VDC / Sliding in the rain
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From: Murrieta CA
That's probably part of it... With heavy acceleration, RWD cars are notorious for oversteer and fishtailing. This is exaggerated even more when on wet surfaces. On wet, RWD loses its traction advantage to front or all-wheel drive vehicles which have greater weight on the driven wheels. Rear wheel drive cars with rear engine configurations do not suffer from this, although fishtailing remains an issue.
So given that we have a front engine and RWD... We suffer from fishtailing with heavy acceleration and wet conditions. So why not have it be FWD??? Typically, FWD cars cannot handle the power of a performance car and are generally limted to 200 - 300 hp.
So given that we have a front engine and RWD... We suffer from fishtailing with heavy acceleration and wet conditions. So why not have it be FWD??? Typically, FWD cars cannot handle the power of a performance car and are generally limted to 200 - 300 hp.
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From: Ashburn, VA
Definitely watch out for those paint lines when it is wet out, sometimes they can be really really slick. I put the 2 left tires on a paint line driving down the road in the rain and VDC light flicked on and I could feel it slide slightly, it grabbed right away though as I slipped off the paint line, but still.
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