To my "dumb" thumb downer, I hope I never need to have the experience of ridding with you as you are very dangerous if you think I'm wrong. I have drove more miles than you and most likely been in more skids than you, I have saved some cars from being totaled by doing just what I said. I hope if you have a bad skid you live.
Turn your wheel toward the direction of the slide.
You steer in the direction the car is going, otherwise you can flip over. Also, I once steered in the opposite direction and my car turned around completely into on-coming traffic.
In the direction it is sliding . The idea is to straighten out the car so you have better control . If you steer away from the skid you are fighting the force . If the car is sliding to the center of the road then steer slightly to the center to try and go straight .
them anti lock brakes are supposed to do the light pumping of the brake peddle for you but it has been my finding that this is bad . They suck . It is of course a reaction to just stomp them to the floor when you start skidding but this is bad on cars that do not have ABS as you stop slower than if you lightly pump them and try not to lock them up. On cars with ABS you are at the mercy of the system which seems to unlock the instant the tires stop turning and then you roll several feet before the brakes kick in again . I personally do not like that much . You can test yours by driving fast 55? down a dirt road and then locking up the brakes to see how it stops .
I always steer into it unless doing so would make me crash into something.
The best thing you can do is go try it in an empty parking lot right after it snows. Make sure there are no obstacles nearby. Drive about 15mph in a straight line, then turn to the left and pull the e-brake for about a second. You'll notice that you need to steer right pretty hard to go back into a straight line. Now if you decided to steer left instead of right, you'd just go in a circle or your car would do something funky.
Watch this: http://youtu.be/2bcyuTQQIe0?t=2m27s
We need the year make and model of your car. Steering in the direction of the slide is correct if you have a rear wheel drive car. Tapping the brakes and turning *slightly in the direction of the slide is better with a front wheel drive car. *If you turn fully in the direction of the slide with a front wheel drive car it will snap loose in the opposite direction.
It is a scary feeling when car goes out of control from snow or ice. I feel I heard the best way if car is sliding is to steer in the direction car is moving. It seems like it would be worse to steer in the same way car is going out of control, If my car slides what direction should I steer it to get car settled for normal driving?
