PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

PSA: WINTER DRIVING

Please share with everyone that might be headed into ski country this winter

DO's:

• Take extra cold weather clothing
• Have adequate tires
• Drive slowly
• Leave plenty of room between vehicles
• Have plenty of gasoline
• Clean wipers regularly
• -25 degree super fluid
• Bring extra food
• Know how to use your chains if you have them

• Be ready for anything

DON'T's:

• Be cocky
• Come unprepared
• Drive fast
• Drive without adequate tires
• Think you have a 4x4 so you can go anywhere you want because you're from CA or TX
• THINK YOU ARE PREPARED BECAUSE YOU WEAR PATAGONIA and HAVE A LIGHT BAR

Winter driving is no joke and can do serious damage to your vehicle, yourself, local property, others vehicles, and make me late to work because I have to pull you out of a snow bank (tips appreciated if I'm late for work )

@jberry813 @ColoradoTJ
Feel free to expand as necessary

 

Who pulled you out????

 

What's sad is you have to actually say this.....

 

Wouldn't have been so scary if you had a PP extension like that almaboy you suggested

 

Chris, do yours have that “snow” button like my wife’s has? Living in the dirty south, we don’t get snow, but was wondering what that button actually does.

 

It makes you be the person I was speaking to in the PSA

 

Keep all four tires in the plowed area of the road. Don’t drive with two tires in the snow, you’ll spin out

 

My wife has an IS350 with the snow button. We never use it either, but dealer told us it gives you less aggressive shifting and throttle response. Kind of the opposite of the tow/haul button in our Tundras

 

Good info, thanks. Nice, you and your wife have good taste in cars if I do say so myself. Haha

 

God I wish this would work in northern IA. First two good snows and people suddenly forget how to drive.

 

Not a bad idea to keep a recovery/tow strap in your vehicle as well.

 

In all fairness, you never know who's browsing around this site. Could be a 30 year driving veteran or an 18 year old who didn't have a parental figure who taught them how to drive properly. Or, a tropical transplant who's never seen snow (some people who are born and raised here in Hawaii would fit that bill).

There's a very informative post about how to properly use your 4x4. Sure, some folks here know this like the back of their hand. But take me for example: this is my first 4x4. I have to do my homework on how to actually use it. That post gave me invaluable information.

This whole community (you included, Ms Angel ) is amazing at giving amazing information for no return. We should encourage posts that might seem obvious to some.

Remember: the term "common sense" isn't always as straight forward. What's common to me might not be common to you

 

I'll delete my post. It wasn't meant to be an ass comment

 

I can assure you that this thread was initiated out of frustration. The High Rockies are not where one learns to drive in snow.

Frankly, most people from Denver know how to drive in it, but it's the entitled "know it alls" with more balls than sense that I was primarily speaking to.

Informative, yes.
Sarcastic, yes

 

you don't gotta do that. I was just babbling on. I didn't mean to sound preachy

 

Yea some stuff was obviously sarcasm, I get that. But someone could likely write about some snow tires they hate, or about a story of some idiot who did something idiotic.

After some time in places like Reddit, you realize that some gem story and comments come from unexpected posts.

 

I’m going to take the liberty of adding a few points:

Clean ALL the snow from your vehicle and scrape the frost /ice from your windows before driving it. That means having a snow brush and ice scraper. Driving around with a foot of snow on your roof is stupid - it will kill visibility for vehicles following if it’s blowing off your vehicle, slide forward down onto your windshield blocking your visibilty, or slide off the rear creating a hazard for those following.

Carry a shovel in your vehicle.

Don’t tailgate or pull closely in front of another vehicle - following distance on should be at least double of that on good road conditions. Not sure why? Go on Youtube and search multi-vehicle pileup.

Go as slow as you like in bad conditions but be courteous and let others pass too, even it means pulling over. More experinced winter drivers may well be safe travelling at faster speeds, but even if not, it’s not your duty to slow them down, and that just increases the risk to you and them.

Lastly, winter road conditions don’t mean that all other rules of the road don’t apply. On the contrary, they matter then more than ever, as it’s harder for others to avoid your stupidity, or for you to correct it at the last second.

 

I'm in total agreement to all of these. Thanks, bud!

 

I bet that Lexus "friend" will listen to you next time on your overexcessive recommendation to drive a DURAMAX

 

You forgot $70,000 Range Rovers that have "that guy" bragging about how much his skis cost as he does 65 from Lake George to Hartsel and hits that patch of ice from the wind blown snow.....ooops!!! Those nice skis end up in a monster pile of Buffalo chips next to his grill deep RR

 

On top of the expense of paying for the guard rails they destroyed