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Old Jul 2nd, 2017, 08:21   #7
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They seem to do okay when it's one front wheel on the ground but not so well when it's one rear wheel. I think this is because with just one wheel of the axle on the ground the car is relying on both the AWD system to send power to both axles and the traction control to brake the free spinning wheel. On an older car, the rear brakes are more likely to have weakened than the fronts?

The other thing I would add is there are not many real life situations where you would have zero traction on three wheels.

Interesting the older V70 in this second vid which has thermo viscous coupling based AWD does okay on the one rear wheel test.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQPNH4XRbWA
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