madd indian,
Yes, pulling the emergency/hand/parking brake will lock up the rear wheels and if you are turning, it will cause oversteer -- which means the back end will swing out, and if you don`t correct the slide you will end up in the wrong direction. This technique can be useful to cure some nasty understeer. If you are turning left for example, and it's really slippery, while you put on the brakes and they lock up, causing loss of steering control, unless you let of the brakes, however, if you have the steering wheel cranked too far, it will be similar to having your brakes locking the wheels. In this situation, pull the hand brake, straightent out the steering wheel a bit so you have some steering control, this will usually kick the back end out and you should be pointed in the left hand direction (the way you were trying to go originally).
There's no such thing as a stock Honda Accord All-Wheel Drive. The only vehicle that is AWD, is the CR-V. All Honda's are front wheel drive, except for the S2000, of course.
Skoorb,
Actually, that slide could have easily been cause by a quick rotation back and forth of the steering wheel at high speed. Which is likely the case, especially in the sand.
To do a slide on dry pavement with a front wheel drive car, is a lot more difficult, if you are too slow, the "snap-back" (which gets worse with the looser suspension on a car with lots of body roll) is deadly fast and can spin you around if you don`t correct the slide quick enough. Dry pavement slides are not easy on stock road cars!
My uncle has an Outback Sport, and you don`t even need to use the hand brake, just stab the gas with your wheel turned in the start of the corner and it will kick the back-end out.
Yes, pulling the emergency/hand/parking brake will lock up the rear wheels and if you are turning, it will cause oversteer -- which means the back end will swing out, and if you don`t correct the slide you will end up in the wrong direction. This technique can be useful to cure some nasty understeer. If you are turning left for example, and it's really slippery, while you put on the brakes and they lock up, causing loss of steering control, unless you let of the brakes, however, if you have the steering wheel cranked too far, it will be similar to having your brakes locking the wheels. In this situation, pull the hand brake, straightent out the steering wheel a bit so you have some steering control, this will usually kick the back end out and you should be pointed in the left hand direction (the way you were trying to go originally).
There's no such thing as a stock Honda Accord All-Wheel Drive. The only vehicle that is AWD, is the CR-V. All Honda's are front wheel drive, except for the S2000, of course.
Skoorb,
Actually, that slide could have easily been cause by a quick rotation back and forth of the steering wheel at high speed. Which is likely the case, especially in the sand.
To do a slide on dry pavement with a front wheel drive car, is a lot more difficult, if you are too slow, the "snap-back" (which gets worse with the looser suspension on a car with lots of body roll) is deadly fast and can spin you around if you don`t correct the slide quick enough. Dry pavement slides are not easy on stock road cars!
My uncle has an Outback Sport, and you don`t even need to use the hand brake, just stab the gas with your wheel turned in the start of the corner and it will kick the back-end out.
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