![]() ![]() Moral of the story, the AWD can and will launch hard under NON-ideal circumstances, assuming you've got decent tires. I was already 100 yards down the road when I looked back, and he was JUST crossing the other side of the intersection. Mr bad-ace in the Mustang, just sat there spinning his rear tires. My bone-stock RL Vue squats, spins the front tires, the rears hook up, and I launch across the intersection. The left-turning traffic in front of us stops, the lights turn green for us, and HAMMER DOWN. ![]() so he gets all serious about it, inches up on the line like he's staging for the christmas tree. I kinda chuckle, and do the same back to him, just to F with him a little. I'm waiting my turn, patiently, when a dude in a 5.0 Mustang fox body, vintage 1992 pulls up next to me. It's late afternoon, raining pretty hard, but it's only been raining for a couple minutes. true story.īack when I'd still only had my Vue for about 6 months, I pulled up to a stop light at a large 4-way intersection, on a piece of road that runs about an 1/8th of a mile before becoming a freeway flyover that becomes a single lane on-ramp. Personally, despite the headaches, I would still take the AWD over FWD. Your experience may include this "feature". I don't know about that personally, but it sounds like a bummer. If you just hammer down, the FWD will break loose, have the TC kick in and slow it down.Īlso, there's this thing I hear about later models being torque-limited in first gear. Many of these "auto rag" quarter mile times aren't done on a proper drag strip, they're done on the street, on a non-prepared surface, since that is what their target audience spends 99.999999% of their time driving on. If you're on a sticky quarter mile course, traction isn't an issue, and the FWD is going to win every time, I'm sure. As you wind up the motor and approach trap speed, I think a FWD would catch up and past the AWD that got the better launch. It would kick in a little, but it would probably not be much different than just having TC kick in on a FWD model, there was so little slippage. On the street, in the dry, on stock tires, I could generally break traction from a stoplight if I hammered it, but the AWD wouldn't do a whole lot in that case. We also had probably 100 pounds of JUNK in the trunk, each, and we're not exactly small dudes, so liken it to having a normal adult sized passenger riding with you on a quarter mile run. Neither of us could come even close to breaking traction. I am lucky enough to have the more responsive RDM still installed on my early '04 RL.įotovue and I took our nearly identical AWD '04 RLs to the drag strip one hot, humid, muggy summer evening, and the best trap time we could manage was around 16.5 on stock tires. Prior to that, it kicks in without a whole lot of wheelspin going on. Mid-year '04, they neutered it, and it's pretty much useless. Not to beat a dead horse here, but not all AWD-equiped Vues (RL or not) will perform the same. he says its not an instant response either like when it slips it takes a second or two to engage my bro says he has a hard time even trying to engage it off road. I will not trade back my repairable wheel.Yes completely agree about the part time awd Please provide an address where UPS can deliver: I wish to pickup my order in store. please note that center caps can be priced separately if you need them Please contact us with any questions such as fitment information, for shipping by zipcode (typically $25-44/wheel), or if you have the same repairable wheel to exchange back we do offer a $30.00 credit per wheel from the purchase price, etc. especially if your wheels are currently damaged poor condition, or you want to upgrade to these sporty 18" original SATURN wheels, or want an extra set to switch out for the winter, etc. They would make a great extra set of wheels for any VUE 04-10, etc. no marks, fading or discoloration, scrapes, gouges, scratches or corrosion). We guarantee the wheels to be round within factory tolerances, and cosmetically flawless (ie. And, these wheels are expensive new from SATURN. We at WHEEL COLLISION CENTER 800-292-RIMS(7467) are selling singles or a set of 4 original 04-07 SATURN VUE REDLINE 18x7.5 Thin Convex 7 Spoke wheels which are being sold refinished in MINT condition. ![]()
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