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23 messages, Last post on Feb 02, 2009 at 11:41 AM
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I live in Michigan and my daughter is looking at both a New Beetle and a Mini Cooper. She drives 20 miles to school each day. While we don't get snow like Buffalo, it is not at all uncommon to wake up to snowy roads. With good tires, will the Cooper get her through our snowy days. i would hate for her to be stuck at U of M overnight because we got six to eight inches of snow. Thanks for any insight.
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Replying to: keygo (Feb 08, 2009 8:03 am)  I actually prefer to drive my MINI in the snow then our 4-wheel drive. However, I have winter tires and that makes all the difference in the world. The stock all-season runflats didn't fair as well. Here in the Pacific NW we get a "wet" snow that can be very treacherous and icy when it cools down overnight. Again, the Pirelli Winter 240 Snowsport runflats are great for the snow, but the stock Dunlop tires weren't so great.
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Replying to: mwandre (Nov 25, 2008 1:13 pm)
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Replying to: otto989 (Feb 08, 2009 4:59 pm)
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Replying to: ltq (Feb 11, 2009 10:53 am) We HAVE conditions that you mention with icy roads here in the Pacific NW. We've got a Interstate I-90 that crosses to Eastern, WA that's at an elevation of 3022 feet and is frequently covered with "ice" underneath the snow. Where I work as a firefighter just south of Seattle in a populated area, we've had thousands who were without power for a week or more. Also, we've had quite a bit of snow and ice: http://www.disasternews.net/news/article.php?articleid=3801 "In Washington State, Gov. Chris Gregoire, declared a state of emergency Tuesday night. The snowfall reached record, or close to record depths in 30 of the state's 39 counties." This is a link to a major storm we had two years ago leaving leaving over 1.8 million residences and businesses without power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2006_Pacific_Northwest_storms Yes, we do get icy roads here. Maybe not as frequent as the East Coast, but we do deal with it occasionally. It doesn't matter what kind of vehicle you drive when it comes to ice. In those extreme conditions, chains would work the best. Snow tires will do nothing to stop you on ice. We've got some major hills in the Seattle area and we've had some tragic and near tragic events because of ice. Here a bus hangs precariously over I-5 after losing control on the ice: http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_121908WXB_bus_hangs_over_I-5_TP.7ba7c- ab9.html?ocp=1 Okay... I didn't mean to be so long-winded. |
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Anybody had this experience before? It was cold (about 25 degree) and raining last night. There was ice building up on the wiper. I removed the ice on the blades, but the blades were straighten up by the cold, so they couldn't fully touch the glass and wipe the rain off. Anybody had this problem before? What should I do? Shouldn't this only be happening to the cheap metal or rubber? But my wipers are from Mini...
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Replying to: capri33 (Dec 03, 2007 9:11 am)  just lift up the wiper when it's moving and drop it back onto the windshield a few times. Be quick as you just want it to bang onto the windshield to shake the ice off. All cars do this unless they have heated wiper blades.
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Replying to: tiff_c (Dec 03, 2007 9:32 am) |
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Replying to: british_rover (Dec 03, 2007 10:07 am) Do they really have heated windshields now? 
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