Quick question...the other day during a particularly intense snow fall, I came around a turn and hit hard packed snow on the road. Due to the pure garbage Goodyear OEM tires on my truck, I began to slide sideways pretty quickly. My natural reaction to this was to hammer the gas to get the front pulling the truck in the right direction. This of course was rewarded with complete failure as the Stabilitrak engaged and killed the torque. My thought process on this.....during snow operations...shut off Stabilitrak. Am I missing something here?? Anyone have any particular operating experience with Stabilitrak/AWD operations in snow?

 

Thanks for the input everyone....greatly ******* appreciated!!

 

 

An attitude like that is certainly not going to get you help, and it's still early in the morning for most of America

 

Welcome to the site, that approach won't get you very far here so in the future maybe you could refrain from it. I do not have Stabilitrak or I would have chimed in. As much as the front will pull the truck in the intended direction the back will continue to slide around.

 

just because you have awd, doesn't make your truck a tank in the snow/ice

driving advise: when taking sharp 90° turns, slow down

 

Yeah that comment is better meant for GMFS.

And why in the hell did you post this in the ford drivetrain section ??

Just do what I do , turn the stabilitrac off every time .

 

I moved this to the correct section.

 

epic fail...lol

 

I have a great attitude but I also have been around car forums for some time and I know how hierarchy works....if I posted this same exact thread and I happen to have some monster performance mods on my truck I would have had 40 people answer my question. Here is how every car/truck forum works: everyone gets together initially on the same page. A few people break off and dump tons of money into their vehicle and they are idolized by the rest of the forum. 50% of the rest of the members try to cobble something together that comes close to the TT/Heads/Cam/Nitrous set-up that the forum Gods are running 10's with. So some scum-bag, newbie like me comes along and until I prove myself no one has the time of day for me....they couldn't give a rats *** what I have to say....yet I could have been building engines for John Force for the last 25 years. I have seen it play out on five different forums that I have belonged to with five different vehicles. Same ****...different day. It gets tiresome and boring after a while. Lets not pretend to be something that we aren't. If this is a "forum" then it should behave in the same manner as a group of people sitting at a bar shooting the **** would behave. Either way I really don't see me getting too attached to this one in particular as it pretty much sucks like a black hole. I am headed to a Z06 forum with the hope that I find someone there that is a pure enthusiast. Already searching autotrader for one