Is shoveling necessary when you own an AWD?
>>13891541
yes, even AWD cars get stuck if the snow is bad enough.
If you want to track snow in your house, build up a huge layer of hardback that takes forever to melt and turns a gravel drive into muck when it does, no.
I have a plow service do mine, fuck shoveling
>>13891567
shut the fuck up and stop assuming it snows everywhere for everyone
>>13891567
hardpack
>>13891569
If it doesn't snow where you are this thread is irrelevant to you, as your post is to us.
>Why did you even?
>>13891580
fuck you i've never seen snow in my entire life and i never will
>>13891584
ITT:aboriginals
>>13891541
Not with half a foot of light snow and fucking sunshine like pictured, no
When you have a snowfall like this five days a week that also doesn't melt then yes, you pretty much have to shovel/blow if you want to drive your car on your driveway or simply be able to walk around without wearing snowshoes unless you own a BV202 or something
>>13891584
Have fun in your desert shithole.
>>13891569
>>13891584
>implying OPs pic doesn't have snow
>implying shoveling is necessary for anything but snow or cheap migrant laborers
GTFO negroid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuTXUcoGdhw
>>13891599
>tfw no BV 202
>>13891584
>he will never know the joy of hooning in an empty snow covered parking lot late at night
Yes
>>13891603
>>13891598
i dont live in a desert
>>13891584
>>13891677
lol i bet the guy filming was high af
>>13891567
I wish I could have a plow service do mine. We have expensive stamped concrete and interlocking and plows fuck it up.
>>13891696
this is one of the best feelings. 3 hours on a completely IKEA parking lot, with hooning, semi shitty food and good friends
>>13891765
Yes it is. Local GO station built a overflow parking lot in the way back corner surrounded by trees and commercial stone business. It's out of sight. I do car maintenance in there, nobody bothers me.
Sub Outback with xice3 tires.Shits fun yo.
>>13891580
That's beautiful.
Where do you live, Anon?
Floridafag here..what's it like?
gadsgsadgfasdf
>>13891803
99 M5 here, but i have to be honest for those kind of occasions my little 135 hp swift is more fun.
also that thing they did in top gear with putting metal oven plates under the rear wheels of an FWD car and pulling the handbrake?
yeah, its hillarious
>shoveling
I'll pass.
>>13891807
Interior Alaska, cold dark and unforgiving but beautiful in the winter. Warm, sunny and lush in the summer. 4 hours of daylight in the dead of winter 24hrs daylight in the peak of summer. Snows from October to March averages about 6ft a year, average high is 73 in the peak of summer and about -18 in the dead of winter. Permanent Fund Dividend is about $1000 a year per resident. Usually spend mine on heating fuel.
Where I live is pretty solitary. I see more wildlife than I do humans at home.
If I could use one word. Vast
This is a picture I just took of my side yard. Previous pic is from the Cabin I bought when I first moved here.
>>13892018
Wrong pic, that's the kitchen window
Have a garage
>>13891883
We have the larger hydrostatic-drive version of that one, the ST28 Hydro, and holy shit was it a noticeable change from the old Kärcher piece of shit we had
![857461_10152165057018357_1627393956_o[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/E8pq889.jpg "857461_10152165057018357_1627393956_o[1].jpg")
>>13892018
>>13892027
>not looking onto a mountain from your balcony
Must be terrible
>>13892038
I only know that feel when I visit my friend in Colorado.
>tfw new "shovel" and cant wait to use it
>>13892038
i'll stick with my view of my dock and river.. and 4 to 5 snow events a year.. non of which are significant to stop my saab (although close) or jeep.
>>13892038
Yeah a better view would be awesome but I can see the white tank range on clear days. Houses further up are too expensive right now.
Not trying to be a dick but that's just a large hill. Beautiful though. You are in Scandinavia iiric?
>>13892031
I have an ancient two stage with a six speed transmission.
The engine a tiny 4hp L-head. It usually starts on the first pull.
It gets the job done though, and that's enough for me.
![10949711_10153309467007094_7012959482541755362_o[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ajt2Bsy.jpg "10949711_10153309467007094_7012959482541755362_o[1].jpg")
>>13892065
Hehe, good point... when you put stuff like this it all sounds terrible. The sea is just a puddle, the forrest a bunch of sticks
Yup, eastern Norway
>>13891541
No, its more fun. And when you make road tracks with your tires, and it all freezes over, and only you in your awd with winter tires can get through and watch everyone else get stuck. Hella fun
>>13891831
I see your point. Hooning in something else could be funner. My tires grip well and the engine doesn't place much power to the wheels to really hoon unless tons of snow.
![363763-a5675f42ac1c78926be783f05f7162fd-90007940_0[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/32gbgA5.jpg "363763-a5675f42ac1c78926be783f05f7162fd-90007940_0[1].jpg")
>>13892068
The Kärcher did its job aswell, but I could never run it full speed after a normal snowfall, constant wheel slip due to simple belt-driven design, and the nozzle took way too long to turn, so it took like at the very least double the time that the new Ariens use
When you use this shit for an hour atleast five days a week you tend to get really fucking tired of having a shit blower
>>13892072
I was gonna shittiest something about Denali @6000+meters but I don't have the energy. Or any photos on my phone.
>mmm fresh groomed ski runs
>>13892120
Shitpost*
Alaskan cabins are comfy though
![12278881_10153790606227094_6470790975391939459_n[1].jpg_oh=d703211550a5817f9ad1eafeb0bc04b2&oe=56F8B1E0.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/omrxB3l.jpg "12278881_10153790606227094_6470790975391939459_n[1].jpg_oh=d703211550a5817f9ad1eafeb0bc04b2&oe=56F8B1E0.jpg")
>>13892120
Haven't had a chance to try some proper off-piste or similar like that yet, but its definetly on my list do before dying
We're opening up at the 27th of November, now that we've finally gotten our minus degrees and good snowfalls
>>13892146
Ugh, I wish I lived in a place that didn't have insane amounts of light pollution.
![12108795_10153702193487094_4922982894138720770_n[1].jpg_oh=a5c36107a8ac393ef7c54db6a275fc88&oe=56FA8F85.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/6tLvcXL.jpg "12108795_10153702193487094_4922982894138720770_n[1].jpg_oh=a5c36107a8ac393ef7c54db6a275fc88&oe=56FA8F85.jpg")
>>13892154
A guy I know makes a living taking pictures and guiding others to taking pictures of stuff like this around here
>>13891584
>tfw I've seen snow where I live only 3 times in my life, 20 years, and it never stuck around at all
Some winter weekend I'm just going to get in my car and go north until I think it's snowy enough, and spend the rest of the weekend having having fun. I have been up north in the winter before though, so I'm not totally unfamiliar with loads of snow, but I've never driven in it.
>>13892161
Gorgeous
>Alaskan aurora
>>13892018
how's being over 300 miles from the mainland and getting buttfucked by logistics because of it
>>13892090
I see your point there. Last winter it was about once every two weeks to twice a week at most.
>>13892078
not that the M5 cant be fun, but it just feels a bit too serious for the occasion. the swift is more of a playful thing. a really fun one
>>13892220
I'm in the mainland. Fairbanks is in the center. If you mean the contiguous u.s. I am 2000 miles away.
It's expensive but we make enough so I don't really notice. Unless I'm buying parts online, the shipping is often as much as the components.
>>13891831
> they did in top gear with putting metal oven plates under the rear wheels of an FWD car and pulling the handbrake
I used to do this with fast food trays when I was younger. Works well, just probably dont last as long as metal trays
>>13892266
You're that dude pretending to be a girl right?
You ever drive to Canada(White horse or something) or is it to far/not worth it?
>>13892353
huh, i tried those with trays from mcdonalds but they desintegrated after a few meters only
>>13892410
If you're using Maccas trays you have to stack them, one at a time lasts seconds.
>>13892405
No my gf got drunk and tried to troll once, terribly I might add. I built the truck, she drives a Volvo
We usually only go through Canada on your way to Haines, Ak for fishing trips
Been down the Alcan three times though
>>13892460
It's also shitty as pictured here not a slightly less shitty lowrider. I do tuck it back in the mirror sometimes though.
>>13892432
well, i have bought metal plates to avoid that by now. anyway, we were like 8 people there, pople brought food, a stereo, and their shitboxes. we made a little handling course and donuts competitions and shit. good times
>>13891696
yes, if you own a modern "AWD" vehicle
last winter I saw a new BMW SUV stuck in snow. when he gave it some gas, sometimes no wheels were spinning and sometimes 3 wheels were spinning.
You gotta become the shovel
>>13892988
Clean Caddy, how did they break the suspension on the beach?
>>13892948
Yea, 4WD tends not to help when you have no traction.
>>13891584
Try and take a trip somewhere where snow is.
You have to know the feeling of having you car slide around at like 20kmh
>>13893028
>break
