Detroit wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 11:52 am
on the 4R as of now
has "no updates", still coming in "next few weeks"
Which is even more
after yesterday...
Got our first real snow of the season ~9" total. I had to take the Cucktrek out yesterday in the midst of the storm for a Home Depot run, and holy hell are the tires absolute garbage in the snow. It's embarrassingly bad.
First, I almost slid off our driveway doing 5mph, which is a 15ish foot drop straight down. ABS kicked in and instead of slowing and turning, it plowed straight. The right thing to do is let off the brakes and the front wheels will bite to turn, which is counter intuitive when you're plowing straight for a 15 foot drop. Fortunately, it's reactionary for me. I've never encountered a vehicle plow like that at such a low speed.
Then, I slid through a stop light on ABS doing 10mph and allowing probably a few hundred feet to gradually slow down. It just refused to stop. Fortunately, other cars couldn't GO that quickly because of snow/ice, dodged a bullet there.
THEN almost hit a parked car while parking at HD, again doing 5mph the abs kicked in and the thing just plowed...fortunately like before I knew to let off the brakes to let is steer, which it did, but most people would have smacked the other car.
BUT incredibly, the thing is an absolute beast accelerating. We have a steep hill into our sub, and the thing just climbed up like a goat. ZERO traction, but somehow it just walks up anything. Ditto for taking off from a stoplight on ice. What I've been saying for YEARS in regards to "needing AWD" rings so true...AWD helps you go, but does nothing for turning or stopping. TIRES are more important than any drivetrain combo.
I'm really glad I drove it in the snow before the wife. She very likely would have wrecked driving yesterday including in our own damned driveway. That thing needs proper tires ASAP, which sucks because I want to off it, but I really hope I don't wreck it first. It's a challenge to drive right now.
Fucking 4R