rocketspeed
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- 03.5 Mazdaspeed Protege, Titanium Gray
In situations where I'm cornering and braking hard- like coming off a main road and into a parking lot, my ABS likes to kick in and braking effectiveness is reduced dramatically.
Other folks experience the same thing? I do recall some threads about overly sensitive ABS, but I'm more concerned with the increase in stopping distance when ABS activates. Logically, ABS should stop me faster than my dopey foot can, but I don't think its even close. When my ABS kicks in, the brakes seem to work at about 25%, if that. The other day I had to steer around a curbstone pretty hard, because the brakes were doing nothing other than making the crunch noise and pulsing while my car was not slowing. This is on clean, dry pavement and not at crazy speeds (ie. I was still able to steer around the curbstone).
Other folks experience the same thing? I do recall some threads about overly sensitive ABS, but I'm more concerned with the increase in stopping distance when ABS activates. Logically, ABS should stop me faster than my dopey foot can, but I don't think its even close. When my ABS kicks in, the brakes seem to work at about 25%, if that. The other day I had to steer around a curbstone pretty hard, because the brakes were doing nothing other than making the crunch noise and pulsing while my car was not slowing. This is on clean, dry pavement and not at crazy speeds (ie. I was still able to steer around the curbstone).