1-3-2-4 Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 When you start out in snow do you always start in 1st or 2nd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rao Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 1st unless there is absolutely no traction at all. Rob IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR CAR YOU SHOULD NEVER DRIVE IT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-3-2-4 Posted October 17, 2007 Author Share Posted October 17, 2007 well I should of been a little bit more clear I mean like fresh falling 3 inches of snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FourMoBro Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 3rd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gitster Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 3rd ? :lol: Sometimes I even put it in reverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rc0032 Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 1st and spin them like hell!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugblatterbeast Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 well I should of been a little bit more clear I mean like fresh falling 3 inches of snow. 1st. Unless I'm on a sheet of wet ice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiinc Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Always 1st...(With Blizzack snow tires, 5 months of the year) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitetiger Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Snow tires+sidestep clutch=FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-3-2-4 Posted October 17, 2007 Author Share Posted October 17, 2007 I only ask because my forester was a 4EAT and sometimes I'd find myself going into 3rd sometimes. and it's possible to not stall the car in 3rd gear?? Back when I worked for a Subaru dealer I drove then a new 05 Legacy wagon back to the dealer and I was fine in the stop and go traffic (it was a 5MT) but when I got off the road and went up two lights I could not get the car back into first so I had to start in 2nd It was so notchy.. but I'm hoping a used LGT wont feel as bad as that.. and like others said it was hard to tell when the clutch grab point was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FourMoBro Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 I can go from 3rd..sometimes its a necessity. Bu then again, I have those EL headers that these superusers claim do nothing.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrayT Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Start in fifth. You'll have no troubles with traction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-3-2-4 Posted October 17, 2007 Author Share Posted October 17, 2007 Start in fifth. You'll have no troubles with traction. sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrayT Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Even in my old FWD cars I never hesitated to start in 1st in the Colorado snow/ice storms. You just have to be careful of how you're engaging the clutch. A lot of the times it's easier to just engage the clutch so you don't burn it, then you can start to slowly gain speed. A friend of mine used to burn his clutch until he was hitting 10mph. Needless to say, he replaced his clutch after 10,000 miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-3-2-4 Posted October 17, 2007 Author Share Posted October 17, 2007 Even in my old FWD cars I never hesitated to start in 1st in the Colorado snow/ice storms. You just have to be careful of how you're engaging the clutch. A lot of the times it's easier to just engage the clutch so you don't burn it, then you can start to slowly gain speed. A friend of mine used to burn his clutch until he was hitting 10mph. Needless to say, he replaced his clutch after 10,000 miles. well I just hope it wont be that bad this year.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nKoan Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 As someone who has grown up and lived in snow most of my life, I've only ever started in 2nd for traction in automatics. With a manual, I just always start in first and use the pedals by my feet to find traction and modulate wheel spin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommypenguin Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Its really all about how you engage the clutch and speed up in the snow. As long as you gently ease into throttle from a stop you will have no problem getting traction in 1st, but obviously if you are giving your ride heavy throttle off the line or even moderate throttle you will struggle to get traction off the line. Stock tires suck in the snow, if you are still rolling on those and you have to worry about a decent amount of snow I would find a different set of rubber. I rolled on stock tires through a month of colorado winter last year, before I threw in the towel on the stock tires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
05gtlimited300 Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 just go slow in first and you should be fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSFW Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 1st always. And if the surface is slippery enough I will cheerfully spin 'em until 2nd, just for grins. I have seen stuck 2WD cars and pickups with open differentials were effectively reduced to one-wheel-drive just because of a slippery surface (and maybe one wheel was in a depression or something). If I were ever in that situation I guess I'd try 2nd to see if it would help. It's never happened to me though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrayT Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 1st always. And if the surface is slippery enough I will cheerfully spin 'em until 2nd, just for grins. I have seen stuck 2WD cars and pickups with open differentials were effectively reduced to one-wheel-drive just because of a slippery surface (and maybe one wheel was in a depression or something). If I were ever in that situation I guess I'd try 2nd to see if it would help. It's never happened to me though. Turning wheels rapidly from left to right usually gets me out of that situation. Sort of an old 4wheeling trick I guess, but it has worked for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBad Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Depends. In heavy and or slushy snow where there is more wheel spin to begin with I usually engage in first briefly and go right to second but have had other situations where I have gone right to second from a stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTTuner Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Unless your running eagle F1's, 1st with a gentile application to the go pedal and youll be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxerGT2.5 Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 1st and spin them like hell!! OBAMA......One Big Ass Mistake America! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-3-2-4 Posted October 18, 2007 Author Share Posted October 18, 2007 lol ^ how can you spin it like hell? 1st gear tops out like around 20-25 Mph? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTTuner Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 lol ^ how can you spin it like hell? 1st gear tops out like around 20-25 Mph? Have you driven your car in the snow yet??? I went to the high school parking lot one day it snowed......I was doing rally drifts in circles around the parking lot for a half hour, using third gear. Man that was a blast!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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