m00k said:yeah but corsa was released in 93 didnt even get leccy windows standard in sport form till 97 or PAS etc
i never found a real need for abs on either sport i owned, 1st one had 2litre gsi cav brake up front, 2nd was standard, both were adequate!
ZS said:ABS on small cars sucks, always kicking in too early, giving you less braking. The system in the Astra is much better.
try driving a ka which is so badly under servo'ed to the point of, when you do stand on the brakes at 30 mph it slides on... dangersous is a word id use.santoz said:i agree, i don't feel small cars need/benefit from abs. they should be fitted with better all round brakes, i.e. discs and people should be taught how to drive properly in the wet!
I have no abs and have never found the need for it. In a larger, more powerful car i feel it is a necessity though!
ZS said:Corsa is the same, as soon as you touch the brakes the car takes a nose dive, back wheels go onto the ABS. If you mash the brakes then it's all 4 wheels on the ABS - resulting in zero speed reduction.
I was going down a steep freshly gravelled driveway, only to find I was actually gaining speed even with the brake to the floor. Ended up ripping on the handbrake or I'd have been onto the Bangor dual carriageway at 30mph. Just ended up with two trenches on the drive and the car nose first into the person's garden bushes.
Thankfully the Astra ABS is much better, only had it come on once, and it actually helped.
ZS said:Quite simple, on loose gravel the wheels try and lock, so the ABS kicks in, which starts the wheel rolling along the gravel. ABS is trying to stop the locking, so you actually end up speeding up. It's a bit like a vibrating plate, the rapid stopping and starting of the wheel makes it scoot along the surface.
The first bit of my post above isn't clear, I meant to say that on slippy roads mashing the brakes result in no speed reduction.