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Old Nov 16, 2002
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Winter pains

so who has to drive theyre car in the winter? this is my 01 ex second winter, i hate it and wish i didnt have too, just wanted to know who has too and what they do to prepare theyre car for it.
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I'm driving mine in the winter. I am going to put back on my stock wheels. Thats it. I am not going to take my kit off. I just hope we don't get too much snow
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Being born and raised in sunny Southern California I've never had to deal with winter driving. But this year I'll be moving to North Carolina the first week of January. What can I expect?
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I'm going to drive mine during the winter, it may go under 60 degrees sometime here in Mississippi.
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I moved from San Jose to Indianapolis last April. Its going to be my first winter here too.

Well these are the things ive done and going to do:

Polished my car with Nu-Polish twice.
Bought a set of OEM all-season carpet from HondaAcura world.. $76.50 shipped. good deal..

Changing my wheels back to stock steelies next weekend.
replace my Sportlines with oem springs next weekend.. if its not too cold. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/IMG]
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[hr]Being born and raised in sunny Southern California I've never had to deal with winter driving. But this year I'll be moving to North Carolina the first week of January. What can I expect? [hr]
I live in Knoxville, so I guess I'll probably have about the same weather. Basically, winters got cold compared to So Cal (I moved up here from the Miami area). In the winter, temperatures are usually above 10 degrees but it rarely goes below 0. There's generally not a lot of snow though. Expect a couple inches a year. It's pretty rare to have more than 2 or 3 inches come down at once. Oh, and if you still in school, you guys probably won't have snowplows. So, when it snows, school's out! I guess that's about it. If you got any questions, PM me.
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sucks i have to drive my car during winter also. i live in wisconsin. lots of snow arrg WINTER
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I have to drive mine in the winter.. The second one, last winter was on some ice and could not swerve and hit a HUGE ice blcok and cracked the underside on the bumper. It is slowly falling apart so I am going to have to buy a new one soon.
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its either you love your car too much to not drive her year round, or you just plain are stuck with driving your car year round cause its your only one. yeah this will be my first winter with my 02 lx sedan, the exterior is stock so i will just wax her up and keep a the gas above the half way mark. also watch the antifreeze and so on. keep her clean once comming home from the snow and salt paved street. i live in chicago by then way. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/IMG]
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To drive my car in the wintertime, I.........DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING[IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/IMG]
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I drive my car all winter,,,last year I had the stock Firestones which were pretty much bald all winter...that was fun... This year I have some huge winter tires on for some rally car action ...I have 195/75R14 Rallye snowmaster tires on....all I do in the winter use my handbrake alot to turn...I hate understeer in winter. and I like the fact that I do not have ABS [IMG]i/expressions/demon.gif[/IMG]
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