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Re: Are you sure?
Posted by Andrej (more from Andrej) on Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:39:30
In Reply to: Re: Are you sure?, Woody, Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:12:21
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First off, do not confuse hydroplaning (skimming over the water) with the pulling associated with hydrodynamic drag caused by putting one front wheel in deeper water than the other. The latter pulls the car to one side due to asymmetric drag; the former causes you to lose all steering control until the tires contact terra firma again. Both are dangerous, but in different ways.
That said, hydroplaning in a FWD car is less common generally because there is more weight on the front wheels. However, when it does happen to the fronts, you are SOL because those wheels are responsible for both steering and propelling the car. At least in a well-balanced RWD car a driver who knows what he's doing might have a chance to balance the car using the throttle - the FWD car is just going to go straight until it slows enough to get the wheels to bite unless the driver has remarkable reflexes and knows how to left-foot brake. Of course, if they ain't biting, the front brakes aren't going to help very much in slowing down.
While hydroplaning is less common in FWD cars, if it happens, I'd rather be in a rear-driver and have a chance of getting it back rather than plowing on regardless.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Hydroplaining, Ray Cosyn, Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:48:04
- Back to basics, Louis, Fri, 8 Apr 2005 19:06:27
- Re: Hydroplaining, AEROKARE, Fri, 8 Apr 2005 18:44:47
- Kind of hard to hydroplane in an FWD car, Woody, Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:48:17
- Obvious first check - tires, nickr, Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:32:08
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