[FC] Tire Safety *rant*
Ron
ronh at owt.com
Wed Feb 9 14:51:21 EST 2011
My Rampside is terrible on ice, the worst car I have, The Toyota Solara is
the best.
RonH (Washington state)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel McGregor" <joelsplace at earthling.net>
To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [FC] Tire Safety *rant*
>I always figured the safest thing to do is don't hit anything by learning
>how to drive and driving something that goes where you point it or modify
>what you have until it will. That's one of my favorite things about
>Corvairs - they tend to go where you point them or at least the EMs do.
>LMs aren't as good at that. All this front wheel drive spin about working
>better in ice and snow is just a lot of advertizing garbage. The only
>place I've noticed that a front wheel drive car works better is from a dead
>stop in ice. Once I'm moving give me a rear wheel drive car any day. I
>have a FWD car I drive most of the time because it gets 30mpg but I drive a
>Corvair or my '82 Malibu (with sway bars adjusted for some oversteer) when
>the roads are slippery. I made the mistake of driving my FWD with new
>tires the other day in the ice and was concerned about getting home in one
>piece. The Malibu came out the next day with bald tires and did much
>better. You can always steer a RWD ca
> r with the rear wheels but FWD stuff tends to not steer at all. I've
> never driven any of my FCs in ice but I'm sure they are better than any
> FWD car. AWD is another story but I don't have any of those.
> Joel McGregor
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