4X4 helps you GO. Not STOP. Parking Lots and ahem...golf courses under construction are generally good places to snow wheel. Just watch out for open ditches!

You shoulda seen the idjits on the Beltway last night. Going as fast as they can swerving in and out of traffic and then freakin' out when they see a slick spot, or a bridge and jamming the brakes. I was just waiting to be stuck in the middle of 100 car pile up.

 

Sat night and Sunday were a blast... Sat Night I went out because my truck was the only one that could get us to the places we needed to be.

Snow driving is definitely fun, but you have to do it responsibly. Remember that stopping is not guaranteed, going may be but stopping is not.

Here in NYC sunday I had to head home from the gf's to my home to shovel in the morning. Suffice to say any side streets were NOT done. Any road that was clear of cars I had a bit of fun in 2HI driving sideways down the street (slowly mind you, you never know when you can get traction. that's terrible for your truck and your rear heh), and enjoying that I got by without much difficulty on the roads that cars were sliding all over on and unable to move on. Best was trying to find a parking spot. *Drives over mound of snow* *Parks*


What amazes me around here is how people don't know how to drive in snow. We had a party saturday night so a ton of people showed up and got snowed in. We had to push them down the street to the main road so they could get out as they were just spinning otherwise. But it's amazing. People were flooring it, expecting that will make them go faster. Some of the poor blokes I wound up having to get into their car and drive it to the corner for them. Not that hard guys, throw it into 2nd gear for less torque and easy on the gas....

Granted having a truck made it easier, but still....

 

LOL Yeah, parking in a 4x4 is great.
I literally did exactly what bezerker said and just drove over the mount and parked. I watched people spinning out in ALOT better of a pile of snow then I was stuck in...

I was on the "incorrect" side of the street, and got ALL the snow from the street piled on me when the snow plow came threw. 3 feet of snow piled in the method it was wasn't easy for me to get out, but it was simpler when I came in with a broom, a shovel, and a ice scraper. I had a blast watching the Mazdas trying to get out. LOL Looked like Snow Burnouts. LOL

Anyway, yeah, don't just drive around this just to drive around.

ABS brakes aren't miracle brakes. Remember that at the end of the day, regardless of what you drive....

Tires are rubber and snow is wet. Be careful out there.

 

Here's another way to look at it:
Brakes don't stop a vehicle, they only slow it down. Tires (and bridge supports) are what stops a vehicle.

 

And barges, at least in the case of bridge supports.

 

Okay, for the record, Chevy's new antilocks SUCK! On my dad's '01 Cavalier and my mom's '06 Silverado you can lock the wheels totally up on both on dry pavement, and the ABS is working in both of them!

Let the angry replies begin...

Regards,

Thomas

Oh, and about being bad for your truck and all, transmission mechanics love it when it snows...
My next dr neighbor has a Honda Accord, so she was trying to get it up the drive with her husband pushing, she had the wheels going about 90 and I was just watching... all of the sudden, they found concrete, grabbed and CRUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She called a Honda dealer, the dealer quoted her 4100, then gave her name and number to sales whom called her several times to attempt to pressure her into buying a new car. She is having Aamco *I think that's how you spell it* rebuild it for 2400. It was towed there.

 

Are you absolutely sure they're "locking up"? Because they will lock and unlock quickly on dry pavement and squeal the tires all the way to a stop. Dry it on wet or icy pavement, in a safe place, and see if the results are the same.
I believe the "update" debuted the '05 P/U models. There is a definite difference, if only marginally better, between what my '05 silverado and my '94 yukon have.

All that being said, I was raised with regular brakes and the whole ABS thing is anathema to my super control freakish mind. LOL

 

That's exactly what happens, but I really didn't think any skid was to happen at all on an ABS system. The stopping distance is right for an ABS system, I don't skid uncontrollably to my doom... but the ABS on my Blazer is so much more awesome.

HEY! Anyone notice how on old cars, the brakes feel the same throughout the range of the pedal, but on new cars, the more you press the brake pedal the firmer it gets? Or the fact that the brakes on new cars feel almost hard, like pushing against a fixed object? I know this isn't a Chevy thing because every '01 and up I have been in does it. Was there a big brake convention that I missed?

Regards,

Thomas

 

I noticed that TFisher. It's kind of funny. On my 89 iroc, the hydraulic clutch is so easy to push on that I think the thing is broken and not hooked up to anything, but the brakes and the gas are stiff as hell and very responsive (Tapping the brake like I would in the blazer means I'm jerking to a stop... same with the gas pedal to a degree except going forward instead.) On my 01 blazer, the clutch is stiff (hydraulic is working fine, just stiffer design), and the brakes/gas pedal seem so light and unresponsive till you push them more.

It's very uncomfortable switching vehicles for me, as it takes me about a block to get used to the other again. (Mostly the clutch grabbing point on the camaro, where it grabs near instantly you let it up, while on the blazer its about halfway.)

That said, I love my blazer. Very happy that I have it, and if this was to have something happen to it that required me to junk it and get a new one, I'd look for another ZR2 in a heartbeat.

 

Geez guys, why so serious? I do that as often than not, beats the heck out of basic cable! Mostly because in college you get an entire month off btwn semesters and nobody in town is hiring.

As for the antilock thing, I guess it's because in driving school all they taught us was no matter what the problem, ABS will get you out of it.

Regards,

Thomas