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First winter with my 850 850 1995

posted by  Kinderknight on  Sat Dec 6 10:24 CST 2003
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My 850 does not perform well in only 4 inches of snow, let alone ice. Once I had a hard time getting out of my driveway after an overnight snow fall, to about 4 inches and accumulating to about 6 inches at the end of the driveway onto the secondary street. Once it was situated on the secondary road, it went several yards and was spinning its wheels, going nowhere.

No driving mode of any kind did well to move the car. I ended up putting the car in neutral and pushing the car back to the driveway with the help of a neighbor's 4 wheel drive pickup.

I would not drive the car much when it snows, unless I had snow chains mounted on all four tires.






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New First winter with my 850 [850][1995]
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