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Driving around with a Hatchback in WA
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<blockquote data-quote="grubstake" data-source="post: 673877" data-attributes="member: 4012"><p>As long as you drive very carefully, ground clearance probably isn't your biggest potential issue. The problem is that you're proposing to use a lightweight, front-wheel-drive car, that was designed for city/suburban use, on some of the dustiest, roughest, most corrugated and rutted roads and tracks in Australia.</p><p></p><p>With front-wheel-drive, all of the steering, all of the traction and most of the braking, is done by those two small diameter front wheels, shod with lightweight tyres designed for bitumen roads. You're gonna wreck your vehicle and it probably won't take long to do so, most likely in the worst possible location.</p><p></p><p>You don't have to use a 4WD in WA, but a hatchback is just asking for trouble, IMHO</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grubstake, post: 673877, member: 4012"] As long as you drive very carefully, ground clearance probably isn't your biggest potential issue. The problem is that you're proposing to use a lightweight, front-wheel-drive car, that was designed for city/suburban use, on some of the dustiest, roughest, most corrugated and rutted roads and tracks in Australia. With front-wheel-drive, all of the steering, all of the traction and most of the braking, is done by those two small diameter front wheels, shod with lightweight tyres designed for bitumen roads. You're gonna wreck your vehicle and it probably won't take long to do so, most likely in the worst possible location. You don't have to use a 4WD in WA, but a hatchback is just asking for trouble, IMHO [/QUOTE]
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