Patman
Staff member
Originally Posted By: paul246
Next time you are sliding into an intersection that has been polished like glass give it a try, you'll be amazed at how much more control you have in reducing the vehicle's momentum. The car will come to a halt much quicker.
Notice also that there is no interlock between "drive" and "neutral". Its obvious that the intent was to make it simple to be able to lightly push the selector into neutral when required. Been doing it for many years as I drive on glare ice a lot, no problems ever.
However, I still see lots of people fight with the engine try to pull then onward into the intersection, watch their eyes getting bigger and bigger as they slide helplessly into the danger zone.
Yep, I have to put my Corvette's trans into neutral a lot during the wintertime, it definitely stops the car quicker than leaving it in drive if you're on very icy roads. When the roads are super slick like that, the car will often just keep moving and won't stop at all, the ABS just keeps cycling so much that it doesn't do any actual braking! But if I throw it in neutral at those slow speeds (5mph or so) the car will almost come to a complete stop within a few feet.
My townhouse complex is actually the most dangerous place whenever there is a big storm here. I always make my 25 mile drive home from work in the snow without any problems at all, and as soon as I pull into my complex (which never gets salted right away, the guys always take a few hours to show up) I am sliding all over the place and will overshoot my driveway completely if I try to stop with the trans in drive. I end up needing to bump it back and forth between neutral and the second gear start feature in order to finish off the last few hundred feet of my journey in safety.
Next time you are sliding into an intersection that has been polished like glass give it a try, you'll be amazed at how much more control you have in reducing the vehicle's momentum. The car will come to a halt much quicker.
Notice also that there is no interlock between "drive" and "neutral". Its obvious that the intent was to make it simple to be able to lightly push the selector into neutral when required. Been doing it for many years as I drive on glare ice a lot, no problems ever.
However, I still see lots of people fight with the engine try to pull then onward into the intersection, watch their eyes getting bigger and bigger as they slide helplessly into the danger zone.
Yep, I have to put my Corvette's trans into neutral a lot during the wintertime, it definitely stops the car quicker than leaving it in drive if you're on very icy roads. When the roads are super slick like that, the car will often just keep moving and won't stop at all, the ABS just keeps cycling so much that it doesn't do any actual braking! But if I throw it in neutral at those slow speeds (5mph or so) the car will almost come to a complete stop within a few feet.
My townhouse complex is actually the most dangerous place whenever there is a big storm here. I always make my 25 mile drive home from work in the snow without any problems at all, and as soon as I pull into my complex (which never gets salted right away, the guys always take a few hours to show up) I am sliding all over the place and will overshoot my driveway completely if I try to stop with the trans in drive. I end up needing to bump it back and forth between neutral and the second gear start feature in order to finish off the last few hundred feet of my journey in safety.
