When you're braking in
fresh snow they reckon that you can stop better by locking up and the snow that builds up in front of the wheels will slow/stop the car quicker, when electronic ABS was still relatively new you could turn it off on Audis (?), AFAIK nobody gives you that option anymore. Overall though you're going to stop sooner with ABS than without it. When we had the last lot of snow, the Astra I was using didnt have ABS and although I think you drive differently because you know that it's now back up to you & you can't let the electrickery take over I always managed to stop, cadence braking if need be.
I found myself doing almost the same as Chris the other week. Even though it was -4
o at 0630 it rained for as few minuntes as I was driving to work

The roads turned to an instant ice rink. I braked to turn right but just carried on in a straight line with the ABS kicking away getting no where!! :-? It's a good job it was as early as it was & there were very few cars on the road, particularly in front of me.
