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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
What is so fundamentally bad about it? Low ground clearance? Wheel/tire package inappropriate for snow?
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Its lower to the ground. It has like new yoko avid ascend tires.
The main problem is the traction system beyond the tires. I cant really ever turn off the traction control, it has an "off" button that makes it less active. The tires spin on snow, and the anti lock brake system kicks on and tries to stop the spinning wheel and send power to the planted one, with disastrous results.
The same tires are on our Hyundai and they are 2 years older and more than half warn out. It does fine in the snow. Turn the traction control off and its really off. You are left to the physics of an open fwd diff and that's not so bad.
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