Yesterday we had a blizzard roll through our area (-12F,Wind 25 to 30mph Gust 40mph, Visibility 0) Anyways I had to drive thru a lot of it and it wasn't so bad, never really had a problem with getting thru anything bellow 8-12 in of snow. Well during the evening it began to let up so I decided to drive over to a buddies house. When I got into the parking lot I got stuck So I get out to check out the problem, the driver side front tire is buried the rear driver side tire is sitting on a nice sheet of ice and the passenger side front is buried and the passenger rear is clear.
I get back in and kick on the snow mode, turn of the vdc and throw it in Reverse, I get about an inch of movement back and then it spins... I try to get it going Forward and it goes no where. I jump back out and take my ice scraper (only thing in the car to use as a tool) and dig out the tires a bit. I jump back in and try Reverse again, and I get a little more back motion so I go back to drive and rock it back and forth but I wasn't being ruff on it or anything like that ...yet. While I was doing this an old doge dart squeezed by me headed for the other entrance/exit well after about 10 min of me trying different things to get my G out the dart comes by again but this time he cant fit by since I rocked the G over a bit. After about 5 min of him watching me rock it back and forth he jumps out to give me a push, well I really got on that bitch and and rocked it hard never grinned a gear but I was ruff on it trying to get it to rock out, after a nice hard one in Reverse it came out and I got out of the lot. My question is could I have done any damage to the tranny or differentials? BTW I have Summer tires still on the G, I ordered blizzaks but they have yet to come in.

 

Sounds like AWD fail...g/l with the blizzaks

 

Is it possible to get an X with 6mt? If so i want it!!!!!

 

Did you have it in "snow" mode?

Don't make sense that an X model would do that.

 

Doesn't matter. That much snow and summer tires don't work, regardless if you're AWD or not. I've seen many a wrecked and stuck STi and Evo in KC that thought they could get around snow covered streets in Kansas City with summer rubber. Tires are key.

 

car is probably fine, but yeah tires are EVERYTHING.

 

+1

Not really going to move if all 4 wheels are spinning because of the summer tires

 

Nope.

 

I was gonna say..... I will look for one just to have!!!!!!!

 

Yah, I know that just procrastinated and at the first snow, no one in town had tires in my size... O btw, I could stick my head out the window and watch both front and back spin...