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Snow Schmoe. was Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!!
i want a mom like you!! hehe
well, i get to drive my mom's truck in the snow sometimes (falken
ze-502s on the roc...snow tires...yeah) and thats interesting. just call
me colin. colin macrae :D
rhys
Julie Macfarlane wrote:
> 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 :)
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> Julie Macfarlane
> Menlo Park Research & Development
> Internet Application Developer
> Amsterdam NY
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>> 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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