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3.0ranger1227
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- Joined
- Apr 20, 2009
- Messages
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- Vehicle Year
- 2003
- Transmission
- Automatic
One thing to note about rwd vehicles, and especially truck with light rear axle loading, is that weight transfer is very important to keeping the vehicle planted to the road.
If you're going towards a wet curve in your ranger, you want to be too slow coming in, and keep some throttle in through the curve. If you come in too fast and try to slow down mid curve you're going to unload the rear wheels, lose the back end, and spin.
I drive my truck probably way faster on curves than I really should, but as long as I keep my foot planted in the skinny pedal the truck is stable(of course there are limits to this, but 98% of the time it's true).
Also go and find a big empty parking lot without any light poles and practice spin recovery on a wet day. Don't Try doing it too fast, just run 20 or so, start a turn and lift - she'll oversteer every time on wet asphalt. Counter steer, dab of throttle, and she'll come back in line.
And if you can there is an event put on by Bridgestone called driver's edge that moves around the country that will put you in a car and practice these sorts of things. Free to teenagers. Unfortunately the car we practiced oversteer recovery in was a FWD golf, but it is a good program.
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If you're going towards a wet curve in your ranger, you want to be too slow coming in, and keep some throttle in through the curve. If you come in too fast and try to slow down mid curve you're going to unload the rear wheels, lose the back end, and spin.
I drive my truck probably way faster on curves than I really should, but as long as I keep my foot planted in the skinny pedal the truck is stable(of course there are limits to this, but 98% of the time it's true).
Also go and find a big empty parking lot without any light poles and practice spin recovery on a wet day. Don't Try doing it too fast, just run 20 or so, start a turn and lift - she'll oversteer every time on wet asphalt. Counter steer, dab of throttle, and she'll come back in line.
And if you can there is an event put on by Bridgestone called driver's edge that moves around the country that will put you in a car and practice these sorts of things. Free to teenagers. Unfortunately the car we practiced oversteer recovery in was a FWD golf, but it is a good program.
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