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2wd Element & snow = me not impressed!
Stats: '07 SC w/Sumitomo LHS Mud&Snow tires, 5spd.
On the way home tonight I tried to come up a short steep snow covered hill and it E could barely muster 75' up the hill before coming to a dead stop.
While I can tell you the hill is slippery, in 3 yrs of living on this street I've never not been able to make the hill even in my 3.5" lowered VW Corrado VR6.
It seems that the traction control just killed any momentum and eventually almost all but stalled the E. It seems that instead of balancing out the drive tires, it completely killed a spinning tire and kept going side to side, eventually driving the RPM's below 1k and almost stalling it.
Stats: '07 SC w/Sumitomo LHS Mud&Snow tires, 5spd.
On the way home tonight I tried to come up a short steep snow covered hill and it E could barely muster 75' up the hill before coming to a dead stop.
While I can tell you the hill is slippery, in 3 yrs of living on this street I've never not been able to make the hill even in my 3.5" lowered VW Corrado VR6.
It seems that the traction control just killed any momentum and eventually almost all but stalled the E. It seems that instead of balancing out the drive tires, it completely killed a spinning tire and kept going side to side, eventually driving the RPM's below 1k and almost stalling it.