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Mien bug has been a disaster in the snow.
Need to off load it before I encounter a real winter and I tear off whatever is still left under there, tear off the front grill and run it over and rip out what ever wiring is still left on the under side.
I hate to say it, but I have had both my Camaro and suburban both 2wd in Maine during the winter and they did as expected for rear wheel drive vehicles. No where near a disaster.
The bug has been so bad, I almost went out in a foot of snow in single digit temperatures to resurrect my Camaro that has been parked since before I joined here, hence the reason I don't have a fuel log for it. I have done this before with the camaro, last resurrection it sat for 3 years never moved in maine and I dug it out of 3 feet of snow to put it back on the road in feburary of 2006.

With a front wheel drive car you have certain expectations after driving everything from buicks to Toyotas in the snow. By far my VW has been the worst of them all. I was not expecting that at all, I expected the "german engineered" machine to be one of the better FWD cars in the winter.

Its great on dry and wet road. The anti locks must have been developed on the Nuremburg ring during a monsoon.

I had a Toyota [the US equivalent of a camry] in northern japan during a cataclysmic winter where we got something like 200 inches of snow. And I broke a CV boot.
I would put it in 2nd gear, redline the rev counter and let the clutch out hard to ram snow out of my way then whatever snow I couldn't ram through I just sledded over and broke a single CV boot, then because it was the middle of winter I waited a month to fix it and then that next fall I was changing the clutch. I cleaned and repacked the CV and replaced the boot reused the old bearings and all.

Had that been a VW, there is no way it would have made it past the 1st week of real winter there.