We don't need no stinkin 4X4 honey !
Wife and I upgraded our tow vehicle a few months back from a 150 SuperCrew to a 2016 F250 CC gaser 2 wheel drive. We test drove 2 identical trucks. One a 2wheel drive and the other a 4 wheel drive. My...
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philh wrote:time2roll wrote:
Electronic traction control just serves as a gimmick or regulatory requirement.
Clearly someone that doesn't spend much time on snow and ice covered roads.
It's also a fun killer with a HP vehicle :(
I do...usually 5 1/2 months of snowy, icy, cold winter every year...up here in the western Canadian prairies.
Electronic traction control is a pain. I generally shut it off...if you get a traction limited situation...one of the methods snow experienced drivers use is...momentum...to get through deep snow. Momentum is your friend...but the computer running traction control...often decides that momentum is a sign that the vehicle is out of control and immediately shuts the vehicles power down. When that happens , generally you end stopped in the middle of a snow drift.
I've found through experience that traction control...is anything but...and appears to be set to the lowest common denominator...drivers who can't drive very well..and that doesn't help a lot of us.
Give me a mechanical locker that I can turn off and on myself.
