Originally Posted by BrisPrius

We just had our first deep freeze (10 degrees) with a very light snow that made the roads a sheet of ice. The Anti lock brakes worked fine and the vehicle stability control light was constantly flashing. But it did not fishtail or spin around like the pickup that was behind me did. But it does slide more easily than our maxima. (Gee, could be the extra ton or so of weight the maxima has)

The biggest problem was an idiot slammed on her brakes ahead of me ( I am glad I gave her a lot of room) with a long line behind us including the pickup truck on my tail end the whole way.

She slams to a stop to allow cars from a store on the right and road on the left to pull out. Our road is a state route with no stops. She decided to stop and almost cause a big pileup. All because she had to try and be nice and let people out on a major road.

I had given her a lot of room (I knew I could stop easily behind her) but, the truck behind me was sliding fast towards me. I looked into the other lane and saw it was clear so as I slammed on the brakes The vehicle stablility control light went crazy, the anti lock brakes went crazy (Both worked great) and I controlled the skid into the other lane until I was away from where the truck was sliding to where I used to be. With one exception. All the heating fans etc. shut down during the slamming of the brakes.

In other words all the safety systems worked great. But it does tend to slide quite a bit upon starting and you can feel the back end get loose.
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