Originally Posted by ARCOgraphite
Originally Posted by supton
Originally Posted by ARCOgraphite
My wife is stuck at the bottom of our driveway in 2 inches of packed near frozen slush.
That even defeated my new 826 HD Toro snwblower- snapped the two bolts off the impeller fan. It's supposed to be a non-shear pin design.
TORO: "Yes it's not; It is a shear shoulder-bolt design!".
Funny my cheap MTD Yardmachine I bought from Valdemort 27 years ago never let me down.
Car can't do it. AWD = 2WD. 1 front + 1 rear. Both with the least traction.
Blasted open differentials. Hmmm.
This snow was kinda annoying. It would just pack whenever I would move it. I could see how it'd overcome all seasons pretty easily, especially if any slope was involved.
Her tires are pretty aggressive tread replacement Sumitomo HTR A/S .
But maybe not enough silicates in the rubber?
Or maybe it's the wife trying to go up at 5mph unlike my 15mph.
Yeah, those tires look like they would not have dealt with the packing snow we got. Siping looks ok on the edges but needed bigger voids to grab the snow, and probably more siping in the middle to grab ice. And a winter compound too.
In this case, yeah your extra momentum is probably the trick. Wife's car is a slip & grip AWD, right? Once the tire spins, it was game over, no more traction for that tire.