OT: spin recovery

[roclist@accessconsulting.ca (Jason)]

here's what I would have done... not withstanding abs....

... I understand as the car was comming out of the corner, onto a straight,
lost back end on ice...

let off gas, correct steering wheel into slide, when back end strarts to
come back, straighten wheel, lightly apply gas....

once straightend out, stop car and check my shorts....

of course if you've overcorrected, repeat inital step, note things begin  to
get harder to control after the inital fish tail....


Jason Adams....




----- Original Message -----
From: "Jorel Jackson" <jorel140@yahoo.com>
To: "volkswagen scirocco" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: OT: spin recovery


>
> --- Ryan H <rhock99@epix.net> wrote:
> > Loss of control could have many meanings... was it
> > ice in a corner?  Did she hit ice then fishtail for
> > a while first?  Each situation is different, but in
> > countersteering an OVERsteer situation (fishtail) in
> > a FWD car like a Neon, no brakes should be applied -
> > it just makes it harder for the car to regain
> > balance (because it shifts weight to the already
> > overloaded front end).
> >
> > Truth be told, there was probably nothing she could
> > do - ice is much worse than snow for any kind of
> > recovery.
> >
>
>
> It was ice. She came out of a corner all right, then
> the car began to fishtail on straight stretch of road.
> The car went into oversteer. She overcorrected for the
> oversteer and got into a losing fishtail battle. The
> reason I ask, is that I don't have much experience
> with ABS, since I've been driving Sciroccos
> exclusively up until recently. Never have put a
> Scirocco in a ditch...yet.
>
>
> =====
> Jorel Jackson
> web site:  http://www.home.earthlink.net/~jomoj/
> 1987 16V Scirocco
> 2000 Neon ES
> Ranger XLT
>
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