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Hydroplaning means you have a layer of water between your tires and the road surface. Regardless of whether you have two driven wheels or four, if they aren't m
by snuxoll 6y ago
Hydroplaning means you have a layer of water between your tires and the road surface. Regardless of whether you have two driven wheels or four, if they aren't making contact with the road you aren't putting any power down and your wheels are just spinning. The only thing that can help you is better tires that can move more water out from under them, hopefully giving you a contact patch with the surface.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoImagine you're driving highway speed and crossing some slush to change lanes. As you drive through that slush would your rather be trying to put all the vehicle's motive power through two tires or four? Do you dispute that doubling the number of tires moving the vehicle forward will drastically reduce the ease with which the vehicle breaks traction crossing over the slush?
- snuxoll 6y ago> Do you dispute that doubling the number of tires moving the vehicle forward will drastically reduce the ease with which the vehicle breaks traction crossing over the slush? Grip and traction are two words for the same thing, the only thing that determines grip are the tires plus the weight (and distribution thereof) they are carrying. So, yes, having AWD does nothing to help grip - that's a mechanical force between your tires and the road. AWD helps utilize grip, by distributing torque to all four wheels. It helps acceleration by avoiding wheelspin where two driven wheels don't have the grip, but nothing else. Edit: Clearance is more important when trying to cross over piles of shit on the road anyway. It doesn’t matter how many wheels are driven on your car if you bottom out.