Winter Driving!
 

I'm going to drive my 2004 Mustang to work this winter.It,s a 20 min trip on a highway.Cape Breton has lots of snow and ice.I have 4 studded snow tires and a friend suggested putting some sand bags in the trunk.Anybody have any other ideas or experience with Mustangs in the winter?Any advive would bw appreciated.Thanks

When I had a 86 5.0 LX i put on snows and 2 bags of sand in the trunk. This worked quite well. Mustangs have light rear ends so you you need some extra something back there.

And if you get stuck you can use the sand for traction!

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With snow tires all I had in the back was my spare tire and a 10" subwoofer. Never really had any problems with traction or getting stuck, unless the snow was piled up higher than my front bumper.

I drove my 89lx last winter and had no problems, just put snows on, that's all.
Gonna drive the 86gt this winter, just need to go back to stock springs and put on some snows.

Hey where's the bottom and top couple located? I tried driving my 90 GT in Calgary many moons ago and that lasted 1 day. :laughhard

I drove mine through through 4 winters with just winter tires on without a problem. Even drove it to Thunder Bay on the trans Canada at Xmas a couple years ago. I have a 50lb sub in the trunk though.

You know what I say..........often I hear my uncles saying to me "back in the day when I had a real car(muscle cars...rear wheel drives).............we drove em year round!" So ya know what.......I can't see why our cars would be different. As long as you are careful and have the proper gear like winter tires and some weight.......should be no prob. My sisters boyfriend drives his 2003 GT with a set of snows and that's it.

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Buy good quality snow tires. Don't skimp out. Good snow tires make a Mustang a good winter car believe it or not.

I've had a couple different sets of winter tires and I can tell you that in my opinion there is no better tire than the Pirelli SnowSport 210's. I drove like it was summer time outside with those things. I bought a set of Goodyear winter tires this past winter from a guy on another board because they were really cheap and have had nothing but problems. Absolutely no traction and even had a blowout on one.

I drove a 79 trans am for a few winters before this so the Cobra was like a deram car in the snow to me.

I have to say that while the car makes it through winter OK with the winter tires, it's still no comparison to my 4WD Escape. It's amazingly different in winter compared to the car.

i havent had any problems with my mustang in the winter i only use 2 winter tires in the back and thats it. maybe its because my subs way it down but i dont think so

good snow tires and a two bags of concrete do it for me.

I'm in Halifax and drive my 98 GT year round. A decent set of snow's and a bag of sand are it. And I consider the sand as part of my "winter emergency" kit (first aid kit, blanket, small shovel, etc).

Only problem is on some side streets where they don't plow properly. With the car lowered a bit over an inch, you have to be careful clearing large frozen chunks of snow.

Are studded tires legal out East???

If so...I can't see you having many problems in the snow or ice.

I ran a set on my 86 4-banger back in the day...and the thing could stop on a dime on pure ice :tup

I drove my '87 last winter, it was horrible. I had broke the truck (spun a timing gear) and hadn't got the new motor into it yet (88 302HO). I had my sub box in the back, used discretion, didn't drive it when it was bad out, but really missed the truck (88 F-250, awesome in snow), which will go basically anywhere and handles in the snow a lot better as well.

The best winter vehicle I've had by FAR was my '97 Explorer 4x4, that thing was the SNOW LEGEND! It would go anywhere.....never even hinted at getting stuck or being unpredictable.....still sticks in my mind to this day just how good it was.....

I picked up my V6 as a daily driver last year and I drove it last winter.
I had 4 Blizzak tires (I hear the compound is soft so they don't last) I had no issues what so ever.
As said in a previous post, just be light on the gas pedal in deeper snow.
I was able to accelerate quicker at a street light than a fwd car.
This kid was rooster tailing snow from his front wheels. :laughhard Perhaps he was trying to do that.

I still have MUCH tread left on my Blizzaks and believe they'll be good for a couple more winters.

Good winter tires, do not cheap out and some common sense you'll be fine. :chacha: