Re: Why did tires 'chirp' in panic stop?

[Todd Young <tyoung@wamnet.com>]

Andrew Duane USG wrote:

> Hairy green toads from Mars made Douglas Frank USG say:
>
> > Day before yesterday, I was 'spacing' behind another car whose brake lights
> > came on unexpectedly.  I stood on the pedal and stopped in plenty of time
> > (luckily I wasn't tailgating as usual), but managed to 'chirp' the front
> > tires a bit.
> >
> > Now, my car has ABS.  Why would the tires squeal?  It ain't supposed to
> > skid!  I felt nothing in the pedal-- no pumping.  I was doing about 35 MPH
> > at the time.
>
> My new '95 A6 seems to do this, too. It's like there's a threshhold
> for the ABS to kick in. My two older cars don't; the ABS is on
> immediately when needed.

 I'll add that my '93 90S seems to do the same thing, brief chirp at first, but
no lock up.

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