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I am saying that the Blizzaks made a RWD vehicle better than with all Season tires. I am also saying that AWD made Blizzaks unnecessary. I would ASSUME you might be better off with BOTH AWD and Blizzaks although I have not done that combination.
Are you saying that your C7 drives better than an AWD vehicle if both are loaded with All Season tires?
We only drive a Corvette on salty roads if we are headed toward a warm snowbird place, and I spend an hour or two washing everything, especially underneath, when we arrive. We used our C5 as a daily driver all year around in Chicago salt for 5 years/65k miles, the upper parts were still good and the bottom not too bad, but I felt like I was abusing the car.
Starting in cold weather will produce extra wear on the engine, but it seems tolerable. Note the temperature shown on the C6 screen below. It did take the coolant a while to warm up and the oil took longer but eventually it got there. That one was still running fine when traded at 102k miles,
OK. So to get the C7 somewhere decent, I have to have a set of rims and tires sitting around and switch it during winter and back again at spring is what I'm hearing you say. Yeah. BTDT.
OK. So to get the C7 somewhere decent, I have to have a set of rims and tires sitting around and switch it during winter and back again at spring is what I'm hearing you say. Yeah. BTDT.
Correct. And I do the same for my AWD SUV as anyone sensible would do.
I'm a rural mail carrier, 30 years now. Saw a young teen boy stuck at the end of his drive today in a FWD Impala. He was out there with a shovel doing his best. I circled back in my Jeep and offered to pull him out but there was so much snow packed up in there it wasn't going to happen fast. He wanted me to hop in and push me. Told him to hold up on pushing but let me give in a shot. He'd obviously just been gunning it and hoping for the best. I started rocking it and see sawing the wheel back and force and made headway. Took me a few minutes and he eventually had to push for a few feet but we got it out. Very polite and very thankful young man for giving him a hand. He couldn't believe I got it out.
Old man knowledge you man. Old man knowledge.Felt good to help him, especially him being a good kid and knowing how to say thanks.
This was Friday morning took the Wife to work...REMOTE START best invention ever.....I'm in Cleveland about a mile north of Hopkins Airport...ended up at minus 10 that that morning broke a record from 1873 actually shattered that record it was minus 4...we have 42 inches of snow so far this season compared to 21 inches all of last season. My hasn't been out since Nov. 3 or 4 and it doesn't look good anytime soon. I gotta quit reading you guys post from down South and the 80 degree days cause I'm Jonesing here in the North
This was Friday morning took the Wife to work...REMOTE START best invention ever.....I'm in Cleveland about a mile north of Hopkins Airport...ended up at minus 10 that that morning broke a record from 1873 actually shattered that record it was minus 4...we have 42 inches of snow so far this season compared to 21 inches all of last season. My hasn't been out since Nov. 3 or 4 and it doesn't look good anytime soon. I gotta quit reading you guys post from down South and the 80 degree days cause I'm Jonesing here in the North
Correct. And I do the same for my AWD SUV as anyone sensible would do.
I just noticed you were in Calgary. Years ago, when we were in Perrault Falls, Ontario for a hunt, we had a lot of rural roads. So maybe, if I had snow and rural road conditions, snow tires would be the sensible thing to do even for an AWD car. We are more urban and we don't drive rural roads unless it is in the summer on a trike so maybe that is the difference where AWD or even 4WD is sufficient?
I have something that helps keep the weatherstrip supple and it also seems like it does not stick as much when I send the vehicles for a wash.
I use the spray and wash manually. And I just leave the car running when I wash it. So the stripping doesn't freeze. I go straight home after, my garage is cold, but not that cold (20's is fine)
This was Friday morning took the Wife to work...REMOTE START best invention ever.....I'm in Cleveland about a mile north of Hopkins Airport...ended up at minus 10 that that morning broke a record from 1873 actually shattered that record it was minus 4...we have 42 inches of snow so far this season compared to 21 inches all of last season. My hasn't been out since Nov. 3 or 4 and it doesn't look good anytime soon. I gotta quit reading you guys post from down South and the 80 degree days cause I'm Jonesing here in the North
Oh my.... My Ford Touch. I like Sync 3 and Sync 4 but the MFT in my Focus ST was, ehh, only OK. It sometimes liked to crash...
Felt good to help him, especially him being a good kid and knowing how to say thanks.
