I usually see snow-packed and I’ve covered roads from October straight through till April, and still will never run studs. They make traction on every driving surface except the ice worse. Unless I was headed north and hitting the winter roads on a regular basis, studs simply aren’t worth it. Not to mention they…

Unless you’re driving a significant majority of your miles on winter roads, it’s seriously not worth it. On any other surface than ice or snow packed so hard it may as well be ice (so dry roads, wet roads, 95% of snow-covered roads) they reduce traction, not to mention chewing the shit out of the roads while they’re…

Unless you’re constantly driving on ice they don’t do you a bit of good, actually reducing your traction on dry or wet pavement, and they beat the crap out of the roads. Studless winter tires are better in almost every circumstance.

I wish they were illegal the rest of the year.

They’re bad enough with dimwits running them in the winter... Can’t imagine how infuriating it would be in the summer. Fortunately studs are already illegal here between May and September.

There are other reasons not to run year-round on winter tires.

I keep people from asking me what car to but by owning four and a half cars, average purchase price $1100, which is only less than what I paid for one of them, and on average $450 more than I paid for the rest.

Maybe maybe not. One of my close friends does school group trips in a national park. One of the stops is a short interpreted hike. The main road through the park was closed due to a washout but the turnoff to the trailhead was unaffected. The bus driver saw the sign indicating the closure ahead and refused to proceed,…

It’s not that her vehicle wasn’t capable. What if the water was deeper than she expected? What if there was a strong current? She just took a huge risk with a vehicle worth well over $100,000 that didn’t belong to her, and with the lives of the children on board. The school district would’ve been held liable for…

October (or maybe November) 2013. I live outside of town and my commute is about 15 km on the highway and I’m running a couple minutes late for class, and pushing my ~485,ooo km Comanche a little harder than I should, considering I’d just cold started it at -29°C. I’m cruising along and something starts smelling HOT.…

Fire is always mesmerizing. What’s weird about this?

Squatters rights laws apply everywhere. It’s neither a Québécois or Canadian thing. Most places will allow you to stake claim to your neighbour’s yard if you’ve been mowing their grass at your own expense for long enough too.

Just because someone does something questionable doesn’t make it okay for everyone else to do it. Grow up a little.

My washer fluid is good down to -45°F. I mean that’s what it says on the jug.

His description of a cat isn’t all that inaccurate for a diesel particulate filter, where they do frequently have another fuel injector to incinerate the ash.

This comment really inspires me to go back to school.

So there’s no reason to keep the back end of the car from sliding around? Cool.

Did he just pry it open with... valves?

The Niva’s old transmission had gotten so bad by the time I pulled it out that it was actually easier to shift without the clutch...

In a probably futile bid to quell some of the hate going on, and as someone else who was actually there, great care was taken to get the LeMo through. Not only is it almost 30 feet long and not capable of some of the tighter radius corners at any speed, they also were running without 1st gear, so they needed to carry…