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Not at all, winters here can be very dangerous for driving and I don't trust the other loonies out there driving
Also gives me time in the winter to tune it up & get other things done
Must be a European thing
Yes I run my 993 year round here in Richmond, VA. We only get three or four days a year with snow on the ground as of late. At one time we never had snow, you know with global warming.
Previously I had an 86' Carrera ran it year round as my wife's commuter car in snowy Cleveland, Ohio. Purchased some old wheels for winter time and ran with Mud/Snow rated tires. Ran great even in blizzards. Motronic worked like a charm, even in six below zero winters.
In the spring I would get some interesting looks and comments showing up at PCA events with snow tires on my car.
Eventually the calcium chloride sprayed on the roads did their work and the 86' could have used a paint job.
[QUOTE=XavierLaFlamme;13871022]Haven't had much snow since I put the other wheels on. Still way better than driving in the snow on summer tires like I was before.
I like how the car handles in the snow though. I just give myself time to stop. Haha.
Michael
I got all excited the other day because I had a little bit of frost on my hood in the morning. My cars on the opposite plan, I drive it all winter but can't handle the 100 degree summers with no air conditioner.
A few years ago the PCM on 1999 Jeep Wrangler TJ died on me. it was the 2nd time this happened to me and Chrysler stopped making the PCM for the 1999 Wranglers years ago. The first time it happened, I got a PCM from a scrapped Jeep. But since there were other issues also going on with my Wrangler, I decided that was it, it was time to get rid of the TJ. At the time it did cross my mind to turn my 1997 993 C2 into a daily driver including a daily driver with the harsh winters I must endure here in Southern Alberta. It would have been my cheapest option (short of buying a beater). But two things prevented my from doing this:
1) I am paranoid of being rear ended by some yokel in rush hour traffic in the summer time, let alone be rear ended by someone on icy roads that exist right now in this part of the world. Is it really worth risking losing one of the last of the air cooled engines all because I want to drive my 993 as a daily driver in rush hour conditions?
2) Years ago the City of Calgary where I live stopped clearing the snow from most of our city streets. They really only clear the major and feeder routes. But a snow plow will not venture on to the street I live on. So when we get tons of the white stuff, deep snow ruts can develop on these side streets and my 993 simply does not have the clearance to deal with the deep ruts.
So I am a two vehicle person. My daily driver is a 2013 Jeep Wrangler JK Rubicon with a 3" lift, 35" tires and solid steel AEV bumpers (and yes I do off road it) with a winch installed on the front bumper. My Jeep is awesome. I love it to bits. It gets me everywhere I need to go and beyond where most people can take their vehicles (I can easily crawl over 3 foot boulders with the Jeep). But when I lust for some Porsche fun and the roads are nice, I still have my 993 C2 that sleeps in the garage.
I never planned it this way. But both of my vehicles are iconic designs. The Porsche 911 and the Jeep Wrangler.
Was a year rounder for several years but then I saw the toll that road salt had taken on the suspension parts and the front wheel arches - not to mention the paint chips and windshield pitting from the 00 buckshot they use for road gravel in these parts.
Now with fresh windshield and respray, she rests in the third garage bay from the first snowfall until springtime gravel cleanup.
01-07-2017, 02:21 AM
