Shuttin er down...
10-20-2014, 07:57 PM
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10-20-2014, 08:45 PM
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You take the good with the bad I guess. The 7 months, and really it was edging on 8 in Edmonton, suck. Snow, cold, followed by gravel that gets cleaned up at the end of May or early June. But man those summer nights with 4 lanes of empty pristine tarmac everywhere...kind of miss it
10-21-2014, 12:23 AM
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@ CSK, HAH!
@ Marcus, i'm going to post a picture of our winters and how the cars look...the poor pickup truck gets the abuse. i had an x5m and the winter just destroyed it.
@ez, im in manitoba...edmonton's winters are just as bad.
@ Marcus, i'm going to post a picture of our winters and how the cars look...the poor pickup truck gets the abuse. i had an x5m and the winter just destroyed it.
@ez, im in manitoba...edmonton's winters are just as bad.
10-21-2014, 03:57 PM
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Happy to see another Stern fan!
The company I work for is based in Huntsville, ON. Luckily I reside in the states and don't see much of that weather or I would go nuts.
The company I work for is based in Huntsville, ON. Luckily I reside in the states and don't see much of that weather or I would go nuts.
10-21-2014, 10:56 PM
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Threads like this make me okay with the 100 pounds of bugs I scrape off the front of my car every year.
10-22-2014, 02:11 AM
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10-22-2014, 12:26 PM
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Main roads are generally ok because they get driven and cleared off fast via snow plow. But due to the relatively low population density of Canada and huge sprawling cities you're lucky if your side street gets cleared a couple times a year. The side streets are really the major problem.
Need a lot of speed to get through this in the morning :X
10-22-2014, 07:13 PM
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We also rarely see snow where we are on the island (48.1 latitude), so the C4S is for traction balance on those days the roads are wet and the temperature is below 45F. Otherwise you need softer tires. We never park our cars.
10-22-2014, 10:04 PM
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People always say that on these forums but generally their vision of Canadian winter is slightly off, lol. When you live in a place that can get 2 feet of snow overnight, has the dubious distinction of being the coldest place on the planet a couple times a year, and you're looking at a thermometer that says -70 fahrenheit in the morning it's not so easy. Then you get a hit of warmer temperature and it melts a bunch of snow and re-freezes the next day into ice ruts that are taller then the bottom of the car. The ice, gravel, salt, snow and temperature are not only extremely hard on vehicles but the sheer volume of snow accumulation on side streets makes them impassable to lower cars. The vast majority of households where I came from had at least one pick up truck or an SUV, even if it's just a winter clunker.
Main roads are generally ok because they get driven and cleared off fast via snow plow. But due to the relatively low population density of Canada and huge sprawling cities you're lucky if your side street gets cleared a couple times a year. The side streets are really the major problem.
Need a lot of speed to get through this in the morning :X
Main roads are generally ok because they get driven and cleared off fast via snow plow. But due to the relatively low population density of Canada and huge sprawling cities you're lucky if your side street gets cleared a couple times a year. The side streets are really the major problem.
Need a lot of speed to get through this in the morning :X
10-22-2014, 11:30 PM
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