Originally Posted by Medic-Box (Post 3722367)

With winter on the way and snow just less than a week away, its time to prepare... But how? And what things do we take into consideration when the roads get as bad as they do. I thought I'd start this little thread for people like me who have just moved up to Michigan from Miami (Dont ask but the move was nessecary!) and are about to experince my first winter.


SALT & METAL </3
Wash car regular, especially the underbody to remove salt and the like. DONT FORGET YOUR RIMS, I bought my xb from up here and can see where salt got on the lip and just ate away lol.

BANG your stuck in a snowditch! Do we need to keep food,snax and drinks in the car just incase?
nahhh, for the most part you'd be out the ditch fairly quickly. We're used to that kind of stuff up here and tow trucks are fairly quick

Beware Black Ice....
wtf is that? are we discriminating? Why isn't white ice just as bad? or yellow for that matter :rofl:
black ice is scarier than white ice for the fact that when the roads get wet, they turn almost black from the moisture. (especially on asphalt, and especially at night) Black ice blends in with the road so you don't even know you're on ice until you're in the said ditch above.

Are you guys cancelling your car meets?
Or just lowering the times per month u meet?
don't know the answer to these because i've never been able to make it to a meet because i live 45 minutes from the meets and they're not on days when i can

If we're lowered is it really a problem?
Will we become the neighborhood plow if we're lowered or does it not really make a difference?
for the most part (don't know exactly where you live) but the streets are plowed well. If you're driving through an excessive amount of snow, it's because we just got dumped on and theres nothing you can do about it. I've spoken with people from other states where there is a lot of snow and being lowered and have said theres nothing really to worry about. Potholes in michigan are probably scarier.

I have low profile tires, but great tread... will i have a problem?
like stated above the roads are cleared mainly, but all you really have to do, is slow down and be careful.

Lets say I start to lose control, we have front wheel drive, which way do we stear, into the spin or away? oooo and i have manual transmission what can that do to help?
you turn the wheel whichever way will make your wheels go straight with the road. so if your back wheels are sliding out towards the passenger side, and your car is facing the drivers side of the road, you would turn your wheel as if you were making a right hand turn. but not too much because it'll over compensate and you'll do the same thing but the other direction.

:shock::shock::shock:

So as you can see, not really prepared yet for winter, but I'm working on it, if you can answer any questions or add more questions to be answered let me know and Ill edit this post to make a kind of Winter Survival Guide for your Scion

Originally Posted by Medic-Box (Post 3724009)

thanks but i enjoy more than 2 mpgs LOL jkjk.... or am I? Muahahahah