Drive during the winter?
07-26-2005, 01:58 AM
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RE: Drive during the winter?
Well, it looks like I'm goin for a Truck for my first car...I really wish I could get a stang..but the winters are just to..well..what they are supposed to be. 4x4 truck seems to fit me right now..that is..until I can afford to cars.
07-26-2005, 02:00 PM
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RE: Drive during the winter?
ORIGINAL: orion6g
Oh, and just as a reply to Deannostang's post, front wheel drive cars are safer in the winter than rear wheel drive cars, you just have to know how to drive them. If you lose the front end of a front wheel drive car and feel like you are going to spin or even just slide sideways, all you have to do is let off the gas, countersteer, pull the e-brake to align the back wheels with the front again and then let off the e-brake and let your wheels start spinning again. You can get out of things in a rear wheel drive car, but you have a better chance of ending up in the other lane. Front wheel drives also pull your car through corners as opposed to rear which want to spin you around, thus you can drive faster with a front wheel. Take it from a Canadian, front wheel drives are safer, but rear wheel is a whole lot more fun
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Oh, and just as a reply to Deannostang's post, front wheel drive cars are safer in the winter than rear wheel drive cars, you just have to know how to drive them. If you lose the front end of a front wheel drive car and feel like you are going to spin or even just slide sideways, all you have to do is let off the gas, countersteer, pull the e-brake to align the back wheels with the front again and then let off the e-brake and let your wheels start spinning again. You can get out of things in a rear wheel drive car, but you have a better chance of ending up in the other lane. Front wheel drives also pull your car through corners as opposed to rear which want to spin you around, thus you can drive faster with a front wheel. Take it from a Canadian, front wheel drives are safer, but rear wheel is a whole lot more fun
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Back to the point of this post.....I drive my car all winter with good snow tires on it. All season tires are junk!!!!! they are NO season tires.....crappy in the snow and crappy in the heat [:'(]
Buy summer and winter tires.
07-27-2005, 07:58 PM
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RE: Drive during the winter?
I love this post, man! Good to hear from some of our more northern members. All these comments, including my own, are based solely on personal experience. MikeHawke hit the nail on the head about the cop cars. They both handle better at high speed and in crap weather than front wheel drive cars. You just have to have the right set-up for real winter driving as well as real summer driving....thank you, agian, MikeHawke. The cops have totally different rubber for winter than summer.
Bottom line, your personal driving technique in winter weather is far more important than what you drive. I see every winter here in Upstate New York 4-wheel drive SUV's off the road and sometimes upside down. You can spin off the road in the right conditions no matter what you drive! Most dumb SOB's that hog the road with their expensive, overweight SUV's don't really have a cue how to drive under ANY conditions, let alone snow. You just slide off the road with 4 wheels spinning instead of 2....BFD. If any of you Mustang doubters out there tried the Tire Rack method of matching winter wheel/tire combinations in the bad winter weather, I think you would be shocked how good the Mustang is capable of handling. BUT, you always need a soft foot on your pedals and have to learn to TAKE IT EASY.
Bottom line, your personal driving technique in winter weather is far more important than what you drive. I see every winter here in Upstate New York 4-wheel drive SUV's off the road and sometimes upside down. You can spin off the road in the right conditions no matter what you drive! Most dumb SOB's that hog the road with their expensive, overweight SUV's don't really have a cue how to drive under ANY conditions, let alone snow. You just slide off the road with 4 wheels spinning instead of 2....BFD. If any of you Mustang doubters out there tried the Tire Rack method of matching winter wheel/tire combinations in the bad winter weather, I think you would be shocked how good the Mustang is capable of handling. BUT, you always need a soft foot on your pedals and have to learn to TAKE IT EASY.
07-27-2005, 08:16 PM
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RE: Drive during the winter?
Drove mine with bald tires in the ice. All of the sudden started doing it while I was at work. Needless to say once you get them going and you go 10-15mph you're alright. Don't go much faster so if you do wreck it it's not hurt as bad. I did have to stop for a redlight and got stuck through 8 cycles while burning the tires having the car eventually at a 90deg. angle blocking both left turn lanes.
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