S4Tune

Interesting experience last night. I'm comming home from work at about 2am, and it had been raining a little, so the pavement was wet. I come up to a rotary (LaJ and Old Cutler, if anyone cares) at about 50 or so, and the car slid to the outside like it was on ICE. I mean no traction, no squeeling, just straight line. I let off the gas and had enough room to recover, but the ESP was going nuts, and I thought the quattro would save me from things like that. Roomate suggest that I was hydroplaning, which even quattro can't stop...but there was no standing water. I guess I shouldn't take rotaries that fast, but does anybody have any guesses as to what happened?

JTravinski

Are your tires OK? Are you running summer tires in cold weather?

dekkard

Which tires?

Driving Excitement!

Light rains are dangerous because it will bring the oils in the road to the surface and not wash it away.

S4Tune

stock pirellis, 6k miles on 'em

[not Steve] Trac

an anchor. Quattro gets you moving forward. Brakes, APS or otherwise, stop the car from moving forward. If you lose lateral traction, technology isn't going to help you out much. ESP might be able to prevent you from losing traction by sensing it before it happens. But, once you are hydroplaning, you need to steer the car to correct for the skid and hope the front wheels grip and then bring the back wheels around.

JTravinski

where are you? is it cold there? if so, its probably your tires.

ModifiedA4

manual or tip?

S4Tune

Miami, FL. it was in the high 60s last night :-)

S4Tune

tip