BE CAREFUL WITH PERFORMANCE MODE!

[Ron66Vette&10SS]

Originally Posted by shinzon

I don't know how you all would survive 10 years ago.

Agreed......hell, when I started driving 26 years you could have just referred to it as "natural selection".

[Mr. Wyndham]

Originally Posted by Ron66Vette&10SS

Agreed......hell, when I started driving 26 years you could have just referred to it as "natural selection".

A little "on the side" educational moment for everyone...

"Stabilitrac", is Chevy's driving assistance suite which is made up of BOTH Traction control and Stability control software systems...

[IROCanSS]

Originally Posted by mikeSS

the SS is not even that fast though.

Originally Posted by nomadicdogg

always, always respect the cars power. SS or not

Originally Posted by Stone★ColdNuts

My favorite part:
His GF in the background: "I told him he was gonna F****** do that."
Random people "What a F****** idiot"

... to all 3!

[Z4me]

The first thing I taught my 17 year old son out driving
is to try and absorb as much knowledge that I had
acquired over 30 plus years of driving. You need to know
the car your driving and the conditions of the roads
your driving on. If you can reach the point of being
instinctive rather then having to think out the best course
of action this could possible make all the difference.

I have had few cases of being on the highway where
if I had not reacted to a situation instantly it would have
been pretty ugly. Always keep am eye out for your
surroundings ESP on the highway and an open lane
to enter if needed in a split second. On Ice or wet
surfaces always slow down and respect the road
conditions, if car starts to lose control don't panic, take
your foot off the gas, don't counter over steer, and
depending on the road conditions breaking could be
even counter productive.

I'll never foreget driving once in a full size cargo van I'm
my way to a trade show. Fortunatly this was on an early
Sunday mourning and there was no traffic. My van was
hitting a sharp left turn in the road and I hit some black
ice about half way through the turn. Luckily I was only
driving around 30 miles an hour because my van started
to do a 360 due to the turn. My instincts just took over
my foot came off the gas, did not break and held both
hands firmly on that steering wheel and road out the
spins till the van came to a stop. There was a hill going
down to a housing development, and if I had continued
apply gas to the car to fight that 360 I shutter to think
what of happened.

Sorry for the long post but you kinda hit a nerve when
I read your story, and thank you for posting it in the
first place. I'm glad to hear you and the other drivers
were not injured. Cars can be repaired and replaced
easier then lives. Take care!

[Kurushio]

Years ago i had a 92 Nissan Sentra SE-R and it was a really cold winter day. Some people in front of me were going really slow so i put it in 3rd i think and as i went to pass i figured out why. The roads had tons of black ice on it. When i gunned in the rear of my car went left so i was almost pointing at the other car and this was in a FWD car lol. I was able to correct it and pass them and then i went a safer speed lol.

Also watching that mustang vid is really funny because almost every time i get onto the main road from my house i always floor it a bit and the back end slides out very predictably and is super easy to control. Only time i havent really like it was when i was on a on ramp while wet and merging into traffic. I punched it a bit and then the TC and Stabilitrack came on and i really dont think it helped me. I didnt wreck or come very close but i didnt like how it applied the brakes in a way i wasnt used to.

[DevilsReject97]

Glad to see you made it home safely, it's very easily to lose control of a car if you're not prepared for it.

This is always my favorite video though...

http://www.youtube.com/embed/UQXobiLw8wo

[ddunerider]

Originally Posted by Stone★ColdNuts

OMFG dude, that video belongs on failblog!!

My favorite part:
His GF in the background: "I told him he was gonna F****** do that."
Random people "What a F****** idiot"

Dude got owned by his own car.

Nice job Jackass!!!

[kmcd]

I never turned off the stabilitrac or traction control in my '68 Camaro.

[1Camaro2SS]

Originally Posted by shinzon

I don't know how you all would survive 10 years ago.

My car did not survive 17 years ago. I am sure it would have had I had these wonderful controls. Me and my buddy were fine however. It was a rainy day and lost it fishtailing. I didn't have much experience being 17 at the time.

Sorry if you already saw this pic in a different post.

[Rocky918]

Originally Posted by TBone

Kinda like this?


Of course it much more fun to see "them" do it rather than us.


T.

yea similar... except much worse lolear end 9 back around to 11 over the divider :/ .... actually after seeing that, it looks like he did some real damage to his wheel or something ... luckily i only deeply scratched my right rear rim with taking a very tiny chunk outta it ... but i can easily get that fixed for like $150 since its only on the little piece of rim between the tire and rim, that slight slit .... that video just made me even more thankful.. i could have also done serious damage to my car


but more importantly... i learned that I will never have every mode off on the street again and if i use it off road then i will make sure i put it back on ...

and for those who said they drive with it off everyday.... all i have to say is why? you never know when you might need the help of that, evne if your the best driver in the world

[2010 SSRS]

Originally Posted by shinzon

I don't know how you all would survive 10 years ago.

[black.]

dammit be careful a camaro is a terrible thing to waste.

[5THGENRS]

Originally Posted by DevilsReject97

Glad to see you made it home safely, it's very easily to lose control of a car if you're not prepared for it.

This is always my favorite video though...

http://www.youtube.com/embed/UQXobiLw8wo

WOW, what is the deal with that road! Its like its cursed. ive done this in my trans am. Out in the country and was at a 4 way stop, goosed the gas turning right and got the back end sliding around the corner and was counter steering just fine and im not sure exactly what i did wrong bc it happen so fast but then the back end swung to the right then spun a 180. Luckily no one was coming and if i didnt hit the brakes as soon i did i could of fell down an incline next to me after i spun 180 and it was easily a 10 ft. incline that could of rolled the car.

ive been told by some that counter steering and letting off completely is how you save it, whereas some say if you counter steer and let off the gas it causes the tires to hook back up after spinning and it will unsettle the back end and cause it to swing again, so staying in the gas a little, not flooring it of course, will get the car back in check . not really sure which is which. havent done enough sliding control to know which is better but i let off completely in the ta and it unsettled the car after kicking it around the corner and it made me do a 180?

[Bama 2SS/RS]

Originally Posted by shinzon

I don't know how you all would survive 10 years ago.

+1

I've had plenty of experience driving manual transmission cars, and plenty of experience driving rear wheel drive cars, and this is the first one I've had with any type of stabilitrac or anything. I've gotten used to cutting it loose in other cars that I've driven, and I feel like I can handle skids without much trouble. For me, my experience I described in my post above was because that was the first time I'd ever turned stabilitrac off in my SS. I was used to it's handling WITH stabilitrac, and used to handling rear wheel drive cars in the past, so I figured no big deal. I wasn't prepared for what the car could really do, because that was the first time I'd driven it with the training wheels off, so to speak.

I guess my point is, in vehicles I've driven without stabilitrac, I've been fine and can handle them no problem. Since my SS has been driven by me with stabilitrac on, pretty much all the time, I think it took away the experience of learning the car's true handling. You get used to driving the car for months with the system ON, and think you can handle it no problem, and then turn the system off, and it's like a whole new animal. I don't think it would have given me any trouble if the system was off by default and I never turned it on, and had driven my car from day one without the training wheels. I hate that we have to baby-proof everything these days, and I think stuff like that leads to worse, not better, drivers.