Porsche Enthusiasts Club Forum

Since the recent cold snap i havent used my car, slippy roads + 911 = oops!

Does anyone else use there porsche in the snow/ice?
Am i being soft?

The Jag is scary enough in this weather. I went to a TIPEC club night on Friday in the 944 & it was slippery then & added to the fact that you couldn't get any tyre temp it made it even more scary. Weather is even worse now!
One of my members normally drives there & then after a few beers gets his wife to drive home. He was on the wagon on Friday as he thought it best for him to drive home

I drove the cabby for a full winter, very gently most of the time

With the hood down I hope Sean

I don't have a cabrio, but I drive mine with the windows open, wearing only my underpants...

Left mine at home this morning. Sheet ice everywhere. Fat tyres are pretty skittish in the cold anyway. But this morning would have been tempting fate. Back on the train for me now until Easter.

Use mine as a daily driver - 35 miles each way! Go out at 5am....Need quick reactions!!

pah!

you wear underpants?

you wanna try it naked !

Drive my 944 in any weather.
When it snows you just have to get used to looking out of the side windows instead of the front screen

As my daily driver I have no option, rain hail or snow but to drive my S2 it is scary in the snow however with wide tyres and rear wheel drive +HP does improve your reactions though. My only other option is my ZX6R but this stays locked away until the roads are dry and not salty which gives me about 2 month window spread across a year.

Snow doesn't worry me. You can see it. Black ice is somthing else. Usualy yoiu don't get a second chance. Don't you have public transport in your part of the world. My train fair saves me £15 a week in fuel.

Use the 944 every day - 100 mile round trip

Loads of fun over the last couple of weeks chucking the rear end around on quiet roads

I use the 944 cab as a daily driver ( Sorry Jim - Roof up at the moment !! ) Just take it a bit easier when its below 4 degrees ( ie November to March ).It can be very good fun when there is no frost or rain and some winter sunshine.

Toby

Im using mine daily to go back and forth to work along the dark twisties, but it's only 10 miles each way, and at the times I leave and come home it's always frosty/frozen, and my wipers are CRAP!

I end up looking out of the drivers window to see where I'm going, Ace Ventura style...

In answer to J.J yes we do have public transport up this far North even got gas and electric now, however when it snows the public transport is usually the first thing to stop and if not snowing due to Beeching and the last few governments it would take me 1.5 / 2 hours and around £4.50 one way to get to work (12miles from home) so it is actually cheaper and more timely to use the car for what it was designed for "driving". I do agree however that snow is not too bad as you can see it but ice is the root of all evil but it wouldn't matter what car you were in if you hit a patch of "black ice" unless the road is wide enough something is going to get broken, just with the 944 it probably would mean the end of the line as insurers do not need much reason to write them off when they get this old.