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Old Oct 19, 2005
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What do you do for winter???

Ok all of you who have hooked up rides. Not even really hooked up maybe just rimms and an intake and exhaust what do you guys do in the areas that get alot of snow like me in connecticut for winter? Do you guys have second ride? do you take off all your aftermarket stuff and winterize. I mean I take my rimms off for winter cus i dont have a second ride yet but I want to like just put my car away and not drive it which is like impossible. Maybe rent a car for the entire winter haha. But let me know what all you guys do inthe snow bogged area we live in.
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my car..is gonna be a snowplow. My bumper is going to push snow. Also i live kinda North....in CANADA..which is even worse..haha..Yeap..its also my cars first winter so..i'm hoping for the best..and looking for some gooood snow tires !
Also, this is going to be the first time driving a 'car' in the winter, I've always driven 4WD SUVs..
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damn. its like i dont even wanna use my car. they use salt and **** onthe roads around here :-(
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Trust me, i know how you feel, i wish i could keep my car inside too..that stuff cant be good..but goto a DIY carwash and just rinse that salt and crap off your car once a week or so..thats what my dad does with his car. My buddy has it worse though..hes forced to drive his Supra in the winter...LOL. ohh mann..that guy will be sliding everywhere..
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I had a car last two years, but it died on my so this year i'll be snowplowing w/ the rest of you, just lowered my car this past weekend and i've got the OEM kit on it, but it's urethane at least
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*Lip kit is off
*HFP wheels off
*steelies w/ snow tires are on
*Jap license plate probably coming off
*Altezza style grill and painted hood molding might be taken off too
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i use a winter beater car aka ford taurus!
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civic goes in my garage for most of the winter, when there is sand/salt/snow out in the roads...

and then comes out my f150 doing donuts !
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everything stays on, and daily driven. if it snows, i try not to drive.
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snow tires and mine works fine... went through 3 foot drift with it when I had the civic (lake effect snow sucks)
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storage the civic, drive the tercel.

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damn its only a civic. just drive it.
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yea, I just take my rims off and put back my steelies with winter tires. I do make an effort to wash it once a week and I avoid driving when it's snowing if I can.

whatever you do, be careful when you brush off the snow with that plastic brush. Don't push too hard because I did and I had these tiny scratches all over my trunk.
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wow glad i live in the south. we MIGHT get 6 inches of snow total this year
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Originally Posted by Ashhole
wow glad i live in the south. we MIGHT get 6 inches of snow total this year

Yeah, but we have no huricanes, earthquakes, fires, mudslides or anything like that. And personally I can deal with a little snow easier than a huricane, but then agian I drive a 6,200lb 4x4
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Gonna be the first time I drive my civic in snow, this year, but the car has already seen snow from the previous owner, but Im not sure how its gonna be when the suspension is dropped 2", hopefully it doesnt turn into a snowplow (tho I think it wont with a OEM bumper). Also got winter tires on already, since it was the only set of tires that came with the car.
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yeah i pretty much just deal take my rimms off and ride. I just hate it when it snows I gotta move so i can keep my car hot all year haha. Yeah i found out the whole brush thing last year on ony 2000 SI i had cus i was trying to push off ice and left some lines haha
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my car is in the garage now. every year i had to get a winter rat then i'd sell it in the summer but this year i'm going to save some money and drive my girlfriend's car. i'll be rockin' a hyundia elantra
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I'll leave my car exactly how it is right now. We dont get snow down here in atlanta. we just have ice storms. And when its ice outside i cant drive anywhere anyway. I tried last year and ended up in a ditch.

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intake stays on (why would u take it off? unless its CAI). I'm driving it all winter long with WI snow.... it did fine last year but this year my tires have 26k miles on them and prolly wont grip as well so i might b forced into winter tires... (hopefully not) if ur understearing like a **** just grab the ebrake and all ur problems r solved, unless u cant get going in the first place.... then ur fuked
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oh, and if ur cars lowered and u live where it snows ur an idiot. lift it backup so u can drive ur car everyday!
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^ WRONG. Nothing wrong with driving a lowered car in winter unless its slammed to the ground with a big bodykit. My old Corolla was lowered almost 2 inches, stock body and I drove it like that for 2 winters, never a problem. Only thing thats a pain is having to jack the car up to get all the salt and packed snow out of the wheelwells.

This winter will be my 1st running on 17's though. They're Falken Ziex all-seasons, but with wide low profiles I probably wont be going anywhere in more than a few inches. I can't see it being worse than the horrible stock Dunlops though.
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Originally Posted by 2blu
I'll leave my car exactly how it is right now. We dont get snow down here in atlanta. we just have ice storms. And when its ice outside i cant drive anywhere anyway. I tried last year and ended up in a ditch.
we don't get snow in AR either. we just get ice. My friend has a thick layer of my tires on his parent's driveway from me trying to get my car out (it's uphill)
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I do nothing for winter...

Winter in the Caribbean is like summer, so heh.
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I Love Living In Oregon. Such Mild Winters. It Only Rains And It Does That For The Whole Year. My Dad Parks His Evo For The Winter Or The Rain Atleast. He Just Drives His Echo. If I Was Him Id Drive The Evo Man That Thing In Fun.
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