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Car Forum / Subaru Cars / December 2007my first snowfall in my Forester
Last spring I bought a '99 Forester and was looking forward to see how it would handle the snow. Well, yesterday we got it spades, about 25 cm of the white stuff! The car handle it like a champ, and I haven't even put on the snow tires yet. I'm going to start calling my car 'pushmepullyou' in honour of the AWD. On the bad side is the clutch. It was replaced about a month before I bought the car and it is already burnt out. I use the car for work so there is about 2 hours of shifting per day, but to only get 8 months out of a clutch is not acceptable. > Last spring I bought a '99 Forester and was looking forward to see how > it would handle the snow. Well, yesterday we got it spades, about 25 > cm of the white stuff! The car handle it like a champ, and I haven't > even put on the snow tires yet. I'm going to start calling my car > 'pushmepullyou' in honour of the AWD. Aint' it fun? Security in the snow makes the maintenance costs and the relatively low fuel economy worth it whent he goin gets tough. > On the bad side is the clutch. It was replaced about a month before I > bought the car Are you 100% confident it was done? > and it is already burnt out. I use the car for work so > there is about 2 hours of shifting per day, but to only get 8 months > out of a clutch is not acceptable. That's weird. Either the person who replaced it did something Very Wrong, you are Very Bad at driving a standard (which I doubt), or the seller lied about the work being performed. -- Todd H. 2001 Legacy Outback Wagon, 2.5L H-4 Chicago, Illinois USA > > Last spring I bought a '99 Forester and was looking forward to see how > > it would handle the snow. Well, yesterday we got it spades, about 25 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > > On the bad side is the clutch. It was replaced about a month before I > Are you 100% confident it was done? I've got the bill right here from the local dealer REMAN CLUTCH $240 BRG-CLUTCH R $71.28 BEARING $7.91 I'll admit it took a few days to get used to the clutch (after driving toyotas for 20 years), but thats no reason for it to start slipping so early. I've got an app't on Friday with the dealer and I'll show them the invoice and have a nice long talk with them. >On Dec 4, 2:36 pm, sub...@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Todd H.) wrote: > rhebner <rheb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> >> > On the bad side is the clutch. It was replaced about a month before I >> Are you 100% confident it was done? >> >I've got the bill right here from the local dealer > REMAN CLUTCH $240 > BRG-CLUTCH R $71.28 > BEARING $7.91 >I'll admit it took a few days to get used to the clutch (after driving >toyotas for 20 years), but thats no reason for it to start slipping so >early. >I've got an app't on Friday with the dealer and I'll show them the >invoice and have a nice long talk with them. Just a thought... cable clutch? Check the pedal height is correct and the freeplay is adjusted correctly - and if you've got floormats in, do it with the mats in place. Don't get much snow in this part of Oz. I do miss it sometimes. Cheers -- Message posted using http://www.talkaboutautos.com/group/alt.autos.subaru/ More information at http://www.talkaboutautos.com/faq.html Hi all, I'm a new member to the group. Have subbed since I've put the $$ down on a new Forester and will pick it up next month. I'm DownUnder, a keen XC skier and have thought for years the Suby would be ideal for getting up to the snow. So it's good to hear how well she might handle in the white stuff. Any tips for cheap snow chains? (Required by law on our alpine roads). I've got good diamond pattern jobs for my current drive but need to look for replacements for the Forester to keep the law happy and for those really bad days up there. Cheers, Ern Melbourne, Australia > Last spring I bought a '99 Forester and was looking forward to see how > it would handle the snow. Well, yesterday we got it spades, about 25 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > there is about 2 hours of shifting per day, but to only get 8 months > out of a clutch is not acceptable. If snow is deep enough, and nearly ten inches is, you can lift all four wheels off the ground and not move. I did with my '98 Forester. Good thing I had a shovel ;) Frank >> Last spring I bought a '99 Forester and was looking forward to see how >> it would handle the snow. Well, yesterday we got it spades, about 25 [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > thing I had a shovel ;) > Frank Around here they plow both sides and pile it up in the middle. I've seen people try to plow through and get hung up right in the middle teetering like a seesaw. BTW, most AWD and 4WD cars go great in the snow. It's stopping that's the problem. >Around here they plow both sides and pile it up in the middle. I've seen >people try to plow through and get hung up right in the middle teetering >like a seesaw. Boy, that's an idiotic way to plow streets: where pray tell is this being practiced? I've never seen such stupidity, nor do I care to, so your location would keep me in blissful ignorance, if you wouldn't mind. >> Around here they plow both sides and pile it up in the middle. I've seen >> people try to plow through and get hung up right in the middle teetering [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > your location would keep me in blissful ignorance, if you wouldn't > mind. If the street's wide enough, piling the snow in the middle makes sense to me. Or have you never had a car or a driveway entrance piled high with snow from the plow?  SignatureJohn Varela Trade NEW lamps for OLD for email. >If the street's wide enough, piling the snow in the middle makes sense to me. > Or have you never had a car or a driveway entrance piled high with snow from >the plow? I always have those nice berms left by the plow trucks at the end of my driveway every winter, many times in fact (we average 90+ inches of snow a year). Where I live, I don't see this snow in the middle of the road; it truly would be idiotic to follow this practice given how long our snow stays on the ground. I still want to know where the OP lives that this practice is followed. > I still want to know where the OP lives that this practice is followed. Could be Salt Lake City, where the streets were made wide enough that a wagon team could turn around without "resorting to profanity." SignatureJohn Varela Trade NEW lamps for OLD for email. >>> Last spring I bought a '99 Forester and was looking forward to see how >>> it would handle the snow. Well, yesterday we got it spades, about 25 [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > like a seesaw. BTW, most AWD and 4WD cars go great in the snow. It's > stopping that's the problem. When development is plowed, there is usually a pile of snow across driveway. Watched my neighbor hang up his Explorer trying to drive over it. Also while you mention it, stopping is the problem with any car. All have 4 wheel brakes and stop equally well depending on tires. AWD/4WD get you going but don't help you stop. >>> Last spring I bought a '99 Forester and was looking forward to see how >>> it would handle the snow. Well, yesterday we got it spades, about 25 cm [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > like a seesaw. BTW, most AWD and 4WD cars go great in the snow. It's > stopping that's the problem. Aye that! If you have good snow tires it's easier, but once you lose control, you lose control. And, ice is ice... >>> Last spring I bought a '99 Forester and was looking forward to see how >>> it would handle the snow. Well, yesterday we got it spades, about 25 [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > like a seesaw. BTW, most AWD and 4WD cars go great in the snow. It's > stopping that's the problem. The snow is piled in the middle of Main Street, mostly, and then a giant snowblower goes down the middle of the street and blows it into dump trucks and it's taken away. If it was all pushed to the side parking would be impossible, and eventually the sidewalks would be unusable. > Last spring I bought a '99 Forester and was looking forward to see how > it would handle the snow. Well, yesterday we got it spades, about 25 > cm of the white stuff! The car handle it like a champ, and I haven't > even put on the snow tires yet. I'm going to start calling my car > 'pushmepullyou' in honour of the AWD. You've seen those ads on TV where the driver blasts through snow so deep it sprays off the front bumper? I did that a couple years ago on a road that hadn't been plowed. It was cool. But Frank is right...don't get over-confident. Always carry a shovel, just in case. -John O > You've seen those ads on TV where the driver blasts through snow so deep > it sprays off the front bumper? I did that a couple years ago on a road [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > -John O Heh, heh. I remember trying that in my '86 Civic wagon AWD right after I got it. Went to a shopping center that had long stretch of painted parking spaces. Got up some speed in the 12" newfallen snow and suddenly found myself airborne. Crushed the front bumper, bent 2 rims, broke an axle and had the driver's airbag go off, almost singing my eyebrows off. The shopping center had installed parking bumpers the day before. Jon I left my car at the Long Term Lot at Kennedy Airport and returned after a big snow storm. The lot had been plowed and my car was under about ten feet of snow. It was completely covered except the antenna. I dug it out and blasted out of the snow pile with no ill effects. It would have made a good commercial. >> You've seen those ads on TV where the driver blasts through snow so deep >> it sprays off the front bumper? I did that a couple years ago on a road [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > The shopping center had installed parking bumpers the day before. > Jon > > You've seen those ads on TV where the driver blasts through snow so deep > > it sprays off the front bumper? I did that a couple years ago on a road [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > The shopping center had installed parking bumpers the day before. > Jon That had to hurt.(( VF >> > You've seen those ads on TV where the driver blasts through snow so >> > deep [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > VF Actually the physical pain wasn't as bad as how stupid I felt when I was interviewed by the cops (who someone who had witnessed the event). Their smirks and chuckles cut right to the heart. Better they had clubbed me. :) Jon > Last spring I bought a '99 Forester and was looking forward to see how > it would handle the snow. Well, yesterday we got it spades, about 25 > cm of the white stuff! The car handle it like a champ, and I haven't > even put on the snow tires yet. I'm going to start calling my car > 'pushmepullyou' in honour of the AWD. I hear you. We got a 97 Impreza OBS last spring and I just got to take it out for the first time in real snow last weekend. I came back with the biggest grin you've ever seen. That thing does doughnuts like crazy when you're having fun but feels very stable when you're just driving normally. It doesn't have the raw traction or ground clearance of my Explorer but feels a bit more predictable. I think it's going to be a real winner. SignatureRay I have been driving the (recently purchased) 2004 Forester 2.5X to work--25 km country roads. We get ground drift of snow badly in places here with our constant winds in winter (80-90 km/h steady is not unknown, although 25 - 50 is more usual), and besides the "cuttings" sometimes a few feet high to plow through, the roads become glare ice in those conditions. The Forester is awesome. I've driven it like an MGB, completely controllable 4 wheel drifts on 90 degree turns. Puts my two Jeeps in the shade as far as traction and control and feeling safe. Jim Bartley on PEI >> Last spring I bought a '99 Forester and was looking forward to see how >> it would handle the snow. Well, yesterday we got it spades, about 25 [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > It doesn't have the raw traction or ground clearance of my Explorer but > feels a bit more predictable. I think it's going to be a real winner. |
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