***Official Snow day thread!***

-EDIT- badbennyb

Please use this thread provided in the general subaru discusion area to alert everyone that it is snowing, if you hit a curb or ran over a child, post it here, planning on driving your car around in circles? post it here.....you get the idea. Have fun and be safe.

**** "All other OMG it's snowing threads may be deleted at any moderators discretion"

That's it, nothing more to say. Off to enjoy the evening tooling around in the snow.

 

And watching idiots hit curbs... Soon to be pulling idiots out of snow. AWD love

 

thread number one.

 

i was one of the idiots that brushed a curb. Coming down the hill outa the burnsville taco bell. pure ice wasnt even on the gas when i left the parking lot just rolled down the hill and wooop haha o well thats what cheap rims are for.

 

if you like to Snowmobile check this out:

http://mnsubaru.com/threads/snowmobile-gathering-near-mille-lacs-jan-13-16.37611/

Canceled... F*** mother nature... where is old man winter.

*EDIT* 1/2/12

 

So it's Saturday night and I had been out about 45 minutes. I had hit a few lots and decided to head to a big one that's tons of fun. I was 100' from the entrance when this happened...

While take a left around a long corner my car suddenly stopped turning and instead started heading towards the curb on the right side of the street I was turning onto. (Ice?) No need to panic I thought, I'll just apply a little counter steering and a light touch on the gas to bring the backend around. Well, I did that, and the car did come around. Unfortunatly I ran out of room and the rear passenger wheel hit the curb, followed by the front wheel. The hit was violent considering I was probably only doing 10 MPH pulse whatever speed I gained when I hit the ice. After getting my car into the lot I got out to find the rear wheel completely jacked. The bottom of the wheel was probably 5 - 10 degrees in.

Bloomington Subaru got back to me today. $2600 to fix assuming the front suspension is okay. Pretty much everything attached to the wheel was bent and/or broken.

So that sucks. A word of caution to any other new or somewhat new to AWD members (I'm a year new). These cars have amazing grip in the snow, but that grip can go away real fast if you find a patch of ice.

Hope everyone else faired better than I did.

 

What was broken or damaged for $2600? Specifically, I mean.

 

Sounded like just about everything including both passenger side wheels. I'll post a list when I get it back. Hopefully on Monday!

 

Where the snow at

 

Europe

 

Even a picture of snow would get me excited at this point

 

first snow of the year, it didn't last...

^^private parking lot, not a public road

 

http://thechive.com/2011/12/19/awesome-snow-forts-for-the-kid-at-heart-46-photos/

I did this when I was a kid. Man, someways those were good days.

 

Did anyone else see the trace of snow that fell today? Wow, it was awesome! Apparently Minneapolis just isn't the place to be if you want snow this year. Meanwhile, everyday my winter tires take more and more of a beating. Depressing.

 

its snowing in Mankato so i went out and had a little fun

 

Damn at least it was sticking to your car. As of midnight it was still just water on my car. And its mostly off the roads now.

 

Roads are still fun up here! We got around 3" or so overnight, lil bit more this morning...

 

gotta LOVE that "lake effect" for snow fall.....

 

Had 5 friends go into ditches last night. I didn't think the roads were THAT bad...

 

they weren't that bad, just people either thinking they can drive like normal or screwing around and lost it.

 

They were just driving like normal (for a slippery snowy situation), and just dipped into the ditch.

 

I'm hearing freezing rain and snow after! Who's ready to show the cocky suv drivers who the real road kings are. AWD is all we'll drive

 

Just a reminder AWD doesn't decrease the braking distance (especially with the ice underneath)... excelerate fast ... but keep the speeds down please

 

freezing rain ftl..guess I am staying in, untill I get my new tires I dont trust going out in ice and slush.

 

freezing rain indeed ftl.

the tires i'm on suck on snow as it is, this is just dumb.

 

shoulda seen me leaving mcdonalds last night at 2 in the morning. sideways on silver lake from mcdonalds exit till just before the 694 west entrance. that was after sideways around the side of the store.

i was pissed that they were only accepting cash, so i said i don't have any and then sidewaysed around their ****. they were looking out the drive through window shouting at me. ****em.

that was the third place i'd gone to try and get dinner after work. firs mc d's, on co rd d was closed, so then i went to wendy's on silver lake by walsatanmart, closed, then i drove all the way up to mc d's on silver lake. they were open, but were only taking cash. fuuuuuuu.....*rage face*

so i was pissed at that point, and driving shenanigans ensued.

 

yep.

 

jealousy ensues.

i need to rip that banjo filter out.

 

thanks man!

 

Locked down for the summer.