sry110

iTrader: (17)

This winter will be my first time driving a RWD car (2006 350z specifically) in the snow. I have a set of snow wheels/tires (Blizzak LM22's) that I will be using during the next few months. I have read countless threads where people claim that they cannot control the car on the stock tires in heavy rain. Then I have read posts where people claim that the car is undriveable in any amount of snow with all types of tires.

I have a feeling the carelessness that prevents people from driving in heavy rain on Bridgestone RE040's is the same carelessness that prevents these people from driving in some snow on snow tires.

I have driven the car in extremely heavy rain on my stock Bridgestone RE040 tires and, surprise surprise, I have yet to loose control of the car and slam it into an embankment. Here are a few tips that just might keep your *** on the road in the event of driving in inclement weather, rain or snow:

1) Slow down while driving forward
2) Slow down while turning
3) Don't accelerate as fast as you would on dry pavement
4) Don't decelerate (brake) as fast as you would on dry pavement
5) Convince yourself that you don't need to drive your car "like a sports car" at all times

Am I missing something? What did people in USA do for years and years when every car was RWD and there was no traction control, VDC, etc. Maybe I should go buy a 59 chevy for the winter, cuz my parents seemed to survive.

Sorry, I'm sort of ranting here, but I guess I am a little tired of people saying extreme things like "this car is impossible to drive in the snow!" This is where many prospective Z owners come for research and advice on the advantages/disadvantages, and I guess I would hope that forum members would be a little more reasonable and level-headed when discussing this issue, which I believe to be an important issue.

And irony being what it is, I'll probably be the one who ends up crashing his Z this winter, even with my snow tires installed. Oh well.