'21 GTR and it was a snow storm yesterday.
Won't go into having to press rear defogger button (which in some other cars is more appropriately called defroster and is not combined with side mirror defroster) every 15 minutes (was driving for 3 hours) and constant icing of windshield wipers.
What's more interesting is that at one point when I tried to accelerate, what I believe happened was front wheel(s) skidded and the car instantly became rear-biased, sending itself straight into a barrier, which I fortunately managed to avoid.
In about 10 minutes I got tire pressure sensor warning, checked the tires and the front passenger one was leaking pretty bad, had to inflate it a couple of times just to make it to the tire shop where they pulled out a pretty big nail.
I'm not sure if the nail was in the tire at the time this happened or not, but regardless of the reason why the front wheel(s) started to skid, is it really the way an AWD car is expected to behave?
This is my first AWD car, my previous CX5 was FWD and weirdly I felt much more confident in this type of situations when pushing the gas had predictable effect, all my previous ones were RWD - they all were also predictable in a different way, but this AWD - it doesn't seem like you can expect it to do anything in particular, it just decides on its own. Am I missing something?
Won't go into having to press rear defogger button (which in some other cars is more appropriately called defroster and is not combined with side mirror defroster) every 15 minutes (was driving for 3 hours) and constant icing of windshield wipers.
What's more interesting is that at one point when I tried to accelerate, what I believe happened was front wheel(s) skidded and the car instantly became rear-biased, sending itself straight into a barrier, which I fortunately managed to avoid.
In about 10 minutes I got tire pressure sensor warning, checked the tires and the front passenger one was leaking pretty bad, had to inflate it a couple of times just to make it to the tire shop where they pulled out a pretty big nail.
I'm not sure if the nail was in the tire at the time this happened or not, but regardless of the reason why the front wheel(s) started to skid, is it really the way an AWD car is expected to behave?
This is my first AWD car, my previous CX5 was FWD and weirdly I felt much more confident in this type of situations when pushing the gas had predictable effect, all my previous ones were RWD - they all were also predictable in a different way, but this AWD - it doesn't seem like you can expect it to do anything in particular, it just decides on its own. Am I missing something?