About RWD cars durin ND winters
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Every single one of you is my bitch come winter time :icon_jokercolor:
RWD in the winter is just not a good idea up here unless you invest in the BEST (or at least some good) winter tires, keep some extra weight in the back, and/or drive like a grandma. Even then you can still get into trouble. It can be done, but it's just not that cool. Oh yeah, if you do decide to do it, keep a small shovel, pair of gloves, tow rope, and some floor dry/kitty litter in your car.
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its not only that, but i am assuming he lives om base, and seeing as how i am from the Minot area, you guys have NO idea what that 8 mile streach of road looks like in the winter. It is actually quite funny. It looks like a damn yard sale of cars in the ditch, and 4x4's included. I am willing to bet that even if he gets a winter beater, that will end up in the ditch too. Not trying to be a dick, that is just how it is up there. So my vote is a cheap ass winter car that wont piss you off if you stick it in the ditch, cuz you are gonna.
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Yep Bader is correct. Some factors are traction, vehicle height, driver ability, and every other (its my first winter in nd driver). that road is bad, and i have lived in nd and montana for the better part of my life. i drive a 04 chevy truck with lift,tires and the works...doesnt mean shit on ice. with a nice average of below zero air temp, it does some funny stuff to radial tires, snow tires a answer, well sorta, my bud runs Blizzaks, they are great tires, the answer to the usual snow drifts that the city leaves when they decide to plow the roads, no. And you are definitely gonna want a winter vehicle beside that S2000. oh and not knowing where you are from but two words for you that you are gonna hear and gonna want on your winter car if you decide to go that route Block Heater.
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aight, dam this sucks.....lol. i think ill just hide on base during the winter.... >< ill try and drive around a parkin lot too during winter and play around for a bit just to get a hang of the black ice. it sucks that i dont have any interest in gettin a AWD or FWD car or truck.... i cant drive a car i dont like, thats why im chosing a bad car for winter from what you guys are saying. i know this winter will pwn my car... haha. and im scared of the salt too....
and yeah, im gettin a block heater.
thanks for the info/tips
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2FNLOUD wrote:
Block Heater.
HAHA, there is alot of truth in that, that made me laughrendition wrote:
aight, dam this sucks.....lol. i think ill just hide on base during the winter.... >< ill try and drive around a parkin lot too during winter and play around for a bit just to get a hang of the black ice. it sucks that i dont have any interest in gettin a AWD or FWD car or truck.... i cant drive a car i dont like, thats why im chosing a bad car for winter from what you guys are saying. i know this winter will pwn my car... haha. and im scared of the salt too....Well, handling at low speeds is easy, it is the time that you are running even 40, when all the sudden the back end decides it wants to pass the front for no reason. You see people with Trucks and 4x4's who think they will not go in the ditch, but they do. I used to drive a RWD Ford Turbo-Coupe, and had 75 lbs of sand bags in the trunk with good snow tires. I got around pretty decent, but you have to plan your routes much more carfully, and drive like your grandpa. Slow for a stoplight 10X sooner than you usually do in the summer, accelerate much slower and smoothly as well as have very fine and precise steering input. Now these are all things you have to do to keep the car normal. There IS alot of FUN that can come from slick roads too. On a nice day when you know the raod, hang that fucker sideways and power all the way around a long sweeper corner.
Side Note: ND does not typically use SALT unless the ice becomes aboslutely unbearable. They often just use sand.
Interesting Side Note: They used Beat Juice in Fargo to melt ice last winter, looked like someone Pooped on the road.
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I would go out and get a dodge omni. I drove one delivering pizza a couple of winters ago and they get around great. You shouldn't have to pay more than $100 for one, and no one will care if something happens and there's one less omni in the world.
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rendition wrote:
also, how much can the convertable rag top handle? this may sound stupid, but i have no idea on how strong those things are. i will keep it in a safe spot, but i just want to know if it is easily destroyed from winter storms if i get into one.
Should be fine, however, they don't heat as well as normal cars. -
Well idrove my s2000 in the winter once and well look at my sig..... I went up a snow bank, the abs blows ass in the winter and the car is weird so you kinda have to rev it to get it moving. so with that said it is hard to slowly take off with out spinning. so just by a crappy winter beter
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I dunno, I had never driven on snow before, and I survived in my old 89 fastback. Had Kumho Ecsta tires on it, non-abs car.
Never put it in the ditch, but then again, I never did anything stupid with it during the winter. Well, as long as there were cars around, at least.
Almost ditched it in front of the Emerado police office at 2AM, though. Heh, and I had the rear interior removed too, now that I think about it.
-Peter
1991 240SX
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