i feel your pain...imo the roads are sliker then there were when it snowed / iced...i couldnt even make it up my driveway last night becasue the thing was complretly iced over.
i saw an 03/04 yellow cobra out and abouut driving around today to...it had a cobra R wing on it
As a 5.0 owner near Chicago since 1987, I can attest to the fact that winter is terrible on cars that were never intended for it. The Mustang is a toy in our environment, and should be used for that purpose. As the guy who puts the salt on I80 for IDOT to the Illinois/Indiana state line, I can attest that the only reason you, or the police, or fire dept., or any ambulance, or the pizza delivery guy, can go anywhere safely in our winter conditions is because there is salt on the road. Indot(Indiana's state plows) don't use the personell/ materials we do, and they have a helluva lot more accidents because of it.
i got you beat man. i was spinnin like crazy here in missouri, kicked up all kinds of snow trying to back out of a parking spot. i ont have mudflaps for the snow going that way! so my doors and everything under the little bumper strip dealy are covered in slush. which of course dries and makes my reef blue car look like a gray piece of crap!
Just last week it was 70 degrees in the afternoon, started raining, and then all the cold air came down from canada and the temp dropped 50 degrees in an hour. the rain turned to snow, the snow melted, and froze overnight....
BTW mustangs are great alternatives to snow mobiles and i recommend everyone here drive their high powered rwd cars with skinny tires everywhere when its snowy out.
Just last week it was 70 degrees in the afternoon, started raining, and then all the cold air came down from canada and the temp dropped 50 degrees in an hour. the rain turned to snow, the snow melted, and froze overnight....
BTW mustangs are great alternatives to snow mobiles and i recommend everyone here drive their high powered rwd cars with skinny tires everywhere when its snowy out.
Haha, I kind of have the same thing going. I have a '95 1 ton chevy diesel that I use for work/winter driving that's in really nice shape/clean (rare for around my parts) and it's starting to get a little rust at the bottoms of the drivers door. Gonna have to have body work done to a 13 year old truck instead of going on a winter vacation this year because I'm anal about my work truck
I had to look three times before I realized this didn't say "IDIOT."
Ice is worse than snow. Salt is worse than ice. And the only thing worse than all three are the retards out there driving in all of that crap that don't know how to handle their vehicles, and go plowing into other folks on the road. This is one of the reasons I do NOT miss living in the Midwest.
(However, as I deal with blind/deaf/dumb snowbirds and illegals with no license/insurance or a friggin' clue how to drive in AZ, I'm starting to wonder if the roads down here are more hazardous year-yound than Missouri's are only in winter.
I feel bad for you guys, I have no idea what that weather is like. The coldest it got here was 30 degrees at night, and that was back in January. It's been in the mid to upper 60's the last 2 weeks, around 40 is the lowest at night. I can't wait for summer, and can't wait for the weeks straight of 115 degree temps!
thats what i try to do too. Its not my onwly way around, i could drive my truck, and i probably would, but i only have room in my garage for one car, so my truck sat out, and someone broke into it and stole the head unit. i took the truck back home so that they dont try to steal anything else. besides, the bastard gets like 10 mpg city, my mustang can do 16-18, so the money savings is really welcome. still though, gotta take it to the do-it-yourself car wash once a week and clean her up!