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Old 12-15-2018, 12:27 PM   #15
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everything has it's high points and low points. i'm in the midwest..

a preschool teacher i know once polled her class of 3-4 year old's, and they unanimously agreed they hated snow. most of them barely knew what snow was at that point. but their parents were always complaining about it, so they knew to hate it.

my parents never taught me to hate snow, so i usually still go find reasons to take the cars out and play in it!
Yeah me too, I try to come up with reasons to go out and drive around while it's at the high point of a storm. I don't take the BRZ though
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Old 12-18-2018, 06:15 PM   #16
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I would at least have all seasons up front. The reverse of this I did in my FWD cars and just put winter tires up front, was ok even with summers in the rear.
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I would at least have all seasons up front. The reverse of this I did in my FWD cars and just put winter tires up front, was ok even with summers in the rear.
Please don't anybody else ever do this. This is a very dangerous thing to do (and also not what the OP was asking about.)
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All this dog sledding talk has got me jealous of you Northern folk....stinking Florida. I can't wait to move away from this stupid equator so I can have dogs pulling me around in the snow!
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everything has it's high points and low points. i'm in the midwest..

a preschool teacher i know once polled her class of 3-4 year old's, and they unanimously agreed they hated snow. most of them barely knew what snow was at that point. but their parents were always complaining about it, so they knew to hate it.

my parents never taught me to hate snow, so i usually still go find reasons to take the cars out and play in it!
Snow is nice when you want to play but for most people that is well under 1% of their time spent dealing with it. Nobody needs to be "taught" to hate snow most of the time. That dogsled fun (for the about .00000001% of the population that does it) is a shit load (literally) of work and money for very brief periods of sport. Sure snow can be fun to drive in when it is nice and fresh and your whole purpose is to go hoon a bit. Not fun at all when you need to go to work through dirty slush and have to stop every block to push some moron in an AWD BMW on all season tires out of your way to continue on. Also not a blast to have to get up half an hour to an hour early every tie it snows overnight so that you can clear your car and attempt to go someplace. Let's talk about the joys of moving 3 foot drifts out of the driveway and sidewalk while a -20 degree wind suck all the worth out of your body. Just when you get the drive clear the plow will go by and pile a 4 foot high bank of rock solid ice and snow across the end of the drive and you get to play with that for an hour or two. That can not be anybody's idea of "fun". Anybody that lives in an area that sees snow in any volume knows that it damages their home, trees and anything else that is outside. We won't even start on what the salt they HAVE to use to keep the streets clear does to everything it touches. A good part of your municipal taxes go to snow removal and that means other infrastructure will suffer or you will pay even more.
So ya snow is great if you only get small amounts a couple of times a year or have only ever seen it on TV or Christmas cards. The rest of us think it SUCKS the majority of the time.
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I wouldn't be so sure on salt as only alternative. AFAIK it's just cheaper alternative to plowing + spreading gravel, which is more common in eg. scandinavian countries. Damaging for anything outside, including cars & footwear .. but well, that's "our problems", it's cheaper for municipalities to enhance grip on roads by just spraying salt .
I still love snow/ice driving though, and am more like waiting forward to it every autumn. With good & right tires cars are DD easy enough. But fun part of tracking gets much cheaper.
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I wouldn't be so sure on salt as only alternative. AFAIK it's just cheaper alternative to plowing + spreading gravel, which is more common in eg. scandinavian countries. Damaging for anything outside, including cars & footwear .. but well, that's "our problems", it's cheaper for municipalities to enhance grip on roads by just spraying salt .
I still love snow/ice driving though, and am more like waiting forward to it every autumn. With good & right tires cars are DD easy enough. But fun part of tracking gets much cheaper.
Oh they plow as well. My phrasing may have been off a bit but the alternatives are either way to costly or already used in conjunction with salt. The problem we face here is that we get wildly fluctuating temperatures so just sand or gravel doesn't work as it sinks through when warm and then is covered by ice again when freezes. They do try to use it alone when they can though.
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Alternatives cost more .. but those costs aren't moved upon car owners unlike with salt. I hate to see in city even new cars after 3-4 years show signs of rust, when on countryside even some known rust queens opels easily last 20-30 years with almost no rust at all.. simply because they don't salt there roads
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I dunno what you guys are talking about. They don't salt the roads at all here in Chicago...

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Speaking of salt....I can't remember, are we supposed to put salt in our eyes?
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I dunno what you guys are talking about. They don't salt the roads at all here in Chicago...

And there is the ever popular beet juice/salt/sand combo that we use.
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Salt will fend off ghosts though. After all, municipalities also have exorcist duties, or otherwise why would taxes be that high? To protect citizens from unnatural, obviously.
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I dunno what you guys are talking about. They don't salt the roads at all here in Chicago...

Exactly why I bought a silver car. lol
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Exactly why I bought a silver car. lol
Yeah, but then you don't get to see all your cool airflow lines!

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I have to say .. in these salt pics cars end up looking SO fugly .. but i like how their owners use them all year round for transportation & fun instead of garaging them off
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