Winter Driving

[MiloMorai]

I have no idea what you guys are blabbing about.

Spiked or studded tires have metal pieces (think nails/screws) inserted into the tread.



How do you think those ice racers go so fast on ice? But, they have many more than shown in the pic.

Studs tear the heck out of pavement

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[MrRiplEy[H]]

I captured this last few days
up here we got temperatures below -30 degrees, snow,ice and nobs.

Luckily -30 is rare in our parts. It's insane how stiff the car gets at that temperature not to mention the wear and tear it causes to the parts. At that kind of temperatures a flat tyre or small breakdown can get you in a world of hurt, literally.

At -30 it starts to get hard to even start the engine without preheating. This was the only time I could be happy about my teenage years' old 200 000mile beater BMW, it sucked gas like a sponge but started at -30 after standing there for 3 days under a pile of snow. With the first turn of the key, without fail everytime. Just as it was +30 outside.

I still remember one occasion when I left home with friends and they were laughing 100% sure the thing wouldn't even crank.. it snapped into running faster than their brand new, already warmed up cars. However that is the _only_ good thing I can say about that piece of junk! 

[Sincraft]

LOL at the people jumping out of the cars.  Mother nature missed THIS time.

[ghi]

At -30 it starts to get hard to even start the engine without preheating.

I didn't stop my engine since Monday, was cold this week on transcanada hwy,but not bad, I used to pick up loads of beef around Edmonton,Alberta and sometimes my temperature control unit was running on "defrost", pushing warm air to maintain the temperature at 0"F(-18'Celsius), until i got south of Calgary or to Montana.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I didn't stop my engine since Monday, was cold this week on transcanada hwy,but not bad, I used to pick up loads of beef around Edmonton,Alberta and sometimes my temperature control unit was running on "defrost", pushing warm air to maintain the temperature at 0"F(-18'Celsius), until i got south of Calgary or to Montana.

Umm.. did you mean -30F? That's sick man.. get out while you still have your ears and toes in place.. 

[vorticon]

good winter tires, FWD and some common sense...never had any real trouble in winter.  heck, i have just as good traction on packed snow as i do on gravel, and the snow is a helluva lot more predictable.

[Lye-El]

Took my wife two trys to get out of the Driveway with a 4WD Doge Ram pickup. The neighbor across the street didn't make it out of his  drive way with his 4WD pickup and spent a half hour getting jerked out by another pickup.  Heck of a storm yesterday in Michigan.

Out my front door.