No real spot to put this post, so just plonked it in here.
Yesterday, we towed the Zephyr, with a 1 year old, Nissan Pathfinder. (2 wheel drive)
We were going steady freddy until we cleared some fog, turned onto a 100 kph road.... and Doug gave the thing some herbs.
He didn't hammer it or anything stupid, but did get the V6 petrol up and moving.
Next minute, he's got the steering wheel moving side to side by maybe an inch or so.
I looked across saying, what the **** are you doing.
I knew we had a car behind us, so i wondered if he was about to pass in a no passing spot or something weird and Doug was trying to scare him.
Doug looks at me, laughing, and says, Shit it torque steers huh.
Me.... in my own arrogant way.... says, its fukking rear wheel drive ya wombat.
NAH Kev, front wheel drive these days.
So anyway, it torque steered its way to the sunny coast.
When we reloaded, we pulled the Zephyr back by about 6 inches...... it made no difference.
These Pathfinders, have a decent towing capacity and you throw a badly loaded caravan on the back, there's a crash waiting to happen.
Picture if you will, someone deciding to say, nail a slow truck on a decent bit of road.
Foot down, start to pull out and all of a sudden Mr. Torque steer arrives to visit.
Its got friggin jack knife written all over it.
Doug says they come in AWD as well, which i suspect, wouldn't do it.
When did Pathfinders become FWD?
