V6 Mondeos/Contours can have thier tails slide if one lifts foot of the throtlle suddenly, or hits the brakes hard while having the wheel turned (like entereing the corner). First rule of racing: Finish your braking before you start turning the wheel! Second rule: Do not accelerate until your wheels are straight! It changes the ballance of the car by shifting weight forward, thus having rear end without any grip. Granted it takes a lot to do it and race car drives are doing while hitting the brake pedal with their left food, while accelerating (in order to shift the ballanc eof the car) it's called strocatto (not stacatto) and it is invented in Italy (where else) for all of theose FWD FIATS. What are the thigs that are keeping your wheels down? Shock absorbers! Does the tail hops when it slides, or just slide like a Vette would do? If it hops go look for shocks, if it just slides look for tires. Nothing else, in my mind (other than going "slightly" over 30mph in to a corner) could make the rear end slide. Besides Contours/Mondeos are not the best ballanced cars int he world, at least the V6 ones.
Last edited by airman1; 12/02/03 08:11 AM.
