[Vwdiesel] TDI Passet 4 motion

[James Hansen]

Well, I would disagree to a point.
We live on the farm, in east central Saskatchewan.  If I didn't own my 
own grader, I would forget what one looked like, we see the snowplow so 
infrequently.  We get it all, snow, ice, freezing rain, bitter cold, 
wind...  For instance, this winter, I had to take Sheila to work twice, 
because the drifts were to the top of the bumper of my farm pickup 
truck, a 3/4ton 4X4 GMC with a 6.5 banksTD.  All the rest of the time, 
her Passat makes the trip just fine on the twelve mile trip to Yorkton. 
  On icy days, this winter the record so far was seven vehicles in the 
highway ditch in the twelve miles to home, most of the SUV's on their 
lid.  There were 4 of them reaching for the sky that day I think.
I know a quattro is addictive, but I would not say there is any amount 
of frustration with the Passat with fresh blizzaks on all 4 corners either.
In fact, I know Sheila has driven over ground I got stuck on with my 
Iltis and the silly military tires it has- they dig well, so the wheels 
just eat themselves a hole, and the belly of the vehicle hangs up like a 
high centered turtle.
A buddy had a quattro, I worked on it a bit, that was enough to keep me 
from buying one.  How do you find yours Tony?
-james

Tony and Lillie wrote:
> Having grown up in northern WI, and lived 10 years in MT, I'd completely 
> dissagree. I only own Quattro's for winter cars, always will. I do run 
> snows(blizzak) on them as well, but would never go back to two-wheel 
> drive. The frustration is too much for me to deal with.
> 
> I'd agree if someone thinks AWD alone is the solution, they are wrong, 
> though. Just watch an STI, Evo, or S4 driver on summer tires and you'll 
> be amused!
> 
> Tony Hoffman
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Hansen" <jhsg at sasktel.net>
> To: <Vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 5:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] TDI Passet 4 motion
> 
> 
>>
>>
>> Stephen Kraus wrote:
>>> Its amazing what AWD and 4WD vehicles can do, we were driving through
>>> Kentucky and while all these SUVs and huge trucks could grip the snow 
>>> laden
>>> roads, those little AWD Subarus just drove on by us....
>>>
>>
>> Put a decent set of winter tires on a front drive car, and you drive
>> right beside them, nothing amazing at all really. Blizzak is one good
>> one.  Winter tires are for winter, all seasons are for summer.
>> AWD is a very expensive way to get traction when a set of tires would do
>> the job.  I've seen many wrecks occur as a result of driving mistakes
>> caused specifically because the driver had an AWD vehicle.  It's no
>> mystery why ESP is being mandated in suvs.
>>
>> -james (who lives in the land of ice and snow)
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