How much would it cost to install absat teh dealer.

 

Sell your car and buy one w/ ABS. It is cheaper. I would guess upwards of $1500.

 

I doubt you would be able to find a dealer willing to retrofit ABS to your car.

 

I like not having abs. In panic situations, I get a better feel of what my car is going to do.

 

For the money you'd spend retrofitting ABS you could just buy wider rims with good rubber. I have ABS but i dont think i could activate it on dry pavement and my tires are just 235's.

 

Lots and lots of crunches and leg lifts.

 

ABS sucks you have the ABS doing stuff you don't wanted to do. F ABS

 

Somebody doesn't know what their talking about....

A little research might make you a smarter person.

A grammer lesson might make you appear smarter as well.

 

Clearly words from a person that has never actually had a full panic braking situation.

 

I would still have my old car if it had ABS. My wheels locked up in the rain and lost control of the car. I couldn't stop in time and ran into a lady that had ABS w/ 4 wheel disk brakes. She came to an extremely fast stop out of no where for a cat that was about to cross the street. When your front wheels lock up on a slippery surface you can't turn either at least not in my old car. In normal conditions my car would have stopped in time with ease but with road being slippery and a downhill decent on top of that can be a really ugly mixture. The insurance put it down as my fault so I didnt get a penny for my first accident after 5 years of driving. My car was left with bumper hanging off and the headlamp cracked while she was left with just scratch. In a panic situation ABS can save lives. Hopefully they will make all cars standard with ABS.

 

grammar...

 

You know, everyone has different opinions on different stuff. I don't like ABS, so the people that talk S_hit Sham on you. Its not like i am writing a Essay for college. Anything else you wana say...... Say it Now......

 

Sence this isnt' a colege essaye, I dont kned to kno english.

 

Yeah, I used to not think that I needed it. Well, one time in another car(not my max) I had an emergency braking situation on the interstate in 5:00 traffic where everyone just locks up their brakes ( and if you don't get hit from the back, you hit someone from behind.....one of those types of situations...ha ha). Mine locked up and I slid like 40 feet into the back of this truck. It didn't do anything to the truck, of course, but trashed my little Mazda 626.

Anyway, my max right now does not have ABS. I wish it did, just for that reassurance. I mean, I have a standard shift, so I have pretty good control of it, but there are just sometimes when that is not enough.

Good tires have a ton to do with you stopping on time. The more water the tires repel, in order to stay on the actual ground, the better chance they have of not locking up. What actually happens in kind of like a minature hydroplaning.

 

i don't have ABS on my Max and I'm happy about that

 

Hmmm, there must be a reason that insurance companies give you a little discount for having ABS and it isn't because they manufacture the systems... and do give me that nonsense that you can stop in a more controlled fashion without ABS. While it is true that the shortest stopping distance is obtained with all four tires locked up, you then have absolutely no directional control. The only people who can stop better without ABS are seasoned race drivers and maybe 1 percent of people on the road.

 

You guys that think ABS is bad or that you can brake better than ABS are totally ignorant. Educate yourselves before making an unbackable statement like that. The ONLY exception would be if you are driving in dirt/sand. When the wheels lock up the sand/dirt builds up in front of the tires and actually slows the vehicle quicker. But that is the only exception. On the street, no human can brake better than a computer.

 

i got almost all the parts from a maxima for sale. so you would need the wiring and the hoses and i have the main unit with sensors and the computer for abs also. you want it?

 

actually, before i bought my maxima i had a 99 passat with abs, and when i needed to panic brake, i hated the pulse i felt through the brake pedal, and i couldn't feel the road, if you will. with the max and no abs, if i slam the pedal down to the ground, i know exactly what the car is going to do - and instead of abs pulsing the calipers for me, i can handle the braking duties on my own. obviously there are going to be arguments for both sides, as with any topic of discussion...

 

wait a sec - isn't this ? in the FAQ's or something?

http://forums.maxima.org/showpost.ph...6&postcount=10

 

ABS has saved my car from collision at least 4 times especially on snow and wet roads. I was ambivalent to ABS until my first experience with it engaged. Now I will never buy a vehicle without ABS.

 

I would prefer if my car had abs, but it doesn't so I deal.... I think the next thing that car companies should work on is something that instead of locking and unlocking the brakes however many times per second, it should under full out braking, actually control the force applied so that the tires are at their limit of traction. (If im not mistaken, this is the point at which you stop the fastest.) I'm sure its possible, probably would be hard to create a system to do this, but it's definitly possible. I hope that made sense to people, cause it does in my head.. heh.

 

That's the entire point of ABS.

You dont need to feel the road or anything. All you need to do is plant your foot to the floor and steer.

 

Is there someting on the VIN number or somewhere else that tells you if that car has ABS?

 

I don't think it's in the VIN, I actually doubt it is. My newly acquired 96 5spd has ABS.

 

If you have ABS, an ABS light will briefly come on as you turn the car on. If it's not there, then you don't have it

All 4th gens in NZ came stock with ABS