Driving Tips?
10-25-2007, 10:37 AM
#11
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 356
RE: Driving Tips?
ORIGINAL: MrSandman
Eveyone with a RWD car should no how to react when your car fishtails. You should be able to drive your car streight even if you back end is sidways. Similarly.. you should be able to make a turn with your back end trying to lead you.
If you don't feel comfortable with this.. you should learn.. not drive in wet weather... or not drive a RWD car.
It can be lots of fun once you learn how to control this.
Eveyone with a RWD car should no how to react when your car fishtails. You should be able to drive your car streight even if you back end is sidways. Similarly.. you should be able to make a turn with your back end trying to lead you.
If you don't feel comfortable with this.. you should learn.. not drive in wet weather... or not drive a RWD car.
It can be lots of fun once you learn how to control this.
10-25-2007, 10:58 AM
#14
5th Gear Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Rome,GA
Posts: 2,286
RE: Driving Tips?
all the cars me, and my family own are rwd. we have one that has that 4x4 mode or whatever but when it comes to rwd
dont accelerate through turns in the rain.
Dont ever pull that e brake. unless your parking(manula trans).
dont get up on it in the rain, you wont just chirp second, you will spin and it can throw you sideways.
if you have time, and it starts raining let it rain for a little while. driving while it starts to rain is the worst time to drive, thats when all the oils come out of the little pores in the road.
my .02
dont accelerate through turns in the rain.
Dont ever pull that e brake. unless your parking(manula trans).
dont get up on it in the rain, you wont just chirp second, you will spin and it can throw you sideways.
if you have time, and it starts raining let it rain for a little while. driving while it starts to rain is the worst time to drive, thats when all the oils come out of the little pores in the road.
my .02
10-25-2007, 11:51 AM
#18
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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RE: Driving Tips?
ORIGINAL: wthalliii
Not just in a RWD, but any car in the rain - put a little more distance between you and the car in front of you because you can't stop as quickly.
Not just in a RWD, but any car in the rain - put a little more distance between you and the car in front of you because you can't stop as quickly.
10-25-2007, 12:22 PM
#20
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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RE: Driving Tips?
Take your time in the rain and snow. Fight the urge to go as fast as other people. Remember, you have the nicer car most of the time. You'll probably never understand what some of us mean until you lose control the first time. I used to slip quite a few times in the same area no matter how carefully I drove. I ended up doin a 360 into a wall. It wasn't raining, or snowing. It was black ice.