So scary

driving into the snow looks cool through the winshield, but its scary driving cause it makes me sleepy

We got sudden weather change signs here that frigging mean it

Goin up a mountain its all sunshine and lollipops

Then its hail and fog on a 12% grade goin down switchback

MN with all its lakes means a lot of bridges over streams, channels, and such, and those always Ice up first so theres signs

Yes be very careful on any suspended roadway

They get a lot colder than the rest of the road

So little thermal mass means it cools quicker

Very dangerous

Yeah it heats up fast to and ices over when it cools again

and it's usually a narrowed section of road too, for cost savings, so it's already a more dangerous section then the rest

Winter driving ain't no joke

all in all, bridges are bad juju

Drive well below the speed limit lol

I'm driving a fwd minivan for the time being, got winters on the front and all seasons on the back (all the shop had at the moment and mine were bald)

Better than bald man

so I putt around with 200 lbs of sand and salt bags in the back to keep it planted

You dont want bald tires in the winter you will probably kill someone sliding into them

Oh absolutely

even in the summer, you hydroplane on anything more than a misting at highway speeds

Hydroplaning is so scary

Slush is very very dangerous too

Avoid slush

My traction control was kicking in when I was accelerating anything more than gentle from a stop, so I bit the bullet and got em done that afternoon. We had snow coming down for a couple weeks right after that so I really didnt want to risk shopping around and losing these two i found

two winter tires i mean

Yeah its always worth it to just get em on

As many as you can at least lol

man i remember one of the winters here the roads were nothing but ice rinks

I got myself a set of rims from a wrecker and pit my winters on em so I dont have to pay for the switch

literally skating with your car

Any kind of acceleration is a slip probably lol

I planned on doing that but also consider the likelihood that this van dies this winter anyways

Don't drive rear wheel drive in the winter if you can avoid it

my current vehicle is all wheel drive, thank god

Or at the very least dies before next winter. I'll burn up these tires next summer just because of my lack of confidence it'll last another year

I'm looking into an awd ford taurus next

And is good. They are a little more on gas tho since its always on

Awd

cheap parts, reliable everything, and plenty of police bull bars as cheap deer catchers

Gotta watch for them dummies lol