$15K..2005 coupe vs sedan....snow?

[dundermifflin99]

Newebie....
Looking to spend 13-15K, live in Kentucky, and worried about snow drivability...

The only RWD i have owned was a Trans Am, and in snow or slick we roads, parked it...

Also, quite a few ads for 2005 G35 with 100k or so mileage , anything to worry about?

thanks..

[SVTCOBRA]

Have an 04 G35 Coupe that had S Drive summer tires on it and it was great fun in the twisties!!!!
I put on Conti DWS's in case we got some snow. Plus they were supposed to be performance tires.....side walls are like jello....no fun. Anyway, no good in the snow for me. I like something that I don't have to white knuckle drive and would not drive it to work in the snow!!!!!
Our 08 G35X is fantastic in the snow!!!
Highly recommend! It also has the DWS's, but the AWD makes the difference.
I've owned several 4x4 SUV's (Bronco II, Exploder, Pathy's) and the G35X does better than all in the snow in my opinion.

However, the SUV's with low range and limited slip did better in the sand.....well, actually haven't tried the G35X in the sand...wife won't let me bolt a fishing rod holder to the front bumper!!
hope my .02 helps

[Kendahl]

Traction on ice and snow depends mostly on the tire, next on the number of driven wheels, and lastly on weight distribution if you have only two driven wheels. If your G has high performance summer tires, it will be helpless on ice and snow. The all wheel drive models will be a little better, but not much.

One of our cars is a Subaru Legacy wagon. Like all Subarus, it is all wheel drive. I used to put all season tires on it thinking that all wheel drive made up for any deficiencies in the tires. That worked until the tires wore down some. After that, traction was pretty poor. Finally, I bought a set of dedicated winter tires on steel wheels. The improvement was astonishing. With the winter tires, traction on ice and snow is about the same as on deep gravel with summer or all season tires. The day after I bought the winter tires, we had a combination sleet/snow storm. To get to the county road, I had to go down a driveway so steep that I was worried about sliding into the road out of control. No problem with the new tires. Out on the road, we passed a wrecker pulling a 4WD pickup off a power pole.

Where ice and snow are an issue, I think you have two choices with a G. One is to invest in winter tires on an extra set of wheels. There is no need to spend a fortune on name brand tires and G37 alloy wheels. A no-name brand on steel will do. The other option is to park it until the roads are clean and dry. I chose the latter for my G37S because I don't want it to rust. You could switch tires on the same wheels twice a year but I think the labor cost would quickly exceed the cost of extra wheels.

[SVTCOBRA]

I have the same tires on both vehicles....in my case it is the number of drive wheels that makes the difference.