Sno problem

"Scary__goongala!" (corymagee) 01/05/2017 at 23:30 • Filed to: None

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Chevy 1500 driver was stuck on a hill. I was going a different direction. When I got back to the intersection after some snonuts, the driver was backing up the opposing hill, I suppose to get momentum. Wanted to see if I could make it up the hill so I went when he was stopped. Made it up fairly easy. Tires and an LSD make all the difference. Miata: 1. Pick up truck: 0.

wafflesnfalafel > Scary__goongala! 01/05/2017 at 23:43

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You didn’t drive past the pickup guy with the top down did you? :)

Scary__goongala! > wafflesnfalafel 01/05/2017 at 23:53

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Did all my driving tonight with the top down.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Scary__goongala! 01/05/2017 at 23:58

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There are few things worse in snow that a RWD pickup with bad tires and no LSD.

Bytemite > Scary__goongala! 01/06/2017 at 00:13

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You should’ve offered him a tow. HAH!

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 01/06/2017 at 01:09

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Even with good tires they can be no bueno. My ex-work van when empty is a handful. It can spin going in a straight line with foot off accelerator just idling down the road. That’s with newish Goodyear Assurance all-seasons. I don’t deal with ice enough in it to justify snow/ice tires so it stays at home on those days.

awmaster10 > Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition 01/06/2017 at 01:44

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Is it an american work van with a big v8? The output characteristics of american v8s kinda make it hard to get going from a start without spinning the tires, especially with a super light rear in a truck or work van.

awmaster10 > Scary__goongala! 01/06/2017 at 01:45

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Goal: Own stripped out miata with hose down interior and complete top delete. Rhinolined floorpan with drain plugs. Maybe lifted 2 inches on long travel coilovers? Okay now im getting too ambitions.

Scary__goongala! > awmaster10 01/06/2017 at 01:49

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You can lift a Miata 3" for $125.

awmaster10 > Scary__goongala! 01/06/2017 at 02:15

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Wow I think a rally miata with a cage and no top is in my future

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > awmaster10 01/06/2017 at 03:48

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PACO motorsports has a good lift kit. very strong.

TheRealBicycleBuck > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 01/06/2017 at 05:59

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Yep. It’s pretty common to load the bed with a few sandbags to help with traction in the slippery stuff. Perhaps that fellow is a newer truck owner and didn’t get the memo.

DipodomysDeserti > Scary__goongala! 01/06/2017 at 06:15

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The pickup having no weight in the back also doesn’t help.

wkiernan > Bytemite 01/06/2017 at 06:18

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Or offered to sit in the pickup bed over the axle. Miata’s got 50-50 weight distribution, empty pickup truck is more like 65-35.

I drive an ‘05 Silverado 2500 regularly, but recently I drove one of my company’s brand new pickup trucks and I was alarmed at how lurchy and out-of-balance it was with nothing in the bed (as compared with the several hundred pounds of junk in the back of my work truck).

Also my acrophobia kicked in. Getting in the cab felt like going into a two-story house, and it’s a “pickup” truck but unless you are a giant or you have a ladder you can’t reach over the side of the pickup bed and pick up anything.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Scary__goongala! 01/06/2017 at 07:40

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None of the snow stuck to the roads here. I am sad, I wanted some top down hoonage! For some reason I only like putting the top down in the winter when it is snowing.

ateamfan42 > Scary__goongala! 01/06/2017 at 08:45

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People around here think I’m crazy for driving a Miata in the winter, but will think nothing of jumping in their pickup for the worst weather the northeast has to offer. Granted, many of the pickups here are 4wD, but they still have the challenge of handling like trucks, and very few are fitted with winter tires regardless of drivetrain. They are hard to beat for the really deep stuff though.

Winter tires + LSD + hardtop makes for a fine winter machine.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/06/2017 at 09:03

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My dad had a work F1 50 for a bit when I was really little. He would put seven or 800 pounds of sand bags in the truck for winter. The damn thing still wouldn’t go anywhere.

TheRealBicycleBuck > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 01/06/2017 at 09:34

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Well, you do have to have decent tires....

I once put cinder blocks in the back for weight. I came out of school one day to find my truck up on said blocks. Yeah, I had some great “friends” in high school.

Scary__goongala! > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 01/06/2017 at 10:36

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Really?, I try to drive with the top down as much as possible. Driving on the highway with the top and windows up gets annoying.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Scary__goongala! 01/06/2017 at 10:51

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It’s kinda the opposite for me. Even in the summer time, the highway for long amounts of time is the only time I will likely have the top up. And the winter on the highway feels much better to not be turned into a popsicle. But around town during the day, it doesnt matter the weather I want the top down. It just depends in the winter. Sometimes I get into a funk where I just drive to and from work in the dark and leave the top up for days. I have found every day is 100% better if I get a top down drive in.

If anything its just because there is lots of rain in the winter time. I try to not bathtub my car that often lol.

Bytemite > wkiernan 01/06/2017 at 11:40

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That’s pretty exactly much what I felt when I rode in a new Tacoma...and that’s a “Midsize”. It felt like sitting on the 2nd story of a moving building.