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Old Dec 8, 2004 | 03:27 PM
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wow, im shocked there would be such an interest with disabling the ABS brakes. Ive hit fresh snow and gone right thru the intersection with the abs doing nothing to help but it seems to help with ice and at least once a week i have my ABS going off from beating someone to a turn. I give 2 thumbs up for ABS.
Old Dec 8, 2004 | 06:09 PM
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It is more of a dry weather thing. Wet weather ABS disabling is really overly dangerous because that is when ABS helps most, Ice, snow, wet.

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Old Dec 8, 2004 | 07:46 PM
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I think it can help under braking in turns in slippery conditions, where normally you'd lose steering control.

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Old Dec 12, 2004 | 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Wingless Wonder
I think it can help under braking in turns in slippery conditions, where normally you'd lose steering control.

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It all depends on what you're doing.


If you're just cruising along, then ABS can be a good thing in slippery conditions. Sometimes.. personally I hate it. Hit a manhole cover in the rain while on the brakes and it engages ABS and that sucks.

If you're driving hard, then ABS can kill you. We went driving last night, a nice twisty little road, with more than it's fair sair of dirt and pine needles. Go diving into a corner and have ABS kick in and all of a sudden you've gone from predictable slide to almost no brakes and the resulting too much speed through the corner. If you're lucky you have mountain to the outside of the curve, if you're not you have cliff.

I love my ABS switch.

Mine is wire like someone already pointed out. I tapped into the 10 amp fuse, and put a switch on that. Works great.
Old Dec 14, 2004 | 12:08 AM
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I think the ABS are Only good when braking in a straight line!!!
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