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Replying to: dbostondriver (Apr 10, 2009 7:28 am)

What does a set of snow tires and wheels run? A grand or so? And you can use them for years. If you can afford to "dump" money into a 401K and pay for an overrated degree (won't your employer help?), you can defer a month of savings into such equipment
 
I drive a RWD car...when there is too much snow or ice (doesn't take much in my neck of the woods as the public sector road crews are not the most competent), I simply don't drive.

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Replying to: dbostondriver (Apr 10, 2009 7:31 am)

 
This is from a ZR-1 article. I'm assuming it's actually the ZR-1 because you can't tell a difference with a regular model.

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Replying to: fintail (Apr 10, 2009 7:34 am)

My employer helps with my degree. In all honesty I cannot afford snow tires. I don't have $1,000 to dump into something that I will only use for four months, and then will have to take off when summer comes around.
It is not unusual. Non of my friends or co-workers buy snow tires. My Dad and his friends don't use them either.
 Even with snow tires it is not the easiest thing to do a u-turn in a Grand Marquis. Why do you think every luxury manufacturer has a 4wd option, even Cadillac.
Glad you guys can afford it.

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Replying to: fintail (Apr 10, 2009 7:34 am)

I drive a RWD car...when there is too much snow or ice (doesn't take much in my neck of the woods as the public sector road crews are not the most competent), I simply don't drive.
 
Same here...we just don't get heavy snow storms on a regular basis for us to have the infrastructure to deal with it. So in a big storm, we usually just close everything down!
 
I don't even bother with snow tires. The all-season radials that I have on all my cars seem to work well enough. Now I do have to admit, I did get my pickup stuck in my yard when we had our one real storm this past winter...about 9-10". But that's because I was too lazy to shovel...I just threw it into gear and drove over it, packing it down. Then when I went over the same spot again, the truck slipped a bit and went off the driveway and onto the ground, and I got hung up on one spot where there was a little dip.
 
I'm not all that protective of my Intrepid anymore, now that it's pushing 10 years old and probably has a negative book value. But back when it was newer, whenever it snowed, I'd drive my grandmother's '85 LeSabre. My reasoning was that if some idiot who didn't know how to drive in it was going to wipe out, I'd rather have them bounce relatively harmlessly off the Buick, instead of creaming my new Intrepid with almost 5 years of payments left on the books!

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