Anyone in here ever drive your truck in Snow?

SRT-10 Ralph

SRT-10 Ralph

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Last night I went over to the shop to help my father work on a '57 Thunderbird and it started snowing. I'm getting ready to leave and oh damn it snowed 2" and the road is covered.
All I'm going to say from this point on is this truck is one of the worst vehicles I ever drove in the snow. I'm lucky to bring it home in one piece! I'll never do that again.
Monday I'm running it through the car wash to get all the salt off it and parking it!!!
Snow covered road 22 mph!!!!! Anyone else have the same experience? :dontknow:
 
Nope, but its probably simular to driving it in the rain in arizona with all the oil that comes up from the road.. hah slips everywhere
 
I have as well, but had no choice, was not fun, especially braking for a stoplight going down a hill. Summer performance tires and the brakes didn't like that too much. Will try to never do that again.
 
I did every year going to & from work.

First year was kinda all over the place, once the caltracs were in it seemed to help a lot.

Not saying it was a breeze, but I made it :D
 
My '10 is my daily and Colorado has no shortage of snow days. The most disconcerting thing about driving these trucks in the snow is the way the front end slides all over the road.
 
I just recently bought some Bridgestone blizzak DM-V1 tires and it is unbelievable how easy it is to drive in snow. I don't have to brake or accelerate slowly. Just drive. I'm not saying I can go full on, but its still enjoyable.

You would have to get 20" wheels as that is the largest size the blizzak's come in.
 
I drove last year with limited snow/ice on the road,it didn't like it and neither did I. Swore I was going to get something else, like a used Suburu but here I'am still driving the 10 again in winter..lucky no snow..keeping my fingers crossed until spring.
 
mysrt10 said:
I just recently bought some Bridgestone blizzak DM-V1 tires and it is unbelievable how easy it is to drive in snow. I don't have to brake or accelerate slowly. Just drive. I'm not saying I can go full on, but its still enjoyable.

You would have to get 20" wheels as that is the largest size the blizzak's come in.
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You hit the nail on the head. The big ass tires on these things act like snow shoes. Plus most of us are using summer tires which just compounds the problem. Using the 20's with snow tires is the way to go if you have to drive one of these in the snow. Otherwise you are just begging to crash it.

I have been forced to drive mine in the snow with the 22's and it sucks. I actually had problems pulling into my driveway after I moved it to shovel out with only a couple of inches on the ground in the past.
 
hell last year i waited 1 day to long to put my truck in the garage and we got 3 inches of snow with a nasty wind took 3 of us pushing and it in gear to get it into garage due to slight incline on drive way lol i tried pulling it in and just kept sliding backwards lol. reason mine gets parked during the winter..
 
NSDQ said:
especially braking for a stoplight going down a hill. Summer performance tires and the brakes didn't like that too much. Will try to never do that again.
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OMG....lol
I forgot to mention the brakes!!! What brakes???
She was sliding , ABS was kicking back so bad my foot hurts!!!
I will never drive it again in the snow I promise.
 
I drove mine in the snow here in Utah a couple of times. 500hp and no weight in the bed = really bad idea... like has been said before, had trouble getting in the garage... Slap my own very large forehead...

VPRRAM
 
u need wintertyres for sure

from the moment there is snow or ice , my 10 dont move from under his carport...:tee:
 
Well here in Ontario slightest bit of snow the salt trucks are out like crazy, so thats why mine goes away mid october defintely not taking any chances with getting salt anywhere near that bad boy:D:D or something worse like sliding into something or someone:shot::shot: an my experience from driving a 2wd truck in the winter with summer tires is defintely a bad idea no tires and no weight = no traction, but when you throw some good-for-a-year wrangler territory's and 500 pounds of sand in the back who needs 4x4 :aetsch::aetsch:
 
I drove mine through Montana winter last year when I had a FWD vehicle in the driveway. I chose to drive the 10 even when it had the Toyo Proxes.

I haven't had a chance to take it around a Jersey winter but I'm about to take it around NY in a bit of snow and I'm not too worried about it.
 
SRT-10 Ralph said:
OMG....lol
I forgot to mention the brakes!!! What brakes???
She was sliding , ABS was kicking back so bad my foot hurts!!!
I will never drive it again in the snow I promise.
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lol yeah that's true, I somehow managed to come to a stop, but it wasn't pretty. ABS was definitely fighting me
 
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