While the Polar Vortex has had much of the country in a vice grip, its impact has created a new condition: The Pothole Vortex.
Road divots that turn the infrastructure into mega-holed golf courses do not allow for a luxury experience to say the least…unless of course one is driving the 2014 Lincoln MKZ.
The MKZ has a special pothole defense mechanism within its standard continuously controlled damping (CCD) suspension, which provides some protection against jarring impact and costly wheel/tire repairs from the dreaded highway pit falls.
NORMAL CONDITIONS:
The CCD system on the Lincoln
MKZ monitors 46 inputs every
2 milliseconds, providing real-time data to quickly adjust the shocks
to deliver an optimum blend of
ride and handling.
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POTHOLE DETECTED:
In the event the wheel drops rapidly, indicating it is dropping into a pothole, the specially developed “pothole algorithm” software of the CCD system of the Lincoln MKZ applies additional damping to the shocks that keeps the tire and wheel from dropping as deeply
into the pothole.
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LESS-HARSH REACTION
The result is that because the tire and wheel does not drop as deeply into the pothole, the tire and wheel does not strike the opposite side of the pothole as harshly, mitigating
the effects of many events.
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