Lento

For everyone who was wondering of the Nismo could be a daily driver....


All I can say is shame on Edmunds. Last night my Nismo made it though a blizzard with about 3 in of snow already on the ground. Yes it was extreamly scary (and I wouldnt have gone anywhere but I met my girlfriends parents for the first time and didnt want her father to kill me getting stranded at his house after he alread caught me with his daughter and was like "you know its snowing right?" Fun times..... I already got enough for being 21 with "a car like that"

But point of the matter is be careful, but dont be a *****. It absolutly kills me to drive this thing around with all the salt on the road, because I have a few tiny scratches now, but the point is... it's a car. I could have bought a camry, but instead I got something absolutly rediculously awsome that scares the bagebous out of old people in their camrys!

Hehe the father was like "that exaust is really loud, what kind of fuel does that run on?" I told him diced lions (Jeremey Clarkson)

east1999bt

You drove around fine with the stock tires on 3in of snow?

chunky_baby

Man I'm so glad I live in Houston..

Although we get tons of crap thrown up from the roads here as they are all concrete.

I've learnt that you just have to deal with it... I'd much rather be driving it than having it stored somewhere and be afraid to touch it...

Lento

yea it was about 3 in. I had to keep switching the TCS on and off if I had to stop on even a tiny slope. As soon as I hit the gas with the TCS on it would just kill the power. So I had to rock it or back up and get momentum and prey the other cars wernt going to roll throught the stop signs. It was really only terrible on the back roads, once I got onto relativly main roads most of the snow was either really packed down or liquified due to other cars going over it.

Exiled Lakai

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Dang that must have been a dilemma... ummm.. drive the Nimso in the snow?.... or stay with a father who just cought me giving it to his daughter?... lol you picked the right choice. I got caught once and her father wanted to have that "talk" right after it happened! yeah longest two hours of my life... lol

mlatham

your crazy. mine has been in the garage for a month while im driving my grandmas buick

Tarzan_0802

I drive mine as a daily, but then again I live in Sunny SoCal San Diego

TheBlackPearlZ

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mine is now my daily until i get a new beater...indy/nc

east1999bt

i need to move to socal

TJ350Z

wOw... glad to know you got through that (also w/o gettin'your b**t kicked by your gf's father, ) safe driving the NISMO w/ 3" of snow. didn't you end up being a Snow Plower with your lower front lip?!? jk!

Lento

Nope cleared it all and checked it as soon as i got home. No scratches or signs it was damaged at all. However I do have the 3M bra that covers that front lip, so any snow that may have grazed it wouldnt have done anything to it anyways

drivenCSZ

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please dont ever ever do that again...if this is your only car get a set of winter tires.



or you will die. no joke

MyFairladyZ2006

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I drove in snow before too not a big deal if you're careful

CaNis478

Damn, I have alot of sympathy for all you foul weather state owners. I am so **** about my Nismo that i don't drive it in the rain or even on windy days for that matter. Don't want some freak tree limb, shrub or small cat flying across my hood. But then again black does show every indiscretion.....

TJ350Z

well, that's good to know.

mlatham

i hate flying cats.

NISMO355

'07 SS Nismo with 7500 miles...hell yeah its a great daily driver!!!!!...Connell Nissan says that I'm holding the record for the most miles!!!...whoo hoo!!!

350z510

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I'm at 6700, funny thing is I dont daily drive mine. Damn freeway miles and california driving...

Sensi09

Lento, any pictures of the Nismo in the snow or covered with snow preferably. I always like those kind of pictures.

Lento

I'll get some pictures the next time it snows.

I just had to go throught this again the other day. I had to get home from Boston during a storm. I made it all the way from Boston to my house, about 10 miles away with a little wheel spin.

Definitly scary and I drove about 10 miles an hour. Couldnt get up the last hill to my house and had to go to a public parking lot, and have my dad pick me up.

Once I got the car home, i took a pots of hot water from my house out to my driveway and tried to rinse all the salt off.

My poor car looks like a mess right now. Im praying that the salt and sand didnt scratch it up.

I have to go wash it tommorow, Ill let you know if ill ever be driving it through the snow again after seeing the damage!!!!