How to drive down a steep gradient with auto rwd?
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I would say FWD is more "forgiving" in snow but RWD is more "fun".
RWD vehicles don't suffer "heavy-right-foot syndrome" well. You can of course induce over steer in a RWD car easier on pavement and it only gets easier when the conditions are slick. FWD vehicles want to under steer or "push" and that can be fixed with an already natural human reaction of lifting off the throttle and giving more lock into the path of travel. It can sometimes be hard to get them to turn in at all under speed hence the "Scandanavian Flick" or "pendulum turn". (You're using the movement or roll of the vehicle one way to make it easier for that body "momentum" to sway the other way and "roll" the car into a turn. It really does work although in short wheelbase FWD cars it can be spooky. Colin McRae and Auri Vantenen (?) were masters at it!
I'm with Kennith - RWD is more fun!
RWD vehicles don't suffer "heavy-right-foot syndrome" well. You can of course induce over steer in a RWD car easier on pavement and it only gets easier when the conditions are slick. FWD vehicles want to under steer or "push" and that can be fixed with an already natural human reaction of lifting off the throttle and giving more lock into the path of travel. It can sometimes be hard to get them to turn in at all under speed hence the "Scandanavian Flick" or "pendulum turn". (You're using the movement or roll of the vehicle one way to make it easier for that body "momentum" to sway the other way and "roll" the car into a turn. It really does work although in short wheelbase FWD cars it can be spooky. Colin McRae and Auri Vantenen (?) were masters at it!
I'm with Kennith - RWD is more fun!
I dunno about that! There's no challenge with the rover, in the snow we usually get, and so it's not that much fun. I'd take out the lexus for some serious skill enhancement. That's sort of why I was asking on this thread how people do this.
Here's a good deal of views, almost all of them say Neutral, except click and clack:
http://www.cartalk.com/content/gliding-ice-neutral-ever-good-idea
Merry Christmas all!
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Try turning your traction control off and seeing how you like it in the snow. I had a 92 LS and pulled the tc fuse because it was much better with it off. I drove it through some bad snowstorms and it did surprisingly well. I'm sure the tc system got better with the later models but in the 1st gens it was not good.