Audi in London

[Bares, Vittorio]

I completely agree that the summer tires created a scenario that was
difficult to begin with. However, what could have helped (assuming a
modicum of driving capability from the pilot); locking diff, lsd and/or
some consistent power delivery. You could see that the wheel spin was
allowing the tire to meet the pavement and get some traction - I'm
guessing the driver had the gas matted while the electronics were
metering the output to snails pace - so perhaps with fewer "I'll do it
for you" gadgets and a proper power delivery system - they may have been
better off.

 

Which brings up the next issue with these systems - it trains the driver
to mat the gas in slippery conditions, so that if they do get into
another vehicle without the electronics - they've learned the wrong
technique...

Vittorio -

 

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From: Grant Lenahan [mailto:glenahan at vfemail.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 8:19 AM
To: Bares, Vittorio
Cc: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Audi in London

 

wide summer tires on wet snow can offset anything.

 

You stumbled on the real cause, then moved on !

 

:-)

 

 

On Feb 2, 2009, at 8:03 PM, Bares, Vittorio wrote:





I'm sitting here in the good ol'USA (NH), watching some BBC news - they

show a clip of the snow in London, UK - and one particular clip shows an

Audi TT, barely moving up a very shallow incline with someone pushing

it.

 

 

 

I've never seen such a display of technology gone awfully wrong. You

could see the front wheels trying to spin, but being limited by

electronics, the rears occasionally turning, but being limited both by

Haldex as well as more electronics - sure, it didn't have snows, and it

was in very slippery conditions - but jeeze! It's still an Audi isn't

it...my old skewl Audi's pull vehicles twice their weight out of snow

banks, let alone needing to be pushed up a slightly frozen incline...waz

up wit dat?

 

 

 

Clearly new is not always better... 

 

 

 

Vittorio -

 

 

 

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