How many winter drivers

[Hack]

On the drive this morning: temperature 25° F, Inlet temp 30° F.
I may be new to driving Mustangs, however, I think my "butt-dyno" detected a noticeable boost from the low temperature.

Oh yeah, that will happen. The only crummy thing is you get more power, but less traction.

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[Blue Moon]

First snow of the season today:

 

[stang77]

I drive mine year round here in NJ. A set of Continental DWS 06 tires have yet to fail me. Just use some common sense as someone else said and you are fine.

 

[Monopoly]

Picking up a set of 235/50/18 Blizzaks on steel rims tomorrow from another S550 owner. They look decent cant wait to try this bad boy in snow!

 

[tcman54]

About 9 days ago on Halloween is was 90F here, seeing those Mustangs in the snow and cold like that makes me sad.

TC

 

[Bigred911s]

I drive mine year round. It’s my DD.

 

[TricarboNate]

Nope, always garaged and I have a low mileage Chevy Cruze daily driver for beating up in the winter. It's worth every penny to have a secondary vehicle for more reasons than just winter driving. Also, if you seen what the salt that we have does to cars, you wouldn't drive here either......it even builds up on the carpet and rusts the interior (despite WeatherTechs)! I love being to go under my car to do maintenance or mods and easily being able to work, since there is zero rust.

We already have a good deal of salt on the road (as my car is covered in it), but I still saw a blue GT350R out yesterday......crazy. If that is you, get the GT350R off the road! That being said, it is temping though......RWD Mustang in the snow would be too much fun.

 

[Jimmy]

My car is all salty now.

How do you guys wash your cars in the winter? I can't find any touchless wash near by and I don't want to use the type with the big rollers. Today is gonna be above freezing so I'm planning on giving it a quick hand wash.

 

[ChitownStang]

Drive it year round, no issues. Weekly car washes. Been trying to hold off on summer to winter tire change until thanksgiving like usual but this year Chicago is brutal, 20degree highs and 5” of snow making it hard! Hoping for one more stretch of 40’s to enjoy the better looking summer wheel/tires...lol

 

[Decanes]

Drive it 365
Got home before it started snowing today

 

[Medsport]

I drive mine year round. Usually don't have much trouble as I have a winter wheel/tire set, but didn't get it changed over in time this year as we had an early storm and its supposed to be very cold this week. The wheels are at my parents house about a half hour away and not sure when I will get a chance to change them over now as its miserable doing it when its freezing out.

 

[19 RKT PONY]

No winter use here.
In fact it lives in garage on battery tender year round.
Don't use it enough going probably put it up for sale.

 

[geep81]

Hello, winter.

 

[Jimmy]

We've had a snow storm a few days ago and I've been commuting to work every day. Yesterday we had a snow squall with whiteout conditions. I work in the city and live in a small town so my drive is mostly rural roads that don't get salted as well as the city roads. The Mustang handles the snow just fine with a set of winter tires. It's my first RWD car, and it does have more difficulty starting going than my previous cars, but once it gets going it's fine. The traction control works great, I tried playing around with turning it off and it was scary.

 

[JohnDoe]

We've had a snow storm a few days ago and I've been commuting to work every day. Yesterday we had a snow squall with whiteout conditions. I work in the city and live in a small town so my drive is mostly rural roads that don't get salted as well as the city roads. The Mustang handles the snow just fine with a set of winter tires. It's my first RWD car, and it does have more difficulty starting going than my previous cars, but once it gets going it's fine. The traction control works great, I tried playing around with turning it off and it was scary.

Put a bag of salt in the trunk and you'll gain a lot more grip accelerating, but remember to leave space to stop.

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