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From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Tire Chains - Front or Back on 4WD? - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 20-Dec-83 19:17:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 20 19:17:16 1983
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> As a possibly irrelevant observation, my FWD (F as in FRONT) has
> never broken the rear loose, unless the front also came loose.
> And FWD cars are notoriously nose-heavy, so it seems unlikely that
> a pickup (or other 4WD) will have the rear end come around unless
> the front end comes loose too.  Of course, I've never done it,
> so I can't say for sure....
>
> Marion Hakanson		CSnet:  hakanson@oregon-state
>				UUCP :  {hp-pcd,teklabs}!orstcs!hakanson

Apparently it is almost impossible to get oversteer in a FWD
vehicle.  A top Saab rallye driver (I forget his name) has
invented a technique to accomplish this (so as to get around corners
faster), but he went through a few cars before he got it working.
If a top driver has to work that hard to get oversteer *when
(s)he's trying for it*, I'm not real worried about having it
occur running around on the street at 8/10ths. (except for
Murphy's Law, of course) FWDs seem to have truely massive
amounts of understeer.  -sigh-

As long as I'm on the horn, is it possible to heel-and-toe
in a Rabbit?  It's become second nature in the 320i, but in the
Rabbit the gas pedal seems to be about three miles away from the 
brake pedal.  And does anyone make a kit to shorten the throw
of the shift lever?  I don't like leaning forward to hit 3rd.
I could swear they took the shift linkage right out of the beetle.
(_C_a_r & _D_r_i_v_e_r says not to modify your beater?  Who listens to them?)
And does anyone make large, deep, 6-point metric sockets?

Anyway, everyone have a merry Christmas, and don't get run into
by any Cads with defective turn-signals.
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