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To: -=SoylentSquirrel=-
Most rear wheel cars use the back right tire as the drive tire, unless you have positraction. When you turn right and do it the weight of the car goes to the left, onto the non drive tire, causing the right tire to lose traction and slip free easier.

One of those things you just figure out for yourself with practice...

53 posted on 07/20/2007 12:08:01 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: Abathar

“Most rear wheel cars use the back right tire as the drive tire, unless you have positraction. When you turn right and do it the weight of the car goes to the left, onto the non drive tire, causing the right tire to lose traction and slip free easier.”

Uh, what? Unless you have some form of LSD or mechanically locking differential, like a Posi-traction diff, you have an open differential, which means that torque can go equally easy to either rear wheel. Whichever way you turn the inside wheel will be unloaded and tend to spin. Probably, though, the side of the car you’re sitting on (if you’re by yourself) has a little more weight, so in a straight line the right tire is probably more likely to break loose.


91 posted on 07/20/2007 1:12:43 PM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
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To: Abathar; -=SoylentSquirrel=-; Clam Digger
Most rear wheel cars use the back right tire as the drive tire, unless you have positraction. When you turn right and do it the weight of the car goes to the left, onto the non drive tire, causing the right tire to lose traction and slip free easier.

Incorrect. Most rear-wheel drive cars have a limited slip differential which applies more power to the tire with less traction. That does not seem to make sense bit it is true. The right rear tire seems to slip easier because cars (in the US) turn right much tighter than the turn left (not be design, by convention because we drive on the right) which gives the right rear tire more wear than the left. It is equally possible to spin a car right or left (assuming equal tire wear and weigh-less driver and passengers). Many factors of an older car's wear and tear may change that but it is not a feature of a standard differential.
93 posted on 07/20/2007 1:19:45 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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