Laguna 4 control steering and snow

[175gt]

As per thread title, has anyone here driven a Laguna with the rear wheel steering in the snow? I know it's got modified ESP software to work with the system but was trying to work out whether it would be beneficial or not on low friction surfaces? Also, with the different operation at different speeds (either opposite or same direction as fronts), might it be a little unpredictable if you suddenly find yourself on a snow covered road that was tarmac moments previously and don't instantly know what speed you're doing and therefore which way the rear wheels will respond to your next input?

[thinfourth2]

No but i've driven a telehandler in the snow and they are great fun

[Sam1990]

I drove my Prelude (also 4 wheel steering) in last year's heavy snow without a problem at all, that's without ESP to keep us on the straight and narrow. More so the fat tyres causing issues rather than the steering system. Drive as you would in any other car with those conditions and you'll be fine.

[anonymous-user]

as usual, 4 x zero = zero !

So yes, maybe the system can get the vehicle to a more positive yaw than you would be able to do with just the handwheel alone, but it can't make the car corner any harder/tighter (so you will simply colide with the obstruction slightly side on rather than full frontal...... ;-)

[175gt]

OK. Maybe I'm looking at this in the wrong way! Forget the snow for now, how do cars with this kind of system handle on, or rather over, the limit? Is it just going to predominantly understeer like any FWD? If you did something to provoke oversteer, intentionally or otherwise, is it likely to snap into it more rapidly and dramatically? I don't drive one of these myself, just a thought that popped into my head reading the winter tyres thread;) Think I'd just feel a little nervous driving one in the snow for the first time (admittedly with no foundation).