Chance of snow in the country: so you stay out of the roadside
Posted on 18-01-2015 at 14:14 by mauritsh – 43 Comments”
In particular, the east of the country will today likely to make it with a few inches of snow on the road, what for left situations ensure. However, you can ensure that you are steering straight ahead with your car in the ditch slide. How?
Simple, by making use of weight shift! The situation as described above is referred to as understeer; the front wheels don’t have enough grip to make the turn, resulting in a car that is not (adequately) to the left or right but, in the worst case, straight ahead. Understeer, however, can relatively easily be corrected.
When braking or gas solve move the weight, as it were, ‘forward’ (the car wants to go straight, but is slowed down), so that the front wheels harder to the road to be printed because the carriage of the car more forward tilt. As a result, the steering wheels back to the grip to find, that is necessary to turn still to complete. Problem solved you might think, but there is a big (and frozen) adder under the snow.
The opposite: upset
When correcting understeer that you do not have to be rigorous to work. Abrupt actions can lead to oversteer, where the rear wheels lose their grip due to the sudden weight shift to the front axle of the car. Here you have chance that the car is ‘too far’ slips, but this situation is correct. Drifting is in the basis, incidentally, the same as upset, but then ‘deliberately’ is generated.
The most important means to oversteer to correct, is simply to continue to look in the direction where you want to go. It sounds simple and it is also, but by a certain point to choose, and your eyes began to focus, you have a much greater chance that you stuurcorrectie (which is necessary to the upset ‘catch’) success.
Too much correction can have the consequence that the rear of the car to the other side on sweeps and definitely on snow which is difficult to catch and so dangerous. In addition to the stuurcorrectie it is of course important to ensure that the pressure on the rear axle is increased, what is the best way by the brake quiet to let loose.
In corrections, it is important to at all times supple and smooth to drive, and not from one moment to the other the weight of the car to move, to ensure that your correction does not result in exactly the tegenoverstelde response. In addition, winter tyres are of course more grip in case of snow and other wintery scenes, and it goes without saying that it is wise to take it easy and think ahead. Otherwise it happens like in the following movie.
Photo via: driving test of the Golf VII R on a ijsmeer