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Old 12-29-2007, 11:42 PM   #221 (permalink)
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Re: The Last Chevrolet Monte Carlo Rolls off The Line

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Originally Posted by PA Dweller View Post
I know people who have owned RWD cars and they tell me that to use it in the winter they need to put a lot of weight in the trunk to keep the thing from skidding or getting stuck, something like that.
Not me ... I've never put extra weight in the trunk of any of my RWD cars during the winter time.


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Originally Posted by PA Dweller
You can say you only need to put snow tires on, or weight in the trunk but how many people want to do that? I know I don't.
Neither do I, so I don't. Never put snow tires on ... never added weight to the trunk.


And, no, I don't drive 15mph. Heck, in the snow we had Friday, I was driving more aggressively than others around me ... if only because the roads were actually better than I thought they'd be. So, I knew I didn't have to worry ... meanwhile, I was stuck behind a young guy (college age, I would guess) in a Ch#$r%*et Prizm ... going 40 in a 55.

*shakes head*



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Originally Posted by PA Dweller
I have been in two skid outs in my lifetime, one time in a FWD car and the other in a AWD vehicle. The FWD car I couldn't fully recover and ended up scratching the side of it, about $1,000 worth of damage. This was a 94' Accord so it didn't have traction control either. The AWD vehicle I got into a skid with a few weeks ago and with the combination of AWD and Traction Control I was able to recover my vehicle without going off road or damaging the vehicle.
Wait ... what?

When I first read this, I read it as a "one time in a RWD car" ... because that is what I was expecting to read. Then, I noticed it was a '94 Accord and knew I had read that initial statement wrong.

So, how'd you manage to get INTO skids with the FWD and AWD vehicles?



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