Redass - not sarcastic, it's actually a really good vehicle in the snow, and very reliable (like all Toyota's!). I don't know why you think I'd look 'like a dork' in it, it's a sensible family vehicle, but then I'm not really the type who worries about how I look in my car to strangers. What are you, 16?

 

I did not mean to insult your honor. I am sorry.

 

Hey Deano thanks for your info, I live in Jersey and am looking to get a 2005 mustang it would be my one and only car and winter days do worry me as i drive on 287 5 days a week. Looking at snow tires will be my first investment.

 

well if your not an a$$hole driver in the snow, your fine to drive in the winter. Throw some all season tires on and/or some sandbags in the trunk and ur good to go. Trust me i know, Jersey Winters suck

 

Im not as A$$hole driver but i used to have a 87 V8 when i was 17 hopefully traction is better on the 05's and hopefully my ability to control it is better lol

 

Jykav99, a 2005 is supposed to be the first genuine "all season" Mustang as rated by all the auto magazines. Number one they come with what is rated at Tire Rack as the best all around M+S tire.....Pirelli P-Zero Nero's. They are standard on all 2005 GT's. Very good tire with very good tire wear rating as well. Just check out this rating:

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....re1=yes#Survey

Also 2005's are supposed to have a newer, improved version of traction control. However, if you want to save your summer tires and wheels from all the little nasties of winter, by all means still go the Tire Rack winter wheel/tire thing.

Enjoy your '05!

 

Hey man,

I just bought an '05 mustang and I live in Fort St. John in northern BC, Canada (~500 km south of alaska). I'm going to be driving it in the winter, you just have to make sure that it has been undercoated and get some good snow and ice radials and get studs in the back tires (if you have to drive on ice). Lots of mustangs drive all year round up here (if you live in the states and have ever been through a mountain pass, picture 10 times worse and you have a BC mountain pass). The biggest part is to know have to drive in slipper conditions, I cannot stress this enough. Practice in parking lots when the conditions are bad. I used to have an '89 toyota tercel and I never put it in the ditch (I drove that car over the speed limit through icy,windy roads and saw vehicles that are wayyy better in the winter than mine in the ditch). One thing I can say is that neither me nor any of my friends have ever seen a mustang in the ditch before, and there are lots of them up north. If you can drive good in the winter, you'll be a way better driver in the summer, trust me.

 

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 .

 

Mustangs are horrible in the snow!!!!And traction contol is even worse if you try to use that it wont even move.I wouldnt plan on it being a good winter car thats for sure

 

I have 5 good friends, each drive a somewhat high horsepower mustang as their daily driver and none of em have had any prob in the winter, just had to keep fresh rubber and take it easy, but of course no matter what youre driving in the winter you have to take it easy. Its all about smart driving!!! just a side note, I have 2 friends with camaros which were both outta comission last winter cause neither of them could get out of their driveways so they both had to take the bus, so I had fun last year![sm=laughat.gif]