Winter Driving Tips
 

I thought this might be helpful.


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Damn, this is messed up. I bet some people would follow some of this advice, I'm saving these :D

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Winter sure can mess up your vehicle, but it’s the
impatience of getting it going that can do real damage.


The ones that give me a chuckle are.

Use your snow brush to hit & break a heavy layer of ice,
check out the parking’s in the spring for dented hoods &
roofs seems lot people still do this.

Pulling on your frozen door handle till something gives way,
I carry a small plastic spreader used for spreading filler/mastic
that work fine between the ice seal and the rubber door seals or
something simple like try another door.

Not sure I wholly agree with not using the Ebrake on ICE…
Im a dumb ass for using it 44 yrs now? At LOW speeds when
the ABS is freaking out and being useless I have no hesitation
on using it and slowing down side ways, hopefully snow or
other debris will jam up my locked wheels. But that choice is
mostly lost now with Electric EBrakes on new cars.
Need to choose what’s going to cost less,
Front end damage or curb damage…

I bought my house just because it had an inclined driveway to the road.
For those -30 mornings.

Don’t get me started with the Wiper salute more and more people use.
That’s the other use for my plastic spreader…

These are some great tips

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When I was a child (but embarrassingly, old enough to remember) I wanted to help my mother get the car ready in the morning, so I found a nice rock and scraped the ice from the windshield of her ‘77 Nova. I want to say I was in Kindergarten so I must have been about four or five.

Yup.... :(

I raise my wipers to make it easier to clean off the windshield. It saves me from burying my hand in the cold snow to dig out a wiper blade later. Why is this such a point of contention? If you like digging in the snow and getting cold wet hands, more power to you.

.. Was wondering when someone would comment about that…
Doesn’t bother me if you do that, its your car. :D

I think it comes down to personal habits or experience.
Kind of like arguing about Octane or the best tire.

One of the only times I did it the wiper blade became frozen with an arc
greater than the curve of the windshield so they were useless for a good 20 minutes.

Start the car and heat at max if the wipers are frozen to the glass then you need to scrape ALL the windows anyhow... Have to be patient, things break easier in the cold.

Winter is a great time for the use of gloves;
I don’t like getting my hands wet at -5 or below C or F.

Random news site give both sides of this argument: https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca...ore-a-snowfall

My worst winter car story on what not to do: Back in 1990 washed my car (89 Civic SI) and rinsed off the salt in the motor, Was a few degrees above freezing at the time,I was Working overnight then and by the time I started the car 8 hrs after the wash it was well below freezing. Engine turned over a few times almost caught but had awfull metallic tapping. Towed to the dealer they opened the motor to find water had gotten on the timing belt and had froze, bent 3 valves, covered on warranty. I don’t wash motors in the winter unless its in a heated garage.

I still have 2 feet of snow on the ground, when is it going to just go away and we start to complain about which color is hottest in the sun.

Ok ok, amatuers, I clearly have to explain to you all how to do this. Having survived one of the harshest Texas winters, the clear thing to do is NOT shovel your snow. And then proceed to drive through it. IF you spin out of control, bump into the guy in front of or beside you. They won't mind because, they too, are out there driving in the snow. Pro tip: floor the accelerator every time.

what's the best shovel to use in those extreme days where you get those insane snowfalls, totaling just over 1"?

Sharp shooters are the best!

Question time.
According to this article there are 4 types of winter tyre and according to TyreReviews on YouTube there are 3 types of winter tyre.

I've driven on snow only once. It was in Norway on fresh snow, no icy layer, and I was surprised at the level of grip. I had winter tyres on the car but I don't know what category they were. It was like driving on a slightly slippery gravel road. There was no drama whatsoever.

Does this mean all the strife I see on YouTube of people losing the plot when driving on snow is down to the wrong choice of tyres?

In many cases yes, yes it is.
There are probably hundreds of thousands of people living within an hour of me that although they have lived in the snowbelt for their whole life still think all seasons written on tires means winter is included. It does not. At least not around here. Maybe Seattle or some marginal place.
It isn't even really a matter of snow but temperature. Those nice all season tires become almost useless at anything below freezing. But still they drive on them and blame everything and everybody else in the world when they end up stuck or in a ditch. The number of times I have to stop and push some dipshit in an all wheel drive car with all season tires out of my way each year would blow your mind. They then stare at me in slack jawed disbelief as I drive away with no issues in my low little sports car.

Your article is from BC, they have real mountains with long distances between some communities, my sisters live there… The northern one has a few AWD vehicles available. Puts Studded winters + always have a set of chains available. Yet sometimes still gets stuck overnight at her local ski hill when the snowploughs get ditched sliding off the switchbacks and blocks any exit…

I used to work downtown and learnt to avoid any hills before the salt trucks have passed even with very good quality winters.

Norway seem to have Winter tire laws as well.
https://www.vegvesen.no/en/vehicles/...res-and-chains

Love watching those YouTube demolition displays.Proper tire or not if its heavely iced up nothing works and your just along for the ride.

And share Tcoats appraisal other drivers are just dipshits.
We have provincial winter tire laws in the last few years due to these dipshits not investing in proper tires for the seasonal conditions.