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well life is what you make of it but there is always somebody that has it worse then you just be grateful of what you have money isn't everything.

 
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Congrats on being an idiot. I hope you try it again and smack yourself into a phone pole.

Tip: Don't drive drunk, don't try to do "8's" and call it "drifting" on an open internet forum. I hope a cop is reading this and tracks your dumb *** down.

 
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I wrote my sig for guys like you, poor Cleft haha - you are life's bitch.

As far as Winter driving goes: get a decent set of tires - Toyo GO2+ gets my vote for Winters, slow down, give the car in front of you more room and leave 15/20min earlier than normal. If you dont do those things it's not the car that sucks its the driver. I see 4x's in the ditch everyday in the Winter on the same road I'm on- car or driver?

I had my hubcaps on but they tend to squeek alot going over bumps etc in colder temps. They look better than steelies imo but the chirping drove me crazy.My friend works at shop and says almost half the people coming in to get their squeeky suspension checked out are wrong.$80 later he tells them its just their hubcaps rubbing.

 
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well tonight my shocks took a nasty beating lol. i was driving around the backroads that are completely snow covered but plowed, so its firm but has alot of holes everywhere. felt like i was on some wilderness trail and ive never seen my car move up and down so much. i almost hit my head on the roof haha. and oh those front ES bushings, i think they woke the neighbors before my exhaust ever had a chance.

 
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Spray some oil on there. Don't know how long it will last though.

 
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It could be part of the problem since in the winter everything contracts, but I never had a squeeking problem until my ES bushings. But like I said, spraying oil in there helped a lot.

 
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grr i almost broke off both my sideskirts in stupid autozone parking lot. they didnt plow anything, and all the mountains and big snow tracks were icy, i had to drive in to return something and bam i hear a loud crunch. get out to look and there is a chunk of kit from two of the mounts missing, and one side is loose on the back and other side in the front. im at work so i gotta see what happened when i get home and try to do something to keep it in place. snow sucks!

 
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I did the same thing two years ago, except I was stupid. I ran the right side of the front bumper through a small clump of snow assuming it was soft and it put a big tear in the plastic. I had to form a bracket to mate the two sides back together, but you can still see where the crack is. The paint is spider webed in that area.

Hey, at least I'm not driving a subaru!

 
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haha yeah. well today i think im gonna put an order in for more parts at majestic. i need sprash shields for the wheel wells (they are badly torn and nasty road water is going inside where the wires are) and a bunch of other plastic pieces in the car. im glad the snow is starting to melt and most of the main streets are just wet.

 
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It's funny how off the weather people are. I just take what they say as a grain of salt. When we had that big snow a few days ago, they said it would be snowing for 4 days. Well, up in the mountains I guess, but it snowed for 1 day. Then they said we're supposed to have a big storm coming up, but it looks like it may just rain.

But yeah, I'm glad it's melting.

 
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and i scraped the car up again coming home to unplowed sidestreet. blah

 
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I just wanted to add that tread isn't everything - the Winter tire compound tends to have a much lower freezing point, so it'll offer far better traction than most sets of all-seasons. Cheaper compounds are going to be freezing too early, but likely don't wear out so soon in the warmer weather (unless if they cheaped out in more ways than I can think of).

You'll want Winters, especially if you live in Canada or the northern states. Else you're basically driving on four black rocks, sliding all over the place.

 
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ive found that lower tire pressure helps too. i usually run 35 in the summer, but in the winter they are so hard that the ride quality is terrible and feels like no traction in snow. i lowered down to 30 and traction improved, so did the ride quality alot.

 
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Too many opinions, tread options, top 10 lists, compounds, to choose from when it comes to winter tires. Who really knows what brand is best- Toyo uses walnut shells in some of their tires, michelin uses sand in their winter compound, multi cell compounds, groove shapes, sipe designs....who fuxin knows. As long as they are branded with that mountain/snowflake symbol they are good. Just slow the *** down - Watched some a$$hole smoke this mini-van with kids in it today cause he was going too fast and couldent stop in time

Big up Cleft - this thread reminded me I forgot to re-torque my lugs after I put my winters on last month.That could have been bad.

 
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Really?.. I'm using 1st gear.. When I used the 2nd gear it loses..

 
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Never heard of that before. Should always be easier to start in second gear on snow...

 
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Yeah, 30 is a must.

 
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It's all good. We all have our moments.

 
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It's all about the tires. Get a set of Hakka Nokians and you will never think about this again.