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Fishtailing tacoma in the snow

Discussion in '1st Gen. Tacomas (1995-2004)' started by Jay1193, Dec 4, 2019.

  1. Dec 6, 2019 at 10:48 PM
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    It doesn't take much snow on I-8 in San Diego County to cause problems. It was amazing how many people got into accidents or drove off the road from what little snow was there. At elevations over 5,000 feet there was actually a decent amount of snow and not many drivers on the county roads.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeNOrCtAOcY
     
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  2. Dec 7, 2019 at 11:00 AM
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    I always dreaded the first couple snows of the year. Non stop accidents until people remembered how to drive in the winter. I remember getting called off the lot early to relieve day shift and working nothing but accidents for 10 hours straight, no break, no lunch, in a 1 mile section of road. My entire shift was spent in the middle of Converse avenue. To say my patience was all used up at the end of the day was putting it lightly.

    "I don't know what happened, I have 4wd!" :Rolleyes:

    Now I live in Florida. If it ever Fridays here I'm not leaving the house. People here can't drive on dry ground.
     
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  3. Dec 7, 2019 at 1:21 PM
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    It’s not hard for me to understand, that control over the braking of each wheel individually is far superior then braking them all together. Only abs with aid from sensors and a computer can possibly do this.

    Auto engineering has long abandon ultimate stopping distance in favor of control. The idea that you have the potential to stop quicker while your car spins out of control with no steerage and careens into trees and other cars, is no valid choice.
     
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  4. Dec 7, 2019 at 1:27 PM
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    You have no experience with winter driving ?
    Off roading in mud sand and dirt is NOTHING like the experience of hitting your brakes on ice and snow and feeling you have no brakes at all. Your eyes get very big and you start pissing your pants the first time it happens. ;)
     
  5. Dec 7, 2019 at 1:44 PM
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    Ha ha
    Exactly.
     
  6. Dec 7, 2019 at 1:48 PM
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    The accident rates were much higher back then. That’s a case of...”the older we get, the better it was...” ;)

    Around here, we live and go places during the winter we never could before, thanks to modern engineering in cars and trucks.
     
  7. Dec 7, 2019 at 7:28 PM
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    The problem is is that abs is always slower. The oriley ralley school has a video up on this exact question. (They are the ones who did the test on 4wd vs 2wd stopping) You shouldn't stand on the brakes and hope that abs will save you when you allow your tires to lock up. You should apply as much as possible before wheels slide and that is faster because static friction is always better. As soon as any wheel locks, you lose a huge amount of stopping force and you stop in more distance even with abs as it needs the wheel to be a different speed (locked up) before it acts.

    (Also would like to remind that this thread is on our 1st gens and the abs is definitely not as sophisticated as today's tacos are)
     
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  8. Dec 7, 2019 at 7:43 PM
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    If the truck even has it. My '02 TRD 4wd doesn't have ABS.
     
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    Not really; ice won't pile up and is a low friction surface.
     
  10. Dec 7, 2019 at 7:49 PM
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    Neither does mine. I'm thankful for biking teaching me the point where the tire sounds like its sliding but still has traction too. I think there is a lot to be said for not having the traction control and other systems engaged. It definitely makes my driving smoother with a manual trans.
     
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    exactly. My 02 must have it. That’s what the intermittent blinking or solid ABS light means on the dash, right? :rolleyes:
     
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    Pretty sure if it is solid while you are driving around it means that something is not working on it.
     
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    oh I know. I was just joking. It hasn’t worked in years.
     
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    Ok, wasn't quite sure, sarcasm is hard enough in real life ;)
     
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    If that were true, hockey would be played “on” mud .
     
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    Huh ? Abs PREVENTS your wheels from locking up. You’re starting off with a false assumption. There is a very low threshold speed, where your wheels will lock up regardless. You’re stating your whole case around a false narrative. No one can brake the wheels manually individually like abs can. Your other false assumptions is at any one time, the coefficient of friction is the same for all four wheels. Lastly, stopping the shortest distance while under control is preferable stopping shorter while losing ALL steerage.
     
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  17. Dec 8, 2019 at 7:53 AM
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    Oh, you definite have stopping power while your bike wheel ( s) are locked. You just can’t steer anymore.
     
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    You lose my point: you should never brake so hard that you need abs to keep a wheel from locking. You will stop faster without abs because abs only works once it senses a difference in wheel speed, meaning that you already locked a wheel. The point is that braking as hard as you can without locking a wheel is faster.

    ABS works in our trucks by waiting for the wheel speeds to differ, meaning that the wheel does lock, even if it is for just a moment. Also the abs system that we are talking about (1st gen tacoma) has a very limited sensor. The new tacos might treat each wheel individually but the system on these trucks is only looking at wheel speeds between all wheels and they are lower pulse rates than today's trucks. Letting you slide further when you lock.

    My problem with this is that you assume that because someone has no abs, they lock wheels. This is not the case if you don't stand on the brakes, you push as hard as the static friction will allow, meaning that you never lose traction and can continue to steer throughout the entire stopping process. This does mean though that you are only pushing as hard as the wheel with the lowest static friction, which in most cases the difference is near negligible.
     
  19. Dec 8, 2019 at 12:58 PM
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    That’s the dumbest fucking thing I’ve read today. 4hi is perfect for highway speeds.
     
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    You should stop posting horribly mis informed things here. I don’t know who sold you on 4wd not being for driving in snow lol but you need to do some research man.
     
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