Break traction after the clutch is fully home in a straight line on a good surface?
Think you need to get some decent tyres of the correct size.
Break traction after the clutch is fully home in a straight line on a good surface?
Think you need to get some decent tyres of the correct size.
So just which car without traction control did this? It would be slated in a press report as being dangerous.
I'd argue that very few cars actually have traction control (Ferarris, maybe), which is why I put quotes round it. What they actually have is "Stop morons from crashing" control. As soon as it detects that a wheel is spinning it cuts power.
?iopes even my 1967 Bedford van ould do it. Up to about 1mph
My old BMW applied the brake to only that wheel approaching losing traction. Causing the differential to transfer 'power' to the other wheel. Useful on a corner where weight transfer can affect grip. If you carried on trying to apply even more 'power' than it could cope with (on a poor surface) it did cut the 'power'. Worked pretty well in practice.
Not sure it would be nice on a FWD drive, though. Pulling the steering each and every way. ;-)
Classic example of Turnip not understanding a thread. But then any fool can spin a wheel on most vehicles.
It's a safety feature for poor drivers like you. With an LSD you'd have spun it and crashed.
I've never driven a car with traction control. But then, I haven't bought a car since 2001... I like the one I have.
Andy
Ford Mondeo, Vauxhall Cavalier, Nissan Primera are the ones I've owned. You know, obscure niche cars...
Andy
They would all spin their wheels on a good surface dry road in a straight line after the clutch was fully home?
Very odd none of the road tests ever mentioned this.
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