Eclipse's in the winter

I love these car's but they are the WORST in winter...had to park at the bottom of the hill 2day cause i could make it up:(

on top of that i have to god like 5mph everywhere...can't wait till summertime:)

i hear ya! I got terrible tires on. Slide all over the place. Can't hit the gas at all when it snows/rains... also cant go over 3K rpm. I need tires badly.

I love AWD :)

Shoulda got AWD ;)

Mine goes like a tank, I love it!

get better tires...

I know what you mean. Here we have had a pretty mild winter but I've still got a taste of it. My car even sucks in the rain, its horrible. I ordered new tires with my rims about a week ago so hopefully that helps me out a bit.

That's why you buy a POS winter beater. :sunglasse

Thank god I did...we just got 8 inches of snow, and theres no way I would make it around in the eclipse.

I can't afford to pay insurance on 2 cars (let alone the eclipse) as for the new tires I just figured i could suffer through one more month or so

or you can just move where it don't snow it never snows here lol

nah, i like the snow...whats christmas without snow:)

Driving with bald tires is fun in the snow. I had about 1/32 (just barely wasnt bald) of tread on my winter rims for two winters. Good fun. I sure appreciate my winter tires though. My dads friends tire shop was going out of business and he had some no name brand (Sigma) tires the fit the Cavy for $50 for the whole set. So that was my christmas present two christmases ago. It was probably the most practical gift I have gotten in a while.

I got a pair of Toyo Proxies 215/40/ZR17s for my b-day 2 years ago. Now that's a badass present. :)

I got a pair of dunlop SP Sport FM901 225/50/R16 last year that my mommy and daddy bought me because i was to lazy to pay for them myself.

I got a pair of dunlop SP Sport FM901 225/50/R16 last year that my mommy and daddy bought me because i was to lazy to pay for them myself.

Your cool. :uhoh:

My eclipse LOVE rains and very very cold day, it run smooth on those day. weir

I went to the local tire shop and told him I wanted winter tires just on the front the most agressive tread he could get me cheap.

They were snow tires he put them on my front tires for 180 I think. 20 of that was mount and unmount cost. Anyway they were no namers but had so much tread on them. I went from not being able to go in winter to being able to tear around town in snow.

Mind you they didn't save me when I hit black ice. But I was able to go around my town (it's in a valley so it's up and down hills all day for me) without any trouble.

Before the tires I would slide all over. I need to get some on my new gst. I bought a set of stock beater rims for winter tires. Then you don't have to pay mount and unmount each year. Pays themselves off quickly.

I wouldnt know, my cars been broken since before december. Ive drivin it a week since then.

Wow just to make matters worse its like -30 outside and i went to go start my car and all it does is turn over...what a bad for my car

awd + 4 snow tires = :D
i dont slide or spin at all unless im trying. before on my almost bald proxies i could spin from a 40 mph roll in the rain when boost hit.

only sucky thing is im lowered so i get to pretend that im a snowplow. air to snow fmic :D

lmao be that really keeps ur motor cooled down :grinyes:

haha. I know the spinning at 40mph thing. I did that in the snow a few times on my old 2.4l spyder. I havn't taken the turbo spyder out in bad weather yet.

Umm... you want less tread in the snow, not more...

I think it all depends on what type of snow you get in your area. I've found that with light fliffu snow, less tread is better. You kind of roll over top of it. We get really wet snow here most of the time. So You kinda slide through it, if you don't have tread. With less tred my car really wouldn't dig in to grip anything, and it wouldn't go. When it did go it pretty much slid. I usually go with bigger more aggressive tread, skinnier tire. The wide tires have to plow through the snow otherwise..