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Originally Posted by mayhem  They're Continentals that came on the car, we bought it CPO with 34,000 on it a couple months ago. I do not know the model, but they are OEM size and still have good tread. They are all seasons though, not dedicated snows, which will be on the shopping list for next winter. For all I know, they might be the original tires.
Definitely didn't dig in with any tires. Wouldn't even spin one revlolution out of any one tire. With the car in D and the VDS off and awd locked I floored the accelerator and the car moved about an inch and the tach went to about 2k rpm and held there. I didn't let it sit long, fearing that I was probably going to burn out the rubber bands in the transmission but I helpd the gas long enough to know that the tires weren't spinning and I wasn't going anywhere. I shut the car off and restarted and tried again, got a bit of wheel spin so maybe it was in some soft of shutdown mode from sliding like it did? As soon as the wheels started spinning the car was moving forward so the snow wasn't too deep for it, but the computer shut me down again after moving maybe a foot at the most. Right about that time, my friend showed up in his truck and we pulled it out backwards.
It was weird, thats for sure. It bothers me that the VDS allows that kind of slip angle though...makes me wonder if somethng is busted. |
lol we dont drive a scooter with rubber band belts in our cvt. we have steel belts.
and i must say you had some weird issues. i hope they are all not like this. when it snows, before i even put the car in D i shut off all the vdc's, etc in every car i owned as i HATE those systems. so intrusive its not even funny. i prefer wheel spin, and prefer to drift. i used to drift a nissan 240sx in competitions so i understand how to control the vehicle, and would rather drift into a corner, then have the system paralyze the drive wheels and me slide uncontrollably.