seriously injured. I'm not saying it wasn't my fault and the guy is gonna get his company car fixed and I'm getting mine sorted out.
No matter how you could look at it, its my vehicle that casued the accident and I was caught out on the brakes. Its just one of those experiences that shouldn't have happened, as I do the same thing every night without trouble and tonight it turned messy.
Lopéz said:
Indeed. There's an awful lot of junctions coming from lanes onto main roads round my way which have either a loose gravel surface (not intentionally, just where they CBA to fix them) or have a sort of jump going from cack road to decent road surface which causes your ABS to kick in just as you are approaching the junction...which is nice.