another neat trick if you find yourself spinning, especially with just one wheel. Use your parking brake a little with your hand while you continue giving it some gas. This is especially useful for the V6 guys without a limited slip, but can also benefit the V8 guys too if it is extremely slippery out. When it is super slick out, the limited slip doesn't really engage properly sometimes and it needs a little help sometimes from your parking brake.

How it works is when one wheel is spinning, putting on the hand brake a little will slow down that spinning wheel much more than the wheel that is not spinning. It evens out the power nicely. I have made it up a big hill a few times with the help of my parking brake!! Pretty weird to put on the brakes to make me go faster, lol!!

 

I kept my old front drive manual transmission '00 Cougar for the snow, with snow tires I can fly around all the SUV idiots with their all-seasons. Sold my all-season OEM 18" wheels/tires a few weeks after I bought the Stang, summer tires ever since.

Having an old beater for the winter really pays off -- winters are car killers, especially in the salt states (Minnesota killed my old Neon), but the gravel they pour on the road in Denver will destroy your paint and windshield just as fast.

 

Excellent tip!

 

from mothers day...

 

What a sight to see..

 

If your limited slip isn`t working put in another bottle of friction modifier

 

That's not the problem, it is the way the limited slip is designed and functions. It's a series of clutches that engage when there is pressure exerted on them. When on ice, there isn't much pressure being exerted on the clutches because it doesn't take much to get the tires to spin.

 

ive been driving a mustang during the winter since 2000. Past 3 years ive been driving my 2006 vert and new 2009.

 

 

dont worry soap fixes all!

 

2nd winter. It was about -27F this AM. So cold one of the streetlights froze on "red" on my way to work; I had to run it!

 

365 DD here as well! Just replaced the stock rear Pirellis with General Altimax Arctics, plan on the front two in a week or so and then 18" wheels with summer tires next year to swap back and forth.

Two winters on the stock 17" Pirelli's was better than I expected. Especially with the frequency of snow we've had the last two years.

 

DD here as well. I live in North KC, and we got about 3-4" total. I put 240lbs of sand in the back and was no sweat for the most part. Went to go get a pizza last night in the thick of it, and besides braking through a red light on a downhill road, didn't give me much problems. This morning it had all iced and I had a little bit of slip on the hills near my subdivision. Just took it slow and had no incidents though. I have an F-150 4x4 I usually take (sis is borrowing) but wouldn't mind some snow tires on the stock wheels and another set for the summer.

 

I don't miss the NY winters!

 

For some reason I always see owners of black mustangs all weathering them. wonder why?

 

Well mine's white (and black LOL) but I DD too and in Chicagoland, was nasty lasy couple days but with my blizzaks no problem at all, it's better them my old FWD GTP was, not bad for a 500HP car

 

Im glad I sold the snow tires and wheels for 500 and bought a beater for 500, so much worth it.
Yeah, F1's in the sub 40's is scary, lol. Like slicks in the rain.

Also, turn off TC if stuck in snow, it wont let you go no where. Rock it baby!

 

As much as I like my Mustang, I think its time for me to get something a little more reasonable as a daily driver. I live in central NJ. Just got the first snow of the season and the car is stuck in the driveway at home. Main roads are fine, the side roads are a different story. My car is a lease and is up at the end of March. No idea what I am going to get next.