Same experience with my Subaru. Love that ABS!!
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott McKorkle" <bmc@aa.net>
To: "'MG List'" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 11:58 AM
Subject: RE: ABS experience
> Bud,
>
> Funny you should mention this. Nearly the same experience the other day
> with my 91 Saab 9000 with ABS. Only difference was a truck entering
> traffic, causing the car in front of me to slam on brakes. Wet pavement.
I
> was going about 40 mph. Based on 25 years of driving experience (and
> re-enacting that slow-motion thought process that occurrs during a panic
> stop), I was anticipating a skid and a thump. Instead, the Saab stopped
> quickly, smoothly and in a shorter distance than I expected. I did feel
the
> brake pedal shudder under my foot, but everything else was smooth as silk.
> It made me feel much better about the ABS on my car, anyway. First time I
> really slammed them on in over 105K miles and nine years!
>
> I do recommend that everyone with ABS (and without, for that matter), go
> find a safe parking lot and try some panic stops on wet and dry pavement.
> I've done this with my MGB. It gave me a good sense of what the car could
> do in a panic. It also (I think) was the cause of my rear wheel cylinders
> to begin to leak. No problem, easy replacement.
>
> Scott McKorkle
> 1978 MGB
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Bud Krueger
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 4:01 PM
> To: MG List
> Subject: ABS experience
>
>
> It's been interesting to read the theory of ABS, but let me share an
> experience
> with you.
> A little over a year ago (9/98) I was on my regular morning commute on
> Boston's
> Southeast Expressway, driving a 1996 Mercury Mystique with ABS. The car
> ahead
> of the car ahead of me slowed rather abruptly; the car ahead of me stopped
> very
> abruptly; I stomped on the binders and drove right into his back bumper.
> Believe me, I had left adequate space between us. I've commuted close to
a
> megamile and this was the first accident that I've been in.
>
> The ABS would not allow the brakes to come anywhere near locking up. The
> pedal
> was against the stop and the car just wasn't stopping. There was no
pulsing
> going on at all. Remember, the action of ABS is to relieve braking
pressure
> when the system senses that the brakes are about to lock up. Guess what
> happens
> if the sensors react too quickly? $2000 worth of damage that barely
showed,
> much
> of it due to the a/c components right behind the bumper.
>
> If you have an ABS system --- check it out sometime before you need to
stop
> in a
> hurry! Just MHO.
>
> Bud
>
> --
> Bud Krueger
> http://home.ici.net/~bkrueger/
> 52TD
> 77MGB
>
>
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