Can someone please tell me how a fwd car can fish tail going down a road.

It happens more often if your tires are less then 5 to 4/32nds, but essentially if you’re going down the road an you swerve or the rear end hits something to cause the weight to shift adversely you can lose traction and start to fish tail, honestly I’ve purposely caused it just to screw around but that’s with no one else on the road mind you, lol

I’ve fishtailed a few of my Acura’s I owned - but only in winter. Once it happened in my old 2.3 CL when I was going around a ‘cloverleaf’ style on ramp to the freeway when I hit black ice. Back of the car got light, ended up sideways on the ramp but kept it all in check and carried on. Didn’t even spill my timmies (#justcanadianthings)

Also happened a few times in my RSX - once on a straight road. That happened after a snowfall and cold temps left some ruts in the road, rear caught the rut and started to make my car slide sideways.

Lots of times I could make fwd fishtail simply by ripping the ebrake, or letting off the gas and doing the Scandinavian flick at the same time.

Thanks you letting me know. I always rip the e break when I’m in and empty parking lot in winter and drift around.

If you’re driving on dirt it can be a problem. because the rear axle has no drive to it, letting off at the wrong time during a corner can spit you out

under normal circumstances, you need to drive like you deliberately want to give carguys a bad name, if you want the back te get loose. The 2 biggest reasons that could happen are snow and liftoff oversteer. this gets reinforced if you run crappy or worn rear tires. I’ve oversteered my E10 Corolla in the rain because my rear tires were so worn, they were basically slicks.

Ive fishtailed on gravel. I was doing 100 and went over a brow. Which was also a corner. The back end got very unhappy and i hadnt had much experience with fwd before then. I lost control and fishtailed before giving up trying to get it back and just letting it spin.

I could get my old fwd sideways on dry pavement. My suspension was setup to reduce understeer, and if you weren’t careful the rear would lighten up when I came off the throttle a bit. A normal stock fwd can do the same in the snow if you’re going too fast. There’s more weight over the front tires, hence more grip. My dad’s 2011 impala fishtailed on me in the snow a few times