If it makes you feel any better I live in Baltimore and bought my car this past January pretty much exactly a week before we got hammered with 4 feet of snow in a 4 day span. Needless to say my car sat for a little over a week before I was able to get out. I plan on purchasing some snow tires this season. The one good thing that came out of it is I really know what to expect out of the car now in those types of conditions, which isn't much.

I drove mine with Blizzaks all winter and it was A-OK. It's not as fun with snow tires on (turns into a granny car...might as well be a Versa). Looking the car over this past spring, there wasn't much corrosion anywhere to be found. Your car won't fall apart if you drive it salt slush. Just do what I did and give the undercarriage a good rinse once or twice a week.

if your car's pretty much stock i wouldn't worry too much about the salt. it's when you got aftermarket camber kits, springs, coilovers, bolts, etc. that corrode VERY quickly at times.

ive had very bad experience with tein and tanabe springs in the past where the paint just shattered off the coils from maybe 2months of heavy salt driving in the winter time, shaft threads corroding, etc, etc.

Eh, I bought mine and it snowed 2 days later...i still drove it around...worked out too, because it forced me to keep it under 4000rpm :)

do you guys use salt out there in dallas?

no i dont believe so, whenever we have ice and sleet, they usually put sand down...some areas i've seen trucks putting down some sort of chemical compound, not sure what it is, but i guess helps melt the ice. so, by the end of it all, nothing is corroding your car like salt does, which i think they use a lot of up in the northeast?

:icon18: yea, it's 65 and not a cloud in the sky here today :tup:

that's cool. the snow melt crap they use here seems to corrode metals faster than salt. :icon14:

Haha, you're asking the wrong guy here. :rofl2:

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85 degrees today, yes the a/c is on

It was already snowing in the mountains of West Virginia and as low as 27ºF during our last Z Club run last weekend.

Just get yourself some good tires for the cold weather. I put on a set of Michelin Pilot Sport A/S Plus tires for the cold weather and drove the SUV on the snow days.
I averaged driving the Z four days out of five each work week. Of course each winter is a little different ;)

I've gotta get some tires! The Advents slip and slide quite a bit once the temp gets into the 40's or lower.

If it snows here I wont be able to get out of my subdivision. Snow + Big hill + Z + Summer tires = FAIL

Hi dave, if you don't mind the look, the pilot sport A/S works pretty well in cold temps.
the last dunlop max perf tires I had on my R53 also worked well in cold temps but can't remember wat model it was....