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I drive all year, just a little less in the winter. I keep summer tires on, we don’t get much snow and will usually have warmer days when I can drive. I do pay attention to temperatures( outside and tire temps) and rain. You won’t find me driving in a cool rain on summer tires even if it is well above freezing. That said, the car might sit for a couple of weeks due to the weather but I miss driving it and I am happy to see a warm, dry day.
The right tires and skill... when I test drove for VDub/Audi/Bentley they took us on a one day ice/winter track at the US Army Arctic warfare training center. The first ten minutes were ... "riveting" after that you started to learn how to anticipate.
Better IMHO to drive a wee bit slower than wait five months to be able to drive it a wee bit faster.
siberian
^ That's your value proposition up in Alaska, though. I don't have to wait 5 full months before being able to drive. I was driving my car on summer tires well into December, and I will almost certainly be taking it out again in early March. Some 40 degree temps are all that are needed, and we even get those days in Jan/Feb sometimes, although I prefer to just wait until March
Why would anyone want to stop driving the greatest fun car out there for months in the winter. Life is too short to stop enjoying it for that long. I want to have driving enjoyment every day I am alive and at 83 I am not sure how many more days I will have. When I drive my wife's Macan because we need the size I have a letdown and can't wait to drive the 911.
I drive all year, just a little less in the winter. I keep summer tires on, we don’t get much snow and will usually have warmer days when I can drive. I do pay attention to temperatures( outside and tire temps) and rain. You won’t find me driving in a cool rain on summer tires even if it is well above freezing. That said, the car might sit for a couple of weeks due to the weather but I miss driving it and I am happy to see a warm, dry day.
Exactly the same here. I drive it in the winter when there's no salt and it's not bitter cold and horrible out, since the summer tires are like slippery hockey pucks and I have no interest in getting winter tires and wheels. I've never gotten a separate set of tires/wheels before on any car and my daily driver has to have summer tires too (so dumb). If it's snowing out or icy, I simply don't go out and have to cancel my plans. It's only about 7-10 days a year if even that...sometimes, no days a year. If I'm already out and it starts snowing, I can barely get home and one time had to leave it at a mall parking lot for a few days since I couldn't make it home.
This car below is horrible when it's in the teens and icy or snowy. I have 2 AWD drive car, stuck on summer tires, and can't be driven safely in bitter cold weather or snow or ice. Awesome! Neither car can accommodate all season tires on the wheels I have, as far as I've been told.
^ I have all seasons on my Bimmer and the fact that this car is WAY funner (and has a new exhaust) than my old Acura allows me to "miss" the Porsche a bit less this winter than last.
But alas, I still miss it. The inline 6 B58 engine is wonderful, but nothing beats the flat six on a warm day in my cabriolet....
I have had winter wheels and tires for all my Porsche sports cars except for my GT3. To little ground clearance so I tucked it in from November to April. But my 992S seems fine so far. Just had 5" of snow here and it drove like a champ. Pirelli winter scorpions on 19/20" factory wheels handled that snow fine and grip on ice is excellent. The summer tires (21" Goodyear F1) would be suicide. I stay off roads once salt is spread and until roads are cleared. That still leaves many clear but cold days for Porsche drives. I normally drive it to work about one or two days per week because I need the Jeep's larger cargo area for Costco runs!.
Went out today and shot up some epic 4-wheel rooster tails on the way to the post office. Did a bootlegger to get home. Who wouldn't want to drive all year?
Wow. I'm glad they didn't put anything important like an air intake nearby.
I would love to drive my C2S in the winter, but winter seems to avoid my winter tires. It was mid-upper 70's last week so I had the summers on, then put on the winters when the forecast called for 40's as highs, now it's inexplicably 60 degrees.. Yes, could drive it in the 40's with summers or in the 60's with winters - but neither are optimal. I guess I need to move.
Went out today and shot up some epic 4-wheel rooster tails on the way to the post office. Did a bootlegger to get home. Who wouldn't want to drive all year?
Wow. I'm glad they didn't put anything important like an air intake nearby.
I would definitely invest in a rear fender protector as they had on the 930s. It can be applied right over the factory thin plastic.
I don’t take it out if there is ice or snow on the ground. But that’s because I don’t bother with winter tires; the E350 4matic is setup for that. Other than that, winter is fair game for the 992.
I would love to drive my C2S in the winter, but winter seems to avoid my winter tires. It was mid-upper 70's last week so I had the summers on, then put on the winters when the forecast called for 40's as highs, now it's inexplicably 60 degrees.. Yes, could drive it in the 40's with summers or in the 60's with winters - but neither are optimal. I guess I need to move.
^ In your situation, I wouldn't even bother with winter tires
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