Anything is possible, in the 90's I'd drive my fox body 5.0L mustang and RX7 with all seasons to school in snow deeper than this.

Just had an interesting debate about this with someone who is a transit driver.

They've been drinking from the company Kool-aid as they repeated the same things.

I also think the bus driver's union is very strong and they drivers have the right not to drive if they feel it is unsafe. So why spend money on snow tires when the drivers are going to park the buses cause they feel it is unsafe. Of course no union driver will admit to that.

Beetles are rwd but there is no weight over the front wheels. It will climb a hill no problem, but turning is almost impossbile as it would plow forward with the wheel cranked. I would slow down, turn the wheel, and then get the rear wheels spinning into a fishtail in order to make the turn - effectively a controlled drift.

Most rwd vehicles are decent in the snow if you load up the rear with sandbags or anything heavy.

full tank of gas and 20L jerry can of gas

:badpokerface:

good thing the tank is right above the axle.

rwd+snow tires, no problem.

Kinda interesting. Did a quick google search on snow tires for buses and a bunch of news articles popped up from other cities.

No city uses snow tires on their buses, not even Montreal, Toronto or NYC.

Montreal has a crew and tire tread cutting machine to cut deeper grooves in their tires to help with the snow.

They claim no one makes snow tires for the buses.

NYC uses chains on their buses when it gets really bad.

Someone tried snow tires and they last 20,000 km's before needed to be replaced.

Calgary inspects their bus tires every 10,000 kms and replaces them when they hit 5/32 tread.

Definitely a lot of mixed info with a bunch of horse crap added in.

u gotta remember bus/truck tires are often retreaded

never been to work so early, traffic was so light with school closures

Can't use retreads on steering wheels.

One of the guys I work with is a volunteer fire fighter in his city and he had told me that the fire trucks they use have automatic chains. I've looked at many of the fire trucks since then and have seen them hanging down underneath in front of the back wheels.

I'm guessing this is what they use or something very similar.



Buses should use these here.

All main roads are pretty bare right now should make for a fairly easy commute home..

Nice roads, but still a selected few idiots on the road. (almost got nailed by a guy doing a last minute dynamic left while i was going straight through an intersection.. that fucker)

drive safe y'all.

Starting to come down in Vancouver again

Yep, that's an option for fire trucks. Works well up to about 30km/h, can't go faster than that though. Not perfect but since fire trucks have to get places in bad weather it's great to have when needed.

Sounds like the solution to everyone’s problem is a focus RS/STi/golf R. What y’all waiting for

whistler (and i'm sure the rest of the province) has zero problems driving buses in the snow...sounds like another BS vancouver mindset problem

Yeah, that was so awesome this morning.

I just went back a few pages to find all the people who were asking for more snow!!!

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!!!!

fuck snow... rant from a dad who has to handle the kids because their school got canceled... :fuckthatshit:

One day... fine... we played everything. Went out for snowball fight and all...

Now it's 5PM on day 3 of snowing and I literally ran out of both ideas and energy to play with them. So I put a movie on and called it a day

^ this.
It was fun for first bit, now it's annoying.

Edit: Oh it's dumping again

Coming Down hard in Vancouver South.

I am loving it :troll: Moar~!

https://i.postimg.cc/kgzDyxsC/20190212-135306.jpg

I had fun shoveling "huge" driveway

Hook up the garden hose to the sink in the laundry room. Spray with hot water, then salt. Lol

*double post

Looks like a blizzard outside right now..

Turns out in Seattle...
1) They don't use salt, sand only
2) Plow run a rubber blade that don't cut into the ice

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...ked-by-design/