Re: Quattro Braking, was Re: idiots 'n lights

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <3627442A.89CE7CCD@wamnet.com> Todd Young writes:
>
> My brother-in-law mentioned to me once that his truck would stop quicker in
> the snow if he had the 4WD engaged [no ABS] and I thought he was nuts, it
> just didn't add up. But then I bought and drove a 4WD truck in the snow, and
> I now know it to be true. Don't ask me to explain it, and other people may
> think I'm nuts [spider bite anyone?], but if I needed to stop fast in snow, I
> would throw it into 4WD and pump the brakes, and the truck would seem to grab
> better. So maybe Quattro does help to reduce braking distances in the wet
> stuff [rain or snow]. Don't knock it til you try it. I can't wait to get my
> hands on a Quattro equipped Audi and give it a try, for now my fwd with ABS
> will have to do.

This is now OBSOLETE information, with ABS an' all.

I went through an Audi training course in about 1981, and one of the
subjects was emergency braking.  I still use what they taught me - get
the brakes on as early and as hard as you can, and then look around.

One of the details concerned the 80Q (4000Q).  The implementation at
the time used two pull toggles - they taught a movement using the
index and middle fingers of the right hand, striking down hard to
pull on both differential locks while the hand was generally on the
way to knock the car out of gear and then 'dwell' by the handbrake.

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