quattro winter driving help....

[Kneale Brownson]

Real winter tires.


At 02:21 PM 01/17/2001 -0500, Audimobiles at aol.com wrote:

>Here's the situation - pulling out into a paved ice/snow covered alley, I
>entered the alley turning right. At about half way into the turn my car slid
>out into the alley and then as I turned the steering wheel more to the right
>the car began a "donut" sequence and ended up 45 degrees off-center befor I
>regained control. Note: After I regained control, the rest of the alley was a
>piece of cake. Crude diagram below.
>           <_______________                 <______________
>Before >---------- / -------------     after      >----------- \  ---------
>                    car(rear)                                    car(front)
>The car: '90 V8 Quattro (tor*en diff.) w/ R rated all-season tires. Is there
>anything I could've done to prevent the donut? Some might say, "slow down",
>but I really was going quite slow. I've never had the pleasure of driving a
>quattro in the winter months and was just hoping to improve my quattroing
>skills.
>
>     Dave Farrer
>     1990 V8q
>