- 8,100
- Guelph, Ontario
I nearly crashed a car because it had traction control, it was an alfa romeo 147 1400cc and I did not expect there to be electronic aids, as it's FWD and not much power. I was bringing it into a garage and pulling the handbrake to make a sharp turn in one go instead of a doing multi point turn, I do this often with no problems, only this time when I accelerated to pull the front in, the electronic aids interrupted and made the front go wide and almost taking the side off the car parked next to it.
So yes I turn off aids.
I almost hurt my moms car like that. It was in a snowy parking lot and I tried a handbrake turn, the car didn't rotate enough and I tried to give it gas to bring the back end around like you would do with a RWD. Of course her car is a CR-V, and so it plowed straight on towards a curb. I was able to get it stopped and the ABS engaged, but that didn't really make a big difference.
I need a bigger parking lot next time.