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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Drive-Like-You-Have-A-Fucking-Clue Association.

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If you are about to hit something and need to regain control immediately, snap the wheel hard in the direction of the skid and downshift, then feather the gas and pull out of it when the tires grip - I do recommend practicing that trick in a factory parking lot or something first, it's not QUITE as easy as it sounds.

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Your GTI is actually quite the ticket in snow and ice - it's small, it's maneuverable, it's relatively light, and front wheel drive tends to be quite forgiving, up to a point.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

In respect to I-94 being closed a while thanks to a tremendous amount of road based idiocy sparked by people FREAKING THE HELL OUT when a single flake of snow hits the ground, I give you this...
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=77

Fact: Your SUV does NOT have magical physics-defying properties, it's goddamn top heavy, has a shitty truck-frame based suspension and it weighs SEVEN THOUSAND POUNDS, to forget this is to endanger yourself and everyone around you.

Fact: Your hi-beams or super brights might enable YOU to see, but they blind EVERY DAMN BODY ELSE, and are very likely to cause an accident as people try to move to where the damn things aren't BLINDING THEM by bouncing off their side mirrors which are very difficult to adjust while trying to drive the car - an accident YOU will wind up part of cause your goddamn SUV weighs SEVEN THOUSAND POUNDS and has the stopping distance of a fucking tractor trailer.

Fact: If you go too slow, you WILL GET STUCK, phony halfassed 4WD notwithstanding, and you will endanger folk who must accellerate AROUND you in order to avoid becoming stuck themselves, as well as risk being rear-ended by them when you inevitably bog down - not to mention if you get THEM stuck, then you will have a very enraged person who's pissed at YOU specifically in close proximity to you, with no escape... in a snowstorm - think that's a good idea ?

These facts brought to you by the Drive-Like-You-Have-A-Fucking-Clue Association.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Originally posted by TheHappyTrader:

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If you are about to hit something and need to regain control immediately, snap the wheel hard in the direction of the skid and downshift, then feather the gas and pull out of it when the tires grip - I do recommend practicing that trick in a factory parking lot or something first, it's not QUITE as easy as it sounds.

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Your GTI is actually quite the ticket in snow and ice - it's small, it's maneuverable, it's relatively light, and front wheel drive tends to be quite forgiving, up to a point.

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When... or perhaps if... we can solve the mystery of the 3 1/2 cylinder engine, I would love to try that, somewhere safe of course. Currently, one of my cylinders isn't always firing, and the car can get a mite jerky when it suddenly engages. At least, that's what it feels like, I could be misdiagnosing. It's fairly obvious that something is causing the car to occasionally lose and then regain power, and it's worse about it in the lower ranges. The car is actually pretty stable when I get to around 45, 50+ That wouldn't be ideal for snow/ice... but fortunately we don't get that here.

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