Hello All!

I'll tell you right away, I'm sorry.

Experience like 10 years already, I have always had
front-wheel drive cars, and that's got enough,
that the city is not cleaned, and in the winter around the city,
just not to drive, I decided to buy a jeep or SUV,
the choice fell on the 1997 Toyota RAV4 with 4WD.
Well, I drove it in the summer, very happy with it
that almost everywhere you can climb on it, and for
families and cottages just right. Cool cars.

And now winter has come ...
Well, I prepared for the winter (fluids, batteries, and suspension)
the car by itself, I also changed the tires for winter,
though not studded on the Michelin Alpine 4x4 (215/70 / R16).
In our city, the first snow and ice, as always,
as a natural disaster utilities, snow is not
they waited and did not know, in the evening the night was heavy rain,
then it snowed, in the morning there was already 10-15 cm of snow,
and at the same time, already frozen, and below there was ice.
I needed to go to the dacha with my mother-in-law in the morning, well, the car tore off
from the snow, started, drove off, well, the roads, as always, are not removed,
on the bend, ice blocks, and an ice slide on the road
with a comb. We are not us, we are in a jeep, I am glad that the car,
so good, rides through the snowdrifts, and goes through the snowy porridge,
well class car, supper. We left the city, well, as always,
out of habit with front-wheel drive, I'm flying 70 km / h, and I don't see
that on the road outside the city, the wind is strong and ice and crust.
Well, I’m flying, and at some point during a detour, I don’t remember what,
the car starts spinning (or drifting), out of habit
front-wheel drive, I press the gas pedal, I think, somehow get out
from this drifting, but nothing comes of it, ahead of me,
on the left lane, cars and a flight groove, well, I think, only
no matter how I fit in, figs with him that I will cure for the road,
there are snowdrifts, I'll slow down on them. In these thoughts,
I turn the steering wheel in different directions, I try to stabilize,
movement of the car, and get out of drifting, I get away from cars,
then I see that I am carried to the flight groove, drove,
he also sees that I'm carrying me sideways on him, let's leave,
from each other, thank God, they left, while I was carried by him,
it dawned on me that it was necessary to brake with the engine, i.e. on the gas pedal
you cannot press in this situation. It all happened
in some 1-2 seconds. The mother-in-law was sitting next to her, she said nothing,
I said to myself, well nafig it, got adrenaline,
I'll go back more carefully, this drifting is enough for me
With first snow.
One upset that I did not notice the number of the flight groove,
to drive up to apologize to him, and in gratitude
give a bottle.

Now the questions:
- What driving style should be and should be at constant full
drive?
- And what to do to avoid the turntable of the car
on a snowy road with ice? I myself understand that not to fly,
and if he was driving carefully, and got into that the car started spinning.
- Explain, I have never had a car with rear wheel drive,
driving style in the back is almost the same as on a constant
all-wheel drive?
- What is the best way to get out of an unintentional skid in a 4WD car?
Just take your foot off the gas pedal and brake the engine?
- And yet, I realized that for all-wheel drive and to drive out of town,
need SPOTLED rubber. Thorns, I think give less chance to
the car spun and would have been thrown out of the lane.

P.S: I understand that I did the wrong thing, I want to
so that this does not happen, here are the questions.

Thanks...
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With respect, Nicholai
Toyota RAV4 (left hand drive), year 1997, 3S-FE, manual transmission