BVCRD wrote:
cerich wrote:
and nobody else mentioned this so I will (I also have a 3 year old at home)
Four wheel drive will do NOTHING to prevent hydroplaning. Good tires and slow speed are the ONLY thing that helps that I am afraid. Hydroplaning is simply your tires getting up on top on the water with enough speed to stay there and you have virtually no traction, it is worse than just ice. The only way to get out of the hydroplane is to slow down enough that the vehicle weight forces the tires thru the surface tension of the water and down to the road under the tire.
Four wheel drive also does NOTHING to help you stop, good tires, slow speed and good brakes do that.
So what is 4 wheel drive actually good for? Getting you there at a slow speed in conditions that offer poor traction (sand, mud, snow, ice, uneven surface) where other vehicles will get stuck.
REMEMBER that 4 wheel drive will get you going in those conditions, it will also get you going too fast to stop or turn in those conditions and cause you MUCH worse problems than if you just could not have driven a 2 wheel drive vehicle.
It helps you keep control....keep the car from spinning, rather than swopping ends.
Exactly, in corners, taking off from a light and many other scenarios 4wd can help. When in the rain i find it very helpful, if I go to pass or even slowly get on the throttle the tq of these mini suv's break the rear tires loose/ hydroplane, in 4wd I have no worries.
I would love to see you tell Subaru 4wd or AWD does
NOTHING. Will also go head to head with ya on a road course in the rain... you get the corvette, I will take the AWD Subaru.
Hydroplaning is more than just going down the interstate at 70 and hitting a thin layer of water and sliding into the median.
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