off topic / traction control

[justin ivan]

ahh maybe you are right C&D it was. Either way, yeah the test could have had 
more scenarios but it is interesting. I wonder what some people are doing 
out there on the road? I had a tread separation on a full size conversion 
van and I had no trouble controling it, yet just the other week I saw a full 
size van upside down on it's roof, and a couple of miles later, a jeep 
cherokee on it's side. What the hell are these people doing?


>From: "Jason R. Haines" <jhaines at lingenfelter.com>
>Reply-To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
>To: <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
>Subject: Re: off topic / traction control
>Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:08:45 -0500
>
>....snip.....
> > which did anyone hear that Ford settled another claim with the whole
> > Firestone Debate? No $figure was given but the Lady was looking for $100
> > million. Also, did anyone see the Motor Trend article where they took an
> > explorer, "blew out" (dumped all pressure in <1 sec) the rear drivers 
>tire
>@
> > 70 mph with no hands on the wheel and the truck didn't flip? Thought it
>was
> > more then interesting
>
>I think the article you are talking about was in Car & Driver. The previous
>month they discussed some of the statistics of the whole tire failure 
>issue.
>Pretty interesting although I would have liked to have seen the testing 
>done
>with front tire "blow outs" and a heavily loaded vehicle (and maybe even
>some turning occurring when the blow out occurred).
>
>Jason
>
>
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