Snow Schmoe. was Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!!

[juliemac57@hotmail.com (Julie Macfarlane)]

My best in the snow was a '69 bug. I drove past many 4 wheelers in snow 
banks   :) Gotta love it.
My old '81 Rocc was great. Even if it slid in a corner, it was easy to get 
traction and back in line. I drove it for 10 winters with out a problem.
I did practice a bit in parking lots though. Now a days all I have to say is 
"Look, a parking lot with snow" and reach for the handbrake and my daughter 
starts to scream...
I am not sure which is more fun, the screaming child or the handbrake turn   
:)



Julie Macfarlane
Menlo Park Research & Development
Internet Application Developer
Amsterdam NY





>From: drew <drew@dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca>
>To: Mike Eldred <meldred@vermontmedia.com>
>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Snow Schmoe. was Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!!
>Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:51:59 -0500 (EST)
>
>
>For the two winters that I had occasion to drive my Scirocco I found it to
>be second only to my 83 Jetta for sure-footedness in snow, slush and ice.
>I even have a shot of the car being buried in snow (24" snowfall, then
>heavily drifted) and then I drove it out without doing anything more than
>cleaning the windows off. Talk about a snowplow.
>
>My 83 Jetta rocked in the snow though - 165/85 snow tires gave it extra
>ground clearance, plus I had raised the back end about 1.5" which helped
>keep the car from getting hung up in deep snow.  The 1.6D had enough
>torque to pull through deep snow at low rpms so wheel slip was seldom a
>problem.  My two previous A1 Jettas (both GLis) also performed veru well
>in the snow.
>
>By comparison my 87 Jetta feels wont to slip and slide far easier than any
>A1 I've driven, even with the same tires.
>
>I commute through a notorious snowbelt, and for me the worst thing about
>winter is the lack of visibilty.  Whiteout conditions in snowsqualls are
>pretty common for us, and it's like having a sheet on your windshield.  It
>doesn't matter how well the car handles when you can't see where to point
>it.
>
>Drew
>
>On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Mike Eldred wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm with Ron, snow sucks.  It just means more back-breaking work to me.  
>(Why do I live in Vermont?)
> > But Sciroccos, at least in my limited experience, seem to have pretty 
>independent reactions to snow.
> > The first year I had my '86, I put new studded snowtires on it, thinking 
>that would be good enough to get me back and forth to work.  It was only 
>two or three miles, after all.  Well, I was wrong.  With even the slightest 
>amount of snow on the road, that thing was ready to start sliding sideways 
>out of control.  That year I adjusted my driving habits and times, and 
>managed to get through the winter without crashing.
> > The next year, I added a beater '82 Scirocco to the growing stable of 
>VWs.  My wife thought I was an idiot.  My position was that it didn't 
>matter if it slid off the road -it was a beater.  And I'd have some spare 
>parts for the '86 if it did meet with disaster.
> > Well, as usual, I was wrong again.  Even with the same tires and rims as 
>I used on the '86 the year before, the '82 was like snow-cat.  I don't even 
>feel the need to slow down in the snow -the '82 is as stable in the snow as 
>any 4-wheel drive I've ever owned.  I find myself passing people driving 
>SUVs (damn flat-landers!) who, judging from their snail-like pace and 
>frantic braking, seem to feel like they're about to shoot off the road at 
>any second.
> > Why are the two cars so different?  Beats me.  I think I've heard it 
>said on this list before, though:  They were all different, right off the 
>dealer's lot.  Apparently they still are, twenty years later.
> >
> > -Mike Eldred
> > Wilmington, VT
> > '86 SummerRocco
> > '82 WinterRocco
>
>Drew MacPherson - '84 Wolfsburg Edition Scirocco TurboDiesel
>
>
>
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