How does the 370z perfom in the winter weather?

arvind_korha

I drive my 370Z in Calgary, Canada including winter. Our winters can get pretty bad. IF you have a set of good winter tires, You'll be fine. DO NOT run summer tires or youll be screwed. In all honesty with winter tires and some common sense anybody can drive a rwd car in snow including 370z's.

Bummer

I'm still running on the OEM Potenzas. 3,000 miles. Might as well be bald in the snow. Any snow.

It snowed almost a foot. The car's been parked most of a week. The roads - out there - are clear, but my neighborhood roads still have two inches of rutted, half frozen, snow/slush/ice. Maybe today...

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Steve

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90% of the snow performace is in tires.
Just because a car looks sporty doesn't mean it's bad in snow.
That said, people here trying to drive in snow with summer tires is just dumb. You're not even supposed to drive summer tires in the rain when it's cold outside. They're called summer tires for a reason.

Luciano13

u wouldn't believe the dumb dumbs I've seen on the snowy roads. When your summer or even all season wheels spin in simply rain, in the fall.... Its time for new tires period

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Bummer

True. But that doesn't mean you can always do something about it. Rock meet hard place, and all that.

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Steve

0101

What do you mean?
Just buy a secondary set of wheels used, and get some really good snow tires for them. The high performance snow tires handle well. Short of money reasons, I can't see why everyone wouldn't do this.
2 sets of wheels. One set has snow tires, one set has summer tires. Easy

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Justice97

How does the 370z perform in the winter weather?

Sluggish like a wet sponge.
If she starts to shake, shimmy and shutter you might be in trouble.

TreeSemdyZee

Gosh. How did people ever drive in the snow before FWD came along?

Captainstevo

Agreed -- I drive 100 miles every day to work, so I have a RWD IS300 as a DD... got some $50 wheels from craigslist with some Blizzack snow tires, and the thing handles amazingly well in the snow. If my commute wasn't so long, I would have just gotten a second set for the Z.

falconfixer

36 degrees here today with dense fog and slick roads. drove to work on stockers and checked the news...nope Hilter still hasn't risen from the dead, no baby unicorns were killed and I'm as unproductive as ever. Maybe the wrold will end tomorrow if I drive with my summer tires in the winter time

Bummer

Money reasons works just fine to make it not so easy. No need to break out the violin and kleenex, let's just say feces occur.

By next season I'll have a second set to swap into, but right now I have too many obligations. Not to mention, even with the best snow tires in the world, a Z isn't going to be bucking a foot of snow.

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XwChriswX

Its about more than just traction, driving the softer OEM tire compound on cold (hard) road surface will cause excessive wear that reduces tire life = buying tires sooner.

Why waste the money?

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zeeder

For me, it was simply the fact that I could't afford the tire and wheel package this winter...lol.

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XwChriswX

Touche'.

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2BritsRacing

I drive an 09 Z with snows on all year round. I find it handles the snow and ice just fine, but as with any car in winter it's all about tires.

The wife also drives it half the winter through all kinds of snow and ice with no issues.