Driving home snow covered roads and hit brakes abs kicks in and my car hits pavement abs on impreza bugeye shocking how do you turn it off
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Ouch! I did something similar trying to avoid a skidding car. Struck both nearside wheels parallel to the curb. Luckily only superficial scratches.

I am pretty sure you can't remotely turn off the ABS, but you could disconnect the ABS pump. You never know when you might need it though!

 

True mate but that was me crawling and trying to stop wheels just locked up and slid never had this problem with my bugeye sti with the brembos.

 

Is it just that one? You sometimes get them coming up singly on ebay.

 

I thought ABS would NOT allowed that ?

 

.... and hit brakes....

I have discovered the reason ABS does not work in snow and ice is that there is not enough traction to start turning a locked wheel quickly enough and ABS (and braking and steering come to that) works on the principle of wheels turning.

If ABS comes on in snowy/icy conditions, ease off the brakes and try again gently, very gently.

Something I have considered in the past, and not sure if it would work, is to put a switch in the ABS circuit to turn it off or pull the fuse. Not sure what insurance would say in the event of an accident though.

 

Use cadence braking in snow, to stop ABS skidding your car. Check www.imprezabreakers.co.uk for some single wheels.

 

Not sure I agree. The problem with Cadence braking on a car with ABS is that the ABS will still kick in during the braking phase as it is also almost impossible to do cadence braking gently enough to avoid the ABS.

The only thing about cadence braking is the need to come off the brakes when the wheels are locked up. the trick is to then reapply the brakes until just before they lock up to get maximum braking. As I said above - gently.

One of the advantages of disabling ABS in snow/ice is that by locking a wheel in snow the snow can build up a wedge in front of the wheels thus helping you stop. This has no effect on ice. Another advantage of no ABS is to use a strange phenomenon that if you have locked everything up, turn the steering and then release the brakes - you will turn in that direction, quite violently if there is a modicum of grip, although in snow it might mean the difference between hitting or missing something - it has got me out of trouble on more than one occasion.

Unfortunately, coming off the brakes when you are sliding towards something is not something most people are able to do - they tend to push harder. It needs to be automatic and instantaneous, consequently, practice and experience is essential. ABS is effectively responsible for "negative" evolution in this respect.