I've got a question for everyone who's got a coupe and lives in less than stellar weather areas. As it's a rear-wheel drive machine, it of course doesn't handle in poor situations. My question is, what do people do during those times to try and alleviate that problem? Back in our old Ford Ranger we used to put sandbags in the bed in the winter to help it go a little better, it was also RWD. Do people try to do that sort of thing in the G? Not sandbags per se, but something on the weighty side to try and give it a little more traction. I'd say performance isn't a concern in those times, but I wanted to see what others' thoughts are about that.

 

Since your weight distribution is nearly 50/50, I don't think adding weight to the rear will help much. The best thing you can do is install proper tires for your conditions. If you get snow where you are, and you drive in winter, get snow tires (four, not two).

 

ya all you need is a good set of winter tires and you are good.

 

yeah what stclairwest, some dedicated winter tires would help a lot. I live in Chicago and the winters here get pretty bad. I manage with some winter tires. Wish I had a beater though..

 

So call me crazy, but i live up north in alberta where it gets to -50 degrees, and snows like 2 feet at a time, and constand black ice.. I drove my coupe alll winter with dunlop direzza's on (summer tires) .. I threw in 2x 26kg sand bags over the wheels in the trunk and they make a world of difference.. Not once yet have i had a problem stopping, only sometimes accelerating off the line. The sand bags alleviated that problem though. And its not as if i rarely drive, it is my daily commuter to work and back and all my running around on weekends

 

Spring is here!

 

Maybe where you are lol, we just got about 6" of snow :/

 

I love 70 degree weather!

 

... must be nice... lol

 

 

I did think it was pretty well balanced from what I'd seen, but I was curious as to whether or not people did anything else to combat the weather. This is more a question going forward for the future I suppose. I plan on getting some winter-type tires of course, but I didn't know if people also added weight at all. Thanks for the responses both ways though, and I second the awesomeness of nice weather!

 

i live in Canada, Ottawa where we get a lot of snow i put on bridgestone blizzaks go down to 17inch wheels. everything was good except when there is snow on the street and if i try to climb upward, hill road it was giving me so much hard time. especially if i stop at the lights on the hill and try to accelerate from that it was terrible i would do fish tail like crazy till it gets its speed a bit.
then i added 2 sans bags and a salt bag to my trunk total of 80kg which is about 190lbs, it made a big difference for me and helped in those conditions

 

Haha yeah that's kinda what I was thinking. My only concern would be leaking sand then of course, that would suck!