gangstarx7

how does your car handle in the snow and rain??? i have to drive not over like 3500 rpm i drive like a grandaman ^ ^

RonKMiller

Rain, no problem with the *right* tires. Snow? Fuggheedaaboudit. Instant death.

diablone

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Most people here won't drive their FD in the snow (and in many cases rain) for obvious reasons. You should definitly look towards getting a winter beater.

gangstarx7

hahaha yeh i got caught in the snow started to fall and felt my car drifting away and had to drive 5 mph in the 20mPH in the highway!!!

DamonB

I've driven mine in the snow and it's a handfull FWIW any performance tire is terrible in the white stuff, they just don't work at low temps. True snow tires make immense improvements to any car, but with the lightweight FD in mind there are certainly easier and better things to drive. If I had wide wheels/tires on my FD I would absolutely never attempt driving in the snow. As it is now it snows or ices in Dallas one or two days out of the year and I don't have far to go so I'm just very cautious.

Rain is never a problem as long as you have decent rubber with decent tread depth. I've towed my tire trailer numerous times in heavy rain and never had problems.

XSTransAm

mines a daily driver, so i was driving through the recent snow... it was horrible. but I drove my old *** torquey trans am through the snow for 3 years and havent crashed yet

rynberg

As long as you drive carefully, the FD handles just fine in the rain. I'm actually amazed at how much lateral grip I still have, even with Dunlop SP8000s (not the best rain repuation). However, it can be easier to hydroplane on the highway (also depends on tire), due to the light weight and wide tires.

Living in the Cali Bay Area, I won't be driving my FD in snow anytime soon. I did drive my 79 RX-7 through four Michigan/Indiana winters. I never went into the ditch or crashed it, but that car was a fricking handful in the white stuff (2300 lbs not good for snow traction...).

moehler

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The car is O.K. in the rain as long as I stay off the boost. I've drivin it 5 or 6 times in the snow and it's not too fun. If you pay attention and take it slow, you should be good to go. Trying to go up hills from a stop in the snow is nearly impossible, though .

911GT2

Mine is just plain awful in the snow and rain, hence the winter beater

revsteve

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Snow? HA! The east coast got hit pretty hard this past weekend w/ snow. On friday morning (after about 6 inches Thurs night) i attempted to get my car out to drive to work. I pulled out of my parking space and got about 30 feet. Once I hit the uphill slope my tires started spinning like the Prize Wheel on The Price is Right. It took 20 minutes of shoveling and 3 neighbors and myself to push the car into a parking spot.

Its a surreal experience digging a car INTO a parking spot. Thank God for telecommuting.

As a result, I am currently looking for a winter beater.

ablabb

I had to see for myself how good my fd was in the snow. With brand new pirelli's it was plain scary. The road was covered with packed snow. Everytime I would shift i would fishtail and it all ended when i just spun out and ended up perpendictal to the road. This was all at like 5mph. I called my dad who tried to push me back on to some traction but he couldn't but i finally got it out after 2 other people stopped to help. I will never ever drive it in the snow again.

911GT2

I bought my car in January, and thought it'd be ok if I just took it easy in the snow. Holy **** was I wrong. I ended up driving all last winter, and swore the same thing you just did, that it'd never be moving in the snow again.

It's just not right to have your car start spinning entirely unprovoked, but as you pointed out, it happens. I remember one day driving from Ithaca NY back to Mass, and I was on this windy little road on a steep descent, the car started spinning, twice. No throttle inputs, no steering input, no braking, it just started spinning. That was during a 7 hour drive in 5-6 inches of snow. Not fun.

ablabb

I hear ya. I used to like driving in snow, with a FWD sedan, it was kinda a challenge. But with the FD it's just life threatening...

DCrosby

Hence I never saw any serious salt damage when I was shopping for one... The Snow Just makes it impossible to drive in the winter...

tbonerx7

Bridgestone Blizzak WS-50... God made these tires to put on our cars. Buy a set of steel rims and slap them on.

It's even better if you get narrower tires rather than stock size. They're about 113-130 a piece. When I had these on last winter, it was a religious experience how much of a difference it was. I could out manuever and drive AWD cars, SUB's, trucks, etc.... of course, they didn't have snow tires on!

tbonerx7

SUV's not SUBs!!! It doesn't matter how good a driver you are when you don't have traction... you're just a passenger.

SWAT81

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man I remember when my car was literally driving side ways on the highway and I couln't get it to go straight again, eveyrone behind me just stopped and watched me for like 5 mins going side ways lolz, it was nuts! Not fun at all, ended up leaving the car at the closest exit and taking the train home.

teamstealth

I dont get whats so difficult about driving a FD in the snow. Last year my dad's BMW 540i had BALD Dunlop sport 2000's on it, and you literally could not pull away from a stoplight w/o going sideways, so we took my FD everywhere. The FD had falken 451's all the way around with about 50% tread and it was more than up to the challenge. Never spun the wheels once as long as u kept it out of boost. This winter it will be my daily, but i will soon have a set of steelies and some Dunlop Winter M2 sports because im not too sure id trust S03 rubber in the white stuff. But bottom line....the car is capable of driving in snow if you can restrain ur right foot!

-Zach

rceron

You can drive your FD in the snow--even up to 3 inches--with snow tires.

They make a HUGE difference. You can actually stop on an incline and still go forward when you give some gas.

If you can't get a junk second car then your next best bet is to go to the tire/wheel sale section.

I'm selling Michelin Pilot Alpins for about $100 a tire.

Tires in NJ.

T88NosRx7

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it sucks in the rain and snow.

adam c

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It doesn't snow here, so that's not an issue. I like to leave it at home if it rains. If I do get caught in the rain, I drive the FD like a little old lady. I don't know how well it handles in the rain, and I'm not going to find out.

alwan16

fd handles fine in the rain. i have driven quite fast on the freeway with lots of rain. it's all about the tires though. if you have tires with big grooves designed for the wet then things should be fine. you should be driving much slower in these conditions anyways. remember to user smooth inputs to the gas, brake, and steering otherwise you might as well be driving on slicks!

skunks

i only go fast in rain if im trying to get sideways, if not i only go 35, 40mph max

teamstealth

110 in the rain on the highway is entirely doable if you have good tires. The rearend never came out once, but i also had a 10-5-3 boost pattern so who knows what attributed to the stability

rynberg

110 mph on highway in rain = darwin award victim waiting to happen