Re: ABS, or not

[Phil and Judy Rose <pjrose@servtech.com>]

>Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 11:28:00 -0640
>From: cobram@Channel1.Com (Cobram)
>Subject: Re:  ABS ACTIVATING @ 3MP
>
> -=> Quoting Phil And Judy Rose <=-
>
>
> PAJR> Excuse me, but I'm confused. By your reference to the pedal
> PAJR> "pulsating" I assume you're implying that your ABS was ON. Right? And
> PAJR> you did stop in time? Right? So what's your beef against ABS in the
> PAJR> snow? How do you offer this experience as evidence that ABS didn't work
> PAJR> to your advantage? Since I'm sure you wouldn't rather have had your V8
> PAJR> slide ever so smoothly into the rear seat of that car, you must believe
> PAJR> that you would have stopped sooner without ABS. But that's pure
> PAJR> conjecture.
> PAJR> I disagree with your advice about deactivating ABS in the snow.
>
>       I was kind of in a rush when I posted, I forgot to mention
>       that I had to put the car in reverse to keep from
>       hitting the car in front of me.  If I hadn't put it
>       in reverse there would have been a collision. Sorry,
>       sometimes the neuron messages get lost somewhere
>       between the grey matter and the keyboard!
>
>       BCNU,
>

Well, after all the replies our ABS posts have generated let _me_ admit
that while I've driven in a lot snow and with ABS, this will be the first
full winter that I have a vehicle (um, one with lotsa rings on the grill)
that can optionally deactivate the ABS. So I've never before had a chance
to do a fair comparison test of ABS in snow (or other) conditions. I'll
start to do that as soon as Mother Nature cooperates (about 2 days hence,
they predict) and will report my results.

By the way, if any fellow listers are in in central NYS during the test
period, I'll be the black '91 200q comin' at ya sideways ;-) Just kidding,
I'll go over to Griffiss AFB and try to use one of their deactivated B-52
runways.

Phil

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