MY04NFRS2000

Hi guys I am thinking about getting the new FIT for my beater. I will be driving it to work everyday. My only concern is how this car will do in the winter. Any of you guys have experience with this car in the snow?

QUIKAG

Yeah, I drove one through Antarctica last winter. Put some sled tracks on it and this dog will hunt. Speaking of dogs, I scared the Siberian Husky sled dogs as I went motoring past on several occasions.

s2kpdx01

.........see JonBoy....SEE!!!! This is why it needs to stop!!!

JonBoy

<choking> You nearly made me spit my apple on my screen.

JonBoy

No one has snow experience with this car, at least not in North America. It was only released a few months ago - the snow had melted by the time it was released (May?).

The car, like all FWD cars, should do fine in the winter. If you put good all season tires on it, it'll handle cold and slightly slippery streets just fine. If you have snow, put a set of dedicated snow tires on it and you'll be okay.

I lived in Eastern Canada most of my life so I know that if you use dedicated snow tires, you can actually drive in pretty bad winter conditions.

JonBoy

I think we should start a new forum called "Fit Talk". We'll ban you up front from that section so that you don't have to deal with this so much.

MY04NFRS2000

I appologize, but did I do something wrong?

s2kpdx01

not really...it's an inside joke!!

rai

Should be F I N E. it's a modest hp fwd with narrow tires, three things that go great with snow.

I'm not sure how much snow you plan on. But I put snow tires on 3 out of 4 of my cars now. The thing I like now is what is called 'high-performance snow tires' which are made of a special compound and tread configuration so they do better than all season tires in snow and when it's dry they behave a lot like good all season tires. In other words you don't give up a lot of dry road grip but get a good bit of snow grip.


IMO the FIT is best with a MT to best use it's meger power.

Defender

if you look back at posts over the last few weeks there have been several threads similar to this one and recent commentary in one of them was that there was too much dicsussion of the Honda Fit.