20mm, eh? It so happens that I have a 1993 Chev Suburban (4x4) with ABS. Never had a problem stopping it on dry pavement or slippery. What's the problem? Never had the reason to remove the bumpers on
My guess: A combination of following too closely (Karl lives near Chicago, right? They ticket you if you keep a safe following distance...) and fear of the brake pedal. Lots of people get freaked out
Jill has, I repeat, had only one other accident in her nearly 40 years of driving, that when she was 16. And one of the ABS accidents was a t-bone of a Windstar going 40 on the cross street in a crow
The computer can do it a whole hell of a lot faster than you can, and can do it one wheel at a time. I very much doubt you can stop faster than good ABS. (I don't think GMs early ABS systems were ver
My suburban worked ok on dry, but on very slippery oil/rain combo or ice conditions it was downright scary. You could not stop in parking lots at all no matter how hard you pressed the petal, you had
They must have fixed it, as my '03 had no issues and I put 90k on it before This was an '03 LT1500 4x2. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry My suburban worked ok on dry, but on very slippery oil
David Scheidt Not only that, but in a panic situation, you tend to not be able to threshold brake nearly as well. There is a major difference between driving on the edge at a track where you are expe
Then what exactly do you do when one or two wheels are slipping, but the others are not ? Use more pressure to bring the remaining wheels to their optimum stopping power, while locking (and losing m
I have an '01 GMC 4x4 that I use to tow the race car. It's the design of the system. I can create the issue at will at a local toll booth. I am _not_ hard on the brake. Barely even 25% when the the t
She grew up driving pickups and tractors in the South, so she can handle the Suburban, and she's driven most of the 160,000 miles since we bought it used 10 years ago. And she's got both a Midget and
My '03 suburban stopped WAY better than my '01 dodge ram 1500 4x2!!! That thing couldn't stop if it wanted to - on a dry day... Classic mopar, though, all engine and no brakes. Sent from my Verizon W
That would be great, but where? Around here, that will get you killed. But I do agree that people need to learn what it's like. I just got my 1st car with ABS, and I've been driving for about 40+ yrs
My GM ABS acts nothing like that (95 Buick Roadmaster wagon). It takes a whole lot of pedal to get into the ABS, and then the off/on cycle is very short. Got into it just today, when a Jimmy ran a s
Sounds like some version of ice mode... I ran into this a lot with a 2001 z06 in autocross... Brake for a corner one time, they work fine. Next time, the pedal pushes back and braking power is drama
Tim, I did that tonight as I was exiting the highway, just to remember where the threshold was in the wet. I have to really push my wife to slam them hard enough to get comfortable with it, but we do
Interisting note you said this. When you go over the bump, some of the newer ABS computers can sense the speed change for a minute second in the front vs. rear wheels and will engage. I have a 1997 S
I've run into that as well. Same conditions, extremely slick and very low speed. The ABS actuators are kicking up a storm, and the car just keeps rolling, and rolling, and rolling. Probably made wor
<snip> I just recently had a similar experiance, except my ABS (98 audi A4) is disabled (at least 1 more bad tone ring and I pulled the fuse until I can figure out which and how many other wheels) a
Not to pick on Scott personally, but as a general warning: DO NOT EVER PULL THE FUSE ON AN ABS SYSTEM unless you fully understand the method of operation of this particular system. We had a guy do t